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DEL.ICIO.USHigh tech ways to keep cool
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s hard to think about anything but the heat outside these days. So I decided to take a look at how high tech can keep you a little cooler. Well, there’s always a pith helmet with a solar-powered fan if you don’t mind losing every shred of dignity.
If you actually wore the thing you might want to have a soft drink or beer that comes in a self-cooling bottle.
Or, for those with the money, how about buying the same spacesuit used by the astronauts. There is a movement afoot to adapt them and their cooling systems to hot applications on earth.
These scientists think they have the answer, although I’m not exactly sure I can figure it out. You stick your hand in a sealed chamber, pump out some air and … well, you can read about it here.
Even if you give the pith helmet a pass, keep in mind that your PCs at home create a lot of heat. That chip gets hot enough to fry an egg. So turn the thing off when you’re not using it to avoid adding to the heat load in your home.
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By charles hosea
August 8, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
Please recomend a good reasonably easy program for organizing and touching-up family and vacation pictures?
By Bill Husted
August 8, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this
Hi, Charles, I’m a big fan of Adobe Elements - in fact, I’ve mentioned it here on the blog before. It’s the junior version of the professional editing software used by most commercial photographers - Adobe PhotoShop CS.
It also has some tools that will let you organize pictures and even put slideshows on DVD. It can be a little pricy. If you click here you can learn more about Elements. That’s a bundle of two programs, you can find Elements alone on the Adobe Web page too.
I think this program is sophisticated enough for most people and yet easy to use.
As far as organizing photos, I prefer to do that myself. I just create folders with various topics and put the photos in there. I also rename photos so that the file name includes the date that the picture was taken - for instance one might be 81006erin22.jpg.