Flash-based solid-state hard drives are soon going to be the way of the future. They’re faster, and they use less energy. Those are two of the primary ingredients needed in making any computer batter. Flash has been utilized for years in RAM, but it’s only in recent years that a limited number of computer manufacturers have begun to create a hard drive system of flash hard drives.

They require less energy because there’s no disk to spin up within the computer. The elimination of this movable parts that only both the computer because it doesn’t have to spend anything up, but it also helps to keep the computer cooler enabling the other parts of the computer to work more efficiently.

You get a direct boost and you get an indirect boost from using flash drives. You might even call this synergy.

Flash hard drives to represent a new technology and as all new technologies go their prices are much higher. However historically the price of all hard drives always comes down, and this is been true in the flash market relating to ram and portable flash drives.

It will not be long before people adopt more solid-state flash drives and computers take another small quantum leap forward.

Link to PC World - Solid-State Drives Coming on Strong

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Not too long ago I upgraded my kitchen. We tore out of wall that separated a dining room and a kitchen that were both rather compartmentalized and we’ve put in a great big Island with cooktop stove. Cooktop stoves do not have range hoods to suck out the hot steamy air that would rise up off conventional stovetops. Instead it has a fan built into the center of the cooktop stove that draws the steam and smoke down into the cooktop itself and out through events that go up through the floorboards of the House.

This technology fights the natural progression that hot air would like to make as it attempts to rise, however it does do a good job of minimalizing the impact on the space above the cooktop.

The laptop analogy to cooktop stoves

Now as I look at the fans used on cooktop stoves, I come back to the fundamental question and problem that I always face with my laptop. How to keep it cool and running efficiently and strange conditions especially when I’m working outside life and this evening. I have to wonder if the would be possible to create a desk similar to a hockey table where you play air hockey that has holes in it that move air. Those holes could instead of pushing air of suck air down pulling the hot air surrounding the laptop service down into the desk and out through events. Instead of blowing cool air on the laptop you could take the hot air away essentially.

Similar to a aerosol can that contains compressed air, the air leaving the can could even serve to cool the of the desk. There’s got to be a better way it’s a simple thing…

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No one has figured out this conundrum yet, but everyone is chasing after the new holy grail of Internet 2.0 Advertising, the contextually placed video advertisement.

What is it?

Basically, a computer program that would be able to view a video online, and Figure out what that video is about and then place a relevant advertisement in, below, before, after or in the middle of that video automatically.

No one has figured it out, not even those supposed genious types at Google.  They just don’t make PhD’s the way they used to  . . .

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I received an invitation to join a new advertising program for publishers and advertisers via email this week from Tumri called AdPods.  The new service offers a unique twist on the concept of offering up one of those little boxes with rotating product ads.

Instead of offering a box that only provides ads to products from one site like chiquita or Amazon or a dozen others, AdPod offers ads from multiple retailers from Amazon to Target to Best Buy and more.

Basically, they consolidate lots of different offers into one box.  For a publisher or blogger that is good as it utilizes your web real estate much more efficiently and effectively.

Everything else about the program seems to be pretty much standard as these types of programs go.

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To finish out a diatribe, I thought I’d add something to my wish list of computer applications.  I would like a diet pill of an application to help slim down the processes that are continually running.  Something like ionamin to trim some memory fat producing memory hogs.

Something to automatically shut down processes that aren’t really being used.  There are applications that help clean up desktop icons why not task bar programs and processes?

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