Software utilities

Inprivate ^TM is a new feature available with the upcoming Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (beta 2 available), which guarantees a much safer navigation on the Internet. The main goal is to make sure that when you surf the internet using someone’s else PC you won’t leave any hint of where you have been: this could be useful for surfing on public spots. Also, it could prevent websites and advertisers to track users navigation. You’re wondering how do they track you? Well, for example, when you navigate on two sites, both having Google adwords or other forms of ads, you can be tracked, in the sense that in this case Google knows that you navigated on those two sites. This is also a useful info for advertisers, since they use this to deliver advertisement to match users (supposed) interests.

What do you think? Will you use this feature?

Everything is ready: Friday in the district of Arts in Portland, Oregone, Microgym Green will open to the public; it will be the first gym that tends to complete, total energy autarky.

"We are creating a neighborhood gym that is as comfortable and effective as any other," Adam Boesel said to the Los angeles Time reporter. "At the same time, our members are doing their part to help the Earth."

The initiative is full of technological innovations that exploit every possible source of energy, from solar cells placed on the roof, to watts produced by special machines for training. The gym is among the first to use the advanced versions of Human Dynamo, the exercise bike that generates energy, and to apply the concept to other machines.
Boesel has demonstrated the operation of some prototypes of Human Dynamo. Four exercise bike connected to as many generators, that show on a display the amount of energy in watts produced by pedaling and a lever set up for training arms. When all four locations are in use, from 200 to 600 watts of power are generated. Mike Tagget, the original designer of Human Dynamo, admits that

"Yes, it isn’t a lot of power, but it is better than nothing, and there is gratification in actually doing something during your workout,"

which, we add, is also productive for the planet.
Thus, the enterprising Boesel has sought to extend the application of the idea, linking the electrical system to tapis-roulant like every other machine from which you can derive energy. Not only has tried to introduce in the gym of the rules of conduct for the benefit of consumption: Shut down the ceiling fans when not needed, completely disconnect the machines not in use and many other small shrewdness that, overall, help to keep exercise in a gym "green" fuel consumption and extremely limited.

Photo taken from http://www.humandynamo.net

Here’s an interesting video of a strange thing: a line on the screen, that is visible only when using Visual Studio!

What could it be?

Maybe you need to run Internet Eplorer 6 (IE6) under Vista, either for compatibility with older web applications or for web development or, if you ‘re insane, to use it instead of IE7 or Firefox (recommended choice). Well, you can download this file, directly from Microsoft, that emulates a Windows XP SP2 with IE6. There are also images with IE7 or IE8 Beta 1.

Have fun!

Hi, maybe you already know something about IE7 and quirks mode. I had problem with a wordpress theme not showing properly on IE7 (strange, isn’t it?!?! ). After googling a bit, I found out that a blank line before doctype caused IE7 to go in quirks mode and make a mess of my beautiful page. I removed it since it was just a blank line and everything went ok.

But now i have a problem, since I need to place a text before doctype (to show a waiting div, for example when you search for a hotel on expedia or similar, you see a Please wait etc… message). Now this text breaks IE7 visualization.

Do you know a way to solve this????