• Massive Energy-Generating Wind Tower Proposed for Japan

  Posted: Sun, 22 May 2011 17:34:05 +0000

  

  When considering wind power as an energy source, it’s best to think big. Japan-based ZENA Systems is working on developing a new type of wind energy generator that will dwarf anything before it. The 50 meter-tall hexagonal building essentially acts as a huge scoop that compresses wind from all directions and then runs the rushing air through a series of ground-based generators. The ambitious project is the first of its kind, and it includes a desalination plant, on-site energy storage, and a visitors center. Details are sketchy on the viability of the design, but if it works out this wind concept could someday reach high into the sky to power our grid.

  

  
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• New Tensile Solar Shade by SMIT Will Juice Up Your Summer with Sun Power

  Posted: Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:59 +0000

  

  Summer is coming folks, and what better way to spend a hot day than to lavish in the shade sipping your beverage of choice plugged into this sweet solar canopy? Soon the folks at SMIT will offer a solar shade that produces power and can be custom designed for a multitude of applications. The robust thin film solar technology can produce power under many different light conditions and when the shade becomes a bit too tattered it can be completely recycled. Tensile Solar can span just about anything in three different configurations and produce plenty of power for your daiquiri machine.

  

  
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Inhabitat | An Idea to Eradicate Desertfication

May 18th, 2009

Inhabitat: Designed by Hwang Jin Wook, Jeon You Ho, Han Kuk II and Kim Ji Myung, Seedbombs are a way to dispense direct aid to areas of impending desertification. Each carrier shell fans out in flight to disperse multiple clear plant capsules containing both soil and seeds. Once the capsules land, the soil provides enough nutrients and moisture to allow the plant to become strong enough to sustain itself. As the plant matures, the capsules gradually melt away.
Admittedly the design is purely conceptual and there’s some serious considerations to work out – wouldn’t it be dangerous to local flora and fauna to carpet entire regions with a hail of seed-spewing pods? How best to mix up the distribution of plants to be sown?
Seedbomb Plant Capsules Combat Desertification [Inhabitat]

Cocoon-Like Vertical Bamboo Towers Are High Tech and Primitive at The Same Time
by Bridgette Meinhold, 03/24/11
filed under: Architecture, Sustainable Building

http://inhabitat.com/vertical-bamboo-towers-are-high-tech-and-primitive-at-the-same-time/

These towering vertical bamboo houses caught our eye with their impressive mix of natural and renewable materials with high tech engineering and design. Designed by Saint Val Architect, Bamboo Housing is an exploration into a new housing typology that breaks out of the box of traditional square homes. Bamboo poles and metal joints form the frame of the five story home with living quarters accessed by a central spiral staircase. We're intrigued by the concept, which is both primitive looking and high tech.

Green Design Will Save the World

How to Speed Up a Blog

How to Speed Up a Blog

Posted on 26/01/2011 by Lilium. Share post on 1 3 1

This was a question from the Muhammad, he asked:

What do you think is the best way to speed up a website? Do I need to change my blog theme or to do something else? I use a WordPress as my blogging platform.

If you want your question answered, feel free to send it via the contact form. I will be happy to help you out.

Thank you Mohammad for question, and here I will answer you how to “really” speed up your own blog. Of course, all these tips might work on any other WordPress installation, and all things can be applied to any website.

There is NO only one way!

It is important to know there is no one-way or a single thing that might improve your website speed. A successful speed is based upon the following things:

1. Optimization of your CSS and JavaScript files;


2. Using optimized theme layouts (frameworks);


3. Use some content delivery systems (CDN) to reduce load on your server;


4. Make your blog work better with a cached files.


5. Optimization of your blog images and file compression

Below, I will describe and tell you how to successfully apply any of these five things that might drastically improve your blog speed.

Optimize your CSS and JS Files

Most websites on internet uses CSS files to provide styles for their website design. JavaScript files are scripts that may give your website some additional functionality, like embedded sliders, image viewers, tabs support…

Each WordPress blog uses some of these files. And you would need to learn how to optimize them because of the following things:

• CSS and JavaScript files are loaded on most blog pages;


• They may have a large size… much larger than your HTML elements;


• JavaScript files can use a lot of resources on your server;


• Can cause you to use a lot more bandwidth than necessary

Optimizing of your CSS and JavaScript files will reduce your bandwidth and resource consumption. Allowing your visitors to load faster your blog.

Optimization is quite easy, and we have some specialized online tools that might do this work for you completely for free:

• Best online CSS optimization tools


• Online JavaScript optimization tools test

Most of your CSS and JavaScript files, required for optimization are directly accessible through FTP of your main blog theme.

Optimized theme Frameworks

Most professional blogs on internet already use some kind of advanced and fully-optimized frameworks for their themes.

Probably the most popular and the most effective professional WordPress theme frameworks are these two:

• Genesis Framework (from $59.95) and


• Thesis Framework (from $87.00)

Through they are paid frameworks, you would need to purchase them to install them on your own blog. And additionally pay some designer to do your theme design for these above frameworks.

A Theme framework is a Theme designed to be a flexible foundation for quicker WordPress development, usually serving as a robust Parent Theme for Child Themes. Some Theme frameworks can also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming or design knowledge with options pages. (source)

It is clear you would need to spend a lot of money if you want a top-quality theme frameworks. You would need to pay them for a framework, and additionally pay some designer to convert and optimize your theme.

But, fortunately, we have also some additional free frameworks. Which are less-quality than these professional ones, but certainly can work to drastically improve and optimize your blog theme layout:

• Twenty Ten – A very good and fast free theme framework. Official theme from WordPress team. Though have some compatibility issues on Internet Explorer web browsers. This blog is based on this framework.


• Ashford Framework – A very good theme framework for a modern WordPress blog. Have some very good features and options.


• The Buffet Framework – Designed not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want.

Theme frameworks are not developed for an absolute beginners. To edit them the way you want requires a lot of web codding work and knowledge in most cases.

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Related Posts:

1. Why Unique Blog Design is Good


2. Online JavaScript Optimization Tools: Live Examples and Tests


3. How to Successfully Speed Up your Website


4. Use Dropbox as Free CDN


5. Web Site Optimization Guide

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Bloggers Blog -- Widgets and Blog Add-ons Links

Adam Kalsey's Button Maker, add a button to your blog

Babel Fish, add a translation tool to your blog

bLaugh, add a blog-related comic to your blog

Blog Hot or Not, add a Blog Hot or Not rating bar to your blog.

Blog in Space, feed your blog into outer space

Blogcartoons, Free cartoons to post on your blog

BlogRolling.com, add a Blogroll to your blog

Blogthings.com, add quiz results to your blog

Blue-Blooded Blogger badge, get a badge for your blog that shows your passion for bloggin

Brilliant Button Maker, add a button to your blog

Bunchball, add Flash games to your blog

Cafepress, add a store with your logo or designs to your blog

ClockLink.com, add a clock to your blog

Del.icio.us, add a link roll to your blog

Emoticons4u.com, put emoticons and smileys on your blog

Feedjit, web traffic and visitor map widgets

Flickr.com, add photos to your blog

Frappr, add a Frappr map to your blog

Gabbly, a chat tool for blogs

Gapingvoid Widget, add a gapingvoid cartoon on your blog

Glassy Buttons, add a button to your blog

Google Gadgets, thousands of different add-ons for your blog or website

Gravatar.com, get a Gravatar to identify yourself when you post comments on a blog that accepts gravatars.

Haloscan.com, add comments and trackbacks to your blog

Hello, post images to your blog. Works with Blogger

How Much is My Blog Worth, add a ridiculous button that shows how much your blog is worth to your blog

ImageShack, host images for your blog

iMood.com, put your mood on your blog

Kineda Blogger Ranking Widget, determine whether your blog is an A-list, B-list, C-list or D-list blog

Meez, add a 3D avatar to your blog

Mobber, a chat tool for blogs

Moodsticker, a Moodsticker tracks the current mood of LiveJournal users

MusicVideoCodes.com, put music videos on your blog

MyBlogLog, add a community to your blog

MyChingo, add voice comments to your blog

Online Button Maker, add a button to your blog

Photobucket.com, host images for your blog

Pingoat Blog Worth Calculator, calculate the value of your blog

PollHost.com, put polls on your blog

Quizilla, add quizzes to your blog

Sideblog, add a small, seperate sideblog to your blog

Site Meter, add a counter and/or get web traffic measurement for your blog

SketchPlanet, add sketches to your blog

StikIt, StikIt from Opinmind allows bloggers to insert bloggers' opinions about a subject or keyword into their blog.

Street Sign Generator, make a street sign for your blog

Tag-Board, add discussion to your blog

TagCloud, show your blog's most popular tags on your blog

Technorati Profiles, add a profile and search box to your blog

Wanabo.com, let others tag your blog

Warning Label Generator, make a warning label for your blog

We Love Widgets, add a horoscope widget to your blog

WebSmileys.com, put animated emoticons on your blog

Wunderground.com Weather Stickers, add a weather sticker to your blog

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Face recognition supported on Mac OS X

Face recognition SDK supports Mac OS X
updated 09:10 am EDT, Mon October 16, 2006

VeriLook 3.0 SDK for mac OS X? Where is it gone?

How do I start my session with face recognition validation?

Haven't found it yet, but you can have Keylemon for $29.95 +/-

http://www.keylemon.com/

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