Month: August 2007

  • Flickrize your Desktop

    Desklickr is my latest obsession. Great little utility that grabs images from Flickr and constantly refreshes your desktop background. There is even a Desklickr group for people who don’t want to think too much. Just set it and forget it.

  • Google Earth does the Skies….

    Google has just announced google earth 4.2 and new to this version is the Skies. Several Sky layers are listed on the left-hand side, including Constellations, Backyard Astronomy, Hubble Showcase, The Moon, The Planets, User’s Guide to Galaxies and Life of a Star. The Sky layers are composed of over 1 million photographs from various…

  • Track your Car using GPS/GSM gizmo…..

    For all the people who dreamed about being able to track their vehicles by just sending SMS messages to their car, here is an article on Developing a vehicle tracker with the Telit GM862-GPS module. Great article that goes into a lot of detail on how you too can accomplish this.

  • Freeware OSX Weather Util

    Here is a quick link to WeatherDock for all you weather nuts. This is one of the best weather utilities I’ve seen in a longtime. Best of all…..It’s Free. Sorry Mac Only.

  • Image Slicing and Stretching….

    Found this while having a beer in Stuttgart, Germany. Video of the excellent paper presented by Shai Avidan from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and Ariel Shamirfrom The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)/Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). From their excellent Paper titled Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing: Seam carving is a method for content-aware resizing that…

  • Siggraph07: San Diego Zoo

    Yeah these were shot during the last day of my Siggraph 2007 trip to San Diego. If you like the zoo, you’ll love the one in San Diego. If you don’t, go and visit anyway, you might change your mind. From Wikipedia entry: The world-famous San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California is…

  • Siggraph07: Exploring San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter

    Here is another batch of pictures from my recent trip to San Diego. These were shot during an afternoon walking down 5th and back up 4th Ave. If you get a chance you should definitely hang out here, specially at night. Lots of Art Deco architecture, good food and lots of drinks. And before you…

  • Last day in San Francisco…..

    Okay so this was a while back, but I finally finished touching up the pictures I took while in San Francisco (WWDC07). These were shot in around 3rd/4th/5th and Market St., at the Golden Gate Park and the Japanese Tea Garden. Click this link and take a peak. You can also have a look at…

  • Do you dare trust a machine…..

    The people over at 5VoltCore have put together a PD installation that really tests your courage and trust in machines. The installation sets up a feedback loop between computer, robot and the user. The user is right in assuming that the machine can fail, the machine can fail because the user assumes. Let me explain,…

  • Texty: The Simplest CMS……

    Well maybe a bit too simple. I couldn’t decide if this one was totally evil –under a cutesy name and interface– or just simply useful and cool, so I’ll let you guys decide. Hop on over to Texty and give it a whirl. This new webapp allows you to create Texty’s (which are HTML snippets)…