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With all of the available web hosting plans, now is the time to start building sites whether your goal is fun, education, profit or all of the above. The days of plain static HTML sites is past. Today’s servers feature access to programming languages and database capability to provide dynamic web pages with just a little bit of coding. You may have run across a new word, lampp. Lampp is an acronym for Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, and Perl. Keep reading to see why these words are important to you. L – The Linux operating system, open source, fast and flexible, and constantly being approved A – The Apache web server, the framework for your website M – Mysql – the most popular open source database P – PHP – a flexible scripting language that makes it easy to create dynamic web pages P – Perl – the old standby language of the web, excellent for text manipulation and data analysis An excellent example of the use of lampp is the blogging so...

As well-informed people know, today’s version of low-energy lighting, using compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), is the wrong technology. The products are relatively cheap to buy, but they have a number of practical disadvantages, as well as significant ecological problems in their production and disposal. Although they are evidently the wrong solution, up to now the right way to go has been too expensive for domestic use. Brighter future The brighter future is the light-emitting diode or LED. Based on a far more efficient light source and producing a purer white light, the affordable LED lamp bulb is seemingly within our reach at last. According to Prof Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University’s Centre for Gallium Nitride, the new breed of LED lamp bulbs will last 60 years and could slash the proportion of electricity used for lighting from 20 to just five percent. In Britain, this could eliminate the need for eight power stations. Even better, the new bulbs do not contain mer...

Compared to a neon sign, an LED sign is not significantly cheaper. However, it is longer lasting and offers the brightest lighting. Neon signs are not as bright and they fade or flicker with age. On the other hand, incandescent signs are poorly lit and they burn out often. LED signs allow companies to program the message on the display as often as required. The possibilities are endless. They can even feature animated text, which can be a powerful method of advertisement. Instead of replacing a sign, an establishment can simply update the message using a software, which makes the sign customizable to address the marketing and advertising needs of a business. Furthermore, signs featuring LEDs are not only energy efficient, but are also environmentally friendly. Neon and incandescent light signs use more than double the wattage compared to LEDs. LEDs also do not heat up since they are made of solid plastic. This means that they are extremely durable, making them excellent for everyday us...

One-hundred-and-thirty years ago, Thomas Edison completed the first successful sustained test of the incandescent light bulb. With some incremental improvements along the way, Edison’s basic technology has lit the world ever since. This is about to change. We are on the cusp of a semiconductor-based lighting revolution that will ultimately replace Edison’s bulbs with a far more energy-efficient lighting solution. Solid state LED lighting will eventually replace almost all of the hundreds of billions of incandescent and fluorescent lights in use around the world today. In fact, as a step along this path, President Obama last June unveiled new, stricter lighting standards that will support the phasing out of incandescent bulbs (which already are banned in parts of Europe). To understand just how revolutionary LED light bulbs are as well as why they are still expensive, it is instructive to look at how they are manufactured and to compare this to the manufacture of incandescent...

LED lighting has been in use in the high-end corporate market for some years now, but recent advances in technology have enabled producers to make more powerful LED light bulbs at lower prices then before. It’s no longer just swanky boutique hotels, designer label stores and exclusive art galleries that light up their spaces with LEDs – many other businesses, and even homeowners, are now also switching to LED bulbs. LED light bulbs are made up of groups of LEDs (light emitting diodes) that are arranged in various configurations. While white LEDs are the most common, they are also available in a multitude of color combinations that produce a wide variety of lighting moods from bright, natural daylight to subdued twilight. Some of the new variants are also dimmable. The latest LED bulbs come in a variety of shapes from globes and spotlights to corncobs and light sabers, many of them offering a stylish, space-age look that can form part of a distinctive décor. As with tradition...

Indoor gardening enthusiasts have quite a few choices available to them when it comes to choosing the best indoor plant growing light. Many experienced individuals have decided on which indoor plant growing light they prefer through trial and error. A person can avoid costly mistakes if they simply take the time to understand the pros and cons of the different indoor plant growing lights available and have a clear idea on what type of plants they intend to grow in how large of the garden they plan to have. Budget is also an important thing to keep in mind when deciding on the High Pressure Sodium, Metal Halide, Compact Fluorescent, or LED lights. Which indoor plant growing light is the best? The fact is that there is no single type of light that is the right choice for every application. Some lights are quite inexpensive while others can set a person back quite a bit. There are lights that have extremely long life spans and there are those that are average at best. How much room a pers...