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Finally got outside yesterday for a good while. Walked all the way up to the park and met Mr. Wilson at the top of the reservoir. What do you figure, about 5 miles? Not very much, but when you've been sitting in front of the computer for a couple years it feels pretty good. A little stiff today, but not as bad as I feared.
I love walking in the city. I didn't have a particular direction in mind when I set out. I was just walking in a straight line, and then when I'd come to a Don't Walk I would choose either left or right and continue straight until the next Don't Walk. Pretty fun. I ended up just west of Columbus Circle before I abandoned that plan.
Come on spring time...
366K photo of the earth taken from the Mars rover Spirit.
The Lifeblog software runs on a PC and, when a phone is connected to the machine, sucks down all the images, text and multimedia messages stored on the handset.
It will then populate a timeline with the information arranging it chronologically and annotating it with tags the phone records about when and where something was done.
The software works out where someone was using codes that uniquely identify cell phone base stations.
Images from digital still or video cameras can also be added to the collection of information.
"You want to keep everything so you can get a nice overview," said Mr Lindholm "so you can decide what you really want to keep or delete."
Very early stage software that allows (sort of, so far) the Treo 600 to record video clips. Woohoo.
Download. TreoCentral discussion.
Looks pretty sure we'll get to 2 megapixel cameraphones this year. Nice looking phone, too. It runs Windows CE, though which I'm pretty sure gives me hives.
2.1 MP is what my first digital camera was. Plenty good for everything but printing at very large sizes (do people really do that?)
If you use iTunes (on OS X) you probably want to download this. It does a few things, but most notably it allows you to play/pause iTunes with a key combination (option + space by default, but configurable,) no matter what application is currently active.
Sure, it's a little thing, but when the phone rings I can now pause iTunes with one key combo without first going to the dock and bringing iTunes to the front. And actually, that's not such a little thing. Mmmm, global hot keys.
Motorolla has been going crazy lately releasing new cell phones. Here are some pictures of the new MPx-300. Interesting screen hinge, obviously. People are really worked up about this phone, but for once I'm not so sure. Seems maybe almost too clever.
90 minute lecture by former Intel chief architect Bob Colwell, given at Stanford University. Wow. Very interesting. Even if you are just a spectator, like me, and don't have any real engineering experience, this is fascinating. I mean, I guess you have to know a little bit about CPU design - but not too much, the talk is mostly high level general industry direction type stuff. If you know what 'transistor count' and 'pipeline stage' means you know enough to understand everything here.
Shorter version: the race for ever higher clock rates is a no win situation, and this sort of thinking misses the (near) future direction of the industry.
He is not terribly complimentary towards his former employer and their CPU offerings.
The video is in .asf format.
Pete Rojas has broken with Nick Denton, leaving gizmodo to join Jason Calacanis in starting engadget.
Started getting this one in the mail yesterday: w32.beagle.k. Only a danger for Windows (w32 = Windows 32 bit,) but everyone can receive it and spread it. The only thing of note here is that it spoofs some sort of "management" account on the domain it is sending to, and warns that your email account is about to be shut down. That's a pretty good ploy. So, obviously, don't believe any email messages coming from management@, administration@, staff@, noreply@, support@ digitalmediatree.com.
The tip off should be that the "fix" for the non existent email account problem (i.e., the virus) is included as an attachment you are supposed to open. No real support staff would distribute a patch this way. A real email would direct you to a web page where you would download the patch.