The battery-less L.E.D. blinkerI came up with this little device because I was looking for something that clearly demonstrates the principal that a magnetic field passing through a conductor produces electricity. While a galvanometer will demonstrate the same principal, the L.E.D. blinker seems to really bring the idea home, especially for younger students. Everyone recognizes L.E.D.s as being an indication of electricity. Construction of the device is simple. All you will need is:1* 3/8" b... Read more »
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Get A Free Virtual Resume With VisualCV
Posted on 24 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
While most people don't snail mail their CVs anymore, most of them are typed out in a Word file and emailed to prospective employers along with 10 portfolio attachments. A big mess, and they're not presented in a neat, standard format. Of course there is the Youtube resume, but that only allows you to post a video of yourself, and blogs are a bit cumbersome to configure. Many job search sites have a CV table for you to fill up, but rarely do you get to show off your works or add extra media... Read more »
Yahoo's New Look
Posted on 23 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
Yahoo's release a preview to its new homepage on its australian site today. The new look is simply named Yahoo!7.The new layout offers little more than some minor personalization tweaks such as a Your Stuff box on the lower right hand column with shortcuts to various services like flickr and Answers. Further down, the 'In Your Area' column automatically detects your location and lists restaurant and entertainment options to you. Curiously, it didn't work for us, and the column displayed its nati... Read more »
Why the new iPhone 3G shouldn't be cheaper
Posted on 17 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
Good news: For $199, you can own the new iPhone 3G. Bad news: You won't be as special anymore, you pay more in subscription dollars, and you get less out of the box.Remember the Motorola RAZR? It was once the most desirable phone in the market. Ultra thin, aluminium body, chemically etched keypad. It cost nearly $500 when it launched, and yet demand was overwhelming. Later, they decided to make it more affordable and lowered the price. Soon the streets were awash with RAZRs. It was goo... Read more »
Wii Fit News & Reviews
Posted on 20 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Wii Fit videos, trailers and reviews:- Wii Fit Trailer Video Review of Wii Fit Wired Blog ReviewReview and a promise to test it out and show the resultsActual results:-What happens after using the Wii Fit for a long duration?It works kinda. But with alot of stress on the knees.Fun times with family. Yoga made hime feel better.More self awareness of his weight. More info:-Wikipedia on Wii Fit Official siteNintendo Wii FitQuestion: How is this affecting sales of other exercise ... Read more »
Half a Million Sites Hacked - Mainly with PHPBB Forum
Posted on 13 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Any affiliate that's been running a forum using PHPBB should take note. There was recently a coordinated effort compromise such websites and about half a million websites with such forum has been compromised.The damage includes:-Visitors who visit the sites are redirected through different servers which will end up with a server that pings the PC for vulnerabilities in in Microsoft Internet Explorer and RealNetworks Player. If there are vulnerabilities, the malware is downloaded into the PC.Troj... Read more »
Microsoft Daisy - Word Documents Print to Audio Files
Posted on 08 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Microsoft is rolling out DAISY. A software add-in that will generate typed text in Word Document into AUDIO files. Yes. For those of us who are too lazy to read. You can begin generating audio files of your text documents and reading them while you drive. If Microsoft is making this free and rolling it out on every Microsoft Office Word, expect there to be a revolution in the way we get information from text. If popular enough, people might even do away with alot of printing, affecting pri... Read more »
Basic Components of Electrical Power Utility System
Posted on 02 May 2008 by Seena Vincent, Affiliate
This is an abstract of blog post that is taken from the blog Electrical Engineering. Please read the original post Basic Components of Electrical Power Utility System for more details. The Components of Electrical Power Utility System are Electric Power Generation, Electric Power Transmission, Electric Power Conditioning and Electric Power distribution. One or more agencies are involved in this process of power power distribution. ever since the invention of electric power, Elec... Read more »
Grand Theftt Auto IV - Boring Gameplay OR Maximized Character Roleplay?
Posted on 02 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Rockstar's GTA IV is being hailed as one of the best games of our times with it's uber realism, ridiculously open ended gameplay, rich characterization, immersive roleplaying experience.Just only on day one, there were 1 million GTA IV users who went online with the game on XBOX Live. It dethroned Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4.Ofcourse, some of the elements of the game (not the only elements) includes doing drugs, drunk driving, visiting strip clubs and a whole list of felonies. If you want, you can... Read more »
iPhone Rumor Roundup
Posted on 30 April 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is just round the corner and we know a 3G iPhone is definitely coming. Details are yet to be confirmed though, so let's take a look at some predictions- Black - There were shots of a black iPhone floating around on the internet recently. And though it is possible to be nothing more than a cover for the current iPhone, we think Apple will make an effort to differenciate the 3G iPhone with the current model, so we're not counting this one out yet. 3G - T... Read more »
