For those who love Internet radio and always wished they could listen to it on the go, now there is Tuner by Nullriver, Inc. for iPhone 2.0. Tuner allows you to listen to any streaming Internet radio broadcasts right on your iPhone by searching their stream database by keyword, genre or a top 500 streams list. You can even enter a direct URL for streams not in their database.  Any stream can then be bookmarked for later listening.

The interface and user experience are excellent for (as of this post) a version 1.2 application. All stream and track information is displayed along with an attractive spectrum analyzer. The search function works well and the top 500 list is great for finding new music.

Tuner works on WiFi, 3G & EDGE. However, the quality of the audio is directly related to your connection speed. Go WiFi and you will get perfect 128k+ bit rate streams. With a 3G connection, 96k & 128k bit rate streams sound amazing without any digital static. Yes, EDGE will restrict you to streaming lower bit rates and you will occasionally hear pops and dropouts.  Like most of the first generation iPhone applications I have tested, it does have a tendency to quit here a there.  A small price to pay for listening to your favorite commerical-free Internet radio on the beach this summer.

Nullriver, Inc.’s Tuner is available for purchase and download now from the iTunes App Store for $5.99 and supports AAC, MP3, PLS, M3U on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

iPhone, iPhone 3G, iTunes, App Store, iPod, and iPod Touch are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Copyright © 2008 Apple Inc.

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Locate any IP address in the world in seconds using this excellent tool from YouGetSignal.com. This FREE tool features Google Maps integration that visually traces every router hop. Perfect for investigating any suspicious IP addresses that show up in your website server logs.

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/

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New York, USA (July 09, 2008) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Scherr Technology today announces the launch of winewardrobes.com the ecommerce website for Wine Wardrobes, LLC. The website showcases their diverse product lines and features the Yahoo ecommerce engine. Scherr Technology provided Wine Wardrobes with product photography, strategy, design and implementation services.

About Wine Wardrobes
Wine Wardrobes offers elegant wine bottle fashions and accessories. The silk embellished wine bottle bags that we developed come from our love for color and our desire to offer our customers a practical, beautiful and environmentally sound way to wrap your wonderful bottle of wine. So come take this adventure with us, and look, laugh, love and hopefully, buy our products. Wine Wardrobes is North America’s largest retailer of elegant wine coverings. We can create any retail or wholesale program to fit your individual needs.

About Scherr Technology
Founded in 1994 by Brian C. Scherr and located in New York, Scherr Technology is a full service media company specializing in video enabled website design and development, existing site redesigns, corporate identity, ecommerce and marketing. Scherr Technology provides unique solutions to a diverse range of clientele across the United States and throughout the world with an emphasis on emerging technologies.

© 2008 Scherr Technology. All rights reserved. Scherr Technology is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, winewardrobes is a registered trademark in the U.S. All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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Almost one hundred years ago, Henry Ford’s wife Clara would stroll around in her 1914 Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham. Thirty years ago we faced oil shortages and the warning was clear. Five years ago GM sent the remaining EV1’s to the Mesa, Arizona desert to be stripped and crushed. Yesterday we paid over $4/gallon to fill our low MPG cars. Today there is hope.

Thanks to our friends at California based Tesla Motors, we should all be free of the big oil / big auto stranglehold on our societies transportation requirements within the next four years. Tesla is best known for its Tesla Roadster, the first production model for the company. The Roadster is a two-seat sports car based upon the Lotus Elise. Each Tesla Roadster is a powered by a proprietary Lithium ion battery pack and plugged into a home electrical outlet for its charge.

“Just after Tesla CEO Ze’ev Drori announced Telsa’s plans to build the Model S, Elon Musk began discussing its development of electric car tech to get the price of future cars to (and below) $30,000. When asked when that technology would be commercially available, Musk said that it shouldn’t be any more than four years from now.” TOPOLSKY, Joshua (2008), Tesla’s Elon Musk promises sub-$30k all-electric car in less than four years, engadget, [30 June 2008]

Electric has always been a more efficient choice for powering our vehicles. View the chart below (courtesy Tesla Motors) to compare the horsepower and torque of an electric vehicle vs an internal combustion based vehicle. Electric provides a smooth and clean power curve with zero emissions.

63% of our oil is used for transportation. With an electric vehicle in every garage and high-efficiency solar panels on every roof, we become nearly 100% energy SELF-SUSTAINING. Decentralized power generation means our power grid would become impervious to any terror attack or natural disaster. All this results in no dependence on foreign oil, no dependence on speculators, no dependence on greedy automobile or oil companies.

You remember independence don’t you?

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That’s right.  Despite the lies that you have been told by our government, oil companies, wall street and the media, if our legislature drafted a bill curtailing oil speculation and providing transparency to the industry, we would have $2/gallon gasoline nationally in less than thirty days. This is according to testimony given to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce this week.

Expert testimony states that although there are deep underlying issues to supply and demand, oil should be trading at $65-$75/barrel.  It is the self-fulfilling prophesy of financial speculation that has created the current climate of $131/barrel plus pricing.

To add insult to injury, our federal governing body for commodity futures (the CFTC) has been issuing exemptions that ALLOW and ENCOURAGE further speculation. In other words, OUR government’s corporatism is to blame for this acute rise in gas prices, not OPEC, not you.

Read the testimony given to the House Committee Energy & Commerce on 6/23/2008 below and ask yourself, whom do you believe?

Question:
“BOTH SECRETARY PAULSON AND SECRETARY BODMAN HAVE ARGUED SPECULATIONS’ PLAY NO ROLE IN THE RISING OF OIL PRICES.  THE CFTC AGREES WITH THEM.  WHAT ARE THE COST OF INACTION IF CONGRESS FAILS TO ADDRESS THIS MATTER?  WILL IT SELF CORRECT ITSELF?”

Answer:
“THIS IS AN ACUTE PROBLEM.  IT CAN BE SOLVED VERY QUICKLY WITH CHANGES IN THE VERY GOOD BRIEF REMARK.  — AND THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK.”

Question:
“MR. MASTERS, YOU INDICATED THIS PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED  RATHER QUICKLY IF WE TOOK STEPS  REGARDING THE REGULATORY ON A TRAIN OF SPECULATORS IN THE MARKETS.  LET’S SAY THAT CONGRESS PASSED  LEGISLATION AND ADOPTED THESE,  AND SEND IT, PAST, AND THE  PRESIDENT SIGNED.  HOW SOON WOULD WE SEE A  SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN RETAIL  GASOLINE PRICES?”

Answer:
“WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO PREDICT THE FUTURE, MY ESTIMATION WOULD  BE WITHIN 30 DAYS.”

Question:
“HOW MUCH WOULD THEY BE REDUCED, ROUGHLY?”

Answer:
“I AM NOT SURE I HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL.  I WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT I SAID EARLIER.  MY SENSE IS THEY WOULD PROBABLY  DROP OVER A REASONABLY SHORT  PERIOD OF TIME CLOSER TO  $65-$75.”

Answer:
“I THINK IT IS REASONABLE TO CONCLUDE THAT IS ABOUT HALF OF WHERE PRICES ARE TODAY.  I WOULD THINK THAT GASOLINE PRICES WOULD REFLECT THAT.”

Question:
“YOU’RE SAYING THAT WE COULD ALMOST CUT THE RETAIL PRICE OF GAS IN HALF IN A RELATIVELY SHORT TIME.”

Answer:
“YES.”

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