Techcrunch had an article up today about the alpha release of Google Translate – a “Conversation Mode” speech to text to speaking translator that they hope will be sufficient to help people buy black or brown shoes. Seriously, black and brown shoes are the heart of their demo. What’s most interesting to me is that Google seems to be moving [...]
I came across this great video today that’s trying to help people wrap their minds around what ubiquitous computing means:
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 was able to distinguish what [...]
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 it’s easy enough to use [...]
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) techniques which re-quires no explicit [...]
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 been using a Sprint PCS [...]
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 out as it starts to [...]
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’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 skater punk with ironic gas [...]
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 to check it out as [...]
