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Archives for May 30, 2012

Kickstart this! Tellurex tPOD1 generator powered by a five-cent tea candle!

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You gotta love some of the brilliant, green ideas that are being KickStarted these days… case in point, how about this portable, handy charging device powered by candle and can charge your smartphone! Enter the  Tellurex tPOD1™ (Patent Pending), a small soup can-sized power-on-demand packable generator powered by a five-cent tea candle. It’s a one-minute, go-anwhere thermoelectric miracle that will light up in a blackout, illuminate your camp table or put a critical limited rescue recharge on a dead smartphone.

The company also has a gadget (Tellurex tPOD5) that can power up and charge your device all powered by a lamp fueled with lamp fuel… nice!

See more in the PR  Tea Candle Powered Generator Charges Dead Smartphones and Lights Homes in Off-Grid Villages or at http://www.tellurex.com

Source: tellurex.com via Glenn on Pinterest

The New Accuweather for iPad – This is how to deliver a mobile experience!

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Are you a mobile developer or perhaps a would-be mobile developer? If so then take note of the new mobile iPad app from Accuweather – a fine example of how to deliver an awesome user experience! Accuweather has done all the right things here, right from the get go at point of purchase where they have made available a free (ad supported) and premium version of their latest app – the Pro version is just 99 cents, the perfect price point!

Accuweather has made the app fun and simple to use. A scrollable calendar feature lets the user touch the calendar and scroll in a circular motion to view the forecast for selected days.  The graphics used are very nice, ads are non-intrusive yet effective (and relevant) and the options are pretty impressive.  Like any good app, Accuweather is location-aware, providing the user with relevant information and data for your area. Additionally, a handy map display is also provided where you can easily view a real-time radar map and even play it forward using the animation feature.  If  you happen to be a weather fanatic there’s also a handy news feed providing the latest weather related breaking news (like hurricane information and storm threats).  For those of you in hurricane country there’s a tab specifically for viewing hurricane updates and related news and a social tab brings up all the Accuweather related social media updates from facebook and Twitter.

Kudos to Accuweather on this update… I’ll be coughing up the extra $ for the Pro version on this one simply because you’ve done such a great job and I’m a fan of supporting developers!

See More in the iTunes store by searching “Accuweather” and See also  AccuWeather Launches New iPad App

Portable Skills Every Recent College Graduate (All of us) Should Have

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I recently received an update from Vickie Milazzo, author of the New York Times bestseller Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman. In her latest report she looks at the high unemployment rate experienced by recent college grads and provides some pointers to skills that these grads should focus on moving forward. Read on to learn what portable skills anyone could/should put in your tool box and how to perfect them – some sound advice here!

  • Develop a nose for (your) business. Take this time to really study up on your industry.
  • Let your creative flag fly. Don’t be afraid to be creative.
  • Be your own problem-solver. Great employees don’t passively wait for the boss to tell them what to do.

 

Source: kglobal.com via Glenn on Pinterest

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