Five reasons why a handheld GPS receiver would be beneficial

Handheld GPS receivers are becoming more mainstream and common among everyone all over the world. No one likes to be lost, or if they are lost asking for directions can sometimes be a difficult task. Maybe you need to find the quickest route to your destination or maybe even use some other type of information? By using the handheld GPS receiver, you will have access to the information that you need.

Here we will take a look at five reasons as to why you should own one of the hottest technological items on the market today.The first reason for owning one of these handheld GPS receivers is finding your way around in areas where you can easily become lost. When you are lost, it can be a very frightening experience and not one that anybody wishes to go through again.

The mapping capability that is offered with one of these devices will show your position and then tell you how to get back to safety.A second reason for using one of these devices would be finding the quickest route to your desired destination. Sometimes reaching a destination in a timely manner can be quiet frustrating and difficult, but with the use of this GPS device, you will be able to find alternate routes that may be quicker and cause less stress in getting there.Obtaining such information as where is the closest medical facility or gas station or other importance would be a third reason for owning one of these devices.

This is very important information to have if you are in a new place. Portability is a fourth reason. The ability to easily be carried with you makes these devices virtually priceless. This allows you to find your way anywhere that you go. So no matter if you are hiking or just going for a walk or just in some new place, these devices will prove to be invaluable to you.The fifth reason and one of the most important for owning one of these handheld GPS receivers, is the ability to contact and inform emergency services where you are.

This makes it easier for rescuers to locate you and bring you back into the arms of safety. No matter where you are, these devices will be the best thing that you can have with you to ensure your safety and provide you with the desired information.

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Knowing about Rainbow

This natural phenomenon occurs only after rain. So beautiful, so inspiring a lot of songs, tales, and legends. But from the science’s view of point, the rainbow is very simple. It was just a mere optical physics. The key of the rainbow is a refraction of light. When refracted, the light will change direction. This distortion usually occurs when light moves from one medium to another. This happens because the light moves with different speeds in different mediums.

When entering a glass prism, the light will be deflected. Similarly, if exit from the prism. In addition to refract light, a prism separates white light into its color components. Different colors of light are different in frequency, and thus have a different velocity when entering a substance. The low speed of light inside the glass will be deflected more sharply when moving from air to glass, because the speed difference varies. Not surprisingly, the components that make up white light are separated based on frequency when passing through glass. In the prism, the light will be deflected twice, when entering and exiting, so that the spreading of light occurs. The drops of rainwater can refract and spread light like a prism. In the right conditions, this refraction forming rainbows.

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Do You Know about Cell Phone with Ordinary Battery

Mobile phone (cell phone) has now become one of primary needs for people, especially for those who have a high mobility.Many kinds of mobile phone brand featuring a variety of features that are attractive. But, one of mobile phone types that highly wanted is smart phone. Every new cell phone released appear to be a smart phone. If not, the phone was not getting enough attention. Shortly, if a cell phone is not able to check e-mail or support Twitter status update, it may not get many places in society today.

But in many developing countries, the 'ordinary' mobile phones still remains triumphant. That is the reason why Olive Communication in India dare to introduce its own-made phone. This phone is designed according to Indian conditions, which the electricity often die suddenly. Phone FrvrOn (an abbreviation of "Forever On") is nothing special from the physical side as well as the size. What make it special, the phone can be operated with regular AAA batteries. The battery is capable of powering the phone for an hour nonstop. It also provided a recharge battery pack Li-ion to "charging standards".

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Earth is Crying in Norway Ice Layer

The glacier, briefly, was like the other glaciers in the frozen Arctic. But in a closer observation, a painful face painted on the wall of melting ice, which was the crying and the flowing tears of river. Image of sad 'Mother Earth' that was seen by local residents during the process of melting, with ice that melt and snow falling into the sea below.

Figure draw on Austfonna ice Nordaustlandet located at Svalbard Islands, Norway would almost certainly be used for environmental activists to protest climate change. Sea-level rise caused by melting ice is one of the main worries of the impact of global warming. Experts have warned that countries that are in the lowlands will be below at the water surface.

The figure of 'Crying' Mother Earth was taken by a Navy photographer and lecturer of environmental Michael Nolan in an annual voyage to observe the glaciers and wild life around him. Jon Ove Hagen, a glacier expert who is also a member of the World Glacier Monitoring Bureau (World Glacier Monitoring Service / WGMS) and Geosains professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, has confirmed that the layer of ice that gives the image of 'Crying' Mother Earth is continually shrinking as much as 160 feet every year for decades. Hagen has studied Austfonna ice since 1988.

Austfonna is the largest ice shelf area in Norway, precisely on the island of Svalbard Nordaustlandet. Austfonna has a broad about 3000 square miles and so far is the largest ice sheet on Svalbard, and one of the largest in the Arctic.

The shrinkage of glacier surface in Austfonna in 12 years have averaged 160 feet per year. Geometry of the ice region is changing. The front continued to retreat, the bottom becomes thinner, with a depletion rate of three feet per year, while the interior thickened about 1.6 feet per year. Layer decreased about 1.6 cubic miles of ice every year.

Austfonna is the second largest area of ice sheet in Europe after Iceland and Vatnajvkull and classified seventh in the world.

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Supersonic Car is No Longer a Fantasy

I guarantee that fiction movie fans must often have or had seen the car running with super-fast speeds, often called a supersonic car.I'm also sure that after that, they thought it's just a fantasy. Wait, just a minute!! The fantasy itself could be a real thing, right?

From a guest speaker ... British researchers are planning to make these cars and can target test the first time in 2011. The car named Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) is designed to be sped on the ground with a speed of more than 1600 kilometers per hour. Of course, this car will only be tested on a flat surface such as salt lakes in the United States.

The project is done in secret since 18 months ago in a plane hangar in Bristol with the cost of making about 12 million pounds. Making cars is a dream of Drayson, a car lover who wants the younger generation interested in English and engineering sciences and technology.The same team broke the record fastest land vehicles in 1997. At that time, the British air force pilot Andy's Reef is a successful race car driver called the Thrust SSC up to 1228 kilometers per hour speed.

Bloodhound team plans to complete their projects less than a year. However, the desired speed records are expected to be achieved within three years. The engines that used by the car are the Eurofighter Typhoon jet with additional rocket thrust resulting in 20,000 kgf. Wheels, each 900 millimeters in diameter made of the strongest metals from high-quality titanium material.This car will use an accelerator to power the jet engine up to speed of 563 kilometers per hour. Then turn on the speed driven by a booster rocket. Racing engine will pump more than a tonne of hydrogen peroxide into the booster. Zoomed up to 1690 miles per hour acceleration is required only for 40 seconds. The car is 12.8 meters long and weighing 6.4 tonnes will be shot faster than a bullet projectiles.

Want to know what type of brake used? Two parachutes!

I wonder ... could the car later will run on the streets of Jakarta?

Source: Kompas.com

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Sun Storm 2012, The Activities Peak of Center Solar System

It's been a long time since last time I wrote in this blog, and I miss it to write again. Urrmm...let see what can I write. Hey, what if I write about things that related to the year 2012 prediction. Yup, that's it! I'm sure that you all have heard about 2012 prediction, or 2012 doomsday. Many people in this world believe that the year 2012 is the final day of the world we live in. But many more are convinced that this prediction is merely ordinary predictions that are not proven scientifically or religiously. But what will I write can be a reflection to all of us about this prediction.

According to National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia, the peak solar activity that is predicted to occur in 2012 solar can cause a sun storms. The peak activity of the sun till htrowing billions of tons of particles, high-energy plasma, and electromagnetic wave radiation. Hurl particles and radiation that leads to the earth affects the atmosphere, technological systems, as well as human activities in space and earth.

From the events mentioned above, it could be happen that (small) doomsday will comes toward human being and others creature in the world.What do you think of that??

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Buzz Google, a Social Networking Service from Google

Google, finally introduced officially a social networking service, called Google Buzz. This service does not stand alone, but directly integrates with Gmail service which started Tuesday and will gradually be available for Gmail users around the world.

Google Buzz provides features that allow Gmail users can now quickly share messages, website links, and photos with their fellow colleagues Gmail users. Google's call to share ideas because it provides features such as Twitter messages, but without the character limit. It also features photo and video sharing as well as updates from various services that have been used, such as Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

This service is also accessible via smartphones, especially the special applications for Android, an open platform developed by Google. Google Buzz also be integrated into the Google Maps service so that users other activities can be seen on the map.

Moreover, according to comScore research, Gmail is an e-mail service, third web-based world's most popular. The number of users in December 2009 reached 176.5 million. Gmail is still under Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo e-mail, each of which occupy the first and second positions with the number of users the world 369.2 million and 303.7 million.

This is not the first time Google released a social networking service. In 2004, Google launched Orkut social networking. In contrast to the social networking giants Facebook and MySpace in the, Orkut only managed to reach certain markets of the world, like Google also launched Google's Wave, a new service which is currently limited to new users who were invited.

Similar steps had already been previously carried out Yahoo! eventhough not yet known how much the level of popularity among users Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! also tried to take the social networking market with the launch of Yahoo!Meme or Yahoo!Mim to Indonesia.

Interest to try it??

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Please Welcome ... Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2 !

Would you prefer to use open source operating system installed on your computer? Today, one of the Mandriva linux distributions are entering the development stage which had been scheduled to be released the Mandriva 2010.1 operating system right on June 3, 2010.In this release, Mandriva even provide access to the Guest account, which is also supported by the nouveau driver, and is used by default for NVIDIA-based graphics cards."The time has come to release a linux version of Mandriva 2010 Spring. It is now available on DVD ISO 32 and 64 which can be public mirrors. As usual all of your input is really important to help improve the global quality of distribution later. "

Here is the update on Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2:

• Linux kernel 2.6.33 RC6;

• X.Org 7.5;>

• Xorg Server 1.7.4;

• KDE SC 4.4 RC3;

• GNOME 2.29.6;

• Mozilla Firefox 3.6;

• OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta 3;

• Amarok 2.2.2;

• Deluge 1.2.0;

• Songbird 1.4.3;

• Transmission 1.83;

• Google Chrome 4 Beta;

• Nouveau driver;

• Mesa 7.7;

• Intel video driver 2.10.0;

• NTFS-3G 2010.01.16;

• Glibc 2.11;

• GDB debugger 7.0.1;

• Ruby 1.9.1;

• Munin 1.4;

• Spamassassin 3.3.0;

• QT 4.6.1;

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Targus Finger Print Resistant Screen Protector

People, someday you must say goodbye to those smudgy fingerprints on your phones and laptops. Targus is unveiling a new line of patent pending screen protectors that are supposedly "fingerprint resistant." This Clear View technology will allow clear protectors to safeguard PMP's, samrtphones, e-readers laptops, all while shunning those unsightly smudges and smears from fingers. Most of the popular models (iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Storm / Curve / Bold/ Pearl, T-Mobile G1, etc.) are covered.

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Bluetooth 4.0 Now Available For Energy Efficient Wireless Technology

Guys, if you have a phone with Bluetooth feature, certainly was not new to hear the name. The Bluetooth lets you send files or conduct an internet connection without any cord. Very easy and not hard, isn't it?

The latest version of Bluetooth has now comes to meet the demands of wireless technology, which reportedly targeted the low-energy applications in the areas of health, fitness and shopping center security. Of course with the appendage is energy efficient now being intensively conducted so that the technology not only offers the sophistication, but also did not drain the existing energy.

The mission is to create something environmentally friendly. Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced that it has adopted the Bluetooth Core Specification 4.0. Bluetooth 4.0 speeds are reportedly not far from the 3.0 version which was just beginning to be used intensively for about 10 months ago, but both versions are planned to be used in different things.

According to its creator, plans energy-efficient Bluetooth is used for new products that already meet the requirements, this is an important step towards our goal enables new markets with Bluetooth wireless technology. It is still not clear to what kind of case, but it seems this will lead us to new technologies later.

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Well, There's Fish Can Make Cocoon

Did you know there are fish that can make a cocoon? I also myself just found out about it after reading on of news-onlines today. Lung Fish, that's its name, is fish could make chrysalis when forced to live without water. Lung Fish is the most unique fish. It can live a few days on land to make a cocoon of mud. Like its name, Lung Fish, it has similar organs lungs that enable life on land without water. To stay moist, this fish makes a cocoon from mud. Fish belonging to the monster fish are freshwater fish belonging to the rare, especially if an albino.

The length of Lung Fish can reach more than one meter. As carnivores, Lung Fish eat worms or small fish. Unique shape, like catfish, which have remaining legs and arms attached near the tail and near the head. Muzzle was unique, pig nose looks like a big hole.

It's mean that butterflies have rivals. Watch out Butterflies!! :)

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Not Only Chameleon who Can Change Their Skin's Color

Do you know that the turtles has a chameleon-like ability? Yup, their color of skin and shells can shift to follow where they were. Just like a chameleons, this ability helps them to hide and escape from the predators.

John W. Rowe and his team from Alma College in Michigan were collect the female turtles which was carrying to a laboratory experiment. The turtles were then given an injection of oxytocin. The turtles then divided into two groups. One group placed on the dark and light for 160 days. The second group, originally placed in the dark and light for 80 days, then they were moved to another place with the opposite color for the next 80 days.

The researchers periodically measure the intensity of skin discoloration of turtles. On day 80, all of the turtle changes color to be dark or light according to where they live. On day 160, groups of turtles that are in control still shows the same color.

While other groups changed places quickly change the color of their skin color the same as the basis to which they belong. This results informed us that the turtles can perfectly follow the color of change process.

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The First Spiders World's Vegetarian

Almost all species of spiders are predators who prey on species other animals, from insects to birds. But the kind of this spider somewhat unique and very, very rare. Among more than 40,000 species of spiders in the world, a spider that just discovered is probably the first species known to eat vegetation.

According to Kompas.com, the eight-legged animals that named Bagheera Kiplingi, life in Central America, especially in Mexico and Costa Rica. The vegetarian spider whose has body size of adult nails were preyed acacia leaf tip. He is also the first spider that known makes plants as their prey.

In order to obtain foods, they're quiet helped by the role of ants whose life also in acacias. No herbivores dare to come up as long as there are those ants. However, because the ants also eat the end of leaf, besides nectar, the spiders must do a certain strategy.

When hunting preys, the spiders should avoid the ants using net guards to move up and down. The spider is also building a nest at the base of an old acacia leaves that been rarely traveled by ants.

In addition to the eat leaf tip, the spiders was still other food such as larvae on ants and nectar. When they prey on ants they will pretend to be ants by doing zig-zag movements.

However, observations made using the video recording and chemical analysis showed the spider still get most of the food from plants. Their Mexico's population earn 90 percent of food from plant tissue and the remaining ant larvae, nectar, and others. While in Costa Rica's population earn 60 percent of food from the acacia leaves.

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32 New Planets was Recently Founded

European astronomers announced that they have discovered 32 new planets orbiting a star outside our solar system and state that 40 percent or more of the stars like Sun have planets like that. The planets have sizes ranging from about five times the Earth up to five times Jupiter's. Not only that, the astronomers also discovered a number of other planets and they had promised to announce it later this year. The discovery made the number of planets discovered outside our solar system are about 400.

The team of astronomers used the HARPS spectrograph (Light Speed Planet Finder High Accuracy) mounted on the 3.6-meter telescope, European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile. Spectrograph did not describe these planets directly, but scientists can calculate the size and mass to detect small changes in stellar vibrations caused by the gravitational pull of a small planet.

HARPS has discovered 75 planets orbiting 30 different stars. ESO team did not give detailed explanation about what stars are orbited by the new planet 32.

src: kompas.com

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The Wakaba Mobile: Another Children of Nation's Work

Wakaba multifunctional car prototype, the children of nation's work, have been lauched on October 16, 2009 in Bandung, West Java. The kind of prototype which was launched by the Governor of West Java, Ahmad Heryawan, seem like a minitruck. The function of that minitruck is to carry plantation away.

Wakaba is an abbreviation of 'wahanaKarya Anak Bangsa' the vehicle of nation's children). Beside a minitruck, the design of wakaba include patrol, minicold storage, minidozer, mini-excavators, and miniloader, but their prototype have not been created yet.

Wakaba is expected to be a growing spirit of national automotive industry's future based small and medium industries

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The Sensational Work of Nation's Children

As an archipelagic country, Indonesia has more than 17,000 large and small islands that surrounded by vast oceans. This circumstances are not just provide potential wealth to Indonesia but also risk and big problems. In fact, Indonesia is facing many threats and problems due to its geographical position, such as territorial conflicts with neighboring countries, smuggling of natural resources, ship hijacking, and terrorism.

To reduce the problems caused while helping to maximize control and security of the country, Indonesia needs an integrated security system that is applied to the form of radar. During the time, radar technology controlled by foreign parties. For many year, Indonesia get radar from other countries with, of course, very high cost. But not now! At least for the start.

SOLUSI247 together with the RCS-247 radar division (Radar & Communication Systems), successfully launched a national children work in the field of radar technology, a radar which is called INDRA.

The maritime radar 'INDRA' was built with the ability to detect and measure the distance of a ship by using the Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) technology that bring out a sophisticated radar with very low transmit power. Because of that very low transmit power, INDRA could be operated anywhere and will not interfere with other devices in the vicinity.

On October 24, 2008, for the first time, INDRA was tested at Cilegon beach, Banten. In its first appearance, INDRA confirmed its existence as a maritime radar. This is evidenced by its ability to detected and measured accurately the distance of a ship that was sailing in the ocean.

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The All-Day-Long Durable Netbook

In addition to levels of practicality and price, battery life becomes one of important reasons to buy a netbook. Among the dozens of brands of locally made netbook or a global brand, Asus EeePC Seashell 1000HE is the most superior choice. Why? Because Seashell eee PC is the first netbook to have a battery life 6 hour stand alias used all day. It has the ability because it is the first netbook that use a lithium Polymer battery. This battery is fitted internally and can not be removed from the outside.The lithium polymer battery is able to maximize capacity of usage.

Like all Asus Notebook, EeePC Seashell 1000HE is equipped by super-hybrid engine that set the processor speed range. In addition, the keyboard is also extensive, with the big-size right "Shift". The buttons on the bottom row is also greater than the other EeePC button. When used for typing, the knob feels lighter and comfortable when pressed.

This type of design is like sea scallops with 1-inch thick and weighing only 1.1 kg. With Intel Atom N280 processor, 1.66 Ghz, it practically has the completeness of the average netbook class. In addition, the disk is supported Seagate 160 GB capacity with the ability to read and write a high enough access speeds milisecond 23.2. In fact, Asus provides additional virtual hard disk freely through EeeStorage service for 10 GB.

*from: Kompastekno*

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LIPI Get Launch ISRA, Sea Radar Made in Indonesia

LIPI (the Sciences Institution of Indonesia) finally was launching Indonesian sea radar (ISRA), the first made-in-Indonesia observer radar. The radar could be used to see through maritime and aerial transportation, weather observation, territory mapping, and navigation. In addition, the radar is also useful for military.

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By 2014, Indonesia has It's Own Rocket Launcher

Five years from now, Indonesia will have a rocket launcher satellite technology itself. The National Institute of Aviation and Outerspace (LAPAN) scheduled it can launch the rocket booster called the four-storeyed with a rocket booster Satellites (RPS) -420 for the first time in 2014 (but it is planned to be launched in 2012).

The rocket is being designed with two four-storeyed RPS in order to launch the satellite monitoring of Indonesian 2014. As a preface, LAPAN have been successfully launched a rocket RX-320 on 30 May 2008 and RX-420, on 2 July 2009, which was held at the Station Test Flying Pamengpeuk, West Java.

Until now, some of the process of the RPS-420 has been implemented and has been flight-tested although some still need more improvement.

RPS-420 is projected to first on the ability to orbit satellites in outer space, but not to load equipment for monitoring is in the air. If the RPS-420 project is successful, set up LAPAN new satellites to be launched.

In addition to the rocket, LAPAN also continue to develop satellite technology. LAPAN Tub-SAT (LAPAN A-1) which was launched in 2007 is the first satellite that most of the design and production was conduct by Indonesian engineers together with the Berlin University of Technology, Germany.

During this time, the launch of the satellites was in Shiharikota, India, with Indian-made rocket. LAPAN will still be using the missile India to launched LAPAN A-2 satellites that will be used for telecommunication. The production process of the communication satellites conducted together with the Orari.

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Students from Around the World Can Now Study by Using SMS

Students from around the world will be able to perform learning activities together with the SMS on the new academic year 2009-2010. The facility will be presented is the Global Teenager Project (GTP) experimental phases, which supported by IICD. This project is to experiment by using the SMS to help schools that do not have internet access in order to participated in an online learning program in the world.

In fact, GTP has spread around the world, but this program is available for the new school that has Internet access. Through the internet, many middle class that implement learning activities in the world can interact each other to ask questions and share stories about everything they want to learn. This is one of students' way to learn different cultures of their friends around the world. With the new SMS project components, it will allow schools in rural areas with limited Internet access or do not have internet access can participate in this project at all.

But as the project is still in experimental stage, the new countries are scheduled to use this technology. The first country that will use SMS in this GTP is Zambia, Ghana, North Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, Romania and the Netherlands. How about Indonesia??

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