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Issue 57 October 2012

Making Everyday Easier

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Corning Gets new Curves with its Willow Glass

It's bendable and shapeable like no glass before, and it could herald a revolution in consumer electronics. It's about as thick and flexible as a piece of paper, while having the strength, durability and other qualities of existing glass. Willow Glass can be made as thin as 0.05mm, which is far thinner than the current 0.2mm or 0.5mm display glass. Because of its thinness and bendability, Willow Glass could very well revolutionize the form and shape of smartphones, TVs, tablets, and other electronic devices. Eventually it could replace Gorilla Glass, which is currently used on many such devices. "Many years ago, when tablet talk started, there were discussions of having flexible e-readers, much like a newspaper-type of physicality," said tech blogger Michael Sheehan "People could roll up their tablets for storage, for example. I envision touch-screen displays being able to be wrapped around pillars or other curved surfaces which could be used at point-of-sale displays," he said. "Displays become more pervasive each day, and manufacturers strive to make both portable devices and larger displays thinner," he said. Willow Glass can be processed at extremely high temperatures, making it superior to
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Tech Tip Of The Month - Steps to Speed Things Up in Outlook

Disable RSS - By default, Outlook will sync RSS Technology Advisor feeds from Internet Explorer to the RSS reader in Outlook. If you have a lot of RSS feeds Cornings New bookmarked in IE, that syncing could easily bring Curves Outlook to a crawl. Disable this feature (if you dont use Outlook as an RSS reader) from within Tech Tips Outlook 2010 by going to Options | Advanced Cool Keybo ards and then unchecking both options under RSS Mak eup th ats Feeds.
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up Auto Archiving so that your Inbox retains only a portion of those emails. A good rule of thumb is to keep the current and previous months email in the Inbox and Archive everything else. When you archive, you effectively create a new data file, so Outlook doesnt have to strain against the weight of an oversize PST or OST file. Add words to the custom dictionary - Spell check relies on a large main dictionary, but it isnt all-inclusive. Occasionally, it stops at words it cant find. Youll want to add these terms to the custom dictionary. That way, spell check will skip the word in subsequent documents.

Archive your Inbox - Thousands upon thousands of emails in your Inbox can cause serious issues, especially when using PST files. Instead of just letting those Inbox folders grow to outrageous proportions, set up Folders in your Inbox for the emails you want to save. Also set

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Finally, a Keyboard for Clean Freaks and the People Who Eat at Their Computers.
Logitech's new keyboard is a boon away. The only caution is that the keyfor clean freaks AND messy people board uses a USB cable to connect to - it can be washed! The K310 key- computers, so you'll need to make board can be submerged in up to 11 sure that port inches of water stays totally and has drainage dry. Logitech's holes for speedy K310 retails for drying. The keys $40 and is for are labeled with use with PCs or laser printing and tablets, it is not UV coating, so that Apple the letters and compatible.
symbols wont rub

The Keyboard For the Eco-Friendly People

Logitech also has some Solar keyboards for $80. Thats right, the K760 for Apple users, when fully charged works for at least three months - even in total darkness. It is wireless, no receiver or cable needed - youll enjoy a fast, reliable connection from up to 30 feet away. little effort. Changing between Bluetooth devices takes about one to two seconds, which should be fast enough for most users.

Just because the K760 can connect to your iPad and iPhone doesn't mean you A Solar-powered Bluetooth keyboard should slip it into your backpack to use would probably be an important purchase for anyone whos looking to live a on the go. We can really only recommore green lifestyle, but how attractive mend doing so if you have a separate stand that can support your smartphone would this keyboard be if it could also or tablet, since it has no way of doing switch between your computer, so. If you're considering a keyboard to smartphone, and tablet with a single key press? That's another killer feature use with your iPad, try this one instead. of the K760, as you can sync it with up Logitech also offers the K750 for $50 to three separate Bluetooth-compatible that is compatible with both PC and devices and switch between them by Apple, but it requires a receiver and pressing F1, F2, or F3, all with very does not have blue tooth connectivity.

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Bomb-Proof Makeup!
Makeup is usually more cosmetic than functional, but that was before the U.S. Department of Defense, in partnership with the University of Southern Mississippi, got into the business. Now, after extensive research, scientists have created a special kind of face paint that can protect soldiers from the kind of extreme heat generated by bomb blasts. This foundation will protect your open skin from flame, even at prolonged exposures. The new face paint is silicone based, as opposed to the wax and oil base in traditional paints. That means anyone covered in it will be able to withstand short bursts of intense heat, such as the brief 600C blast generated by an explosion. In fact, the silicone paint would allow soldiers to be exposed to even longer periods of high temperatures - it takes treated skin a full 15 seconds to experience burns when exposed to open flame. While this paint could be life-saving for soldiers, it has plenty of other potential applications, as well. Scientists are already working on developing a similar, clear paint for firefighters. It's also believed that this technology could create fire-resistant fabrics.

polymer layers, and the Corning Willow Glass could be used both as a substrate to build the polymer films for many electronics applications. display upon, and also as a cover material to The glass is created by melting proprietary in- isolate the display from moisture and other gredients and then forming a continuous sheet contaminants," he said. "The possibility of prothat is rolled out like newsprint would be on a ducing bendable displays that can resist breakage and also conform to non-planar surfaces is printing press. Its roll-to-roll processing will make it attractive to manufacturers seeking low seen by many as a very high-growth opportunity in the display market." -cost, highly efficient electronic components. "Small pieces of thin glass have been available Corning has a reputation for supplying highquality glass for display applications. This is an for many years, but high quality strips long enough to run through a roll-to-roll coating sys- extension of that business for Corning in a martem are certainly unique," Mark Thirsk, a man- ket where they have a deep understanding of customer requirements and significant market aging partner with Linx Consulting. share. Willow Glass will allow for thinner backplanes Corning is currently shipping Willow Glass to than are now possible, as well as color filters designers and manufacturers in the process of for both organic light emitting diodes (OLED) developing new and liquid crystal displays (LCD). It also has applications. It is promise in the production of curved displays also collaborating that can be mounted on non-flat surfaces or give viewers an immersive experience, as well with various universities, equipas new kinds of touchscreens. ment makers, "Many of the new display technologies that rely manufacturers and on organic layers, such as OLED displays, need designers to come to be hermetically sealed from the environup with new uses ment," noted Thirsk. for its flexible "This has historically been very difficult with glass.
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