iOS and OS X: Time for Some Real Convergence

OS X is great. So is iOS. But there's a certain disconnect between the two operating systems that feels very un-Apple-like. I'm ready for a better, more integrated convergence of the operating systems, something that lets me run all the same apps on the Mac as I run on the iPhone and iPad. Making Apple TV part of the mix wouldn't hurt,...

Mizzu Features For Android

Are you the one to own a Honeycomb tablet, looking for a enhanced movie and video management system? If yes, then Mizzu, earlier known as Mizzu Movies is the perfect Android application for you which helps you to manage your favorite movies and television shows. The application recognizes movies automatically with title, cover art and plot and keeps all the information in a local database...

The South African Beauty Secret

I'm currently on a month's holiday in South Africa, and I'm again on a beauty quest to find the secret that keeps South African women looking so gorgeous! I love discovering beauty treatments, ingredients and secrets from all over the world and here in this beautiful country, the secret is Rooibos Tea. Used for generations by the Khoi and San people of South Africa, this tea grown...

Internet Blackout Day on January 18

WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop it. On January 18, 2012 many sites around the web — from small...

Health, Food Security Benefits From Climate Change Actions Shown By NASA Study

The research, led by Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, finds that focusing on these measures could slow mean global warming 0.9 ºF (0.5ºC) by 2050, increase global crop yields by up to 135 million metric tons per season and prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year. While all regions of the world would benefit, countries...

Asia's Biggest MMOG: FIFA Online 2

Ask Electronic Arts or Konami about their bestselling sports title worldwide and chances are they'll bring up their respective soccer titles: the FIFA and Winning Eleven series (Pro Evolution Soccer for the latter if you live in North America). Both games represent the best aspects of video game soccer to a point where both franchises have their own divided fan base. Naturally,...

JamBots: Soft Robots Based on Particle Jamming, Like this Hexapod from iRobot

iRobot has received ample attention for their particle jamming innovations (ie, the "Jamming Blob Robot" and "Jamming Gripper"), created under the now-expired DARPA Chembot program.  However, if you're like me, their particle jamming actuators and hexapod "JamBot" probably alluded your attention -- and they're stinkin' cool!  That said, I'd like to introduce you to the "Hexapod...

Why Ice Cream Sandwich won't be able to save Android tablets

For the last day, I’ve been tinkering around with Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0.3 OS on my Motorola XOOM. Motorola hasn’t yet released the updated software for its tablet officially, but I was able to get the latest version of Android running due to work being done by various open source community teams at XDA-Developers, a popular forums site for Android development and hacking. I’ve...

A New Wild Ginger Discovered from the Evergreen Forest of Western Ghats of South India

ntensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of an interesting species of Amomum (Cardamom) from Silent Valley National Park on the Western Ghats of Kerala.  The study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys. The...

Find more than 1,300 eco-friendly fabrics on the new Source4Style

For many years, designing clothing with fabrics that didn't pollute rivers, weren't made from nonrenewable petrochemicals, and didn't contribute to habitat loss or worker abuse (i.e., conventional fabrics) was almost impossible. Sure, there were organic cottons, naturally dyed wools and hemp textiles out there, but they were (very) hard to find and often came in limited colorways. Plenty...

iPad 3 expected to come with 9.7-inch screen and A6 processor

The market is abuzz with speculations that Apple is going to launch the iPad 3 towards the end of January and will be providing the same with A6 processor.The report has also stated that the latest iPad is going to be designed for multiple market segments. This means that variants of the iPad 3 will be offered for base level, medium range as well as top end markets. Screen size is also going...

Canal network could be used to transport biomass for power plants

Britain's network of Victorian canals could once again play a major industrial role, in a revival driven by the demand for green energy. There are hopes that inland waterways that are now the preserve of walkers, barge-owners and holidaymakers may finally undergo a rebirth as freight transport routes to meet the needs of power stations run on biomass plants, where electricity...