Wednesday 20 June 2012

How Google Australia built a booking system for its electric cars

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/how-google-australia-built-a-booking-system-for-its-electric-cars/

/ iMieve Mitsubishi EV electric vehicle car automobile green points travel /

Dev-only, tethered jailbreak available for iOS 6

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/how-to-install-cydia-on-ios-6

How to install Cydia on iOS 6

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/how-to-install-cydia-on-ios-6

/ dev-only jailbreak Cydia developer redsn0w iPhone DevTeam unlockers unlock able baseband jailbroken apps Cydia hactivate IPSW /

Raindrops don’t swat down mosquitoes, researchers find

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/raindrops-dont-swat-down-mosquitoes-researchers-find/2012/06/18/gJQAov8plV_story.html

/ flying robots micro-airborne vehicle MAV /

Review: Microsoft Surface straddles divide (video)

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/review-microsoft-surface-straddles-divide-20120620-20mv7.html

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2vasc8UNl_0

/ cover keyboard touch screen hardware software battery life tablet pad iPad super-light laptop Apple MacBook Air Office Word /

Gmail users spend $110 less than Yahoo Mail users each year on electricity

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/18/gmail-users-spend-110-less-yahoo-mail-users-each-year-electricity/

/ Opower larger house residence compact energy efficient smaller city country energy audit per square foot /

App Factory turns your Tasker actions into standalone apps

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/app-factory-turns-your-tasker-actions-into-standalone-apps/

/ Android Google Play /

MuscleNerd: Evolution of iPhone baseband & unlocks (video)

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/musclenerd-evolution-iphone-baseband-unlocks-video#more-28635

/ cellular communications hardware software carrier unlock ROP SIM interposers DEP ultrasn0w exploit baseband chipset retrofitting Qualcomm bootrom /

To stop sunburn, a T-shirt is not enough; kale & other greens are very healthful

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/to-stop-sunburn-a-t-shirt-is-not-enough-kale-and-other-greens-are-very-healthful/2012/06/18/gJQASwpilV_story.html

/ UV ultra violet Sun sunburn melanoma tan tanning vitamin D anti oxidant /

Vodafone's umbrella can increase phone signal

http://m.digitaljournal.com/article/326948

/ aerial signal booster phone charger solar panel /

AT&T creates virtual work partition for smartphone users

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/19/atandt-creates-virtual-work-partition-for-smartphone-users/

/ Apple Google iOS Android BYOD bring your own device enterprise corporate IT departments manage device private app store privacy encrypted mail secure Web browser Toggle /

CT scans can triple risk of brain cancer & leukemia

http://theconversation.edu.au/ct-scans-can-triple-risk-of-brain-cancer-leukemia-7532

/ computed tomography ionising radiation well documented strictly necessary clinical perspective The Lancet hospital conventional X-ray atomic bomb attacks Japan medical justification dose alternative diagnostic procedures ionising radiation exposure ultrasound MRI magnetic resonance imaging /

6 corporations control 90% of the media in the USA (infographic)

How is it in your country?

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/18/6-corporations-control-90-media/

/ newspaper radio tv television advertising money paid /

Hot Stuff — Nuclear waste: Researchers are devising new ways to deal with the byproducts of nuclear power. But it is not just a technological problem

http://www.economist.com/node/21556100

/ Fukushima nuclear power station Japan explosion Chernobyl 1986 nuclear power high-level nuclear waste bury dumping repository dry geological medium Oak Ridge National Laboratory /

Apple 1 motherboard auctioned off for $374,500

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/apple-1-motherboard-auctioned-off-for-374500/

/ Sotheby's Steve Wozniak working condition BASIC user manual bids auctioneer Jobs Atari /

Samsung Galaxy S3 Review | Galaxy S III contender to Apple iPhone

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/head-to-head-galaxy-strong-contender-to-iphone-20120620-20ns5.html

/ Android iOS Google Apple 4.8 3.5 inch screen touch near field communications NFC photographs camera 8 megapixel front back widescreen video organic light emitting diode LCD OLED data useage app store corporate replaceable battery MicroSD Google Maps Siri /

Buzz Aldrin to mark moon landing in WA

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1661191/Buzz-Aldrin-to-mark-moon-landing-in-WA

/ second man on the Moon astronaut Apollo 11 landing Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum Perth NASA tracking station Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Western Australia /

More MacBook Maintenance Malarky: examining the arguments that none of it matters

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/19/more-macbook-maintenance-malarky-examining-the-arguments-that-n/#aol-comments

And this is what ifixit found inside:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/1#.T9iTKOJYvDN"

/ lack upgradability MacBook Pro retina display built in obsolescence control freak upgrades soldered memory custom proprietary SSD solid state drive thinnest lightest smaller lighter weight upgrade upgradeable /

Cane toad in Australia: Great invader's poison could also be its downfall

http://theconversation.edu.au/great-invaders-poison-could-also-be-its-downfall-7609

/ toxic poison bait lure trapping young tadpole chemical bait tropical Australia devastating impact native species /

Oil prices swings don’t touch EVs (graph)

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/18/oil-prices-swings-dont-touch-evs-graph/

/ petroleum crude Iran Iraq Middle East crisis electric vehicle car automobile price collapse OPEC Saudi Arabia energy crisis recession hurricane Katrina Kuwait civil war Asian financial petrol diesel /

What A Sound Idea — Using sound waves to manipulate tiny droplets of fluid promises to revolutionise medical diagnostics and improve drug delivery.


/ acoustic microfluidics spherical membrane acoustic microfluidics surface acoustic wave SAW mixing tiny quantities of different liquids DNA microarrays polymerase chain reaction PCR piezoelectric source low power requirement /

Senate bill aims to crack down on domestic drone surveillance

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/senate-bill-aims-to-crack-down-on-domestic-drone-surveillance/

/ civil libertarians unmanned aerial vehicles /

Micro-reactors increase the yield of chemical reactions

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/science-research-oled-Micro-reactors-Chemical-Reactions,news-15402.html

/ pharmaceuticals production explosives microreactors Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology nitroglycerine faster current conventional vessels yields polymers OLED /

Australia’s growing oil imports are an energy security issue

http://theconversation.edu.au/australias-growing-oil-imports-are-an-energy-security-issue-7749

/ crude petroleum petrol diesel lubricating lubrication supply resource economy BP statistical review long-term decline production /