Google Japan just released this short animated feature that shows how Google Maps’ Streetview function actually works (if you didn’t already know).
via The Jailbreak.
Tag archives: software
Tweecious :: Add-ons for Firefox
09Jul09So i looks like i have a reason to be serious about Delicious. I never used it and now i feel like kicking myself in the butt for not using it, but then it might just means that i will be asking myself for a brain overload of information that i just can’t handle!
so i am giving it a shot. and already i can see a nightmare! i got 120 bookmarks and they all have the same title name and the tags are way off…. BRRRRRRRRR!
so i guess i need to sit down when i have free time to give myself a headache to chew on all this for others to navigate my bookmarks or just don’t care. or just stop the tweecious for a second until they could fix those untitle messages. either way the program is neat to play for a day….
and it got me to get use to delicious. never in my mind will a text base program get a visualize person to use it and not get a headache from it YET.
just quipping a fustration of the day.
kindle parting…
19May09via LINK
While we were having a difficult time disassembling the Kindle 2, the rear cover of the Kindle was removed. Looking down the inside of the Kindle, the engineer said, “The cost must be very high. It’s really filled with components.” In fact, with a number of parts crammed in the small space, it gave us the impression of “a heap of parts.”
Looking at it more carefully, there was another substrate mounted on a part of the main board. It was an SD memory card slot. This is the only “two-structured” and thick part of the main board. In fact, the back side of the Kindle slopes along this part, making it look “distorted.”
“I think they designed the chassis after designing the board,” the engineer said.
In the mean time, the back cover of the Kindle 2 was taken off after some struggles.
We finally took off the back cover of the Kindle 2, sometime after removing the back cover of the Kindle.
“Oh, this is very tidy,” said the engineer who participated in the teardown. “They completely revamped the design.”
The exposed main boards of the new and old Kindles were clearly different from each other. While the old one was crammed with components, there was no double that the new one had much fewer parts and was well organized.
To analyze the main boards in detail, we removed them from the front covers of the chassis and looked at the back sides of the boards. The back side of the new Kindle’s main board was mounted with no part. In contrast, many components, including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s 256-Mbyte NAND flash memory, were found on the back of the old Kindle’s main board, reinforcing the impression that the old model is complicated and the new model is simple.
Technology Review: A Powerful Way to Edit Images Online
08May09
Last fall, a New York-based startup called Aviary went live, offering digital artists an online image-editing tool with features that could normally only be found in expensive software. Last month, the company released software that lets anyone integrate these tools into their website; some sites are now using the software to reinvent the way that they use images, allowing visitors to contribute cartoons for contests, modify photographs in newspapers, and even tweak the overall design of an online storefront.
The new application programming interface (API) that makes this possible has tapped the potential of collaborative image editing. Aviary’s CTO, Israel Derdik, says that the New Yorker used the company’s API to hold a cartoon design contest. Participants visited the New Yorker site and selected from a preloaded library of cartoons that they could modify and edit, turning layers on or off, to generate a unique cartoon.
via Technology Review: A Powerful Way to Edit Images Online.
Focus less when tagging articles
01May09I think i found my reason to stop tagging… amazing how intuitive thinking is better than over-thinking.
via LINK for full article.
When I was at South by Southwest last month, I couldn’t help wondering how much of a presentation someone can really be watching while also paying attention to a Twitter stream and blogging, as most of the audience seemed to be doing. I was the Luddite taking notes on paper (to save my laptop battery). I also believe that social media doesn’t always enhance experience–sometimes, it takes you out of the experience to be had.
So I was interested today when, during one presentation at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Boston, Raluca Budiu, a user-experience specialist for the Nielsen Norman Group, asked the audience whether typing in tags for articles would help them remember key concepts. The answer, according to her research, is no. Users remembered less after typing in tags than after simply reading an article online.
Cloud Computing is in the air
01May09
Face in the cloud: CloneCloud allows processor-intensive applications, like this prototype face-recognition application, to be offloaded to remote servers.
Credit: Intel Research Berkley
The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies, associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of your smart phone that lives in “the cloud” and let it do all the computational heavy lifting that your phone is too wimpy to handle.
CloneCloud, invented by Chun and his colleague Petros Maniatis, uses a smart phone’s high-speed connection to the Internet to communicate with a copy of itself that lives in a cloud-computing environment on remote servers. The prototype runs on Google’s Android mobile operating system and seamlessly offloads processor-intensive tasks to its cloud-based double. Details of the project will be revealed at the HotOS XII conference in Switzerland later this month.
It’s a trick not unlike the way that many Web-based applications, such as Google Docs, run on remote servers. The difference is that because CloneCloud creates a perfect copy of the phone’s software, it can take on literally any processor-intensive task that it calculates it can do faster than the phone itself, after weighing the amount of time and battery life required to transfer the required data.
via LINK
Microsoft’s vision
30Apr09Microsoft concepts. go to LINK
I suggest you go see the video cause text and images will not experience the vision of computing future. It is about our own paper performing “magic” before our eyes, getting larger or smaller, showing video, or helping us improve an art project. Very conceptual base.
….Here this concept of tactile interface imagined at the same time for the house and work. Two examples in situation, on a “experiment use-interface” directed by Dane Storrusten and conceived by INVIVIA.
Version Home
Version Work
Another concept…
Amuen – social canvas…
24Apr09via FT
World-recognized strategy, innovation, and design consultancy RKS, in collaboration with Neuma, is proud to announce the debut of Amuen.com, the new social network where creative souls can connect to celebrate, showcase, and inspire all kinds of creativity and art.
When it comes to reasons to live, art and human interaction top the list for Carson Hill, painter, tattoo artist, and inventor. “Art is very inspiring – to me the universe and everything in it is art,” said Carson. Steve Johnson, Carson’s right hand at Neuma (the company behind the Neuma Hybrid) comes from a very different, but no less creative world. The idea for Amuen (am-yoo-en) struck when Carson and Steve realized there was a need for a site that welcomes creatives and artists of all types. No matter what your medium, there are elements of the creative process that transcend any one discipline.
Why the name Amuen? Well, Amuen is a type of African word that means “spirits,” – a nod to the creative spirit within each of us. Neuma on the other hand, is Latin for “spirited” or air-powered. Oh, and if you hadn’t noticed, Amuen is Neuma spelled backwards. But that’s strictly coincidence.
BLOG Hunter #12 – siteinspire.net
22Apr09for myself this blog allows me to be searching for inspiration like i am in a library – the randomness of how we research and search… I love how they link each inspiring site to something similar or off tangent. pic is the link.
