Month: November 2010

Boehner made a big deal of announcing that he is only going to fly on commercial flights back and forth to his district.  BFD.  Although all members of Congress are apparently exempt from TSA fondlings, Boehner making this announcement with the full knowledge that he won’t have to deal with the TSA is just asinine.

One of Popular Mechanics‘ Breakthroughs of 2010, the sOccket is a soccer ball with an internal generator that Harvard students, Jessica Lin, Jessica Matthews, Julia Silverman and Hemali Thakkar, designed to serve electricity-deprived communities using the world’s most popular sport.

The ball’s mechanism is similar to those found in shake-to-charge flashlights. Through being kicked, tossed and rolled, an internal magnet is forced back and forth in an inductive coil, which then generates an electrical current. An internal capacitator stores the energy for later use. These devices add six ounces to the average 15-oz. ball.

[thanks to Becah for the link]

Windows only: Process Monitor, our preferred Task Manager replacement, has updated with a host of new features and improvements. What you’ll most notice is a new column that can provide aggregate CPU usages of multi-process apps like Chrome.

To check out the new column, right-click in Process Explorer and choose “Select Columns.” From the “Process Performance” tab, select “Tree CPU Usage.” You’ll now see the total processor pull of apps like Chrome that use multiple processes to do their work. Other improvements to Process Explorer include built-in disk and network monitoring, more memory statistics, more reliable DLL scanning, and other goodies outlined at the Sysinternals blog.

Process Explorer is a free download for Windows systems only.

Process Explorer v14 download

It’s an interesting read, but I think the quote is a bit unnecessarily sensationalistic…

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