Current Cost: Review: Electricity Usage Monitor: Installation (95%) (Video)

Current Cost: Review: Electricity Usage Monitor: Installation (95%)It’s Energy Saving Week, so it’s highly applicable that we bring you a device that will help you monitor your energy usage – and through being aware of how much power you’re using, lower the amount you use.

CurrentCost is one such device.

The video below shows what happened when we received the Current Cost and quite how easy it is to setup. The summary – amazingly easy.

Within about five minutes you’ll be watching your pounds drain away on electricity!

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Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?

Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?I’ve been with Flickr for _ever_. Pretty much as soon as they opened the site, I signed up. Back in those days, you didn’t have an option it was _the_ place to host your photo back then – Site Du Jour … and it was the best executed to boot.

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New MacBooks: How Often Is Too Frequent For New Machines?

New MacBooks: How Often Is Too Frequent For New Machines?As sure as night follows day, another Apple MacBook range was launched yesterday.

Of course things about it are xTimes faster than the previous models and the clever Apple marketing leads you down the path that you can’t live without it — don’t get us wrong, we’re not immune and are tempted to trade up our 3+ year old iBook, especially with the reduced prices of the new machines.

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Gary McKinnon To Be Extradited Despite Aspergers

Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon‘s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long.

This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon’s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. She has failed to make any request for repatriation to the UK when other countries make similar requests on behalf of their citizens.

We are now considering whether or not Mr McKinnon has a further judicial remedy and we are urgently investigating this issue.

FOWA 08: Soocial Announce Blackberry and Outlook Support

FOWA 08: Soocial Announce Blackberry and Outlook SupportDuring a frenetic presentation at FOWA in London, Stefan Fountain from Soocial announced that their contact-anywhere service would be supporting interfacing to Outlook allowing your contacts to stay up to date.

Alongside that, news of a newly supported mobile platform – the Blackberry – was also announced.

No release data were given – but will be soon, the audience was lead to believe.

FOWA 08: Suw Charman: Psychology And Addition To Web Sites

We’re at FOWA listening to speakers and popping around chatting to people. Suw stepped in due to a last noshow but presented a fascinating talk. It’s slightly in note form, but the essential are there.

FOWA08: Suw Charman: Psychology And Addition To Web SitesSuw looks into how humans (that’s us) become addicted to certain Web sites and services like email.

To build proper social sites, we need to understand how people work – their psychology.

It’s about understanding compulsive behavior.

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FOWA 08: Kevin Rose: The Future of News: Live Coverage

Kevin Rose: The Futue of News: Live CoverageReporting live from the Future of Web Applications conference being held today and tomorrow at ExCel in London. Refresh your browser to read live updates.

Sharing and Discovery
[10:23:12] This is from the Digg point of view
[10:23:50] Unanswered question – who to create an ‘experience’ you like.
[10:24:18] Sometimes news on Digg isn’t of interest to you
[10:24:54] 30 million people visit a month – only 3 contribute
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