Goal Zero's Lighthouse250 Lantern, solar panel tent charge your gadgets alfresco

Keeping your USB-powered gear powered up while camping in the woods or hiking the Appalachian Trail can prove quite a challenge. Solar chargers and backup batteries can help, sure, but when you're already hauling dozens of pounds of gear, an integrated solution is where it's at. Goal Zero has a pair of new products to help streamline things a bit. First up, the Lighthouse250 Lantern can provide 48 hours of 250-lumen LED output with a full charge, and it can charge up a gadget via a built-in USB port. If you don't have a solar panel handy, you can use the hand crank to juice up the lantern in the field. The company's also teaming up with Eddie Bauer on a solar panel-equipped tent, the 36-square-foot Katabatic 2 -- you'll need to add your own battery pack to store the energy collected from the 18-watt roof-mounted panel. Eddie Bauer has yet to announce pricing for the tent, which should ship next spring, but you can expect the lantern to retail for about 80 bucks in Q4.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/30/goal-zero-lantern-solar-tent/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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Why This Apple Lover Sold His iPad (AAPL)

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These people are not me. They're some Apple customers at an Apple store.

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I'm lucky that my job lets me test out a bunch of different kinds of gadgets for free. At any given moment, I have at least one device running every major computing platform within arm's reach.

But whenever I want to spend my hard-earned cash on a new gizmo, it almost always comes from Apple. I have an iPhone 5, Apple TV, and a MacBook Air. I still think Apple makes the best stuff (they won't forever though, trust me), and that's why it gets my money.

I used to have an iPad (the third-generation model with the super-sharp Retina display), but I sold it last week.?I got a cool $400 for it, just $100 less than what I paid for it on launch day in March 2012. (Say whatever you want about Apple, but its products hold their value very well.)

Something changed this year though. For months, my iPad remained on my nightstand, untouched. The battery was dead, not from overuse, but from weeks of neglect while it was in sleep mode, which barely sips power. I didn't feel a need to recharge it.

It was a strange twist in my computing habits. When I first got my iPad, I found myself using it more than my MacBook. I would come home from work and use my iPad to catch up on news and Twitter. At night, I'd use it to stream Netflix in bed. I really only used my MacBook if I needed to do some work from home. It was essentially just a word processor to me.

So, what happened??

I started using my iPad less and less this year mostly because I started working a lot more when away from the office. For writers, an iPad isn't an ideal device to get things done, even with one of those cool keyboard accessories. I still need a full-fledged PC to do my job well, as I suspect people in many other professions do.

So I found myself spending much more time on my MacBook, and I realized I could still do a lot of things on it that I could do on my iPad, and then some. I could still catch up on the news, keep up with Twitter, and plow through my exhaustive Gmail inbox. Since the MacBook Air is so thin and light, it was just as easy for me to use on the couch or in bed like I used to with my iPad. It was like rediscovering an old beloved toy.

Before long, I only had two devices in my daily rotation: My iPhone (for checking email and Tweets when away from the computer and playing games or listening to podcasts on the subway), and my MacBook (for work and just about everything else). I realized my iPad was better off in someone else's hands and that someone else's $400 was better off in my checking account.

Yes, iPads and other tablets appear to be cannibalizing the traditional PC market. PC makers like HP, Dell, and to an extent, Apple, have all blamed the popularity of smartphones and tablets for the decline in PC sales. However, in most cases, if you need to get work done, an iPad or other tablet really doesn't cut it. They're great devices for browsing the web, light emailing, and playing games, but still don't offer the full suite of productivity a regular PC does.

That's a problem Microsoft is trying to solve with Windows 8 and devices like the Surface Pro, a tablet that can double as a regular laptop thanks to a handy snap-on keyboard accessory. Unfortunately, most Windows 8 devices don't do a great job at being both things. There are still far too many compromises in weight, thickness, battery life, and apps that manufacturers have to deal with when making these hybrid PCs. As a result, most Windows 8 hybrids are pretty mediocre right now.

Until someone figures out the perfect hybrid device, I don't see a need to carry around three different computing form factors. And iPhone and MacBook Air is the perfect combination for me.?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-sold-my-ipad-2013-7

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This Psychedelic Fever Dream Is Made Of Ink, Soap And Oil

You may not interact with ink as much as you used to, but you have to give it credit for powering millions of pens and a crap ton of printing. We still consume a lot of media that exists because of ink. And a good way to celebrate it might be to just let it flow and see what happens. Ruslan Khasanov, a Russian graphic designer, felt the same way so he mixed ink, oil and soap to make this trippy and awesome video called Pacific Light. Khasanov was inspired when he watched black beads of soy sauce form in oil while he was cooking. There are great stills and gifs on his Behance. Kind of makes me long for a tie die comeback. [Colossal]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-psychedelic-fever-dream-is-made-of-ink-soap-and-o-944812577

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Explore an Interactive Map of Every Meteorite Seen in the Past Century

As long as you're not in the immediate landing path, meteorites are really fascinating. Over the past century, The Meteoritical Society has confirmed 606 eyewitnessed meteorite landings around the world. Designer Sebastian Sadowski maps them all out in a great interactive infographic that's tons of fun, until you realize you're a meteorite's sitting duck no matter where you live.

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In A Galaxy: Games People Play: Do you play board and video ...

So you all know it, we're a game-y family. ?No, I don't mean the kind that tastes slightly off or smells a week old (although the boys are getting a bit ripe..summer, you know.) ?I mean the kind that plays all kinds of games...together and alone. ?The boys were practically born with a Nintendo DS in their hands and Rodney has been a video game lover since he was a kid too. ?I was an Atari generation child so I can't pretend that I grew up a video gaming pro, but I was a serious master of Pong, just ask my sister (ahem....). ? I think part of how I managed to snag the hubby's affections was the fact that I liked to play video games, owned a Super Nintendo system, and had beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time before I met him. ?Before we were dating, when we were in the "just friends" phase still, we used to get snacks and appetizers and have video game nights. ?Ahhhh the courting rituals of the young.
There wasn't really any chance at all of our boys not growing up to be serious game addicts...and not just video games. ?Hubby loves role playing games, board games, any game at all really. ? Shaman Boy was a master of Clue before he was even in Kindergarten. ?Hip Hop Boy has been wrecking Star Wars LEGO galaxies since he was old enough to hold a controller. ?I'm okay with it all. ?I loved board games and card games growing up (my Granny taught me to play solitaire and gin rummy as soon as I was old enough to count to 10) and I really enjoy playing video games once in awhile.

I was highly skeptical of World of Warcraft when it first burst onto the scene. ?Hubby really wanted it, and as his birthday approached I decided I'd purchase it for him and have it all set up for him when he arrived home from his business trip to Texas. ?Of course I wanted to make sure that I had it set up properly so I logged in to make sure he was all ready to go....and I was hooked. ?I was 6.5 months pregnant with Shaman Boy at the time, alone at home with a 2.5 year old Hip Hop Boy, so I thought "I'll just play a little here and there until hubby gets home." ? We had to buy another copy because once Hubby was home I didn't want to share.? My 'hunter' was up to level 10 and I was just settling into my groove!

For quite awhile before Shaman Boy came along the Hubby and I bought each other video games for

Christmas, as well. ?He obsessively alphabetized and categorized them, and gave me strict instructions for which ones I was permitted to purchase. (They could be previously owned but had to have booklets and original case and needed to be in good shape, of course. ?They could NOT be one of the 'Players Choice'? or 'Greatest Hits' games...or whatever they were called.) ?I used to get spreadsheets with the games, prices, and best places to purchase them given to me as a Christmas (and birthday) list. ?He got all cozy when I dusted them...his "collection" (insert Little Mermaid tunes here...or maybe "his Precious" ala Gollum). Fast forward almost 10 years and we have come a long way. ?From one Playstation 2 game system and a Nintendo Gamecube (that I bought for Hubby while we were dating, as a Christmas gift) we now have the same Gamecube, the same Playstation 2 as well as a PS 3, three Nintendo DS handhelds (of varying types) and two PSP handhelds as well. ?This is on top of the two laptops and desktop computer, all of which are loaded with Steam (each of the boys...and yes, I include my husband in that...has their own Steam account, too.? (Steam...that's an entire conversation unto itself, coming soon.) ?I can't count myself out...I have my own Guild Wars 2 account that I share with the boys (however, I have four characters to their one each...priorities, y'all).

Long story short? ?We like to play games.

To that end, I have been feeling a bit left out of the boys geekier game playing sessions, lately. They have something now called Dungeon Command and the best I can tell each person gets his/her own army and then does their best to totally wipe out other family member's armies. ?Bonding at it's best. ?They also play Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons quite often (the latter was something I played a bit way back in middle school but not enough to call myself a role player...just enough to impress Billy Gardener and Danny Black who really liked D&D and who I had major middle school crushes on.) ?And this all has me thinking...am I missing out on something fun?

So in order to have more fun game time with my husband and kids I am setting out on a new adventure...Adventure into Role Playing games. ?Since we are headed to GenCon Indy in about a month or so I reckon I need to get acquainted with what I'm going to be experiencing once we arrive at our destination. ?More on GenCon next week...but for now I have a question: ?Do you play games with your kids? ?Did you love games as a kid, too? ?And if so...which games were your favorites? ? Would you ever pick up a role playing/table top type game to play with your kids? ?Why or why not? ?Looking forward to hearing about your experiences, and to sharing my own!

Source: http://in-a-galaxy.blogspot.com/2013/07/games-people-play-do-you-play-board-and.html

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Trying to install windows 7 but not success

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I just bought new ASUS laptop and I want to install Windows 7 into it. But Im really lost the tail since my last laptop it was easy. CD in and press f key an start installing. Anyway now what Im facing is following. I plugged new HDD in to laptop I tried my old win 7 cd but it wasnt listed boot option then I tried with usb stick but not success, first with ntfs and then fat32. It regonized fat32 but not ntfs. You dont install OS with fat32 right but I just tested everything before posting. I made little bit researching and I found I need to change some options at BIOS. But Im not actually sure what I need to press over there. Laptop is ASUS N56DP. Need some help to get running win 7 :thumbsup: ...

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