Bruce Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology (RTI) professor of microelectronic engineering and also the director of the Center for Nanolithography Research in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, has led a team of engineering students to develop a new process of Nanolithography that uses evanescent wave lithography (EWL) to produce the smallest ever semiconductor device geometry.
Researchers from University of New South Wales, Australia, are working on developing a coating that may make cleaning bathrooms less of a chore.
The lead researchers Professor Rose Amal and Professor Michael Brungs of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, are hoping to apply a coating of tiny particles of titanium dioxide to keep the toilets clean. Currently the titanium dioxide is being used on outdoor items like self-cleaning windows.
The Kama Sutra Virus / worm is going to be activated on Friday. It has been spreading around the world via email, but won’t begin destroying computer files until Friday, February 3rd.
There are some things you can do. First you should back everything up. There are many backup programs available that automatically back your files up. This should be done frequently because even without the destructive force of a virus, hard drives can become corrupted and eventually completely fail.
Intel announced today that it has reached a milestone in the development of the 45 nanometer (nm) logic technology. Intel believes they are the first to have a fully working SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chip that uses the 45 nm technology.
Scientists have been debating whether Pluto should be classified as a planet or just another rock in space orbiting the sun. Hopefully this question will be answered by NASA in 9 years. Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the New Horizons spacecraft on top of a Lockheed-Martin Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The New Horizon craft will travel to Pluto and its moon Charon in an effort to shed light on the body’s surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres. The “flyby” studies will take place in 2015.
Apple announced a new iPod Radio Remote at the Mac World Expo in San Francisco this past week. This new accessory for the iPod nano is a FM radio and a remote control. You can have your iPod in the backpack and use the remote to jump to any song in your playlist or you can listen to FM radio.
Apple computer, for the first time today, showed off the new iMac at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The new iMac uses the Mac OS X operating system and is running on the new Intel Core Duo processor.
There’s a cool new tool available to help you build links. It is called PRASE and in this article I will explain why it’s good at helping find sites.
Further I’ll look at some of the other features to see if there are other uses for this tool, such as competitive intelligence gathering and deep linking opportunities.
Really, this new tool offers so much more when you begin to look at what it can do. And that’s what I’m writing about today.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) may be a great way to lower your phone bills. It is definitely something you should consider if you make long distance calls. This is what you need to know before you leave your regular phone service behind and begin the process of converting over to VOIP.
There are three ways to place a call using VOIP services. ATA (analog telephone adapter) is the simplest and most common way users make VOIP calls. This method allows you to connect your standard phone to your computer. Your ATA adapter converts your phone signal to a digital signal that can be sent over the Internet.
Pulse-Link Inc. from Carlsbad, California, will demonstrate its Gigabit-rate CWave Ultra Wideband (UWB) during the Consumer Electronics Show, January 5-8, in Las Vegas.
F-Secure, a Finnish security firm is warning users not to install a leaked beta version of MSN Messenger version 8. It is a hoax that is a variation of the Virkel instant messaging virus.
The virus uses MSN Messenger client to send the infection to the entire user’s contact list, then connects the user’s computer to a second “botnet” server which can be further used to install more unauthorized software on the machine, such as phishing, hijacking, or keylogger software.
Reverse Dictionary - Ever asked yourself "What's the word for..."
I just happened to stumble on a pretty interesting tool today.
I was trying to find a word for “People that are behind the times” for my previous blog post. I did a couple of searches in Google without avail and eventually started scouring for a tool that did a reverse lookup on a word. A tool where I would give the definition, and it would give me some words that matched that definition. What I discovered was Onelook.com’s Reverse Dictionary.
Reverse Dictionaries allow you to “Describe a concept” in order to find words that match that description. Reverse Dictionary - Ever asked yourself "What's the word for..."
Quadruple Your Visitor Viewing Time!
Field of Dreams By now you probably have read numerous articles about driving traffic to your web site by implementing some proven techniques, such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Keyword Marketing, Google AdSense, Pay Per Click, among others. But how many articles or techniques do you read on “How to keep visitors from leaving a website?” Chances are very few.
The adage, “If You Build It, They Will Come” may work for the movie “Field of Dreams,” but not necessarily in the real Web World. Like in the movie, there has to be a raison d’etre — a reason to keep watching, a baited hook. If you remember, the film featured baseball greats of yesteryear that tapped into the consciousness of the fan, giving people something of value, a need fulfilled or just plain curiosity. They will watch the game/movie transfixed for hours. Quadruple Your Visitor Viewing Time!
Microsoft will discontinue support for the Mac version of Internet Explorer. The support will end on December 31st and the program will be removed from the MS (Microsoft) website Mactopia for downloads on January 31st 2006. The initial announcement was made in June of 2003.
Many Mac users use Safari or Firefox as a browser. This could be a problem because some websites have sections specifically designed for IE (Internet Explorer). I usually use Firefox but ran into a problem on a virtual tradeshow website. A marketing website (Marketworks) I use also requires IE for some of its applications.
On December 15th, Amp'd quietly launched their multi-capable mobile wireless service which is marketed to a niche market.
The hip new mobile company called Amp’d Mobile is more than just a cell phone, it is video broadcasts, music player, still and video camera, and also a cell phone too for the MTV fans and college students. The term used for this type of technology is call mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).
Amp’d Mobile uses the Verizon Wireless for the cell phone services. The goal of Amp’d will be to market to a specific demographic group of people. Amp’d has endorsers that are pro surfers, skateboarders and snowboarders. Amp’d Mobile earlier this week announced that MTV is now a investor as well as a content provider.
Mozilla Foundation has issued a security advisory for its new Firefox version 1.5 browser. This is what happens. The browser will hang when the history includes a real long page title / location (like 2.5 million characters for instance). The browser will hang when processing the long file.
The only way to correct this is to clear the Firefox history file (history.dat). Researchers at PacketStorm security group has warned that the bug can result in hackers gaining control of a system, not just a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization has announced that Quanta Computer Inc. of Taiwan was chosen to be the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the $100 laptop project.
Yahoo! is planning on implementing a new VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service to compete against Skype. Yahoo acquired Internet VoIP service Dialpad back in June. In September eBay acquired VoIP operator Skype explaining that this could help facilitate sales, specifically international sales. Buyers could actually converse with each other before bidding on an item.
The service will be available in 180 countries and will integrate Yahoo e-mail and instant messenger service features. According to Networking Pipeline computer to computer calls will be free. I used Dialpad when it was free back in 2001 and was able to call any phone number in the US for free using my computer. Later Dialpad became a pay service.
New Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerabilities have been exposed by Israeli hacker Matan Gillon. This new hole gives phishers a way to scan the hard drives of Google Desktop users, when the IE browser is used. Apparently there is a flaw in the way IE processes Web pages.
Malicious Websites could steal sensitive information like credit card numbers or passwords from your hard drive when visiting sites where the pages are created with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). These “style sheets” are a quick method some developers use to make the site look uniform with the same fonts and headers on each page (along with other functional appearances).
Anyone buying a car should consider all of their options. Should they concern themselves with gas mileage or do they have a large family and need a large vehicle? If you have a long commute and drive solo or with a coworker to work, you should consider the hybrid option.
eEye Digital Security has found a critical vulnerability in some versions of Apple Computers iTune. The newest version released just a few days ago has this vulnerability. The flaw could enable attackers to remotely take over a user’s computer.
SEO and Search Engine Forums & Conferences :: are they really helpful?
Working in the SEO/SEM industry can be very rewarding. Many times a problem can be solved simply with a little online research, and posts on a few forums. All to often, however, some people put too much stock in the posts they see, ultimately negatively impacting their SEO efforts.
In this article I look at some of the positives and negatives of online SEM forums and attending SEM and SEO conferences. As part of my daily routine I visit a few of the search engine forums out there to see what people are talking about and what some have noticed. SEO and Search Engine Forums & Conferences :: are they really helpful?
1. Check your website statistics on a weekly basis. Are You Marketing Your Website?
The history occurring in recent patent applications reveals more efficient production of Ethanol from Biomass using transgenomics.
Ethanol production requires nearly complete hydrolysis. Most of the commercial applications for cellulase enzymes represent higher value markets than the fuel market. For this reason, enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass to ethanol remains non-competitive.
A new news aggregator has been developed and is available for use in a beta version. The new website, Inform.com, appears to have more bells and whistles than other aggregators including Yahoo, Google News and Topix but with fewer news sources.
Since the site is in beta more sources might be expected in the future, after all Google and others are continually adding new news sources.
The Apple Computer Inc. iPod is one of the most popular devices of the new millennium. Madison Avenue’s favorite target audience with billions of dispensable income and no mortgage payments is the new generation born after 1985. Call the generation what you want, but they have made Apple very successful again by buying up the new iPod.
I finally broke down and bought a couple pre-paid cell phones. This type of service is great for someone like me that does not use the cell phone much. It is also a great alternative for parents that worry about their kids running up a huge bill.
Parents can give their children an allotted of minutes / money to make calls. After the allotment is used upthe parent can choose to recharge the phone either with a credit card or over the Internet.
Google Inc. has introduced a completely new search engine devoted to blogs. The Google search already indexes blogs, but the links to them are sometimes buried among other webpages. The pages become outdated as the content changes so many surfers are taken to pages that have changed since the regular Google Search indexed it.
Apple Computer unveiled its new iPod last week. The new Nano plays music, displays photos and is extremely small. Like computers, the size of the iPod is shrinking. The new Nano is about the size of a deck of cards, but a little thinner.
Older iPods used a tiny hard drive to story songs. The new Nano uses solid state memory technology to not only increase the speed and reduce the size, but to extend the battery life as well. The Nano can last more than 14 hours on a single charge.
Spamhaus made a claim that Internet giant Yahoo! hosts thousands of phishing websites. The press was given examples of some words including Bank, Paypal, and eBay. Here is how the fraud works. An email may prompt a user to click on a website called yourBank.com to updated your personal information. The email recipient may click on the link and become a victim of identity theft fraud after providing the private information.
Recently Motorola won FCC approval for a new phone that features an Apple iTunes player. If the rumors are right, Apple will be announcing a new iPod phone in partnership with Motorola and Cingular Wireless. Most insiders have predicted this marriage between phone an iPod for years.
A joint effort between the University of Texas and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has created industrial-ready material made of nanotubes. The scientists reported this in the Friday edition of the journal Science.
A new security hole in Windows XP was reported on Wednesday by the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT). A file called Msdds.dll (Microsoft DDS Library Shape Control file) is put into the hard drive when Visual Studio 2002 or certain Microsoft (MS) Office XP products are installed.
The new security patch for the Apple Computer Tiger Operating System prevented 64-bit applications from running. A corrected patch can be found at Apples website. Some of the newer high-end applications have been compiled for 64 bit operation. Standard 32 bit programs continued to work.
The new update, 2005-007 version 1.1, will replace the original patch issued on Monday. The original patch omitted the 64 bit version of LibSystem. The original patch was also updated to correct the flaw.
Last Friday Microsoft warned there were vulnerabilities in their plug-and-play feature. There are three critical security flaws and one could potentially allow hackers to seize complete control of a computer.
Since the announcement malware writers have been producing various worms to exploit the hole. They all are variants of the Zotob, as well as other bots (robot worms) and are spreading much faster than the original.
Fireplaces and fireplace mantels are fast becoming a core feature in homes across the world as they add a real feature point to any formal or indeed casual living area. Funnily enough fireplaces have had a relatively short history, considering that fire itself has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.
The Mountain View CA Mozilla Foundation announced Wednesday it will launch a for-profit subsidiary that will continue to develop the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. The subsidiary, called Mozilla Corporation was necessary to eliminate legal and tax issues that might arise if the Mozilla foundation tried to make money from its desktop products.
Why would anyone want a second mouse button? Apple believes the consumer wants it, so they have introduced the new Mighty Mouse. Actually, Apple went beyond the second button to install a “single upper shell” that features touch sensitive clicking.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) introduced it’s new Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ on Monday. AMD has also cut prices of their earlier CPU models.
The new model is rated at 2.0 GHz and includes 512K of L2 cache memory. Dual core is a way of splitting the processor so it can complete two tasks simultaneously at a faster speed. Half of the processor can be rendering images while the other is crunching numbers or coordinates for a game. The processor is quicker because it can multi-task, according to the company.
A new planet has been spotted. Astronomers in California have officially identified 2003UB313 as the 10 planet orbiting our sun. They are calling the new planet Xena.
PASADENA, CA - Back in April of this year, my family joined the 21st century when we purchased an iPod. We were in the Apple Store, which I started going to frequently after I purchased a Mini Mac to play with, and we noticed that our oldest son was really interested in an iPod. Since it was right after his birthday, we thought that an iPod Mini might be a good idea, and he was quite enthusiastic about it. Since I had just bought a Mini Mac recently, I was motivated to buy another Apple product (the Mini Mac is really cool, more on that another time).
PASADENA, CA - In another article I mentioned that one of the reasons for the purchase of the iPod was that I would exercise more. Now that I own one, do I exercise more? The answer is … yes!
One of my joys of owning an iPod is walking around the city I live in, Pasadena, and escaping from the moment through the magic of the music. With the tunes that I want to hear a few quick flicks of my fingers away, I wander the neighborhood slowly, window shopping, observing my fellow pedestrians, casting an indifferent eye at traffic, all while enjoying the serenity of the iPod experience. I’ve entered the local record shop (yes, it still exists and it does sell some records) listening to the new Gorillaz album Demon Days, and exited later immersed in the Overture from Tannhäuser. I have the freedom, which wasn’t possible before my iPod, to listen to any of the 5300 + songs on it, all of which I own legally, at any place and at any time!
I have a confession to make. I’ve always wanted one, maybe even secretly desired one. Professional curiosity, the coolness factor, the desire to work with something different, I’m not sure what it was exactly, probably a bit of all of them all, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the cost of adopting a new platform.
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