Thursday, October 28, 2010

Balanis - Antennas - Cheapest price online


It turns out that the cheapest price to buy online Balanis 'Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, 3rd Edition' is at Amazon.com. This is the real, original, US, hardcover edition.

The only trick is that you need to check not the base one you see on the product page, but the list of alternating sources (you can see there something like '43 new from $53.99, 36 used from $46.00'). Go in these new/used sections and buy it in a best price.

I've just got one recently this way. 3-times cheaper than University store's price!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cool concept of robotic hand gripper



Looks pretty effective. Here's how it works:

... An everyday party balloon filled with ground coffee -- any variety will do -- is attached to a robotic arm. The coffee-filled balloon presses down and deforms around the desired object, and then a vacuum sucks the air out of the balloon, solidifying its grip. When the vacuum is released, the balloon becomes soft again, and the gripper lets go.

Coffee, Jaeger said, is an example of a particulate material, which is characterized by large aggregates of individually solid particles. Particulate materials have a so-called "jamming transition," which turns their behavior from fluidlike to solidlike when the particles can no longer slide past each other.

This phenomenon is familiar to coffee drinkers who have ever bought vacuum-packed coffee -- hard as a brick until the package is unsealed.

"The ground coffee grains are like lots of small gears," Lipson said. "When they are not pressed together they can roll over each other and flow. When they are pressed together just a little bit, the teeth interlock, and they become solid."



Friday, October 22, 2010

Camomiles

Nice water-drop reflections effect. Cannot really imagine overall picture.

Grib-nik, Club.Foto.Ru

Blazing autumn

Gaily coloured autumn shot. I really liked it.

MSavinykh, Club.Foto.Ru

Monday, October 18, 2010

Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

Fisherman 1977, Club.Foto.Ru

Colors of autumn

Colors of autumn

Etude N6, Yuriy Melnikov, Club.Foto.Ru

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Blogger Stats came back - it works

Whoa! Blogger Stats feature came back and works now perfectly. Have no idea was it manipulated specially by Google support or they fixed the problem in global way. But anyway, this is nice.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

iPhone Invisible ® - Year 2020 - That is what "Incredible" means!

- Here IT IS - The Totally NEW iPhone of 2020!
- I’d love to show it to you now, if you’d like to see it?
- Completely Transparent!
- And Just Invisible!
- Wah, whoa, what is this?!
- Isn’t that unbelievable?
- Isn’t that incredible?
- Pretty cool, huh?
...
- Want to see that again? :)
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Man captured - Pyotr Mamonov - former russian rock musician and songwriter, currently movie and theater actor, cult figure in Russia.

As seen on RusDemotivator.Ru   

Thursday, October 7, 2010

iTunes - Cut The Rope - GIFT Code Promotion!

Hey, hey, hey!!

Are you aware about new best game hit in AppStore:

 Cut the Rope?



If you are not, check the video below:



The game is excellently designed and provides you tons of fun within a new concept of iPhone Arcade Games. Once started you will fall in love with this game right away.

The game is not expensive, but it is not free.

If you would like to have the game, but you are looking for some promo-codes or sale check out this:

In appreciation of your visit to my blog and to support developers of this great game I am gonna send this game to you as a Gift, for free!


But, thus obviously I cannot gift just everyone I decided to play the game :)


I am big football (soccer) fan, so I'll send the Gifts to first 5 (five) visitors, who guess correctly the final score of UEFA-2012 qualifying match

  Netherlands vs Sweden  
which will take place October 12, 2010 (See match details - UEFA.com)


 So, guess your best till the end of day October 11, 2010 and get the Cut The Rope game for free from me (including HD iPad version) ;)

Drop the comment with specified final score, e-mail or Blogger/LiveJournal account - and let's play!

FINE PRINT 1: Offer valid for US AppStore users only. That is the policy of iTunes 'Send as Gift' feature - Gifts can only be redeemed in the store country from which they were originated. This gift will be redeemable only in the US store. 
FINE PRINT 2: One entry per person.

Costa-Rica - Irazu Volcano - Acid Lake

Club Foto.ruCosta Rica, acid lake Diego de la Haya in Irazu Volcano crater.

Unique place on Earth - in a clear day one can see two oceans from the summit - Atlantic and Pacific! Water in the lake has very high mineralisation level and varies its color from red to acid green.
Photo by Katrin Andreyeff @ Club.Foto.Ru

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

GRE Preparation - Free and Easy

Hey guys! I just want to share with you the perfect online-course I personally used to tune me up for my GRE examination.

Sooooo....

Ladies aaaaaaaaand Gentlemen, Please Welcome Number2.com - the best Free web-resource dedicated to success in GRE examination!


This is a customized course that includes very user-friendly introductions and tutorials, refreshments of theoretical basics, valuable practice sessions, a vocabulary builder and much more...

The effectiveness of the course is based on intelligent engine, which adaptively adjusts problems under consideration and provides handful interfaces for learner's progress tracking with nice reminders of topics, which need to be reworked. 
 
Number2.com is the only website that offers students access to comprehensive free online test preparation courses for the SAT, ACT, and GRE.

The company was founded by professors and graduate students who wanted to make high quality test preparation universally accessible. In 1999 Eric Loken and Josh Millet were graduate students studying for their PhDs at Harvard University when they began teaching free SAT prep classes in the Boston area. Seeking to expand their services to the Internet, they teamed up with Vincent Crespi, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University, who had created a test prep website called Number2.com in 1995. With the help of a great technologist, Filip Radlinski, they launched a new version of the site in September, 2000.
 
Since 2000, over 2 million students have enrolled in Number2.com's online courses, and the web site now receives over 50 million hits per month.


Boston - Underground Subway


Boston Subway system as part of MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) is actually quite effective and typical for US underground transportation mechanism. But for people who came from Europe it might be shocking.

Look on the photos below - these are taken in the Downtown Boston - Government Center (!) station. It looks more like post-industrial catacombs than public transport system which need to serve local families, children and wide tourist's traffic.


And now hear the sound of the train! (CAUTION: turn your speakers volume down!)



See more Boston Subway videos at MBTA railfans YouTube channel

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Stuttgart CSD 2010 - Christopher Street Day



Enjoy photos from CSD Parade in Stuttgart - July 31, 2010.

Blogger Stats went OFF

Khm... Blogger stats does not work anymore on this blog.

The message 'There was an error while fetching stats. Please reload page' appears under any browser and on different machines.

Reading Google help forums gives nothing - there are only complaining posts and no solution or status provided by Google yet.

It is already like several days they have the problem and nothing is changing. Would expect better services from Google at this point.

P.S. If you experience the same problem please drop a message in Blogger Help Desk at:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=665c2fd05e53caa9&hl=en&start=40

Friday, October 1, 2010

Daily Deal on eBay - Shredding Scissors: 5 Pairs of Blades for $5

This is a daily deal I saw on eBay today.

Looks like a simple and useful solution to replace expensive and noisy shredding machine *probably*

Would buy, if I would need it.

-- Check it out on eBay

serrwrtet - was das ist eine?!

Serrwrtet is here!


BTW, any domain with Serrwrtet is still free. Check out at Name.com
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