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TweetDeck is a desktop client for Twitter build on Adobe AIR. Nothing new there. That sentence could have described Twhirl, Snitter, or Alert Thingy. But TweetDeck has a few features up its sleeve that other Twitter clients lack.
The most noticeable difference is that TweetDeck has a multi-column view. You can glance at all of the latest tweets from your contacts in one column, see replies in another, and direct messages in a third. Or you can create groups of contacts (for example, a group of all your favorite Download Squad bloggers on Twitter), and see just updates from those contacts in a column.
You can customize the display by adding up to 10 columns, or removing columns you don’t need. The display is also resizable. There are no themes and no way to adjust the font yet. But the application is still in beta.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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There have been reports flying around Twitter and several prominent blogs that Twitter is making a move to acquire Summize, a popular Twitter search engine. In case this is the first you’re hearing about Summize, here’s a rundown of what it does. It can search Twitter for any string — most importantly, an @name — which makes it indispensable when Twitter’s tracking function is down. Second, it aggregates and lists the most popular search terms, so you can get a sense of the Twitter zeitgeist.
It’s too early to speculate about what effect the acquistion could have on Twitter itself, or how the resulting service would look with Summize’s features integrated. We do love the idea of combining two services we use every day, though. Basically, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that these rumors are true.

Source: Download Squad

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Automakers across the globe are in a frenzy to produce highly efficient, fuel saving vehicles that remain relatively inexpensive, yet still offering the modern conveniences and safety features consumers have grown to expect. While development on advanced drivetrains is going strong at almost every automaker, Japan’s big four (Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda) realize that performance and efficiency gains aren’t the exclusive purview of what’s under the hood. The hood itself is part of equation.
Automotive News sat down with various heads of research and development at Japan’s largest automakers and found that lighter cars are a top priority to increase fuel economy and reduce carbon emissions. The use of lightweight materials, the reduction of overall size and the development of new engineering and design methods are all contributing to Japan’s dramatic weight loss solution.
Nissan has already announced plans to reduce vehicle weight by 15 percent by 2015. Mazda is aiming to cut 220 pounds from its vehicles beginning in 2011. Toyota is hoping to shed ten percent of its mid-size vehicle’s weight by the mid-2010s and although Honda hasn’t released a specific target for weight savings, the automaker considers it a top priority.
Toyota wants to reduce the Corolla’s curb weight by 30 percent when the next generation sedan arrives in 2015 and its been reported that the new engine in the 2010 Prius, due out next year, will be 17 percent lighter and will use a battery pack that’s half the weight of the current model.
All of Japan’s automakers concede that reducing vehicle weight is a serious challenge. While steel prices have risen, they still don’t warrant the extensive use of exotic materials like aluminum, magnesium and carbon fiber. But the re-engineering of parts — everything from body panels to A/C units — is helping to achieve the goal, along with new manufacturing methods that are saving materials, cutting costs and increasing efficiency.

Source:http://www.autoblog.com/

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The incident happened during a a special edition of Top Gear last July, in which Clarkson and James May attempted to drive a pickup truck to the magnetic north pole.In the programme, Clarkson and May were shown drinking gin and tonics as they raced Richard Hammond, who was using a sled pulled by a team of dogs, to reach the pole. Now the show is being criticised for sending out the wrong messages

Top Gear’s executive producer reportedly told the BBC Trust Clarkson and May were neither drunk nor out of control at any point during the making of the programme. However, the BBC Trust ruled that the scenes in question “could be seen to glamorise the misuse of alcohol” given that some younger viewers “might regard the presenters as role models”.

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“We are currently working on the development of a Ferrari that will use alternative energy sources based on what we are doing at the moment in Formula One,” di Montezemolo told a German newspaper.

This is a ‘mild hybrid’ system which stores energy during braking and then uses it to improve performance and reduce fuel consumption. Future Ferraris are likely to be fitted with a small battery to harvest this regenerated energy, which will be used to power a small electric motor. The motor can be used to both boost acceleration and to keep the transmission spinning quickly to speed up gear changes.

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We’ve all heard the miracle stories: The Boy Scout who survived for four days in the mountains of North Carolina. The Montana couple who fought off a bear. The guy in Utah who cut off his arm to free himself from under a fallen boulder. You’ve probably read many stories like this in Reader’s Digest (like the one on page 102 about a couple stranded in the snow) and wondered what you’d do in the same situation, but you always assumed freak accidents would never happen to you.

And you’d be wrong. While your odds of having a heart attack are much higher than finding yourself in most of these scenarios, strange things happen every day. For example, almost 2.5 million people called poison centers for help in 2006. In 2004, 112,000 people died of injuries from falls, drownings, and other accidents. In 2006, search-and-rescue rangers in our national parks responded to nearly 4,000 calls, more than a third of them for people who were also sick or injured. Every year, around 3,000 succumb to choking.

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Drive a Manual I truly believe if you’re not driving a manual transmission, your car is driving you. Most of the time an automatic transmission will make the right choices, but it can’t see everything you can. A torque converter, the device that transmits energy from the engine to the wheels in an automatic transmission, has an 10 to 20% efficiency loss under 65km/h on most cars.

Shift slow and low. I shift from 3000 rpm to 2000 rpm on every gear, with a little variance for actual road conditions. I rarely go above 4000 except to get out of trouble on the road or on a very short exit ramp. Shifting at higher RPMs gives you more power and feels sexier, but shifting lower gives you more mileage. If you must drive an automatic, the car will do this for you if you accelerate slowly.

Use cruise control. If you have a manual transmission, the car will not be able to downshift you to slow down as you go down a hill. It will simply keep you at speed to ascend and then let off the gas as you go back down, which is exactly what you should be doing. All the other times it will keep your engine at exactly the same speed (although your throttle may vary to maintain it against gravity). Some days I will have my car in cruise control for all but a few minutes of an hour or better on the road. In an automatic, your car will slow you down on purpose, so you want to disable your cruise control in hilly areas and do it yourself. It will also keep you from “creeping” up in speed without realizing it. In a perfect world you could also set the “throttle control”, as a constant throttle position is better than constant engine speed for efficiency.

Drive the speed limit. My car is a pretty nice place to be. I’ve got like GPS System, Working Aircond, comfortable seats, and a phone attached. The only thing that getting to my destination faster is going to give me is a chance to start working or doing chores earlier. A 15km/h speed difference on the highway will “save” me maybe fifteen minutes a day.

Stop using the brake to slow down. Wind resistance and friction already do a pretty good job without your help. When I used to commute from Batu Caves to KL City Centre, I had a game with myself where I couldn’t touch the brake more than five times in my 27KM trip. I always scanned 7 to 10 seconds ahead, conditions permitting, and let off the gas a lot sooner at the sight of brake lights than I would have otherwise. A lot of the times, timed down-shifting and coasting had me in 2nd or 3rd gear just in time to apply a little gas as the other car’s brake lights went off and traffic started moving again. I also “lost” a lot when everyone around me was driving like an idiot. Sometimes you just need to stop quickly through no fault of your own.

Empty the car of junk. Every extra kilogram in the trunk costs you money to haul around town for no good reason. Keep the spare tire and jack.

Change your oil every 5000KM. Engine friction wastes gas and decreases engine life. I’m no mechanical expert, tho. I just do what I’m told as close to the schedule as I can.

Check your tire pressure. Proper tire pressure makes your tires more responsive in dangerous situations, and doesn’t waste energy on friction from excess contact. Don’t overfill, as the possibility of a blowout is even more dangerous.

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