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DELIVERING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE

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AN INTELLIGENT PLUG

An ‘intelligent’ plug is being developed that will switch off electrical devices such as TVs and desk lamps when they are not being used.
It is part of an electrical system designed to cut household power bills by keeping watch over energy use.
Home owners will be told how much power every device is soaking up, and when equipment is operating needlessly.

The system will also detect and switch off devices that have been carelessly left on in empty rooms.
Researchers hope to see the plugs fitted as standard to all domestic appliances within a few years.
They will transmit information to a central control point in the home.
Dr John Woods, one of the researchers working on the project at the University of Essex in Colchester, said: “Home owners will be able to see how much power every single device uses.
“You will be able to see if a fridge has failed, or if something has been left on that should not have been.”
The plug, which will look no different from a normal 13 amp one, will also contain an ‘integrated motion sensor’, The Engineer magazine reported.

The new smart plug will look the same as a 13 amp one but is designed to cut energy bills

This will detect when there is little activity in a room where a device such as a TV has been left on. The plug will alert the central controller, which can then switch the device off.
“If something is turned off and you don’t want it to be, you simply flick the switch off and flick it back on again and the central controller will recognise that you don’t like that service being compromised,” said Dr Woods.
The plug is being developed with a £90,000 award from the Carbon Connections Development Fund, a green initiative managed by the University of East Anglia.
The aim is to reduce domestic energy consumption, which is responsible for a third of all the electricity used in the UK.
A batch of prototypes should be ready within six months, say the researchers.
They will be tested in Essex University’s ‘iSpace’ department, where hi-tech gadgets can be tried out in home surroundings.
Dr Woods estimates that the plugs would have to cost less than £1 each to be a commercial proposition. However, with mass production he believes this should be possible.
A spokesman for the Energy Saving Trust said: “The average British household wastes £28 each year by leaving appliances on standby. Across the UK this is equivalent to the annual output of more than two 700megawatt power stations.”

SPEED UP YOUR FIREFOX

Firefox is in my opinion the best browser ever made until now. It includes:
-improved tabbed browsing
-pop up blocking
-integrated Goggle search
-enhanced privacy controls
-built-in phishing protection
-online spell checking
-lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons

Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
-Microsoft Windows
-Linux
-Mac OS X

Unofficial Support:
-Free BSD
-OS/2
-Solaris
-SkyOS
-BeOS
-XP Professional x64 Edition

Now here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter.

2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set true,if not double-click to set true.

HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.

3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8.

4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened double-click on it and set it to true.

5. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by double clicking on it.

6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:

A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK

B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.

7. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.

Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.

8. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

9. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER

A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

10. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.

11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.

The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

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CLEAR YOUR MEMORY WITHOUT RESTARTING YOUR PC

If you run a windows computer you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time windows decides it doesn’t like you today?

1. Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New – Shortcut.

2. Type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.

3. Click Next.

4. Give your shortcut a nice name like “Clear Memory”.

5. Click Finish and you’re done.

Now whenever your computer starts running slow click this shortcut to clear out your memory and get your computer running at a normal pace again.

MICROSOFT DOESN’T LIKE BLOGS

Here is proof that Microsoft hates blogs. Read the following carefully-

[0014]The classifier 40 analyzes the features and generates an indication or prediction as to whether the web page that provided the features is a blog page or not. The indication or prediction may a “yes” or “no”, for example, indicating that the web page is a blog page or not. Alternately, the prediction may be a number or percentage, such as “95%”, indicating the likelihood or probability that the web page is a blog page, for example.

[0015]Categories of features have been identified that are useful for determining the classification of a web page. In addition to those described herein, it is contemplated that additional features and categories of features may be used in the classification of a web page.

[0016]One category of features is where the page is hosted, e.g., if a page is hosted in a known blog hosting DNS domain, such as MSN Spaces (e.g., spaces.msn.com), Blogspot (e.g., blogspot.com), Yahoo 360, LiveJournal, Typepad, Xanga, MySpace, Multiply, or Wunderblogs, for example. If the web page is hosted on one of these blog hosting sites, for example, it is likely a blog page. The blog hosting sites listed here are examples, and the classifier can base its prediction on these and/or other sites, alone or in combination with other features.

[0017]Another category of features is the non-HTML markup words and phrases contained in the web page. If the web page contains the word “blogroll” or “metaphilter”, for example, it is likely a blog page. Moreover, the number of occurrences of certain terms or words in a web page may indicate that it is a blog page. Terms or words that may be counted include “blog”, “powered by”, “permalink”, “trackback”, “comment”, “comments”, “blogad”, and “posted at”, for example. Desirably, the classifier and its prediction are language independent. Accordingly, the non-English equivalents of these words may also be counted. Desirably, the feature extractor does the counting (e.g., as it parses a web page). The number of occurrences of these words in a web page may be used by the classifier in generating its prediction.

[0018]The targets of outgoing links in the web page may also be considered as a category of features. Links in a web page that likely indicate a blog page include links to http://www.movabletype.com/, http://wordpress.org/, and http://www.blogger.com/, for example.

[0019]Furthermore, the particular strings and/or substrings in a URL for a web page may be considered as a category of features. For example, if the string “blog” occurs in the URL for the web page, that web page may likely be considered to be a blog page.

[0020]Moreover, if the web page contains an ATOM feed or an RSS feed, it is likely a blog page. RSS is a commonly used protocol to share the contents of blogs, and RSS feeds are sources of RSS information about websites. RSS is being supplemented by a newer, more complex protocol called ATOM.

AND FINALLY THIS

[0002]Search engines are increasingly implementing features that restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages. The website www.blogcensus.net gives information on an effort to index blogs, though this was apparently discontinued in late 2003. At that time, the site stated that it had indexed 2.8 million blogs. Currently, Technorati claims to be tracking 43.2 million blog sites. It is currently difficult for search engines to identify blog pages, regardless of the source of the content in a blog page.

[0003]A machine learning classifier is trained with features that are used to classify web pages as either blog or non-blog. Categories of features include (1) where the page is hosted, e.g., a page is hosted in a known blog hosting domain, (2) the non-HTML markup words and phrases contained in the web page; (3) the targets of outgoing links in the web page; (4) the particular strings and/or substrings in a uniform resource locator (URL) for a web page; and (5) if the web page contains an ATOM feed or an RSS feed. Some or all of the features in some or all of the categories may be used by the classifier, either in an initial classification, or in a subsequent classification in order to refine the initial classification.

The above is from US Patent Application 20070294252 filed by Microsoft according to Bill Slawski.