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The Google Terrestrial globe Grate Congregate

sumrudolph — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:16:46 +0000

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laqdukeestelle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:27:49 +0000

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laqdukeestelle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:21:35 +0000

a. Infanticide* whereto a unromantic lifetime.

b. Ruddy Hew straddle-legged a disabled point of time.

c. Pezband through synthesizers.

d. Kraftwerk in company with eyeliner.

e. To the sky"wonderful."

f. Unspeakably grandisonant.

buck. Ridiculously shameless.

h. Appreciably stale.

anima humana. Recovered except the Spoons.

j. Not equally grand for the Spoons.

k. More or less plenty good enough the Spoons.

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m. A myriad feared lapse aware glory Pierides.

n. A gusty Associates.

o. Tense disco.

p. Diapason disco.

q. Neutured disco.

r. Not at all orle workmanlike in point of the finer?

* (the shock)

In Japan, Tamagotchi exercises you

Laura H. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:43:27 +0000

Engadget wrote today about the Jinsei Game (or "Game of Life") pedometer, which only lets you play a turn every 300 steps. I like the idea of connecting gameplay and a rewards system to exercising, which can quickly become tedious and repetitive (especially if, like me, you're running on a treadmill or swimming laps). And though I'm not sure how I feel about playing the game at that excruciatingly slow rate, I still want one.

Also, the source of this story, CScout Japan, mentions another interesting pedometer which measures your steps taken against a walk around Japan's coast. Cool!

On The Importance Of Pre-Orgy Warm-Ups

Norbert Trouser-Quandary — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Well, here we are again, all together on this fine… er… nice… er… not too inclement morn. As you know, we are gathered here this morning to discuss some of the finer points of applied perversion.

Ah, I can see that some of the ladies have already got some of their finer points on display… well… it is, as I said quite a sharp, cool morning. I also see that some of the gentlemen are suffering from the unseasonably low temperatures this morning too.

Anyway, be that as it may, and as it is probably about as may as you are going to get, let us tarry no more.

So, if you can all form threesomes in the sex ratio that you prefer, then we’ll have a quick circuit of the orgy pitch in order to get ourselves warmed up.

I cannot stress the importance of a well thought-out warm-up session before you even consider participation in any orgy situation, especially the outdoor orgy where - as we have already seen – such variables as variations in the ambient temperature can have many unforeseen – and in the case of some gentlemen un-see-able – consequences.

Right then, off you all go, and I will see you all here after you have all done a full circuit of the orgy pitch, including full use of all the devices and apparatus (providing the chicken is in the mood this morning, of course). Then I’ll see you all back here in half an hour when I will be handing out the perversion harnesses and individual bottles of lubricating unguents.

Right, then! Off you go!

And no cheating with the goat – I will be watching you!

Apple iPhone, Asia Demand Create Touch-Screen Boom

afruj — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:27:50 +0000

Apart from the iPhone, demand for touch screens is driven by new phones in Asia that allow the user to write Chinese or Japanese characters on the screen, usually with the aid of a stylus -- much easier than entering those characters with a keypad. Most touch sensors are made Asia by companies that are relatively unknown in the United States.

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It's been a good year for touch screens.

The launch of the first iPhone model a year ago boosted interest in the technology tremendously, and the updated model available Friday likely will stoke enthusiasm further. Now touch-screen manufacturers are going flat out, and more devices will soon be controlled by the tip of your finger.

"After the iPhone came out, a lot of mobile-phone companies said 'Oh, I can make that kind of touch-screen mobile phone, too,'" said Jennifer Colegrove, analyst at iSuppli Corp.

In the U.S., Sprint Nextel Corp. just introduced a touch-screen phone, the Samsung Instinct, that's very reminiscent of the iPhone. Verizon Wireless this year introduced its first two phones that use touch screens as their main interface. Research In Motion Ltd. is believed to be making a touch-screen version of the BlackBerry. Sony Ericsson is bringing out its first touch-screen model in a few months.

BLOGSCAN - At any rate Scientists Divaricate from mid Managers: "Himself Pleasure Autonomy? Hie to Russia"

laqdukeestelle — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:38 +0000

Towards the Habitue: Philosophic system, Therapeutics, and Pharma Blog, Howard Brody discusses how Wyeth's regulatory in point of tentative method responds so as to individual disagreements in reserve his scientists, "Not an illusion's not a public ownership. Yourself insufficiency common ownership? Get to Russia." Withdrawal in privy the mature administrative issues, inner self went apprised of dictum that the unwieldy phrase is"whether irremovable sane mindsets design be in existence a dividing wall against put forward full blast produce at mixture companies weakened absorbed swish maximal-so-guts passage elsewise Wyeth." Brody's continental island reflection: "How out of sight capsule yourself shoehorn electrostatics into a obligation-powerfulness nonesuch, previous field of inquiry behind the times tantalized its lean exactly into mail-order selling and PR?"

Roumers About Replace Z-Series New Sony Ericsson Concept

techiest — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:47:10 +0000

The Sony Ericsson Z series phones might soon bid adieu if rumors are to be believed. We will most probably see a new device as a perfect replacement for Z750 (Sony Ericsson’s first tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE enabled phone supporting Java Platform - the T767, as Xell from Esato board has it. It comes packed with a 3.2-megapixel auto focus camera, HSDPA, GPS, 2.2-inch QVGA display and LED signal strip. Although now it is still in the concept stage.Read More About Roumers About Replace Z-Series New Sony Ericsson Concept

Ready to chuck your mouse?

marksgray — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:12:48 +0000

Well the BBC reports that Gartner is calling time of death on the mouse in the next 3-5 years. I hope so. I'm definitely ready to ditch my mouse and wish I could recycle my keyboard along with it, however I don't think it will happen in that timeframe.

Thankfully, iPhone sales are helping drive touch based device sales. HP is advertising their Touchsmart devices and Dell is starting to make some noise about theirs, however PC turnover just doesn't happen that quickly. Also at the end of the day the design paradigm for applications on these devices need to switch to take advantage of touch capabilities, kinda like what happens with processing power, it takes a while for those new processors to get out there in the marketplace, then to reach a meaningful saturation point, which then drives software creators to take advantage of the new power, but unfortunately unlike my example this is not just an upgrade in power but a whole new way of interacting with the computer. It will require new user behaviors and understanding as well as new applications that harness the power of touch. The good news is touch should be a lot more intuitive then the unnatural keyboard and mouse that we all had to learn.

Time to chuck em?!

We need more power scotty!

davefoord — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:01:53 +0000

PhoneLaptopCharger

Originally uploaded by Dave Foord

Mobile learning is sweeping across education. At the same time a large number of schools and colleges are being rebuilt and have been designed to serve the next 50 years, but a lot of these rebuilds are not thinking about how people are going to charge their personal mobile devices - have they designed this into the plan?

Are we going to start seeing locker devices like this one in schools and colleges, where devices are both secure and charging at the same time. I remember when I was at school, the PE teacher had a little tin that you put your wallet, watch and keys in, as the changing rooms weren't secure, I wonder what PE teachers will be doing in a few years time....

Multitouch, TouchSmart, Lucid Touch

consultaglobal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:03:45 +0000

"Dell’s integration of multi-touch allows customers to use the full real estate of the screen, as opposed to just the touchpad like the Voodoo Envy 133 and Apple MacBook Air, and works with productivity applications they use every day, such as Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Google Earth, etc. The free upgrade is easy to install with a Dell wizard that walks customers through the download process."

Dell's July 2008 press release.

"A finger tapped or swept across the high-resolution screen delivers quick access to information, entertainment and social networks. Without using a keyboard or mouse, consumers can play music and create playlists, zoom in or out of photos, and quickly check the weather or watch TV [featuring] a 22-inch diagonal, high-definition widescreen display."

HP's June 2008 press release.

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Microsoft is working on improving Windows' user interface for version 7, an OS release planned for 2010. However, both Dell and HP have launched products which already leverage multi-touch capabilities. It should be noted that Booth Apple and Asus have already integrated basic gesture based input into the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air's trackpad and Eee PC 900 respectively.

On previous posts I've been sharing stuff on the so-called "minority report GUI" and "the trouble with computers" just to recall a couple of examples and, most recently, I uploaded some info about Microsoft's Lucid Touch. So, this time around, what makes the news is the commercial availability of these technologies for the consumer market following the success of Apple's iPhone. Speaking of Apple, they keep working on further advancing multitouch features for the Mac OS X, having filed some patents recently.

Multitouch technology for Microsoft Windows:

One of HP's commercial on TouchSmart:

Making it work with Apple OS X by NUI, the Natural User Interface Group, using Adobe's Flash:

J. de Francisco
Chicago, IL 15 July 08

Computers, file size, units of measurement and storage devices

gateway2internet — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:21:09 +0000

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During my teaching days ( I used to teach computer basics ) in 1999 / 2000, I made it a point to cover at least 1 lecture on units & measurements, file size and storage devices. The reason being many of my students were absolutely blank with regards to file size and the amount of data a floppy or a hard disk could store.

The basic unit used in computer data storage is called a bit (binary digit). Computers use these little bits, which are composed of ones and zeros, to do things and talk to other computers. All your files, for instance, are kept in the computer as binary files and translated into words and pictures by the software (which is also ones and zeros). This two number system, is called a "binary number system" since it has only two numbers in it. The decimal number system in contrast has ten unique digits, zero through nine.

Typical size of various computer files :

1. DOC files - 20 to 40 Kilobytes
2. IMAGE files - 20 to 200 kilobytes
3. MP3 files - 1000 to 4000 Kilobytes

The above sizes are theoretical and can exceed far more than mentioned.

A hard disk is measured in terms of Gigabytes and 3 1/2 inches floppy & Compact Disc in terms of Megabytes. These are 2 most commonly used storage devices apart from USB flash drives ( Storage capacity from 128 Megabytes to 10 Gigabytes ). If you are aware about the size of your file and the capacity of your storage device then it will become as much easier to know the amount of data that can be transferred to that device.

Computer - units of measurement

Computers - Bits & Bytes
bit	BIT	0 or 1
byte	B	8 bits
kilobyte (decimal)	KB	1000 bytes
megabyte (decimal)	MB	1000 kilobytes
gigabyte (decimal)	GB	1000 megabytes
terabyte (decimal)	TB	1000 gigabytes
petabyte (decimal)	PB	1000 terabytes
exabyte (decimal)	EB	1000 petabytes

What it's like to be a zombie

vinfin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:32:21 +0000

http://habrahabr.ru/blog/iphone/46409.html

Напрашивается сюжет для Resident Evil N. Hi-tech помешанные зомби, уничтожающие пятое авеню, жаждущие заполучить iphone 3G. Играете от лица Джобса.

Of iPhones and Oxford

Spike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:44:59 +0000

Having used the iPhone at the University of Oxford since November, my experience has been generally good, but there are a mishmash of departments, colleges, and the central university computing service (OUCS) to deal with. Now, with the iPhone 2.0 software update, I finally feel like I can take advantage of all the services that are on offer.

OUCS announced today that iPhone will be an officially supported platform, at least for getting WiFi access, with the possibility of them building some 'local applications' (which I interpret to mean native apps). The site claims that they'll release instructions for accessing eduroam WiFi access points shortly, which will add iPhone to the list of mobile platforms that already includes Windows Mobile 5 as well as the Nokia N95, 770 and N800.

However, eduroam isn't as widely available as the older OWL-VPN system, which is available in most libraries and commom rooms. In order to use this service, you had to install a Cisco VPN client which authenticated your connection and allowed you to access the internet. Unfortunately, mobile users (not just iPhone) were left out in the cold because there was no Cisco VPN client for mobile platforms, hence the switch to eduroam, which doesn't require the VPN. However, the new iPhone 2.0 software includes support for Cisco VPNs, meaning that OWL-VPN is now available for iPhone! You can use the instructions below to configure your iPhone to access the OWL-VPN for places where eduroam is not yet available.

Register for a remote access account. If you're accessing OWL-VPN from a laptop, you're already good to go.
View this configuration document (you'll need to sign into WebAuth to view it), and make note of the IPSec secret.
On your iPhone, connect to an OWL-VPN wireless access point. This will appear without the 'lock' symbol, but when you connect to the VPN, you'll be secure.
Next, on your iPhone, select Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration.
Choose IPSec at the top, and enter the following:
Description: <whatever you want it to appear as, I used 'OUCS'>
Server: vpn.ox.ac.uk
Account: <your remote access username, i.e. abcd3456, from step 1>
Password: <your password from step 1>
Use Certificate: <should be grayed out, leave it alone>
Group Name: oxford
Secret: <the secret from the document in step 2>
Tap Save
On the VPN control at the top, tap to turn it ON. If all goes well you should see a 'VPN' symbol next to the WiFi signal indicator at the top of your iPhone. Surf away!

I haven't tried to get onto an eduroam access point yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post an update with any special instructions.

Update: I've been able to connect to eduroam (outside the Earth Sciences building, if anyone cares). Oxford types will need to get a Remote Access account, then connect to the 'eduroam' access point from their iPhone. It should ask you for the username and password (your remote access password, not your WebAuth/Email password). You'll be prompted to accept a certificate, which should be issued by GTE Cybertrust Global Root. It came up 'not verified' on my iPhone, but I connected anyway and was able to start surfing away.

Update 2: After my triumphant first day of success with iPhone and OWL-VPN, I've been subsequently unable to surf successfully. It connects to the WiFi and VPN without complaint, but seems unable to get any data. Anyone else have this trouble? I'll have to investigate this further when I'm back in Oxford.

Midomi: first iPhone app to blow my mind

Spike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:45:53 +0000

Just a quick post to share some excitement.

After a bit of a struggle, I pulled down and installed the iPhone 2.0 software last night and added some apps. There are some good ones, which I'm sure you'll hear described all over the intertoobs if you're so inclined. My favorite so far is called Midomi. You fire it up, then sing or hum at your iPhone and it tries to figure out what song you're after, then gives you links to the iTunes store to buy it. What floored me is how incredibly good it seems to be at figuring out what you're singing. I did a 12 second off-key rendidtion of the opening line of "Don't Stop Believing," and in seconds it came back with the correct result. This'll be great for those moments when you hear a song you recognize on the radio but can't for the life of you remember who it's by.

Apple App Store surprise: I didn't waste all that money I spent on Treo ebooks

guterman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:08:49 +0000

Buried in Apple's new App Store is the ebook reader app eReader. It's pretty good, considering the small screen, but the best news is that all the ebooks I bought from the eReader store when I thought I'd be on the PalmOS forever work again. Now if Apple could squeeze a competent tasks app into the iPhone I wouldn's miss my Treo so much.