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Great iPhone Tips

Glyohboards

I've found a great  iPhone site

A great new iPhone web app - Glyphboard

And a great iPhone tip!

Use the above mentioned iPhone App Glyphboard to rename some of you cool new iPhone iOS4 folders with special characters instead of boring old words!

Glyphboard allows you to copy and paste special characters that are not available on the iPhone keyboard

You can then use this to give some of your folders special short names....

I'm looking forward to using it on Twitter too!

Greens launch new film in target constituency

A new short film explaining why the Greens can win this year's parliamentary election in Norwich South has been released on the internet. The Norwich South seat will be contested by the Green Party's deputy leader, Adrian Ramsay.

The film uses animation and graphics, plus a short direct message from the candidate, Adrian Ramsay, who is one of thirteen Green councillors on Norwich City Council. The film recognises that the battle for who runs the country will be between Labour and the Conservatives, but maintains that each individual constituency is a separate, unique contest and Norwich South will provide one of the most interesting battles.

It suggests that the Greens provide the strongest challenge to the sitting MP, New Labour's former Home Secretary Charles Clarke. The Greens have beaten all the other parties in local elections across the constituency in 2007, 2008 and 2009. If people vote the same way at the General Election Mr. Clarke will lose his seat to the Greens.

The film concludes that one more Labour, Conservative or Lib-Dem MP will hardly be noticed in the House of Commons, but electing a Green MP for Norwich would provide the fresh, distinctive voice that the city, and Parliament, so desperately need.

Adrian Ramsay said: "Any successful election campaign in the 21st century has to use a variety of methods. We are leafleting and speaking to residents on the doorstep as always but I think this video will provide another useful way for us to communicate with Norwich residents.

"I'm very pleased with the video. I think it's visually very impressive. I hope it is shared and watched by Norwich residents repeatedly between now and the General Election."

 

 

 

Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'

• North Sea countries plan vast clean energy project

• €30bn scheme could offer weather-proof supply

It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway's fjords: Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.

The network, made up of thousands of kilometres of highly efficient undersea cables that could cost up to €30bn (£26.5bn), would solve one of the biggest criticisms faced by renewable power – that unpredictable weather means it is unreliable.

With a renewables supergrid, electricity can be supplied across the continent from wherever the wind is blowing, the sun is shining or the waves are crashing.

Connected to Norway's many hydro-electric power stations, it could act as a giant 30GW battery for Europe's clean energy, storing electricity when demand is low and be a major step towards a continent-wide supergrid that could link into the vast potential of solar power farms in North Africa.

By autumn, the nine governments involved – Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland and the UK – hope to have a plan to begin building a high-voltage direct current network within the next decade. It will be an important step in achieving the European Union's pledge that, by 2020, 20% of its energy will come from renewable sources.

"We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment," said the UK's energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt. "But there are projects where it might make sense to join up with other countries, so this comes at a very good time for us."

More than 100GW of offshore wind projects are under development in Europe, around 10% of the EU's electricity demand, and equivalent to about 100 large coal-fired plants. The surge in wind power means the continent's grid needs to be adapted, according to Justi...

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Brando's USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter gives any old HDD those SuperSpeed powers

via Engadget by Darren Murph on 12/28/09

Oh, Brando -- how we do love thee. Be it random accessories we don't need at all or legitimate peripherals that make our lives all that much easier, you're always there -- steadfastly waiting for us to fall in love over and over again. Mushiness aside, the outfit's new USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter is indeed one of those remarkably useful devices, enabling any old SATA hard drive to be accessed externally at USB 3.0 speeds. Essentially, this is the pocket-friendly version of Sharkoon's latest SATA QuickPort, but rather than forcing you to carry around a dock, this simple dongle travels easy and plugs directly into the port-laden side of your spare HDD. Granted, you'll need a USB 3.0-enabled PC or expansion card in order to take advantage of the additional speed, but for $48, this looks to be an excellent excuse to get that dusty, unused drive of yours back into service.

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