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Nice .. http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/cust/rss_subscribe.jsp Available RSS Feeds: BlackBerry Technical Solution Center – All Categories BlackBerry Security Notices BlackBerry® Accessories BlackBerry® Presenter BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader BlackBerry® Visor Mount Speakerphone VM-605 BlackBerry® Wireless Headset HS-655 BlackBerry® Wireless Headset HS-700 BlackBerry® Desktop Software (Mac OS) BlackBerry® Desktop Software 2.0 (Mac OS) BlackBerry® Desktop Software (Windows) BlackBerry® Desktop Software

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Streetcar

Check this out. http://www.streetcar.co.uk/ Streetcar offers self-service cars for rent by the hour, day, week or month. The cars are parked in a dense network of dedicated spaces in several UK cities. Our new Volkswagen Golfs can be booked for as little as 30 minutes or as long as 6 months. They are reserved online

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Homes to get free energy monitors

excellent! I wonder what make they will be? Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6550361.stm Every household in the UK will be able to request a free device that shows how much electricity is being used in the home at any one particular moment. Ministers are set to announce the plan in the forthcoming Energy White Paper. They hope “real-time

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DST 2007: As predicted, we didn’t save much energy afterall!

Noooooooooooo … well it was what we all suspected. I wonder if they will revert back next year? Link taken fron: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/04/dst-2007-as-predicted-we-didnt-save.html … But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage. “We

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Dry Recycling

Okay so I live in the London Borough of Hillingdon.  It’s quite good we get a weekly recycling collect and I aim to have more recycling bags more than rubbish bags. In the post yesterday came the Borough Newsletter and an article on the environment listed out what you can / cannot recycle. Now in this

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Home Information Pack

Read an advert in today’s London Lite that says from June 1st 2007 every home on the market will have a Home Information Pack that rates its energy efficiency. (I wonder who will pay for it?) Included is a rating of the home’s energy efficiency and recommendations that could help cur CO2 emmisions and fuel

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College uses Vista to save power

I saw this in computing magazine and wantted to share it. so vista does have some good points! Source: http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2186708/college-uses-vista-save-power Bockenhurst College is installing the Microsoft Vista operating system to reduce energy consumption and save money. Machines running Vista will automatically put themselves into sleep mode after an hour of being inactive. … The system

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Why PCs Should Get More Sleep

Save the trees man … Shame my Elonex doesn’t have the Hibernate Option on the start menu. Also upgrade to an LCD monitor and save too!  Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-21vistapowermgmt.mspx REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2007 — A single incandescent 100-watt light bulb left on around the clock for a year costs more than US$80 to power. Generating that power releases

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The New Jersey Barrier

Now this is a damm good idea!.  Also when I was in India, I read an article about a way to generate electricity from the motion of cars on a road!.  Source: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2466 How many speeding cars does it take to power a lightbulb? For Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next Generation

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Carbon Footprint

So I was off at the start of January after my Op.  One observation is how the phrase “Carbon Footprint” has exploded in media during the last week and a half or so.  Especially after Marks and Spencer announced a business-wide £200m “eco-plan”. Now in the last week both David Cameron and Gordon Brown are

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