Fly through your daily tasks with these 37 proven productivity boosters.

Want to access your network-attached storage drive a little faster? We explain how to configure and use an iSCSI target on a NAS server with Windows’ built-in iSCSI initiator for fast access.

The MyStatusBar extension adds a Facebook update bar to every Chrome page and tab.

The media company that accepted the conservative Heartland Institute’s controversial ad about climate change rejected one rival billboard but accepted another.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

China has led the way in expanding nuclear generating capacity over the last decade.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Asus last night announced another attempt to fix the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Asus EeePad Transformer TF101 tablet/laptop hybrid.

An agency official said that the federal government lacked the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Application lifecycle management (ALM) helps businesses define, design, develop, test, deploy and manage their business-critical applications. Attend this eSeminar to discover how the ALM approach can create a more efficient software development process and protect your business from spiraling application costs….

Read More . . .

For an organization of any size, the loss, theft, or corruption of key data presents so many problems that preventing data loss is critical. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a key IT initiative. It’s more than just security, there’s a class of solutions that are designed expressly to protect your data from loss and to protect you from threats that were previously very hard to defend. These include issue inside your firewall from existing employees or trusted parties, and to protect you from the next generation threats that are subtle and designed to exist undetected for years…

Read More . . .

A company opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happened upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

The calendar on Jstanaway’s Android phone displays appointments that he never made–hundreds of them from someone else’s calendar. He can’t delete them. He asked the Answer Line forum for advice.

We quiz Scott Steinberg, co-author of the new book “The Crowdfunding Bible,” about raising money using sites such as Kickstarter. Bonus: An excerpt from Steinberg’s book!

Drawing on data from a wealth of institutions, researchers set out to map species around the globe.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

A study backed by automakers contends that an ethanol blend approved by the Environmental Protection Agency damaged some car engines in tests.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

The cardiovascular health of volunteer subjects improved when Beijing took steps to reduce pollution during the 2008 Olympics Games, a study finds.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Bangladesh, buffeted by climate change and flooding, is a prime example of a country whose fate could be determined by what happens at a conference in Rio next month.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Science tries to keep pace with new rules setting limits on microorganisms in the ballast of ships plying American waters.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

A new, accessible book may be useful to people taking their first dive into the role of clouds in climate.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif

Windows Server 2008 R2 is a landmark platform that provides dramatic improvements in virtualization support, management, security, and even power consumption. However, one of the realities that is often missed during the migration to this new platform is the simple truth that older hardware platforms were not designed to truly support a number of key aspects of this feature set. Virtualization is a great example. The difference in performance, service levels, and even the number of physical boxes needed to support a virtual environment is very different when using Dells’ new 12G servers, which have wider memory paths and maximum memory density. In addition, greater throughput to the network switch layer also drives efficiency and effectiveness. And there are other use cases that benefit as well….

Read More . . .