AFS Trinity Power Corporation recently filed its patent application for a new car that will be capable of traveling more than 250 miles on a single gallon of fuel. Although todays hybrids can get 50 mpg and cost about $19 per week on average, the new Extreme Hybrid™ car will use less than $8 per week in fuel and eletricity. Demonstration vehicles are expected out within two years with mass production beginning within three. {more}

This week, the United States House of Representatives is expected to vote on a law that will do nothing less than restrict what you can do and where you can go as well as give a handful of companies the ability to watch and monitor what you do on the Internet. In the past, the Internet has benefited everyone, from liberals to conservatives, from Christians to Hindus, from grade school children to even my grandparents due to a concept known as Net Neutrality. What is Net Neutrality and why is it important? {more}

RSS is great! I cannot believe that I have not paid much attention to it before. As a web designer I have seen it around for a couple of years but never got a request to implement it, nor did I see much use in disseminating “news,” which was apparently its primary purpose. BUT NOW, I see it in an entirely new light. News is not just what the television, newspaper, radio or the major web portals tell you is news. News is the information that is important to you! News is information about the things high on your list of priorities. And for most people I know, a couple of the things highest on their list of priorities are family and friends. {more}

Yes, you read that right, I have finally added an RSS feed to my site for those of you looking to stay up-to-date without having to check in all the time. I have also added a few feeds from other web sites on my homepage as well. {more}

Google Earth is a program that incorporates satellite images to show you just about whatever you want to see on the planet Earth. It is absolutely amazing. I can actually see my car in my driveway! Don't worry, the images are not detailed enough to see people and they aren't the most up-to-date, but it is still a really cool program. {more}

Those of you who know me know that I think that Google is one of the best companies to come around in a while. There are many reasons why I think so, but the main one is just that no matter what they did yesterday, each day they surprise me with new features and services… for free!!! The latest addition to Google’s rapidly growing list of features is their Short Message Service (SMS). It is still in Beta testing, but... {more}

Throughout the last few years I have been repeatedly asked what people can do to keep their computers properly maintained and what programs if any can help protect their computers from malicious outsiders. Both of these questions can be answered by recommending that users install anti-spyware and anti-virus programs on their computer in order to keep out any programs that may be trying to steal any of your personal information. {more}