I’ve been out buying gadgets to save on standby power. The exciting one mentioned in the video is this fellow: It is a Standby Saver Energy Saving Unit – as seen on Dragon’s Den, apparently. As explained in the video, it shuts off the power to all of the sockets when the computer powers down. There is a version for for AV… Read more →
Category: Technology
HomeCamp 2 – Saving Energy and Having Fun
HomeCamp 2 went from Wiki to reality on Saturday the 25th – A room full of people from diverse backgrounds sharing ideas on how to automate homes, monitor and reduce energy consumption and do the occasionally whacky thing like using a string of ducks that light up to monitor a virtual worlds. Rather than trying to write up exhaustive notes,… Read more →
Messing with Flock
I’ve started using Flock for my ‘social browsing’ – it integrates nicely with many of the services I use (WordPress, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook). This labeled screen shot from the Flock folks gives an idea of what it can do – and this post was edited and posted via Flock too… Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: flock Read more →
Geek Posters!
Ah… I love visual things, and technology history, so these are just perfect and A big thank you to Pingdom for bring them to my attention (there are loads more here). Read more →