Snippshot is a code collector tool. It can be accessed from any computer, and no account is needed. There are no screens or menus. Code is edited in real time. Simple to use, just click on the code and its ready to be edited.

http://snippshot.skyscarf.com/

Picnic, is an image editor tool that contains special effect for photos. You can crop, resize and rotate pictures in real time. There is no download and nothing to install.

www.picnik.com/

Google Docs, a cloud based software that deliver services that at one time had to be hosted on a local computer. The user can now save and share, create and edit RTF AND html files. File formats like Microsoft Office can also be opened and shared through the Google Docs platform

www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html

iCloud or Cloudme is online storage for photos, movies, calendars, media player and word processors. iCloud, the free version has 3GB of drive storage. Cloudme can be accessed from your mobile phone or from your browser. Anywhere access is gained through this cloud based tool.

www.cloudme.com/en

Microsoft Security Essentials, a cloud based antivirus that installs in about four minutes. Its interface has four tabs across the top. The color codes are red if you are in danger and unprotected and turn green as you update definitions from the cloud run scans on your computer to ensure that it is protected. The cloud based service (mostly) anonymously compares file behavior across computers running various Microsoft operating systems. By default the service will run at 2:00 a.m. when most people’s computers are idle. Not the slowest full scan service, but a full scan can take around two hours

www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/mse.aspx

Dropbox is an online file storage tool, which allows uploads and downloads of files. Software is downloadable to many devices (phones) to keep files accessible from any computer you are using. 2GB of storage space is free. Others can link into specific files if you want to share files, making Dropbox usable for projects of all types.

www.dropbox.com/


Rapportive is a tool that can enhance your social contacts. You can see other information about the e-mail address owner by exposing their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts that are connected to the e-mail address. As a business use it can be used to personalize a business contact, making clients feel a more personal touch.

http://rapportive.com/

The eyes have it!

Remember the $6 million man, with that squint, seeing through things. Technology is catching up to him. Millions of people struggle with eyesight. Certain conditions like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, damage photo-receptors in the eye. Now thanks, to a biotechnology, specifically, the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, some people will have the chance to see again (detect light and dark).
It works like this; a digital camera is built into a pair of glasses, the glasses captures images in real time and sends the messages to a microchip that has been inserted in the brain (six-hour operation, above the ear or under eye). This microchip processes the video (to a handheld unit) into electrical impulses that are then sent to the radio-transmitter in the glasses. This radio transmitter then transmits wirelessly to the implant (microchip). The receiver in the microchip sends impulses to the retinal implant. This implant becomes the photoreceptors that receive the light patterns and pass them to the brain. An image is seen as light or dark pixels, these pixels (in the form of electrical impulses) upon reaching the retinal implant excite the electrode array (artificial photoreceptors). The receptors accept these digitally encoded patterns and send them to the optic nerves, and then the brain interprets the patterns as a tree.
Hopefully, soon the bionic legs are coming.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern/bionic-eye.htm

It really is ........a superchicken

Yes, Americans love chicken, so much that 11 billion pounds of industry waste is produced annually. A team at the University of Nevada has developed a process that will take this waste and produce storage for biofuel. The chicken feather meal that is used as a fertilizer and animal feed, contains a fat content of 12% that is extracted with hot water. When the feather is heated the feathers develop nano sized caverns that are capable of storing hydrogen. The keratin that is produced when heated makes the feathers strong and porous. This porousness increases the surface area and its capacity to store hydrogen gas.
“Carbonized chicken feather fibers have the potential to dramatically improve upon existing methods of hydrogen storage and perhaps pave the way for the practical development of a truly hydrogen-based energy economy,” says Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering and director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources program at the University of Delaware in Newark. – Renewable Energy World
The problem with using hydrogen as a fuel is that storing the fuel in the car is a dangerous and expensive proposition, the more you store in a small space will increase the chance of an explosion. Scientist first looked at carbon nanotubes as a solution, but not a practical solution because this would have added $5.5 million(really,$5.5 million) to the price of a car. University of Delaware scientists also studying chicken feathers, but for the effect of the keratin in building microcircuits, noticed that the structural strength was similar to those of carbon nanotubes.
A carbon nanotube is any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders and are very expensive.
Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe. It is considered to be clean alternative to fossil fuels. Wool has estimated that a 75-gallon tank could go about 300 miles.
http://sciencecastle.com/sc/index.php/home/chicken_feathers_hydrogen_fuel
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/fuel-from-chicken-feathers/