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A public utility is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. Public utilities often involve natural monopolies, and as a result are often government monopolies, or if privately owned, treated as specially regulated sectors. Public utilities can be privately owned or publicly owned. Publicly owned utilities include cooperative and municipal utilities. Municipal utilities may actually include territories outside of city limits or may not even serve the entire city. Cooperative utilities are owned by the customers they serve. They are usually found in rural areas. Private utilities, also called investor owned utilities, are owned by investors. Unlike public companies, private utilities may be listed on the stock exchange. Private, in this context, means not owned by the public or the government.
In poorer developing countries, public utilities are often limited to wealthier parts of major cities, as used to be the case in developed countries in the nineteenth century.
Examples of utilities are:
- Electric Utility, which in some instances can be Electric power transmission or electricity distribution
- Drinking water purification and distribution
- Sewage treatment and disposal
- Other waste disposal
- Natural gas distribution
- District heat generation and distribution
- Public transport by bus, train, etc.
- Cable television and telephone lines
HP's first 13.3-inch Pavilion vs. the competition
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:18 -0700
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:47:18 -0700
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3DNA - 3D desktop user interface that works with Windows and the web. Software transforms the static 2D desktop, into a useful 3D interface. Add-on themes are available.
Agent Undercover - Fun and easy shareware, that allows the action to cut a hole of any shape and depth in windows opened on the desktop.
Meta Description: [ Fun and easy, Agent Undercover allows to cut a hole of any shape and depth in windows opened on your desktop. Gain the total control
over the windows on your desktop. Now you don't have to minimize window by window when working with numerous tasks. Punch a hole through all
windows to see what... ]
Aha-soft ArtCursors - Locate and extract cursors, create, edit, import, export and manage cursor libraries. Create and edit cursors with image formats in standard and custom sizes, with color depths up to 16 million colors. [Win 95/98/NT/2000]
Meta Description: [ ArtCursors - simple and powerful Windows cursors editor, extractor and manager ]
AniTuner - Free software to create, edit and convert Windows animated cursors (.ani).
Meta Description: [ AniTuner lets you create, edit and convert Windows animated cursors (.ani). ]
Blueberry 3D-desktop - This project combines OpenGL, Win32 API and Delphi programming and is intended for learners. The-desktop is a 3D interface replacing the flat Windows desktop.
Casperlab Software - Babe Screenmate Creator is a design tool, easy to use no programming needed and a gallery.
Meta Description: [ Casperlab Software Website ]
Changer XP - An integrated tool to personalize the IE Skin, logon screen, desktop wallpaper, and screen saver as well as the boot screen of Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP.
Desktop Cycler - Software to manage and randomize screensavers, desktop themes, start menu icons, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer's toolbar skins. Plus access a very informative list of hundreds resource sites.
Meta Description: [ Randomize any secreensaver within 30 seconds. Dekstop Cycler will randomize your matrix screensaver, free screensaver, aquarium screensaver, spiderman screensaver, screensaver free, 3d screensaver, screensaver download, fish screensaver, screensaver maker, screensaver com, the matrix screensaver,... ]
Desktop Xtra for Macromedia Director - Easily control desktop elements with Macromedia Director. Customize wallpaper, screensaver, system desktop icons, system colors, system cursors, and custom shortcuts.
Meta Description: [ Desktop Xtra allows to control all desktop elements with Macromedia Director or Authrware. Set wallpaper, screensaver, system desktop icons, system colors, system cursors, create custom shortcuts, change visual settings, add items to active desktop. ]
Elastic WorkSpace - Software to use multiple programs in a single workspace to work with several applications simultaneously.
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FlyDragon Software Inc. - Products include; Icon Grabber searches folders or selected files for icons and lets you selectively save them to disk and Power Wallpaper Changer (formerly PrettyWall), isa wallpaper manager.
Hoverdesk - A complete and powerful shareware desktop replacement, it adds versatility to Windows desktop and lets you customize the interface according to needs and tastes.
Icon Hear-iT 98 - Take control of your Windows desktop to personalize it with animated icons and cursors, wallpapers, sounds, desktop themes and screen savers. Shareware by Moon Valley Software.
Meta Description: [ Moon Valley Software Icon Hear-iT 98, desktop customization with desktop themes, animated icons, cursors, wallpapers, screen savers and sounds. ]
JDistro - Project provides a desktop and a software distribution system for the Java virtual machine. This includes a shared JVM, a swing desktop, a remote file system, and distributed distribution.
Meta Description: [ JDistro est un projet en pur java proposant un bureau utilisant Swing, une machine virtuelle partagée et une distribution logicielle. ]
Lighttek Software - Products include Talisman, a program that replaces the standard Windows Desktop through the creation of a new interface and IconTOY designed specifically to extract the icons from any file containing them and saving them in any color format.
Portrait Displays, Inc. - Visual enhancement software products for computer displays. Pivot software will rotate the computer display from landscape to portrait position. Liquid View software improves the legibility of the Windows interface by scaling icons, menus, and application tools.
Restorator - Versatile skin editor for any Win32 programs: change images, icons, text, sounds, videos, dialogs, menus, and other parts of the user interface.
Meta Description: [ Restorator - the resource editor for customization, localization, and translation. Edit .exe and .dll files directly. ]
Screen Themes - Photographic screensaver and wallpaper program for Windows. Download thousands of images to use with the program. Download trial offer on software. Purchace packs contain 22-30 full screen photos.
Meta Description: [ Free Screensavers and Wallpapers for your Windows Desktop! ]
T.A.S. Independent Programming - Offers freedom bar, IE toolbar, skin manager and ASX playlist buddy.
Meta Description: [ 100% Free Software & No Adware or Spyware ]
Transparentis - Software that makes the captions of Windows desktop icons transparent, with no kludges or resident programs.
Meta Description: [ Home of AccuLock and Nix Components, two one-stop component suites for Borland Delphi and C++Builder. ]
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