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U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) claims that most of the fuel-saving devices in the market are merely scam than able to extend your mileage or power bursting. There is some fuel-saving device in Malaysia selling from few hundred onwards, available in most of the car accessories shop and some direct-sale company. Some of them are clip-on module while others need a minor technical work to install it. I’m not sure if the fuel-saving device works until I get this news, but you may save more fuel by changing your driving habits

“They don’t work,” says John Millett, spokesman for the EPA. “Believe me, if it were that easy, cars would be built that way, especially the magnets and whirligig devices. It’s smart to be skeptical about any claims like that.”

The EPA to date has tested in the neighborhood of 100 gas-saving devices, the most recent at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, and only six “indicated a very small improvement in fuel economy without an increase in exhaust emissions.”

Another four also made the itty-bitty improvement cut, but per federal regulations, the exhaust emission trade-offs mean consumers who slap these on their cars could face charges of illegal tampering.

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This should come with the Sepang F1 ticket as a free gift or souvenir. The Street Racer optical mouse is nothing special but its fancy design of always “on” headlights and the tail lights that are light up automatically when you “drive” with it. Lightweight and small in size is great for girls too!

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Google has been launched its Free Web-Based Spreadsheet recently, provide an online spreadsheet editing platform for everyone and for those still filling up his “piggy coin bank” for a Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003. It has the basic functions such as formatting, sorting and formulas. Upload your own CSV or XLS files won’t void your document’s formatting and you’ll never lose your works when there is a power failure since Google Web-Based Spreadsheet is an online storage with auto-save feature.

Google Web-Based Spreadsheet | source

The international version of Google.com search engine has been blocked by China’s firewall due to its uncensored contents. However, people in China still able to use the censored Chinese version of Google search engine, Google.cn, but put Google news and Gmail hanging outside the Great Wall.
I’m personally agreed to the censorship of contents against pornography and terrorism but not to the world’s news.

The Google.com search engine has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public’s access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said.
Random attempts to access Google.com in Beijing appeared to confirm that the international version of the search engine had indeed been made unavailable, while the censored Chinese-language version, Google.cn, was still accessible.
Google.cn was launched in January amid much controversy because the company agreed to censor its service according to the wishes of China’s propaganda chiefs.
Software such as Dynapass, Ultrasurf, Freegate and Garden Networks is normally used to gain access to news and information that is blocked by the firewall isolating China from the rest of the worldwide web.

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