Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Many operating systems have increased their level of portability thanks to the magic of "Live USB". You can have an operating system to run directly from a flash drive, without relying on any file stored locally on the computer. StormFly uses a similar concept, but the main differences are in the persistence of data, using a USB 3.0 interface for speed, the presence of a shared folder for easy file transfer, and data encryption.



Facilities "live" operating systems are very useful to test the basic functions of each, or to access their tools in case there is a problem with our main facility. But the major limitations of these systems are in the speed of the medium used, and in the absence of persistence. In the first case, a DVD or a USB pendrive 2.0 usually test the user's patience, persistence WHILE that can be achieved, but requires some configuration commitments that may affect the final yield. The alternative would be something like StormFly.


StormFly is based on a USB 3.0 installed on a bracelet, whose chip is robust enough to withstand all read and write operations that demand an operating system, including persistence, application installation and why not OS upgrades. In total, the space on a drive is 16 gigabytes StormFly, eight for the operating system, four for the user's local folder, and the four remaining gigabytes for the "Shared" folder. This last folder allows the user to transfer data easily between StormFly and other operating systems. For example, if you create a document within StormFly and save it in the shared folder, you just need to connect the drive to another operating system as if it were a simple flash drive to access the document.

StormFly also has a 128-bit encryption (password protection), and its leaders will also offer general support system, at a cost of twenty dollars per year. As StormFly himself, his entry into Kickstarter reveals that to get one you have to pay about $ 59, plus another fifteen for international shipments. The highest option delivers a custom StormFly green, online backup for life, and a free replacement in case of loss or theft, but you have to invest about $ 200 for it. The project requires a hundred thousand dollars, and got fifth in less than a week, so it is likely to come to market successfully.

We want to make that computer speed up, never loosen the battle against unwanted software! Should I Remove It? not only help you remove any program that is no longer simply a wave, but it also suggests you where you want to begin the extermination, with data coming from prior decisions taken by other users. What is eliminating the rest of the world on their PC?

I found Should I Remove It? mildly interesting this weekend, trying to give a respite to the disk operating system (which is now taking about 15 seconds to make my pitiful certain directories, say). Instead of being the typical uninstaller overwhelming with all the crap and crap that is on your computer, Should I Remove It? orders programs as the trend away from general users. If others choose to ignore these applications, you may also have to review its presence in your team.

Should I Remove It? it takes seconds to do a scan on the disks and display software uninstalled from what you have. Right here I disagree a bit, being that there is no possibility that it will remove uTorrent, or 7-Zip or JDownloader, sorry. The uninstall data rates and qualifications are supposed to come from a proprietary database, elections from the same program users. Neither this speaks volumes about the reliability of the references, what if you put 2 stars to 7-Zip and then removed it simply had no idea what it was?



If managing computer applications you come across something you do not know, clicking on the program will come to "What is this?" By the uninstall button, and send you to an external link with information on it quite varied, with statistical data and relevant information if you want to make a decision. For configurable options: nothing. Just set it to start once a month, check for updates and remind us that we could have things they do not really want to be there.

Should I Remove It? not searchable or has another use that as discussed above. On the upside, is a lightweight, low power and no additional installs unexpected, as it did Toolbar Cleaner, for example. The uninstall suggestions may serve more or less, depending on the case. Anyway, the concept is interesting. And it is definitely much more attractive to Add or Remove Programs. For Windows, from XP

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