Picasa 3, new Picasa Web Albums due today (1)
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It looks like the beta release of Chrome isn't the only big Google release today. The company is also rolling out a major update to its Windows-based Picasa photo management application and the Picasa Web Albums Web service, according to CNET: With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing ...
Nokia announces Ntropic Nseries phone/tablet harmony (as if) (1)
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Tablet owners are thrilled about Nokia's new Ntropic (pronounced 'entropic' - a concept of thermodynamics) software product for Nokia Internet Tablets running OS2008 "Diablo" and Nseries S60 phones. The open-source, exstensible software is currently available as a free download for Internet Tablet and Nseries phone owners.Ntropic's features are exciting:Ntropic Sync: Message, address book, and media synchronization between tablet and phone.Ntropic Connect: Automatic wireless managent on the tablet (switching to HSDPA when WiFi is unavailable)Ntropic Awareness: ...
WFC sightseeing hall to open this Saturday (3)
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For those of you that still haven't gotten around to your own illegal hike up the World Financial Center, you'll be glad to know you can soon get a bird's eye view of the city from the top of that building without risking arrest. Yes, the building that's been through many trials and tribulations will finally be open this Saturday. Apparently, the gallery located on the 100th floor of the skyscraper at a height of ...
WFC sightseeing hall to open this Saturday (2)
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For those of you that still haven't gotten around to your own illegal hike up the World Financial Center, you'll be glad to know you can soon get a bird's eye view of the city from the top of that building without risking arrest. Yes, the building that we've been telling you about since its conception through its many trials and tribulations will finally be open this Saturday. Apparently, the gallery located on the 100th ...
First-ever Web server (7)
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Wikipedia's image repository includes a photo of the NeXTCube that Tim Berners-Lee ran the first-ever Web server on, at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland: This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The document resting on the keyboard is a copy ...
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Robert Munroe said:
The first ever web server ran Mac OS X (ok, it's forefather but still)
The Flickr Collection on Getty Images (4)
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You all take remarkable photographs. From documenting momentous change to capturing the small precious moments around you, the Flickr community has been sharing some remarkable photographs for over four years. Team Flickr has long wanted to create a way to make it easier for those who use photos as a part of their daily business to do so in a way that respects the talent and rights of our members. The great folks at Getty ...
Be who you want on the web pages you visit (18)
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Posted by Niniane Wang, Engineering ManagerA while ago, I looked around the social web and wished that it could be less static. Sure, you can leave a comment on a blog or write a text blurb on your social networking profile. But what if you want to express yourself in a more fun way, with 3D graphics and real-time avatar interactions? I started asking this question as a 20% project, and I'm excited to announce ...
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Chip R said:
another possible game changer i think. embedable 3d worlds on html pages backed by google has a really good chance of catching on for regular internet users and making second life obsolete along the way. Wait until you can embed this stuff into google maps or google earth.
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James said:
who'd have thought?
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Chris McQueen said:
really?
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Kenny Stoltz said:
So winning a contest for alphaing the room creation features of this product is what got me the iPhone. I have to say that it's interesting but not that interesting. The main difference in a years worth of work is that now it's not buggy which it was. It still is a resource hog and Windows-only. I'm honestly amazed at how slow it is but it's the first of its kind from Google and Niniane and her team had to create a lot of it from scratch I guess. Hopefully they're green lighted to keep working on it because I do see some potential in it... but it has to cut down the memory/CPU intensiveness.
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Zane Shelby said:
Was this created in house? It seems like the kind of thing that Google would mistakenly acquire.
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Chinglish as full-fledged English dialect (1)
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Michael Erard's Wired story on the ways that Chinglish is mutating into a full-fludged (and widespread) dialect poses some interesting possibilities for the language's future, in which tonal suffixes, borrowed vocabulary words, and streamlined grammar open up rich new expressive possibilities. I've always loved English's baking-soda-like capacity to absorb other languages' best features -- the Yiddish terminal "already" at sentences' end, the fantastic Gaelic-salted Irvine Welsh Scots dialect, the many glorious island formations from the ...
Debian for Everyone! (1)
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Greetings, everyone! More great news from iTT!Now, earlier, I had told you guys about Debian for the Tablets, right? Well, now, everyone can install Debian with the click of a button. Just like that Android install ;)All you do is install a deb, then run the installer from the Extras menu. Boom!No partitioning, no command line, no worries. Your files on your tablet and memory cards stay completely intact! Nice! With Debian installed you of ...
UK Home Secretary green-lights harassment of photographers in public places (1)
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Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary has sent a letter reported on by the British Journal of Photographers stating that the practice of harassing photographers who take pictures in public places is legitimate, though there is no law against it. 'First of all, may I take this opportunity to state that the Government greatly values the importance of the freedom of the press, and as such there is no legal restriction on photography in public ...
Android on the Nokia N810! (1)
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File this under experimental but very cool … There’s a great thread on ITT which describes how to install Android on your tablet. So far it’s pretty simple and straight forward. I had to reboot to get Android to actually launch, but otherwise it’s all there … at least what’s available. Much more to try and will see about installing some apps soon as well. Technorati Tags: android, google, mid, N810, Nokia, maemo 2 3
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