http://ilovetechnology.org Don't you? Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:40:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When buying a laptop, many people focus on the look or the features. But what about the weight?  Scientific research (well, kind of!) I'm getting ready to move to a new house, and part of my new lifestyle will include getting a laptop to do some work on the move. So today, I head ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/06/08/laptops-how-heavy-are-they/ Seth Godin discusses the suggestion that you should drop the "(dot)com" from your marketing material. The suggestion goes that, in the same manner that we have dropped the "www(dot)" when we say or write a website address, we could drop the end of the address as well. Seth disagrees with the suggestion, using the ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/04/18/drop-dotcom-from-your-url/ A simple, yet powerful, productivity tool for AutoCAD is called the "pgp" file. You can access it by going to Tools--->Customize--->Edit Program Parameters (acad.pgp) It's a text file containing user-defined keyboard shortcuts for any AutoCAD command you want to use. It comes with some default shortcuts but you are free to change ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/04/17/increase-your-productivity-on-autocad/ Most cities now develop their journey planners, to help people find their way around using various modes of transport. London's TfL Journey Planner is useful but the best i have found and used so far is Brighton's Journey On. Not only it provides you with a neat table detailing the various ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/04/15/a-very-well-designed-journey-planner/ The current TV ad for the iPhone, in the UK, centres around Facebook. It basically asks you if you check your Facebook account every time you are in front of your computer, and it tells you that now, you will be able to do the same when you are, well, ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/04/13/do-communication-technology-gadgets-make-us-anxious-and-stressed/ Back in the mid 90s, British inventor Trevor Baylis  came up with his most famous invention, the wind-up radio (also known as clockwork radio). The idea was simple; to make do without batteries/mains connections. You wind the device up and then it works for a certain amount of time. When it runs out, ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/03/21/wind-up-devices/ Redland Shire Council, Australia, is using Orion solar bollard as part of two schemes on the highway. The bollards use solar energy to generate lighting for pedestrian walkways. Not only are they good for the environment, they are also quicker and cheaper to install, as they require no digging of ducting ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/03/20/solar-power-lights-for-the-high-street/ Very often, when using the hatch pattern "dots" in AutoCAD, you can be met with the "hatch spacing too dense" error message. It's infuriating! The options are to either select a less dense scale for the hatch or to split the hatch area in two smaller areas, hatching each of them ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/03/20/hatch-spacing-too-dense/ Since the advent of computers, audio technology has revolutionised how musicians work. Before, it was pretty straight-forward. You picked up a physical instrument, you learnt how to play by practising scales and so on to improve your finger dexterity, you went into a studio, you played your bit, someone pressed the record button and ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/03/19/celemony-melodyne-to-revolutionise-how-musicians-work/ British 23 year old Dan Sheridan has designed a see-saw that could provide electricity for a school. Following a trip to Kenya, the student was inspired by the energy of the children and kept thinking about ways to use this to generate electricity. He hit upon the idea of a see-saw and started work ... http://ilovetechnology.org/2008/03/19/see-saw-to-power-african-schools/