The evolution of the Internet and articles only good at combating their own rhetoric
Posted by Dan | Filed under awearnes, education, skills, news, information, Immaterial Things, Material Things, memories, keeping memories, work, activities
One of the most popular stories today on Forbes.com was “Google’s Big Problem They Don’t Want You To Know About” written by Forbes’s contributor Eric Jackson. The story – While in the first part the Forbes contributor is not happy at Google’s almost script like way to talk to the media, we finally are exposed to [...]
Tags: Android, AsSense, bad press, business strategy, evolution, Facebook, Forbes, Google, Google Plus, hangouts, income, internet, money, social media, Twitter
Misinterpreting a TED Talk – How to make choosing easier = How to increase sales = How to destroy earth faster
Posted by Dan | Filed under earth, water, air, weather, food, animals, plants, Immaterial Things, Material Things, Natural, products, services, maintenance, Unnatural, what is important
Recently i have come across this TED Talk - Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier. While the informations presented are no doubt valuable and can be put to use in a good manner this TED Talk is also misleading people to think that choosing the easy way is better for them. Overall this TED Talk is [...]
Tags: choice, farming, misleading, monocultures, monopoly, random, retailers, TED Talk
Linking errors in Visual Studio 2010 MFC – updated
Posted by Dan | Filed under Material Things, products, services, maintenance, Unnatural
In Visual Studio 2010 MFC, when linking to a library (.lib) gets you the horrible ‘error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol’ message and you are 100% sure the library and the current project has the same compile time parameters check if you did not used the ‘using namespace’ directive prior to the unresolved external symbol thing. [...]
Tags: lib, LNK2001: unresolved external symbol, MFC, Visual Studio
The garden of tomorrow – LED grow light panels
Posted by Dan | Filed under earth, water, air, weather, food, animals, plants, Material Things, Natural, products, services, maintenance, Unnatural
Here is something i do for a living. I produce and sell LED grow lights. What are LED grow lights ? LED grow lights are special panels that contain LED diodes and can be used to promote the growth of plants without the presence of the sun. Why are LED grow light panels so useful [...]
Tags: food, garden, healthy, hobby, led, LED grow light, plant grow
China Mobile & Passports
Posted by Dan | Filed under Material Things, products, services, maintenance, Unnatural
I have just come back to China and, because of bad storage during my trip, my China Mobile simcard got broken somehow. I went to the closest China Mobile store and asked for a replacement since i am a ”Go Tone” subscriber. There after waiting for my number ( you have to take a number [...]
Tags: China Mobile, ID, passport, phone number, replacement, simcard
Protect yourself against fraud & identity theft on Facebook – FAKE Facebook Time Checker !
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News, Material Things, products, services, maintenance
HERE IS HOW MY FACEBOOK PERSONAL PUBLISHING ADDRESS GOT STOLEN: Update 2011.01.25 – For a complete German language translation you can visit Elias’s blog. ( Using it’s personal publishing address a Facebook user can post pictures and messages by directly sending and email to this address. If someone knows your personal publishing address it can [...]
Tags: Facebook, FAKE, fraud, javascript, protection, publishing email, third party, Time Checker
The wrong ways of “GREEN Energy”
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News, earth, water, air, weather, house, constructions, accomodation, life, energy, resources, Material Things, money, wealth, Natural, products, services, maintenance, transportation, storage, Unnatural, work, activities
Lately “Green Energy” has become more than an simple annoyance to my ears. Everybody is talking about that, people on the streets, companies and even governments. People believe that “Green Energy” will solve their energy needs. Companies are banking on this term to sell their products. Governments are using it to reshape the global economy. [...]
Tags: battery, china, humidity, led, obsolence, solar, solar farms, solar garden light, streetlights, temperature, wind farms, wind powered, world
Idea Log – Product availability announced by SMS
Posted by Dan | Filed under education, skills, news, information, Immaterial Things, Material Things, products, services, maintenance, relationships, communication, interaction, Unnatural
I have read for a long time about the fridge of the future that will tell you when you must throw your eggs, will contact the shop and replenish your vegetables while you are asleep … While i am sure tests have been made there will be some time until such products go into mainstream [...]
Tags: idea log, product availability, retail, SMS
Down to Earth – iPhone4
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News
Update: as the first person that commented on this post pointed out the reality and effects of iPhone 4 “death grip” is more complex and requires more in depth attention than i’ve portrayed in the following. The assumption that i have made that GSM and 3G increase their transmit power based on received signal strength [...]
Tags: Apple, Consumer Reports, death grip, FREE bumper, FREE press conference, iHand, iPhone 4, microwaving your brain
Improve your transportation habits
Posted by Dan | Filed under awearnes, earth, water, air, weather, education, skills, news, information, Immaterial Things, life, energy, resources, Material Things, Natural, transportation, storage, Unnatural
Transportation it’s one of the main pollutant sources on a global scale and one of the biggest CO2 sources. This is mainly because we rely on non renewable, polluting sources to power our cars and other means of transport. You can also consider the short lifetime of a car, that has become even shorter nowadays, [...]
Tags: alternative energy, bus, car, common car models, LPG, metro, petrol, route planning, train, tranportation, transportation habits
