The world’s first battery fuelled by air – with 10 times the storage capacity of conventional cells – has been unveiled.
Scientists say the revolutionary ‘STAIR’ (St Andrews Air) battery could now pave the way for a new generation of electric cars, laptops and mobile phones.
The cells are charged in a traditional way but as power is used or ‘discharged’ an open mesh section of battery draws in oxygen from the surrounding air.This oxygen reacts with a porous carbon component inside the battery, which creates more energy and helps to continually ‘charge’ the cell as it is being discharged.
By replacing the traditional chemical constituent, lithium cobalt oxide, with porous carbon and oxygen drawn from the air, the cell is much lighter than current batteries.
And as the cycle of air helps re-charge the battery as it is used, it has a greater storage capacity than other similar-sized cells and can emit power up to 10 times longer.
Professor Peter Bruce of the Chemistry Department at the University of St Andrews, said: “The benefits are it’s much smaller and lighter so better for transporting small applications.
“The size is also crucial for anyone trying to develop electric cars as they want to keep weight down as much as possible.
“Storage is also important in the development of green power. You need to store electricity because wind and solar power is intermittent.”

Google has let users to change the background of the search engine to change the image you want.. either you can upload from ur pc or load it from picassa.Looks like they need to create more impression like bing … here is mine

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Loads of hunts and googles to hack my updated nokia 63 and finally i arrived in hacking it and signing my applications to install..

These are my specs

nokia E63-1(27)
v200.21.012
rm-437

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WordPress already is a world class product. In fact free and the best personalCMS solution to date, but like any other software a few tweaks and add-ons go a long way in making your page/site effective.
I’ll be listing a set of links on this page for your consideration soon. Here are a few to start with…

1. Optimise Page Titles, URL Structure, Meta descriptions and more. Very effective writeup.
2. List of Ping Services — let others know you’re posting.
3. Verify your site with Google, and notify Google. You need a google account(free) to use their services.
4. Feedburner Feed Replacement — is another must have plugin for WordPress. while WP’s own RSS out of the box kinda works, FeedBurner makes sure you deliver content to your RSSed subscribers and even get statistics to that end. Some features require $$ but a free account with Feed Burner will give you a lot.
5. Create a Sitemap (there are numerous ways of doing this). You can use WordPress Sitemap generator plugin.
6. If you’re not happy with the theme you currently have you can alwaysbuild your own or chose from a wide range of readily available ones. Or more at OS Skins, simple minimalist themes, Planet WordPress… and very recently added WP Theme generator if you like sinking your teeth into a bit of web design.
7. Add meta description to your post automatically through Head META Descriptor plugin from guff. Increases Search engine visibility if your first few lines have good keywords.
8. Search_Hilite plugin search results can be highlighted for easy readability.
9. Priceless WordPress Guides by Pods
10. A lot of words, a lot of text, not very well presented but has links to some good SEO related tools for WordPress
11. Role Manager is particularly useful whenthere is more than one author and different levels of permissions needs to be implemented.
12. Crawl Test at SEOMoz — this is currently available to premium membersonly but due to launch in April 2007. This tool helps quickly diagnose search engine crawling issues like areas that have potential issues such as if there are a numerous pages with the same title tag (keyword cannibalization?), bad HTTP response codes such as 404 or 500, or a high number of pages that aren’t being spidered by the search engines.

Gmail lets now users to create high set of emotions for ur emails….. …Enriched with richer set of emoji characters…

There are 13 categories in all, up from the two that come with the standard Gmail, which means it can take longer to find what you’re looking for. All these additional emoticons actually come from Japanese phone carriers, each of which has its own set that works across all handsets. In Gmail’s case, your recipient does not need to be a Gmail user to see them since they’re simply embedded as image files.

when you goahead and compose a new mail.. will be able to find out the options under emotions mouse click with expanded and multiple choises of your variety.

Google has a new Gmail labs add on for emoticon fanatics. When flipped on it adds an additional 1,200 or so to Gmail’s emotion selector tool. New categories include things like national flags, more animals, road signs, and animations.

Run command increases you productivity and saves lot of time as you don’t require to access start menu to launch any application or system utility. There are several system utility which can be easily started from run command eather than locating and double clicking on executable in windows or system32 folder.

Even after using Windows XP for so many years I don’t know full list of XP Run commandsand I am sure this will true for you also, well then here is complete list of 155 Windows XP Run Commands.

Windows XP Run Command List

1. Accessibility Controls – access.cpl
2. Accessibility Wizard – accwiz
3. Add Hardware – Wizardhdwwiz.cpl
4. Add/Remove Programs – appwiz.cpl
5. Administrative Tools control – admintools
6. Adobe Acrobat (if installed) - acrobat
7. Adobe Designer (if installed)- acrodist
8. Adobe Distiller (if installed)- acrodist
9. Adobe ImageReady (if installed)- imageready
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