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You don’t have to hire an expensive website design firm or manage your own WordPress installation to make a nice-looking site to promote your business or your personal brand. Here are three hosted website building tools to get you going quickly: Weebly, SiteKreator, and SynthaSite. Read more »

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Like many people, I use more than one computer over the course of the day. Keeping my documents folder synced between machines is a high priority. FolderShare is a free program which allows you to sync folders over the internet. While FolderShare was bought by Microsoft […] Read more »

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Mac Software Deals – It’s mostly not web software, but enough web workers are Mac users that it’s worth passing on the link to  MacSanta, which is up and running with new deals again this year. 20% off a different set of applications every day  from […] Read more »

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I can’t claim to have tried this simply because I’ve shied away from Plaxo, but if you use the service, you can now sync your contacts between Plaxo and a Windows Mobile device. You’ll need this download which is based on SyncML and once installed, you […] Read more »

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Remember those old sci-fi movies in which future humans would “terraform” Mars (or some more distant planet) to make it more like the relative paradise of our blue-green Earth? Well, it turns out we’re already honing those terraforming skills, and they’re aimed at making our own […] Read more »

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Leave it to the newfound interest in energy savings to liven up decades-old research in what has been a somewhat plodding area of materials science: thermoelectric materials. MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus (check out her amazing volumes of research) and her co-workers are using nanotechnology […] Read more »

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Testing Foxes – As we mentioned yesterday, Firefox 3 Beta 1 is out. If you want to test without messing up your Firefox 2 install, create a separate profile. Or install the Nightly Tester Tools to re-enable any addons that get disabled if you upgrade. To […] Read more »

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It seems like poplar trees can do everything these days. In addition to naturally absorbing carbon dioxide for us, they’ve been genetically modified to remediate soil. Now, the New York Times reports that North Carolina State researchers have created a poplar variety with 50 percent less […] Read more »

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Looks like the $500 million Energy Biosciences Institute — a partnership between BP, and the research labs of UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to work on bioenergy technology — is finally up and running. The group said Wednesday […] Read more »

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J. Craig Venter says he expects biology to largely replace what has been created by the oil industry. If anyone can comfortably make a statement like that to a room full of venture capitalists, it’s Venter. The genomics guru, who has had his own genome sequenced […] Read more »

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Scientists at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of a new hydrogen storage material that could nearly double the capabilities of current storage technologies. If the material turns out to be something that can be commercialized, it could bring hydrogen storage tanks much closer […] Read more »

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TV Guide is canceling its December online video awards ceremony and television special, NewTeeVee has confirmed with a company spokesperson. The decision was made due to a feeling that celebrating online video would be insensitive at a time when television writers are on strike, according to […] Read more »

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Don’t Forget the Stickers – The new Dedicated Follower of Fashon blog offers tips for the geek looking to be stylish, rather than corporately clunky, in their choice of laptop. Remember, in building your personal brand, image is important. A Fresh Weapon in the Spam Wars […] Read more »

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Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B) has announced that it will be expanding its collaboration with startup Codexis to further work on developing “new super enzymes” to convert biomass into fuel. Under terms of the five-year research collaboration, the oil giant will make an undisclosed equity investment in […] Read more »

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Joost Partners with Meebo; deal allows users to IM while watching content on the video service. (Read/WriteWeb) Telemundo Puts Full Eps Online; full episodes of the network’s prime-time series and novellas will be streamed on Yahoo. (MediaWeek) NTV Creates Blog-Driven Show; fans will be able to […] Read more »

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Mahalo, an upstart search site, today launches a video show hosted by Veronica Belmont called Mahalo Daily. The show promises to publish four short episodes a week — “we’re ‘daily’ like The Daily Show,” said Belmont — and will include how-to guides, events and conventions, company […] Read more »

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It might elicit protests from the college crowd, but university and corporate research partnerships are a lifeline for emerging innovation in the cleantech industry. There was two more of these big academia/big industry cleantech unions this week. This morning BP and Arizona State University, as well […] Read more »

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If you feel like turning on the OldTeeVee tonight, check out Attack of the Show on G4TV at 7 and 11 p.m., where I make an appearance to comment on the prospects of Hulu. Update: Here’s the full segment. Read more »

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A Canadian company may have found a key process that could allow the same crops to produce both food and fuel. Given that a UN expert on food recently called the shift of arable land from food to fuel a “crime against humanity,” the technology could […] Read more »

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So Leopard finally launched last Friday at 6pm. It’s great, it’s lame – no matter your stance, it’s here. And in case you were unaware, it’s at least a little better (and dare I say, technically advanced?) than Microsoft’s Vista which hasn’t received the warmest of […] Read more »

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Babelgum Partners with Cachelogic; Internet TV network to use Cachelogic’s Velocix network to power content streaming. (release) PeerApp to Support HTTP Video Streaming; new software supports the HTTP video-streaming protocol and caches traffic without requiring ISPs to install proxy servers or change definitions or configurations. (emailed […] Read more »

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Do you spend a lot of time formatting documents in Microsoft Word? If so, there are a number of under-the-hood features that can make you more efficient at it, and make your documents look better. In a previous post I compiled time-saving shortcuts for Word, and […] Read more »

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With oil trading at over $87 a barrel, the 40th Annual Tokyo Motor Show is set to open in an environment of record-high gas prices. Hybrids, fuel cells, biofuels, and electric vehicles will all make appearances as manufacturers hedge their bets on which technologies will take […] Read more »

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A Princeton professor is proposing that coal be combined with biomass to create what’s called synfuels — high-performance, low-emission jet fuel. Combined with a carbon capture and sequestration system, the process could produce “near-zero greenhouse gas emissions.” The announcement came as Richard Branson told a conference […] Read more »

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Despite all the new efforts in clean technology, our world still bears the scars of many years of dirty technologies. One particularly nasty leftover is an industrial degreaser called trichloroethylene (TCE), which is found in more than 60 percent of U.S. Superfund toxic waste cleanup sites. […] Read more »

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Here’s betting you’ve never heard of one of the world’s top ten killers: indoor air pollution. Every day roughly 3 billion people around the world cook and heat their homes by burning biomass such as wood, crop waste, and dung without proper ventilation, and, according to […] Read more »

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Current TV, the Al Gore-backed TV network, is gearing up for a major relaunch of its web site that could help it break away from the nirvana of cable and recapture the Net. The official launch of the site is scheduled for Oct. 16, and Gore […] Read more »

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There are now so many applications for mobile phones that it’s getting tough to decide which ones to use. In this post, I’ll round up eight applications that I’ve found to be very useful. Most of them are free, or nearly free. Viigo. Viigo is a […] Read more »

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It turns out the forces of change can’t be held back by crappy anti-piracy technology after all. Unfulfilled promises by Google (GOOG) to launch video fingerprinting technology on YouTube in order to prevent uploads of copyrighted content have had little effect on the rest of the […] Read more »

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For two dollars, you could enjoy a hearty bottle of Trader Joe’s famous Two Buck Chuck, but it would hardly save the planet. Thanks to a group of clever MIT students, you may soon be able to take that lowly two bucks and do just that. […] Read more »

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Sometimes you’ll feel stuck and stagnant just when you need to come up with new ideas or new approaches. What to do? Try these websites and pages to shake up your thinking. Read more »

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The gay porn studio Titan Media filed a round of 22 lawsuits this week against porn bloggers and file swappers. These lawsuits are a sign for things to come for the adult industry: more and more porn companies are getting ready to take legal action against […] Read more »

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Engineered Eggshell Fuel: Don’t feel like walking on eggshells? — how about driving on them. Ohio State University researchers have found a way to turn discarded chicken eggshells into hydrogen fuel. The process uses eggshells to “soak up” carbon dioxide from a reaction that produces the […] Read more »

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