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This is a little off the beaten path of Google, Facebook, and iPhones, but could potentially have a far greater impact on our lives than any discovery in recent times.

The problem with solar energy is that it is extremely difficult to store. It’s great when the sun is blazing, but when it’s dark outside, the juice shuts down and the energy stream comes to a halt.

But researchers at MIT have found a way to store solar power using simple, clean, abundant resources. According to Daniel Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, “Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon.”
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comScore’s Ad Metrix results for April of 2008 reveal what we may already have known: the top apparel advertiser on the web is American Apparel.

They racked up around 480 million display ad views in the month that led to about 49 million ad-exposed views. Not half bad, huh?

They’ve been at this for a long time. I’ve been seeing the same style American Apparel ads (lo-fi photos bored looking young hipsters not wearing very much) for at least four years now. New stores are popping up all over the place, and I even succumbed and bought a hooded sweatshirt from them a couple of years ago. For the record, it started to fade after about three washes. Too bad, because all of their clothes are American-made, which is really nice to see.
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Now this is something I’ve been waiting for my whole life. Do you have a situation where protocol requires placing a phone call, but you really would prefer not having to talk to the person on the other end? For instance, perhaps you caught something “social” during a trip to Vegas a few weeks back and need to alert an ex-girlfriend?

This is where Slydial comes in: even if the person on the other end is present and willing to answer the phone, Slydial sends you straight to voicemail. So the other person thinks they dropped the call and you get off scot-free without having to confront a potentially awkward phone conversation.
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Yes, I’ve had my Asus Eee PC for about a month now, and I’m really happy with everything it does. While I wish it was just a little bit more powerful, for everything I really need to do, it performs beautifully.

I know the Linux fanboys are going to hate me, but I decided to get the Linux system and install a scaled-down version of Windows XP on it, along with Microsoft Office. I’d rather use Firefox, but it takes up four times the resources of my IE7 install, so everything runs quite smoothly on the Internet.
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Do you have an iPhone and hate paying for Internet access at LAX? Want your laptop to work in Central Park?

With tethering software, users can connect their iPhones to their laptops and utilize the 3G network they pay for through their AT&T data plans to get Internet access to their laptops. It’s really a rather wonderful thing, and is available on other networks like Verizon.

An app called NetShare from Nullriver briefly appeared in the iPhone app store in the evening of July 31st, for a price of $10. Unfortunately, it was gone in twenty minutes, and raised the hackles of more than a few iPhone users who want to fully utilize the bandwidth they have purchased and own.
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