Choosing a Domain Name

Choosing a domain name is the first thing you will think about when building an online presence for your businesshttp://ow.ly/ayeMC

Watch Youtube Faster and Increase Comprehension

If you've ever wished you could speed up a video in Youtube, here's how to do it in Chrome.

 

This is ideally suited to spoken content and I've been listening to audiobooks and podcasts like this for years.

 

It has been shown that the brain works more efficiently if the information rate through the ears is approximately the "average" reading rate, which is about 200-300 words per minute, yet the average rate of speech is 100-150 words per minute.

 

It can take a little getting used to but you will get used to it. In the mean time you can always start at 1.5x speed.

 

Consume content at twice the speed AND increase comprehension, sounds like a good deal to me.

 

Oliver's Hill

Taken at Olivers Hill

Big Grapes

Jessie and Bud

Evernote Acquires Skitch!

We love Skitch so much that we decided to buy the company. Skitch is an amazing Mac application that’s changed the way people capture, annotate and share images. Chief Skitchers, Cris Pearson and Keith Lang are moving from Australia and joining Evernote to lead a significantly expanded Skitch team focused on supercharging the product.

Read more...

http://blog.evernote.com/2011/08/18/evernote-acquires-skitch-evernote_etc/

Some hard facts on China today

I received this by email today and thought it was worth sharing.

China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes
... 53% of the world's cement
... 48% of the world's iron ore
... 47% of the world's coal
... and the majority of just about every major commodity.
In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States.

New World Record: China made and sold 18 million vehicles in 2010.

There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined.

 

 China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s largest high-speed rail network.

  
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power.

  

China currently controls more than 90% of the total global supply of rare earth elements.

  

In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to 2nd place in the world in published scientific research articles.

  

  China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire globe.

  

 At the end of March 2011, China accumulated US$3.04 trillion in foreign currency reserves
- the largest stockpile on the entire globe.

 Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second …
Not an enviable record though …

Also a lot smarter than us, while they manufacture 80% of the worlds solar panels, they install less than 5%. They build a new coal fired power station every week and in 1 year turn on more new coal powered electricity than Australia's total output.

Already the largest carbon dioxide emitter, output will rise 70% by 2020.

Glad we're saving the planet?

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