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Data-Visualization: Browser statistics as tree rings
Great interactive data visualization of the changing market share for the leading web browsers since 2002.
The source code for the animation is available by right clicking on the flash animation.
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Technology: An interview with NVIDIA’s Andy Keane at SC09
If your interested in HPC or want to learn about the great response and interest NVIDIA got for their new GPU / Cuda solutions at the SC09 show last week listen to Andy Keane, General Manager of NVIDIA’s’ Tesla GPU business unit.
Carry on with the good work - we’re all hoping to get a hand on a Fermi board soon.
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Time: 1234567890
Tonight we finally reached “1234567890″ as Unix time. If you run a Unix or Linux machine try the following command…
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UN: How not to manage IS/IT
A metaphor / parable on how tax payers’ money is burned within some internationally (un)-coordinated organizations aka multinationals aka United Nations.
The underlying story is based on actual experiences in the field of Information Systems / Information Technology (IS/IT) within one of the largest UN organizations. While - as we hear - since then things got even worse, this short story not only tries to demonstrate the lack of professionalism in those organizations, but also what happens when people who “know what they are doing” come to those organizations without political protection by their own governments. The sad endings to these stories are often like in the underlying true case used for this metaphor.
With that case we know…
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Environment: Ecofont
Here’s one more way to reduce the amount of resources you use without need.
The Dutch group SPRANQ has developed MS Windows and Mac font replacements that have little holes within the normally printed areas of a font to reduce the amount of ink used. The fonts are based on Vera Sans an open source font similar to Verdana. Their tests resulted in about 20% less ink used.
Downloads are available for MS Windows XP, MS Vista and Mac OS X.
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Google Search: List of available magazine
We played around with Google’s new feature to search and display complete magazines and here’s the list of currently available magazines we could find (35 magazines - in alphabetic order)…
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Augmented Reality: A monster on your desk
If you want to try out augmented reality effects for yourself all you need is Flash and a web cam connected to your computer.
Uses the Papervision and the FLARToolkit flash components. You’ll find some more examples at the FLARToolkit web site (link below). The Boffswana page (link below) has step by step instructions and the PDF with the marker. Source code is available.
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Tiny Tags Online Generator
The small online application TinyTags creates little tag graphics with the text you enter. Images can be downloaded or saved to Flickr or ImageShack and you can turn your tag into a t-shirt too.
Nice little toy, might come handy in the holiday season.
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25 Years MS Windows
It’s now 25 years ago since the first version of that thing called MS Windows started to infest became available for the new IBM PCs.
When you think back - that long ago - we were sitting and trying out that new interface provided to us on a PC the price of a small car today. And yes it was only black and white and it crashed and crashed and crashed (could be the applications), so most of the time we went back to a green shimmering monitor running Lotus 123 - latest after 15 minutes.
Actually it’s only 23 years ago because it took quite some time between the announcement and becoming available for sale. We started using it when MS persuaded us with an Alpha version of MS Windows 3.0 / 3.1 a few years later. If I recall it right that Alpha arrived on about 20 of these new 3.5″ floppies (each costing about 10 times as much as a DVD today). As time goes by…hmmmmmm…
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Microsoft announces web based Office Applications
Finally the move from Microsoft we have been waiting for quite some time. MS is going to bring (parts of ) its Office Suite into the Browser.
As announced today MS Office Web Apps will run not only within IE but also with Firefox and Safari. The web apps will be “lightweight versions” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, but Microsoft said at the MS PDC the functionality included should be comparable to Google’s online office suite…
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