Introducing the Transliteration API (4)
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by Gokul Nath Babu and Anupama Dutta, Software EngineersWe're excited to announce a new addition to the AJAX Language API - the Transliteration API. Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. We launched transliteration on India Labs a year ago to make it easier to type in Indian languages using an English keyboard. Since then, we've integrated this into a number of Google properties, such as orkut ...
The RIAA Took My Baby Away (2)
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Jukebox, my music player application for Facebook, has over 44,000 songs in its database. It originated as a project I wrote just for fun this summer, mainly because I was bored and because I wanted to play with the Facebook API. I was pretty disappointed with the other popular music apps at the time, and thought I could contribute something. I guess it was a bit of an accidental success. I launched it in late ...
Get Ready for Google Chrome: New Open-Source Web Browser (24)
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Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow). I can’t wait to talk more about Google Chrome, but I’ll hold off until it officially launches. Once people can download Google Chrome, I plan to talk about my experiences using Google Chrome, to lay some truth on you about questions you might ask about Google Chrome, and to give some tips ...
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Eric said:
I'm excited by this. They are taking a different approach to the browser. One that acknowledges that many of us keep various pages open all day and use each tab as a separate application.
usabilitypost.com | Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons (36)
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We're all familiar with the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons you get on dialog boxes. Simple labels that ask us whether we agree or disagree to the next action the application wants to take. The interesting thing is that using exclamations like "OK" and "No" isn't all that usable. Instead, you should use verbs. Let me illustrate this with an example. Here's a save dialog that we get in WordPad on Windows when you make some ...
Empowering users to map their worlds (34)
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In countries like India, great maps and comprehensive local data are hard to come by. And traditional mapping approaches are stretched to the limit in such environments, where infrastructure and local businesses are evolving at a furious pace.This need inspired us in Google India to design and build Google Map Maker, which enables users everywhere over to create rich, deep maps and fresh local data. People can mark their favorite spots in their cities and ...
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Saurabh said:
Finally, Google Mapmaker comes to India, couple of my IIT Bombay friends were working on this :)
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Bryan said:
rather timely as I found map coverage in Crete to fall short of my needs.
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Angus said:
wouldn't this be useful for landmarks anywhere, even in the USA? For example, all the campus buildings?
Doctoring Photographs without Photoshop (17)
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It's all about the captions: ...doctored photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption. The photographs presented by Colin...
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Bryn said:
This is a photo of Osama Bin Laden sun bathing in Nice. Really.
Returning to Edinburgh (1)
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Coming back to the Edinburgh TV Festival after a few years in new/future media is a bit of an odd experience. Having lived with the protracted gestation and birth of BBC iPlayer over the last couple of years (something for which I can claim little credit), it is easy to believe the rest of the TV world sees things as we do. A weekend here in Edinburgh reminds me that's not so. I recognise fewer ...
In Cell Charting (3)
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I discovered a while ago that you can create a Shape from a user-defined function.This opens the possibility for having custom made graphics dependent on other cells. Meaning, when the data changes, your graphic changes too.Some possible graphics include line charts, gantt charts, Excel12 style traffic lights.As an example, I've put together a very basic Sparkline (in-cell line chart) graphic. If you want to know more about Sparklines, start at ewbi.developsI have a userdefined function ...
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S Anand said:
Create Sparklines in Excel without having to creating a graph
Presentation Zen: Learning slide design from an IKEA billboard (59)
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Above: A short (1:52) intro about this topic made in Keynote (link to video on bliptv). Can you learn how to make better slides by looking at a few signs around your local IKEA store? This may sound absurd, yet the lessons are all around you, and you can indeed learn a lot from a well-designed billboard, including those used created by IKEA. On page 140 of Nancy Duarte's Slide:ology, Nancy says that good slides ...
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eco2oh said:
Improve your next presentation by looking at billboards.
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Panos said:
Great lessons from the master
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Jon of SMA said:
Good points for designing presentations. Who would have thought that IKEA would be the model designer?
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Graham English said:
Damn good advice.
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small said:
Great article... more importantly, how did he cool that cool video effect for the intro?!
Build One to Throw Away (14)
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This is a maxim from Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month. These days I’m thinking it’s the single most important lesson there is about software. It’s been brought rudely home to me by my recent work on mod_atom, whose design terribly simple, but I still got the first cut wrong in important ways. What I Got Wrong mod_atom is about as simple as an AtomPub server can be; all the entries and feeds and collections are ...
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Jeff said:
Good advice never gets old. This also reminds me that it is time to re-read Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month"
Clay Shirky on our cognitive surplus (15)
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There's a great talk from Clay Shirky in the latest issue of Edge -- about all of our surplus, unused brain power, and what we might be able to do with it if we turn off our TVs: How big is that surplus? If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project -- every page, every edit, every line of code, in every language Wikipedia exists in -- that ...
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Allan Haggett said:
I suppose this isn't telling us anything we don't already know, but it's really interesting when put in these terms. It should definitely be thought provoking for those of you who spend many hours a week watching TV (and not multitasking while doing so).
Pi-Con, Math, Gender, Glaubama (7)
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Pi-Con: This weekend I’ll be at Pi-Con, a convention in West Springfield, MA. It’s run by some old friends of mine, and will feature Cory Doctorow. I’ve never actually met Mr. Doctorow in person, so it should be fun. In my mind’s eye, he still wears a red cape and goggles everywhere he goes. I hope that’s okay with him. Anyway, feel free to stop by! You don’t need to pre-register or anything. I’ll be ...
LRB · Daniel Soar: Short Cuts (7)
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Wow - crazy / scary. I hadn't realized that mobile location data was so easily acquired and so readily sold.
Geometric Keyboard (9)
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Originally posted in ct2 Rather than confine itself to one long string of keys, this novel keyboard interface uses hexagonal keys in a honeycomb pattern to arrange notes ordered according to a harmonic table. Called the Axis, this innovative MIDI controller is in commercial production. This is not a alternative tuning system, but an alternative keyboard. All twelve notes of the traditional Western scale fit into onto a 2-dimensional surface with a visible logical pattern. ...
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Ashok said:
This is probably the most incredible and inspired idea i have ever seen.
Photosynth is Released and Moves to Virtual Earth (41)
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Live Labs has released Photosynth, the 3D-esque photo collection viewer that it first tech-previewed in 2006 (Radar post). With this release any Vista or XP user running FireFox or IE can create, view, and share Synths (Mac support is planned). I suggest exploring the Synths. There are some amazing ones available like Smith Tower in Seattle (home to the Photosynth team), Macchu Picchu and even scenes from World of Warcraft. There are several controls and ...
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Chris said:
This is really cool...
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Tiffehr said:
Geeky radness.
Totto-chan (1)
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I read a very likeable book last week - Totto-chan. The author, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, is a well-known Japanese television personality. The book is an account of her own experiences at an ideal school that she attended as a child. Apparently, the author credits her success in life to this school and its headmaster.Totto-chan (the author herself), a little girl, is expelled from her elementary school because she is "disruptive", whereas actually the active little girl ...
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Guide to using a auction spelling mistake finder to find auctions with few or no bids (and hopefully cheaper prices). http://www.typoza...Shared by S Anand (5)Contribute commentGoogle Mobile Blog (30) permalink
Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party developers are launching the first location-enabled web apps using this API on Windows Mobile.One of the most popular travel sites in the Europe, lastminute.com, has now location-enabled their new mobile restaurant finder to help you find restaurants near you ...Shared by aemkei (4) Alfonso Martinez (14) allgoood (3) Bernardo (11) dalelane (2) Diana (20) Dreamside (88) egon (6) frieda99 (10) Gine (5) Henri Bergius (2) Hyunhak (7) ian (5) Jay Liew (12) Jdorfman (19) Jeppe (2) JohnMu (12) Jules (28) Karl Söderström (8) kmohr25 (22) Marc (10) Marque (0) Miguel A. Arévalo (4) Nick (1) Nina Schiøtz (1) Paul (19) Peter H (25) PMinze (28) Q-BEE (8) Reto (5) retrofitweb (1) richard ting (2) S Anand (5) schuettla (3) silpol (32) Sinan Yüce (1) Tijs (3) tonextone (2) Umesh (12) Varun Mahajan (27) Yinka (9) yolly (2)
