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If you haven’t seen this and you shoot a lot of digital photos, you will love this product; also seems like a great gift: “Upload photos automatically from your digital camera to your computer and favorite photo site with the world’s first wireless memory card.” See Eye-Fi web site.
The other day I came across this article in the Boston Globe about one of the greats of Computer Science, Seymour Papert, inventor of the seminal Logo programming language and many other important accomplishments. > “He ...
I saw this somewhere and I thought I would share as it seems very useful, yet obscure: > Helpful Tip: To quickly reset your iPhone without wiping anything off it or retethering it to iTunes, hold the volume up button, the home button, and the lock button at the same time. Keep holding it even after the “Slide to Power Off” appears, eventually it will flash totally off and then you’ll get the Apple logo. Let go then.
Check out these 10 Commandments for Facebook Applications. They are pretty good commandments for software in general. I especially like: > “Make it simple. Users DO NOT read.”, from [FaceReviews](http://www.facerevie...
Read more →“The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth — BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next.” Check it out and watch the BostonDynamics video. Pretty cool and surprising. Your tax dollars at work! p.s. But a gasoline engine?
Check out “Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators“: > “Shiny edges, reflections, neat 3D effects – you love them and can’t get enough of them. Well, there’s no reason to spend any time in Photoshop creating them since there are so many tools out...
Read more →I recently saw a Nova episode about Hany Farid about so called “Digital Forensics”, that is how to detect and discover photos manipulated digitally. Here are some useful links if you are interested: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/ [www.digitaljour...
Read more →How lame and do-nothing can you get when the best you can do is to set a goal to be met in 2050, when probably most of the signatories will be dead and gone? Do you think it has any effect on anything real? > “RUSUTSU, Japan – The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.” (from Associated Press) Lame-o?
Aleksey (my colleague on BlogBridge) is planning to move from the Ukraine to Australia. Here’s a fairly fascinating account of the experience of proving that he knows enough English to be permitted to Australia. Check out this post from [noizZz...
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Have you noticed? How frequently I’ve been posting? I am using WordPress’s ‘post in the future’ feature so in one sitting I can rattle off 6 or 7 posts and schedule them for publication in the coming days. Very efficient 🙂
If you live in the Boston area and are in the tech business you should check out the more or less monthly Web Innovators gathering sometimes referred to in shorthand as WebInno. Here is the WebInnot blog and here is the [WebInno registration page](...
Read more →I am just finished reading Devil In The White City by Erik Larson. Loved it! This news item about the first archaeological dig at the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition caught my eye because that is what the book is about (also about a serial murderer, but that’s something else again.) I am only part way through the book but it’s quite good so far.
Recently three friends of mine got nice press coverage, so I thought I’d share them: - Reed Sturtevant is doing some great things at Microsoft in Boston - Paul Engiish and Kayak are showing the true prices of air travel - Ted Morgan of Skyhook are performing magic with photos and no-GPS So in fact, there IS cool tech stuff going on in Boston 🙂
I just came across Dave Dupre’s blog. Some good reading there, for example: > “[…snip] If the single test does not show a huge improvement, the project is considered a failure and scrapped. This happens all the time, and it always stifles innovation. Why propose something new...
Read more →I haven’t seen anyone pointing to this article about TechCrunch and Professor Arrington, but it’s very interesting. I remember when it was first starting and how he would write an unbelievable number of interesting and useful reviews...
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He’s been saying something like this since a week after 9/11. I agreed with him then, and I still ag...
I am on a Mac and I have lots of odd little things running, doing backups, syncs, who knows what. Every so often my computer goes “boink!” with no error message or display and I wonder, hmm, I wonder what just happened? I have a suspicion it’s my hourly backup which is boinking because one file couldn’t be backed up. But it might be finder saying that it was done copying all those files (oh wait, maybe that’s a “bing” not a “boing”) Or might it be something else totally?
I got the big new release of FireFox 3.0. Looks fine. Actually looks mostly the same. I am not sure what the big changes are but I am trying it out to see how it goes. I know one regular headache with FireFox for me has been that it would pin the CPU for no apparent reason. The closest I came to see...
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