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 Over the holidays we brought a new TV and I thought I’d best check the power consumption since saving power was part of the justification for the purchase. The old TV was a 3rd generation Plasma (from 2005) and the new one is LCD LED so it will use less power, right? I’ve already . . . → Read More: Saving Power? Well with E3 almost upon us I had better get this prediction out in the world. Say goodbye to DVD and BluRay disks for your next games console. Removing the media drive will allow the consoles to be smaller than ever before, think Apple TV size. Bluetooth is here to stay for the . . . → Read More: Technology Prediction – Next Generation Games Consoles With the upcoming release of Apple’s revised cloud solution I think it is best I get my prediction out in the world. So will all our storage be now be in the cloud? Will my phone keep its contacts online? My iPod only downloads songs as a stream? My camera uploads instantly with no . . . → Read More: Technology Prediction – Local or Cloud – Part 1 Our little solar panels have harvested over 500kW/h of sunlight! The solar meter was installed in December and is a Landis+Gyr EM1200. Details can be found at http://www.landisgyr.com/ap/en/pub/products.cfm?eventProducts=products.ProductDetails&ID=131&catID=61 The full list of display codes was a little hard to track down but here it is for anyone else looking for the information. Normal Display . . . → Read More: Over half a megawatt! We’ve finally found a power board that does what we want! The Smart Home Theatre Power Saver power board from Mort Bay. We found ours at Bunnings It comes with an infra-red sensor that learns the “off” command from your remote. It then waits 60 seconds and if the power consumption of the . . . → Read More: No more vampire devices Based on the information at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46531 it looks as if Timer Resolution has been used to identify and verify an issue with Chromium. Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. I use Chrome every day on my work laptop and also no my netbook. I had no idea that Timer Resolution had . . . → Read More: Chromium Project uses Timer Resolution to debug battery life issue Ok, now that ABC has joined the party and is now offering iView on the PS3, that is the deal maker for me. So where to buy it? Well America is the best answer as our friends in the US of A get the console for about AUD$375 compared with the RRP of . . . → Read More: New Playstation 3 – Prices and Where to buy in Australia First up my thoughts go out to those directly impacted by the fires. I found myself in a location that could have been at risk yesterday but thankfully we escaped with little more than some smoke and a glow on the horizon. We also has a near miss with some roof iron that . . . → Read More: Twitter, the Internet, and the Victorian Bush Fires I get lots of great ideas. Sometimes I do nothing with them, sometimes I get motivated enough to actually try and get them off the ground. Over the holidays I was off to a friends wedding at a place I’d never been to before. They were nice enough to include the Melway reference . . . → Read More: Things I wish I’d thought of – Geohash As I mentioned earlier I’ve been playing with Windows 7, I also just download a legit version for the 64bit edition from Microsoft, you can too from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx Something that I stumbled upon when clicking around in the menus was the Math Editor. I wish I had this back in my Uni days, . . . → Read More: Math Editor in Windows 7 |
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