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POPSTop 10 New World-Changing Innovations of the Year 2008 Breakthrough Awards /// The Innovators The early 20th century produced a breathtaking succession of innovations—the Wright Flyer, the Model T, the Panama Canal. It was a golden age of engineering. A century hence, observers may well look back at our era in much the same way: Cars are being reimagined from the wheels up. Advances in solar energy show the way past fossil fuels. And space probes explore planets that could become our future homes. These pages salute the innovators who are inventing the future. Welcome to the new golden age.
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POPSCool Websites and Tools [September 11] (4) MyFridgeFood – Interesting and definitely quite useful tool to quickly check what food you can prepare with the items you’ve have at hand. It presents you with two options – quick find and detailed kitchen. Both these pages have check boxes representing various food items. Just check the ones which you’ve got in your kitchen and it’ll show a list of recipes you can make with some or all of them. Read more: MyFridgeFood – Find Recipes With Ingredients You Have (5) GoogleStore – If you are a die-hard Google fan you would definitely like GoogleStore. It is an online store run by Google where you can purchase all sorts of Google swag, brand accessories and souvenirs ranging from adult/kids clothing to things like lava lamps, mugs, pens, Yo-Yos, mouse pads etc. Read more: GoogleStore – Buy Google Accessories & Souvenirs
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POPSVoltaire inspired Quote generator The quotes are real. The Dr Pangloss mentioned was a character in Voltaire's work 'Candide', or 'Optimism.' (1759) There is a link under the first quote on the clip, but the quotes that were shown kept me pushing the "Hit me again" button. Dr Pangloss was known to be an eternal optimist.
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POPSMediaCoder, a Free Video & Audio Converter Downloaded a video from the net (avi, divx, xvid, youtube, FLV) and want to watch it on your device (iPod, PSP, cellphone, PDA, DVD Player)? Got no clue how to do it? Me neither, but MediaCode does. And it is a cinch to use, and the price is right - FREE! Give it a look if you need a video converter .
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POPSMedia Monkey I've been using this thing since this morning and I liked it very much. Some very powerful features for maintaining database, editing tags and converting formats of the files (including .flac, .ogg). Best of all, it's free. ;)
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POPSHow to fill a fountain pen Just re-found my favorite pen, which had been missing for a couple of years. We went up to Berkeley so I could pick up a new bottle of ink for it today, and I had to refresh my memory of how to fill it.
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POPSOnline PDF Converter Really handy when you need to open a PPT or XLS or DOC on a machine but don't have MS Office, excel, or powerpoint.
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POPSThe World Clock The kind of thing you need if you want to celebrate the new year in every time zone. There are more city times on the home page.
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POPSFoxit Reader 2.3 pdf Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size. Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file. High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission.
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POPSFree Online File Converter This site is great! You can convert a whole bunch of image, doc, video or music file formats, to pretty much any other relevant file format! Converts from urls too. I like it. .:) -> Convert files from a URL on the Internet -> Integrate Zamzar into your web browser using the Zamzar browser button -> Convert videos directly from sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Revver and many more. Check it out here too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgZ3_t3vjY
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POPSTurning trash into power via plasma heating This is pretty incredible! Imagine your town's garbage dump being the source for all of the heating and electricity you need. This scientist is using super hot plasma to convert pretty much anything into energy!
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POPSWheat stubble could power a greener future When considering alternate energy sources, all stages of the process needs to be taken into account. To translate energy from one media to another, energy needs to be used to allow the conversion. Very often however, rather than direct input a catalyst can be used, to both streamline the conversion, or use a form of energy such as solar, or latent chemical energy. via a catalytic converter, or an organic process. Photosynthesis, and Yeast, metabolism, are examples that involve both. Some of the best catalysts are Enzymes, chemical 'messengers' which can co-ordinate the operation of proteins which are used like an organic 'toolkit'
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