Earthrace

Earthrace is a 78 foot alternative fuel powered wave-piercing trimaran; part of a project to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat—and to do so using only renewable fuels.

The boat's engines are powered completely by a biodiesel fuel source. This fuel is derived mainly from animal fat, soybeans, or other forms of biodiesel fuel. The powerboat itself is a 78-foot dramatic-looking wave-piercing trimaran, designed by Craig Loomes Design Group Ltd, with two 540 hp Cummins Mercruiser diesel engines, fueled with 100% Biodiesel, and is made mostly of carbon composite. It cost $2.5 million, which was mostly funded by generous sponsors. When asked, "Regrets about the cost of it all?" skipper Pete Bethune replied "No...You know, I do have the coolest boat in the world."

Earthrace is intended to showcase environmentally friendly technologies such as biodiesel, low-emission engines, non-toxic antifouling paint and efficient hull design. It aims to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat using only renewable fuels. The current record of 74 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes was set by British boat "Cable & Wireless" in 1998.

HP w2007 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

Overview:

Get a brilliant picture and optimum viewing with our w2007 20-inch (diagonal) Widescreen Flat-Panel Monitor with BrightView technology. The extra width means you'll do less side-to-side scrolling, which is especially great when you're looking at images, large spreadsheets, and Web pages.

* Get crisp, high-quality viewing with the maximum resolution of 1680 x 1050 and BrightView technology
* Expand your usable work area with side-by-side display of two full program Windows or Web pages
* Get true digital graphics performance with the dual inputs that support both DVI-D and traditional analog (VGA) signals
* Mount on a wall in the best possible location (compatible with any VESA standard mount)
* Save space on your desk with the slim profile and integrated speakers
* Easily show photos and presentations to groups, thanks to the wide viewing angle
* Help protect the environment: this model is ENERGY STAR® and MPR II qualified, plus recyclable

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A New Year, A New Look!

Finally, here is one nice browser for you guys which is an open source to stick around for the rest of the year. And when I say open source it is free. Aside from Mozilla firefox open source browser, which I've been religiously using as my browser all the time, (sorry microsoft your browser really lagged my browser time with so many reasons I can't point it here) here is Google Chrome which I can trust too!

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

This new browser as Google introduces it as Chrome, aims at wresting dominance over the browser market from Microsoft Intenet Explorer. This move makes Google and Microsoft a rivalry to a whole new level of browsing experience. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal, with major ramifications for the future of the Web.

As far as browsing capability is concern, Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier and less frustrating. Chrome’s interface has some bold changes from the standard browser design. These new features enhance the Web experience, but they will require some adjustment on the part of users. For instance, Chrome does away with most menus and toolbar icons to give maximum screen space for the Web pages themselves.

Also, Google has merged the address bar, where you type in Web addresses, with the search box, where you type in search terms. Chrome’s interface has some bold changes from the standard browser design. These new features enhance the Web experience, but they will require some adjustment on the part of users. For instance, Chrome does away with most menus and toolbar icons to give maximum screen space for the Web pages themselves. Also, Google has merged the address bar, where you type in Web addresses, with the search box, where you type in search terms. This unified feature is called the Omnibox.

One striking difference in Chrome is how it handles tabs, which display a single Web page. In Chrome, each tab behaves as a separate browser. The bookmarks bar, Omnibox, menus and toolbar icons are located inside the tab, rather than atop the entire browser. The tabs appear at the top of the computer screen. Chrome also groups related tabs. If you open a new tab from a link in a page that’s already open, that new tab appears next to the originating page, rather than at the end of the row of tabs.

Google’s Chrome browser displays thumbnails of a user’s most-visited pages when a new tab is opened, rather than a blank page.

Googles' “friendly” tabs, knowing your history better graphically, auto-typing, simplicity and easier downloading. Also, they show off the “Incognito” feature, where you can hide Web searches you don’t want others to see, which basically means porn and Barry Manilow fan sites.

Chrome is built on three core design principles. The first is its spare user interface: just two menus and a handful of toolbar icons. The only toolbar icon you can add in Chrome is a Home button.

The second principle is that a user can type anything into a single place, the Omnibox, and instantly get suggestions on where to go, gleaned from the user’s own browsing history and Google’s rankings of popular sites. Whether you type in a Web address or a search term, the Omnibox is very smart. In my tests, it sometimes came up with the right destination after I typed only one or two letters of the name of a site I often visited.

The third big principle behind Chrome is that each tab runs, under the hood, as a separate browser. Tabs can be dragged off the main browser and turned into separate windows. If one tab crashes, the rest of the browser keeps running. You can even make a tab a standalone application that runs from the Start Menu, or the desktop, as if it was a separate program.

Chrome has a few other key features. When you open a new tab, you don’t get a blank page, but a set of thumbnails for your most-visited pages, plus lists of recent search engines you’ve used, recently used bookmarks and recently closed tabs.

Like other browsers, Chrome puts up a warning when you try to visit a malicious or phony Web site, and it has a private browsing mode, called Incognito, which allows you to browse without leaving any history on your computer — a feature popularized in Safari.

Now that Chrome is no longer in beta, it is initially available for download for Windows Vista and XP, Google plans to expand its Chrome offerings to the Mac and Linux platforms as well.

The non-beta release of Chrome features an actual bookmarks manager. The bookmarks manager lives in a separate window, and uses a two-pane layout: The left-hand pane displays folders of bookmarks, and the right-hand pane shows the contents of bookmark folders. A search field is in the upper-right corner of the bookmarks manager window, and results appear as you type. If you've ever used Safari, Chrome's bookmark manager will look very familiar.

Google has produced an excellent browser that is friendly enough to handle average browsing activities without complicating the tasks, but at the same time is powerful enough to meet the needs of more-advanced users. The search functionality of the Omnibar is one of many innovations that caught my attention. In the past there has been some speculation that Google would develop its own operating system, but I think that Chrome's launch makes one thing is clear: The Web browser is Google's operating system.

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