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New Solar Cell Easy As Pizza To Make
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:16:00 -0400
The iJET is a new type of solar cell that's cheap and easy to make, requiring not much more than a pizza oven, some nail polish remover, and a common inkjet printer. Australian scientist Nicole Kuepper describes her invention.
SpaceX Celebrates First Successful Rocket Launch
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0400
SpaceX's flagship Falcon1 rocket has successfully launched from an island in the central Pacific, becoming the first privately-developed rocket to orbit the planet. NASA has already contracted SpaceX to begin private space flight missions to the International Space Station beginning in 2010.
Northeast States Trade Carbon Emission Credits
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:46:00 -0400
A consortium of Northeast states has completed the first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction in the U.S. Under cap-and-trade, limits are set on emissions. Companies that do not use up their quota of emissions are able to sell their excess emission capacity to other companies.

L.A. Times - Technology News

A home page for bidding on foreclosures
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Some firms see a place for an online market in distressed properties. Drawn by the convenience, faraway investors won't know what they're getting into. As the nation prepares to pay the price for years of unfettered property speculation, a collection of online companies is hoping to cash in on an oncoming wave of foreclosure sales by auctioning distressed homes online -- with significant consequences for homeowners as well as purchasers.¶ Next month, Duval County in Florida will be the first in the country to hold an Internet foreclosure auction, forgoing the traditional courthouse sale in the hope of attracting buyers from other areas. ¶ If the sales proceed and other states sign on, it will be an earth-shifting change in the way foreclosures are handled because it will eliminate a key requirement meant to protect homeowners from unscrupulous lenders. ¶ By law in California -- and every other state save Florida -- lenders may not simply claim that a homeowner has defaulted on payments and move to take over the house. Instead, they must hold a public sale, in the county where the property is located, after notice has been provided to the borrower and the sale has been advertised. ¶ Internet sales will also have important ramifications for bidders. ¶ Because potential buyers may be out of the area, many won't be able to fully research the properties and might wind up, as happens even in courthouse sales, finding faucets with no running water, foundations that are crumbling and even the occasional corpse.
How I Made It: Peter Y. Levin
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
It's never too early to draft a game plan for your career -- the chief of a tech investment group and co-owner of football team Chicago Rush began his at 19 in Creative Artists Agency's mail room. The gig: Levin is chief executive of GYL, a Santa Monica technology investment portfolio focused on digital media companies and video game platforms. He serves as a board member for online virtual world Habbo Inc.; in-game advertising company Double Fusion Inc.; Power Challenge, a maker of multi-player sports games; and game developer Mind Control Software Inc. Levin is also the founder and co-owner (along with former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka) of the Arena Football League's Chicago Rush team; a managing partner in Palisades Baseball, which owns and operates two minor league baseball teams; and minority partner in and strategic advisor to Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotional entity.
Keep track of bird sightings with BirdPost.com
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Birders rejoice. BirdPost.com is a new website that unites birders the world over. Keep track of birds you've spotted and view Google satellite maps to discover what types of birds you may see on your next trip.

 

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Actify, Inc. - The Spinfire 3D CAD viewer allows users to view, share, dimension, cross-section, and annotate 3D files from most common formats.

Allegria Software - Programs for review, comparison and markup of a variety of CAD formats, online and standalone, as well as graphics file conversion, and plot management.

C2C Technologies, Inc. - offers the 3D CAD viewing software SolidView, supporting the most common geometry file formats.
Meta Description: [ Provides the essential solutions at the lowest prices for sharing 2D and 3D product designs. Our family of products offer visualization and markup for CAD, 2D and 3D universal and native formats. ]

CAD Viewer - Viewer that supports all DXF/DWG, HPGL, HPGL/2, JPG, and TIF files, even within ZIP archives, and allows to print them.
Meta Description: [ CAD Viewer 5.0 is the CAD drawings viewer designed to be easy for non-CAD users. However even CAD professionals appreciate features such as Back & Forward browsing. ]

CADlook - File viewer, inspector, and translator software for IGES, STEP, VDA-FS, and NC G-code data.
Meta Description: [ CADlook is a low cost IGES, STEP, VDA-FS, SAT, X_T file viewer, inspector and translator software. Download free trial copy. Source code license available. ]

CADViewer Pro - A viewer for AutoCAD Drawing Web Format (DWF) and SVF, for redlining CAD drawings on any client platform via a web and Java based interface.
Meta Description: [ CADViewer is a java CAD viewer using Autodesk DWF as its native format. CADViewer works in IE and Mozilla Firefox on all platforms and integrates with 3rd party java applications ]

Cimmetry Systems Inc. - Develops the AutoVue family of programs to view and markup 2D/3D CAD and office formats. A thin/thick-client CAD viewer integrates with ERP, PLM, and document management systems.

Cyco Software - AutoManager View - view, print and compare all your CAD and office documents in a single environment.
Meta Description: [ Cyco Software provides Engineering Data Management (EDM) and Application Integration solutions for multiple vertical industries, including manufacturing, utilities, food & drugs, oil & gas, government, (petro) chemical and transportation ]

Dr. Dwg., Inc. - Suite of products for viewing AutoCAD drawings online and offline, with redlining and hyperlink capabilities.
Meta Description: [ Dr. DWG provides CAD Products & Graphics Software - CAD Viewer with AutoCAD 2004 support, Engineering Drawing Data Management Solutions, CAD Reviewer Tool for DWG / DXF File Formats - Audit & Comparison of AutoCAD Drawing Files, Software Developer tool - software components for plugging DWG capab... ]

DraftView - Direct viewing of Computervision CADDS, Personal Designer, AutoCAD DWG, DXF, HPGL, CALS, CGM and other file formats.
Meta Description: [ We specialize in CAD View & Markup and Medical Image Analysis Solutions. Our CAD products view CADDS, Personal Designer, AutoCAD, and many other file formats. ]

equivaQ Software - A HP-HL/2 plot filew viewer and print queue manager for Windows, that also exports data to several other formats.

Etecad File Manager - Software for managing CAD and Image file archives, with directory thumbnail preview, viewing and printing of popoular file formats.

FPLOT - A HPGL/2 interpreter software, that can be used to view and print plot files, or as a plotter driver for other programs.
Meta Description: [ If you use AutoCAD or any other CAD Program, chances are you could use FPLOT. If you are a software developer who wants a simple but powerful method of including vector graphics in your programs, FPLOT is your answer. ]

GaViewer - A sample application of a Java applet displaying vector graphics on web pages, based on DXF/DWG files or HPGL plots uploaded by the user.

IC CAD - A simple program for viewing and printing CAD files from the AutoCAD and Microstation formats.
Meta Description: [ IC CAD is a fast, simple program for viewing and printing CAD files in DWG and .DGN file formats. ]

IGES Toolbox - A CAD file viewer that reads, displays, and prints IGES format data files.

Informative Graphics Corporation - Viewing and markup software for a variety of document formats, drawings and images, including Java-based Web viewing, markup and collaboration.
Meta Description: [ Viewing, collaboration, publishing and redaction software by Informative Graphics Corporation ]

iTwinView - An online service for viewing CAD files in your web browser through a Java applet, as well as software for file viewing and conversion.
Meta Description: [ CAD and DTP Converter, Viewer. Supported formats: dxf , dwg , pdf , tiff , eps , dgn , dwf , jpg , hpgl ... ]

Lx-Viewer - An Open Source program that allows to open, view, print and convert DWG or DXF files up to version 2002 on the Linux platform.
Meta Description: [ Linux Drawing Viewer. Program to open, view and save AutoCad DWG and DXF files ]

404 Materialise Software: Magics Communicator - On-line conferencing over the internet, with 3D CAD visualisation, measuring, annotation, and 3D CAD file sharing in IGES, VRML, VDA and 3D DXF files formats

NavisWorks, Ltd. - NavisWorks is a design review solution that allows to view and coordinate 3D models.
Meta Description: [ JetStream from NavisWorks offers universal access to view, walkthrough and coordinate 3D design models regardless of file size or format. ]

Pangaea CAD Solutions - Gives MicroStation or AutoCad uses the ability to view, edit and redline your CAD files, .DGN .DWG, with support for image fils.
Meta Description: [ Say Goodbye To High Priced CAD Software, And Say Hello To A Suite Of Products That Deliver High Performance At A Surprisingly Low Price. ]

PloView - Displays HPGL/HPGL2 graphic files, with output to printers and plotters, and PDF, DXF, TIFF, JPEG, and BITMAP files. Also allows text search and measurement of distances.
Meta Description: [ PloView displays HPGL graphic files at high speed on Windows. ]

Preview - PostScript viewer and converter for Windows.
Meta Description: [ Liberty Technology Systems, Inc. - Provider of vector-based PostScript and PDF interpretation technology. ]

Rasterex - Multi format viewers with markup and collaboration facilities, raster editing software, and related developer tools.
Meta Description: [ Office and CAD viewer. Supporting DWG and 250 CAD and Office file formats. AutoCAD, DWG, 2D CAD, 3D CAD, HPGL, Raster, Vector, PDF and Office files. Rasterex viewers enable you to view, print, edit, convert, redline and markup on documents and drawings. Rasterex also provide software for Raster E... ]

Slick for Windows - View and print a large number of vector and raster file formats. Includes raster conversion, redlining, and database for file notes and tracking.
Meta Description: [ AutoCAD DWG Catia DXF HPGL PLT viewer redlining database. convert dwg to pdf hpgl to pdf vector to raster batch conversion raster to raster software. Plus view over 200 file formats. DDE interface. AutoCAD 2000 R14 plot files. Slick Slick! for Windows. CAD viewer. MassPlus moment of inertia. Se... ]

Software Companions - Viewers and converters for HPGL, Gerber, and Excellon files, with an ActiveX Control version.
Meta Description: [ We specialize in viewing and conversion software products. Our main products are ViewCompanion, a HPGL Viewer, and GerbView, a Gerber Viewer. ]

Spicer Corporation - Viewing and markup software for 2D/3D CAD, raster, and office file formats, with API for integration other software systems.
Meta Description: [ Spicer is the leading provider of file format and viewer solutions for desktop applications, OEM, integrated BPM systems, and reprographics. ]

Trix DrawingCenter - Viewing, mark up, measurement and printer controls for DWG, DXF, HPGL and CalComp vector files plus over fifty raster file formats.
Meta Description: [ View DWG, DXF, HPGL and raster files with Trix DrawingCenter software. ]

Volo View - Autodesk's web-enabled review and markup tool for engineering data, working with the DWG, DXF, DWF, and Inventor formats.
Meta Description: [ Volo View can open a wide variety of drawing formats, including DWG, DWF, DXF, and Autodesk Inventor parts, assemblies, drawings, and raster files. ]