"CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a tour of Google's new solar-panel installation, now believed to be the largest for a company in North America. Kanellos toured the Mountain View, California US."
Google said they should have the installation paid off by 7.5 years with the panels lasting 40 years. How cool is that ... I definitely need to get on the solar bandwagon.
A mate of mine, mojodale, lent me his Playstation 3, so instead of playing games, I hooked it up to the net and installed the distributed computing project - Folding@Home. It's now happily crunching away taking 7-8 hours per work unit.
I was feeding the PS3 video signal through my iMac, so I thought I might as well capture some footage and make a little vid.
{mosimage}Apple have now released update 10.4.10 for PowerPC and Intel-based Macs running Tiger. The update includes general operating system fixes, as well as fixes for:
- RAW camera support
- Mounting and unmounting external USB devices
- Support for 3rd party software applications
- Security updates
{mosimage}Stan Schroeder from Mashable says "It’s time to toss the old tube to the dumpster." and has a guide on 33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online.
The big issue with IPTV is bandwidth, especially with us Australians who have plans which are capped once your bandwidth allowance has been reached. And being capped is no fun at all.
We can only hope that this might drive the ISPs to up their allowances.
{mosimage}Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil and demo Mac OS X Leopard features in his World Wide Developer Conference keynote address from San Francisco's Moscone West.
He also thanks Intel for their support, advised that EA are back with Mac versions of C&C 3 and BF2142, as well a simulation releases of their EA support titles coming to the Mac, John Carmack from ID showed off some new game for the Mac, with more news to come at E3.
Then came Leopard, as Steve showed off a couple of new features such as the New Finder and Quicklook, but the most stunning piece of news was Safari for Windows.