I came across this great video today that’s trying to help people wrap their minds around what ubiquitous computing means: Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo. This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities [...]
How to Take Screenshots on Mobile Phones
I’ve recently been digging back into doing mobile web development for The Social Collective and had a user send me a picture (taken with his webcam) of the browser on his Blackberry. It was basically a brightly colored smudge. Luckily, the bug he was informing me of was sufficiently bone-headed on my part that I [...]
How To Batch Convert Photos for Free with OS X
Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator. Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications. Something many people need to do is to repeatedly convert photos from one size or format to another, and while [...]
SETI@Homepage
I was trying to figure out how you could potentially make a SETI@Home client implemented in Javascript. With some quick Googling I found an interesting proof of concept paper describing: “Unwitting Distributed Genetic Programming via Asynchronous JavaScript and XML“. We present a proof-of-concept system fordistributed computation of genetic programming via asyn-chronous javascript and XML (AJAX) [...]
Hotel vs Mobile Broadband Speeds
A huge pain while travelling is getting to your hotel with *FREE* Internet access only to find that all the bandwidth is being used by Room 204 in an attempt to download the Internet for their personal use; burning all the available bandwidth and reducing your attempts to check email to the 14.4 days. I’ve [...]
PlayerVersusPlayer versus ComicPress
I’d previously written about GigPress the customized just for bands WordPress installation. Today Scott Kurtz of PVP fame is writing about moving over his extremely popular site to ComicPress the WordPress installation designed just for Web Comic writers. Even if you are not a fan of PVP (which you should be), I’d recommend checking it [...]
Raimbo
I was Googling for a Ruby to AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) library this evening and came across Raimbo In keeping with this naming theme, the developer has some of the most evocative version release names I’ve ever seen. Checkout the screenshot:
Bruce Sterling as Street Thug
Bruce Sterling’s inner 10 year old was excited by the Wargames Foundry’s Street Violence Mob horde. While that collection as a whole is totally badass (and unfortunately also ships unpainted) there is one figure that needs special attention. Browsing through the individual collections I found the image below, and what name could possibly fit this [...]
Defining Success
Both Fake Steve Jobs and Real Om Malik are writing about Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative in the wake of a Wall Street Journal article about the newly launched device. If you haven’t heard Nicholas Negroponte’s TED Talks presentation about the OLPC now, I would really urge you to take a few minutes [...]
OpenID for TwitterFeed
I’ve been playing around with Twitter (mbuckbee) more and more as a sort of generalized IM client and lightweight blogging tool. I wanted to get it setup so that BuzzwordCompliant posts would automatically update on Twitter. I played around with a few of the WordPress Twitter Plugins, but they haven’t been working very well, so [...]