There’s a good chance the benefits of vacation will go straight to the bottom line. According to a study by American Express, more than a third of small-business people say their best ideas—the ones that lead to business growth—come not at work but du

The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane or Long Island Express or simply The Great Hurricane of 1938) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should have above-average activity, a top hurricane researcher said Friday.

Very Active 2007 Hurricane Season Predicted

The Vermont Brewers Festival is the longest running outdoor brewers festival in the East, and it’s no wonder since Vermont is home to more breweries per capita than any other state.

Springfield, Vt., chosen to host “The Simpsons Movie” premiere

New 7 wonders of the world named

The “New 7 Wonders of the World” will be revealed tonight, a lofty list expected to include the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower.

The project has been eight years and 90 million votes in the making, and it got us to thinking: Wha

What “Internet addiction disorder” (IAD) is still difficult to define at this time.

(IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax[1] by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1995. It is compared to pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV. Dr. Goldberg, along with Kimberly Young, Psy. D. are currently lobbying for the inclu

“I’m not a doctor; I’m not an expert on addiction,” says Levy (speaking on a regular cell phone). “But this certainly looks like an addiction. It has all the characteristics — people who are away from it have a craving to get back to it; it interrupts no

Opening with profiles of several ordinary Americans whose lives have been disrupted, shattered, and—in some cases—ended by health care catastrophe

Mt. Tamalpais rises behind Red Rock Island in the San Francisco Bay. The island is up for sale for $10 million… but can you even build a house on this land?

As part of our mission to fully evaluate the usefulness of plug-in hybrid technology, RechargeIT has created a test fleet of cars and data acquisition system to collect actual data on the performance of these vehicles, and make all data available to the p

Behind-the-Scenes Differences
Besides their obvious hardware and software differences, Skype and Vonage are fairly different behind the scenes. Skype is not a landline replacement where Vonage is. Skype is more like an Instant Messaging application an

Towers are registered with the FCC. We’ve taken the information and compiled it into a searchable database. By viewing that information in Google Maps, we provide a simple graphical interface to see towers within the area.

YouMail takes advantage of a feature called ‘unanswered call forwarding’ that is provided by most wireless carriers. This feature causes your unanswered calls to go to YouMail’s voicemail service, instead of to your old wireless carrier’s voicemail. Usual

Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.

A list of recommended websites on Search engine representatives, Industry news, SEO Bloggers, Grey and Blackhat blogs (Because it’s important to keep up to date with what shady tactics are being used, and sometimes these guys share extremely valuable wh

Warm weather, clear skies, a table of friends and view of the sun setting over the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain … if you haven’t enjoyed the experience of Breakwater Café & Grill then you really should.

extends the Send Later functionality by bringing up a scheduler for the time when the “Send Later” option is chosen (Ctrl+Shift+Enter is the shortcut). The extension saves the message to draft and monitors the messages in the draft folder, when the ch

Pine Pollen on Lake Champlain (this is also the reason why my truck has turned from red to yellow)

This is quite the idea: A radio controlled surfboard with robot attached… and we used to think RC cars were cool….

A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference.

It’s summer time… so here are 10 tips for when you head to the beach with your digital camera.

Apple (AAPL) announced today that it has struck a deal with Google (GOOG) to stream YouTube videos to its Apple TV set-top box, starting in June.

Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don’t work without an internet connection.

Pt. Judith swell from 2000ft

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