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March 14, 2007 at 10:22 PM · Filed under Computers, Tech
This is a fantastic 6 minute video that just hits you with stat after stat about how quickly the technological world is advancing and gives you a clue as to how it may affect you. I wonder if people living in the early 20th century looked at the introduction of cars, airplanes and telephones and marvelled at how quickly technology was progressing and then wondered whether it was moving too quickly.
Some of my favoriate stats: a week’s worth of the NY Times is estimated to contain more information than an 18th century person was likely to come across in their lifetime. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) of information of unique information will be generated this year (an exabyte is 1000 million times a Gigabyte (GB)). That 1.5 exabytes is estimated to be more than in the past 5000 years.
March 2, 2007 at 10:59 PM · Filed under Cool, Software, Tech
Windowing and Graphical User Interfaces are taking some more big steps. You may think that I may be talking about Windows Vista with Aero, but while it has some neat features, I’m not. Instead, let me first tell you about the coolest thing in X Windows window managers: Beryl. I’m totally going to date myself in this article by reminiscing about when I used twm, mwm, and fvwm. The X-Windows/*nix marriage was definitely something that I love – you have the power of a *nix kernel, a totally customizable command-line based shell, slap X-Windows on top of it and run any window manager you want. Your computing environment, your way.
Where was I? Oh yes, Beryl. Having been stuck in a predominantly MS Windows environment for years now, I’ve lost touch with the latest in the windowing advances. Luckily, I know folks who do keep in touch, and I was recently shown an extremely cool demo video of Beryl (and there are probably dozens of videos now). If you’ve seen demos of Aero and been wowed, prepared to be floored. Features in Beryl include warping windows, zooming in and out, using a cube as an abstration for a virtual desktop environment, transparency, wrapping windows around edges, and so much more. Just watch the video here:
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July 6, 2004 at 12:20 AM · Filed under Computers, Cool, Gadgets, KJH News, Misc, Tech
So what good is running a mailing list (or a blog) if I can’t plug my own stuff, eh?!
Doug (a friend I work with at ISX) and I recently built an info/review/community website that focuses on the latest gadgets, gizmos and toys.
We launched the site today and are now in a beta-testing phase. You special folks on my mailing list get to be part of the elite first-view audience. (Do you like how I’m laying on the compliments?!)
We would really appreciate it you can take a few minutes to register, log in, take a look around and give us some feedback. You can e-mail us at feedback@gizmosforgeeks.com.
And without further ado, here’s the site:
Gizmos for Geeks
August 31, 1999 at 10:06 PM · Filed under Tech
Just rub it on…
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,70363-0.html
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