- ARCHIVE / TAG ARCHIVE
- How to change ANY user interface …
Very interesting thoughts and technology for intercepting user interaction at the pixel level, thereby allowing UI control across all applications (and OSs).
-> Prefab - Text 2.0 – utilizing eye tracking
Fascinating ideas around using eye tracking in the context of reading.
The video is very nice – it makes one think that this is ‘good for me’ although the tracking part is quite frightening wrt privacy (just thinking about ads …).
-> … - TED Talk: Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
Cool TED talk about art using technology – very nice examples of using input from interaction with people watching art!
- Brett McLauglin, David Flanagan: Java 5.0 Tiger
Nice and concise book showing the new features of Java 5 (Yes, I know, there is Java 6 now – but then I wasn’t aware yet of many of these features, and I guess, 6 doesn’t have as many so …
- Amy Thomson: Virtual Girl
I like this book very much – I just read it again after many years. It is the story of a ‘virtual girl’ – which means a robot girl in this context. Created by a human in a world which …
- Apache Tomcat 6 on Mac OS X
Installing Apache Tomcat 6 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard -
Very good explanation how to get Tomcat running under Mac OS X!
- Bookmarks for August 6th: IBM Pensieve
These are my links for August 6th: IBM Pensieve
This seems interesting to me – use a mobile device like a phone to collect information in pictures, words and sounds, combine it with time & place information (if the devices supports). …
- What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is another buzz-word of this time, but its meaning is fuzzy (e.g. like the Web 2.0), ranging from pure virtualization to * as a service.
This article gives 20 definitions from various experts.I like this view of Michael …
- Johnny Chung Lee: Wii
Really cool idea to use the Wii for
get minority report real
cheap smart board, on the wall or anywhere, or create a multi-touch laptop LCD
turn your monitor into a 3D ‘window’ through head trackingAmazing – check out the …
- Avidan Shamir: Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing
A really cool and beautiful idea, how one can resize images in a content-aware fashion – check the picture for (ragged) lines across the picture which provide the lowest additional details to the picture.The video is giving a very …
- Bacn
Bacn is on purpose spelled wrongly and relates to Spam – and it indeed becomes a growing problem of my inbox … see the definition from http://lifehacker.com/software/ask-the-readers/how-do-you-handle-bacn-291688.php:Email you receive that isn’t …
- Web Design F Pattern
Mentioned in an article about a report by Nielsen:
Individuals read Web pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and …
- Shear Layers
This I heard about in one of the LongNow seminars by Clay Shirky Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories (Nov 02005), which he has taken from Steward Brand’s How Buildings …
- Physics Vs Computers
When I moved from physics to computers, I thought a fundamental difference is that in computers you can have a fundamentally deeper understanding of everything which happens in them – because you constructed them and could (at least in …
