[26 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 20 views till today]
Swine Flu Epidemia in Mexico has caused deaths and raised a health alarm in the US

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An outbreak of an epidemics of Swine Flu has caused dozens of deaths during the last weeks and has raised the concern of the World Health Organization, as it seems to spread to California and the Southern states at the Mexico-US borderline.
The virus is a new variety of Swine Flu, which unusually combines the genetic material of humans, pigs and birds. According to WHO, the virus is passed from human to human. Until now, it …

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Medicine »

[15 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 3 views till today]

This article has been provided by the Virginia vascular surgery and thoracic surgery specialists.
When you suffer a heart attack or undergo risky heart surgery, your doctor may suggest that you enroll in a cardiac rehabilitation program. That recommendation might be made to patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, had a pacemaker implanted, or had an angioplasty performed. The goal is to improve your overall health, help you recover, and manage related risk factors, such as high blood pressure or diabetes.
In this article, we’ll explain …

Applied Technology, Hardware »

[15 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | 13 views till today]

noise cancellation,noise
reduction technology

Applied Technology »

[4 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 1 views till today]

Balafilcon A is a silicone hydrogel used basically in the industry of lenses. Bausch&Lomb the world famous manufacturer of lenses, produces a line of contact lenses - PureVision - made of Balafilcon, with 36% of water, which adapt better to correct human vision problems such as Presbyopia and Myopia.
In a basic level, the lenses are put over the surface of the cornea and redirect the rays of light to focus appropriately into the retina of the eye. That is same principle applied to the conventional lenses to help correct the …

Internet »

[27 May 2009 | No Comment | 1 views till today]

For years, one of the issues of Internet has been the speed of access to the resources it provides. Although it is perfectly true that the speed has been increasing with the years, it is also a real fact that the need for high speed internet has also grown almost geometrically.
In the mid 90s, the average Internet website was mainly composed of static HTML elements and references to images, sometimes to music (MIDI files). Most of the (then) webmasters were mainly concerned about the size of the pictures to be …

Internet »

[8 May 2009 | No Comment | 6 views till today]

Everyone that has a website online, knows something about the question of the suitable webhosting. For the ones who do not know a word about WebHosting, it is a service (free or commercial) that works on a machine (or farm, cloud, grid of machines) allocated inside a Data Center qualified to provide a clean, fast Internet access, reliability, availability (and scalability), all to host a website or group of websites. A weblog - such as Technofender’s Blog - is also a website. In general, everything you browse in the Internet …

Software »

[8 May 2009 | No Comment | 0 views till today]

From times to times, most of the Windows users find one strange colorless icon pointing to a document or file. Some other times, when one tries to open a file, there comes a small popup window asking with which program or application you do want to open the file.
It usually happens when a File Extension is linked to a program, currently uninstalled. The root of problem is not that the program or application is uninstalled, as much as the uninstaller software does not take much care of the registry entries …

Software »

[5 May 2009 | No Comment | 3 views till today]

The File Extension Mailhost is - as its very name suggests - a file format to store the email preferences of the user (such as the account to which he/she connects to read email) and it is basically used by the MSN Explorer. The MSN Explorer is by the way, a simple, efficient browser that used to be distributed for free by Microsoft. For free, until version 9. There are some basic differences between the almost universal Internet Explorer - that comes prepackaged with every distribution of Windows - and …

Science Fiction »

[27 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 4 views till today]
Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton is a popular writer, best known for the so-called Jurassic Park movies. But, he has also written some other works, worth to be mentioned.

The Andromeda Strain was written in 1969 and is about the outbreak of a strange, infectious disease in a small town of Arizona, where the epidemia causes the strange death of most of its inhabitants. Most, but not all, as an old heavy-drinker man and a small baby count for the unique survivors.
The Health Agencies enlist a group of 5 physicians (Project Wildfire) and enclose …

Internet »

[25 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 2 views till today]
Goodbye to Geocities, Yahoo moves on to Paid Webhosting

Geocities is probably one of
the oldest free
webhostings still alive (and
kicking). At least, for a few
more months. Yahoo has
decided to stop the service
at about the las quarter of
2009. Years ago,

Alternative Energy »

[23 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 12 views till today]

On the verge of new technologies which enable the use of alternative sources of energy, Solar Energy is a topic highly discussed in Engineering and Economics. It is not only the nature of Solar Energy, but also the cost of the installation of a working system compared to the conventional wired systems what is on the balance of sustainability.
Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Akeena Solar recently accepted the invitation to a Q&A round with Scientific American journalist and from his well-informed point of view, it can be extracted the following conclusions …

Physics »

[22 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 4 views till today]
MINERvA working on the sight of its first neutrinos

MINERvA is a complex device built at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to observe the interactions of neutrinos (v) and is the first phase of functioning with 24 modules already assembled and working.
Right now, MINERvA has been able to catch a glimpse of how the neutrinos interact with the matter. The deadline for the full assembly is 2010, in which 109 2 inches-thick modules will be working to observe the neutrinos, provided by the Fermilab Accelerator Complex.
MINERvA first 24 modules

Neutrinos are elementary particles, that lack electric charge, travel at …

Astronomy »

[22 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 20 views till today]
Can life be formed in the naked outer space?

For many years, the thesis
of the formation of the
building blocks of life under
the extreme climatic events
of the still-evolving Earth
has been accepted - more
or less - by the scientific
community as one of the
most