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Oct
18th
Tue
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Well, this will make spherical panoramas easier:

Throwable Ball Camera Captures Spherical Panoramas

(via laughingsquid)


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Oct
4th
Tue
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So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.
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See source below for the video to which this quote refers. Oh fine, here’s the link.

More from the same article: Based on the dates mentioned in the Knowledge Navigator video, it takes place on September 16, 2011. The date on the professor’s calendar is September 16, and he’s looking for a 2006 paper written “about five years ago,” setting the year as 2011.

And this morning, at the iPhone keynote, Apple announced Siri, a natural language-based voice assistant, would be built into iOS 5 and a core part of the new iPhone 4S.


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Aug
29th
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Really, @Facebook? That’s your pitch for sharing users’ information with other Websites?

Really, @Facebook? That’s your pitch for sharing users’ information with other Websites?


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Aug
2nd
Tue
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Trouble on the homefront

Trouble on the homefront


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Jul
29th
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Dad is cleaning out the basement and sending me emails about my things. I am out with friends.

  • Dad: Your Old iBook -- Live or die? Sent from my hand-held, thumb-operated phone.
  • Me: Death by fire!
  • Me: Put it in a boat and set it on fire as you push it into the sea, like a viking!
  • Dad: I was thinking more in terms of recycling. Dad
  • Me: Put it in the recycle bin and set it on fire as you push it into the street, like a viking!

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Jul
22nd
Fri
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Study Shows Internet Alters Memory: The “Google effect” makes people more likely to remember information they won’t be able to look up later.
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Slate

I’ve been able to feel this impacting my brain for some time now. Co-workers have noticed, too. I can’t remember anything that’s stored in a Google Doc. Why bother?

I’m not saying this is a good thing.



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Jun
20th
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Fanboy party. Caveat: Not all of this stuff is actually mine. Fact: That is indeed an iBook G4 on the right, in great working condition, too. Running OS X 10.5.8 an’ errythang.

Fanboy party.

Caveat: Not all of this stuff is actually mine.

Fact: That is indeed an iBook G4 on the right, in great working condition, too. Running OS X 10.5.8 an’ errythang.


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Jun
7th
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Google offers streaming (via the Web, for free, for some of your collection) but no marketplace. Amazon offers streaming (via the Web, for a cost per GB) and a marketplace. Apple offers storage (cheaper than Amazon’s) and one helluva marketplace - but no streaming. In other words, music in the cloud is still very much up for grabs.
— A comprehensive breakdown of cloud music storage, purchasing, and streaming options from Google, Amazon, and Apple, respectively, compliments of Audrey Watters from ReadWriteWeb.

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Mar
21st
Mon
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Remember SkiFree for Windows 3.0? Download for Windows XP here. (I’ve tested this as I discovered it and posted this on a Mac.)

Remember SkiFree for Windows 3.0?

Download for Windows XP here. (I’ve tested this as I discovered it and posted this on a Mac.)


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Mar
17th
Thu
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The awesomeness of this website and the concept behind it makes the glaring grammatical error only more upsetting. (Click the image and to see what this is all about. Then you’ll see every sticker is an expression in the conditional tense, which is why it should say “I wish this *were*.”)

The awesomeness of this website and the concept behind it makes the glaring grammatical error only more upsetting.

(Click the image and to see what this is all about. Then you’ll see every sticker is an expression in the conditional tense, which is why it should say “I wish this *were*.”)


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