TiltShift
Transform a scene into a miniature world. This application simulates a tilt-shift lens that tricks your mind into viewing a photo as a miniature scene like a model railroad for example.
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Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServer
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of publishers, booksellers, libraries, and even authors to make their catalogs of books available directly to readers through their laptops, phones, netbooks, or dedicated reading devices. BookServer facilitates pay transactions, borrowing books from libraries, and downloading free, publicly accessible books.
WordPress › WordPress Exploit Scanner « WordPress Plugins
This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
WordPress › WordPress Exploit Scanner « WordPress Plugins
This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
Openness as a Catalyst for Education
Jared Stein's slides from 30min presentation on open education, open educational resources, and being open in your teaching and learning
Gartner: Loosen up on social networks, security | Deep Tech - CNET News
That's how analysts advised Gartner Symposium attendees here Monday, arguing that corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and that security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities want to shut down such activity, they can't. Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) "Banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile," said Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president. "The world we live in is digitally enabled and socially connected."
Mashup Arts
Find ideas and create lively Video Cards, Social Cards & Ecards Easily integrate Facebook, Flickr and YouTube content
WikiReader
WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go.
eLearning Roadtrip: Mobile Services Taxonomy
The more I have reflected on the growing demand for mobile services, I keep thinking about how we have not yet really seen a dedicated rush to the market for mobile learning (at least not in any systematized way, efforts of #HHL and #mlearn notwithstanding) I was reminded of a diagram I had sketched out to describe a mobile services taxonomy so we new-to-the-mobile-market types could get a better understand what the movitators for adopting mobile anything might be at the institutional level.
KerryJ’s blog » Accessibility for the differently abled in virtual environments
This started off as an email to a lady I met through my experiments in Reaction Grid. I’ve been reading up on accessiblity in virtual worlds for Education.au’s Immersive Learning Unit, so had several resources I wanted to share with her. As the email developed over the space of an hour or two, I decided it would be more efficient to post it as a blog post. So here ’tis…”
KerryJ’s blog » Accessibility for the differently abled in virtual environments
This started off as an email to a lady I met through my experiments in Reaction Grid. I’ve been reading up on accessiblity in virtual worlds for Education.au’s Immersive Learning Unit, so had several resources I wanted to share with her. As the email deve
David Hockney's iPhone Passion - The New York Review of Books
Hockney first became interested in iPhones about a year ago. But soon he discovered one of those newfangled iPhone applications, entitled Brushes, which allows the user digitally to smear, or draw, or fingerpaint (it's not yet entirely clear what the proper verb should be for this novel activity), to create highly sophisticated full-color images directly on the device's screen, and then to archive or send them out by e-mail. Essentially, the Brushes application gives the user a full color-wheel spectrum, from which he can choose a specific color. He can then modify that color's hue along a range of darker to lighter, and go on to fill in the entire backdrop of the screen in that color, or else fashion subsequent brushstrokes, variously narrower or thicker, and more or less transparent, according to need, by dragging his finger across the screen, progressively layering the emerging image with as many such daubings as he desire
Schools embrace iPods for learning
Surrounded by shelves of library books, Grade 11 student Ignes Zina Oukil casually flips through screens of applications on a glossy iPod touch. She and her friends are usually told to pocket these devices while at school because they're seen as a distraction. But this week, Oukil was being encouraged to use her iPod for homework as part of an effort by the Calgary Board of Education to make school libraries more in touch with tech-savvy students. "It's about removing barriers and helping them see this as more than a toy," said education specialist Karen Pegler.
The boom in smart-phones: Cleverly simple | The Economist
As internet-capable handsets become more popular, they are also changing IF THE recession is the cloud hanging over the mobile-phone business, “smart” phones are the silver lining. Sales of mobile phones were 10% lower in the second quarter of this year than in the same period last year, but sales of smart-phones were up by nearly 15%, according to IDC, a market-research firm. By some estimates, half of all handsets sold will be “smart” in four years and by 2015 almost all will be.
Laura @ CET | The fuss about cell phones
I think the exceptional pervasiveness and the unique affordances of cell phones are the two main reasons for all the fuss. And although cell phones are a big deal globally, they are an especial big deal in developing countries. It is worth spending some time considering the access issue alone, although it is hard to separate this from the affordances because the matter is not merely about access to digital technology per se, it is about access to what is afforded by those technologies. I have asked various people of late what they imagine the percentage of cell phone penetration is globally. The answers vary widely- from 20% on the one end to 80% on the other. The answer is 61%- yes that is sixty one per cent, almost two thirds of the world’s population owns a cell phone. (Yes, I know use is different but lets stick to ownership So, the total mobile subscriptions in 2009 are over 4 billion. And 1.15 billion new phones were sold in 2008.
Future Phones Dazzle With Design | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Some interesting new concept phones made an appearance this week at CEATEC, the Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show. These included a chameleon-like phone that could change its skin depending on its surroundings, a phone whose casing is made of wood and a phone with a flexible screen that can assume different configurations (shown above). A major source of the concept phones this year has been Fujitsu, which ran a mobile-phone–design contest. But other companies such as NTT DoCoMo and KDDI also offered their futuristic phone ideas. Of course, these phones aren’t real. Some of them aren’t even in the prototype stage. Yet they are interesting because they provide a glimpse of what lies ahead — even if it’s still only on paper.
Future Phones Dazzle With Design | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Some interesting new concept phones made an appearance this week at CEATEC, the Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show. These included a chameleon-like phone that could change its skin depending on its surroundings, a phone whose casing is m
IDC eXchange » Blog Archive » IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013
Last year, we published IDC’s first forecast of IT cloud services, focusing on enterprise adoption of public cloud services in five big IT categories through 2012. For the past several months, dozens of IDC analysts have collaborated to refine, deepen and extend our cloud services forecasts. In this post, we share this year’s update of our top-level cloud services forecast, now extended through 2013.
TechNation Australia » Blog Archive » Mobile-Based Augmented Reality Gaining Momentum In Australia
There’s some momentum building in the mobile-based augmented reality space in Oz. Below are 2 of the startups that are leading the Aussie AR charge
TechNation Australia » Blog Archive » Mobile-Based Augmented Reality Gaining Momentum In Australia
There’s some momentum building in the mobile-based augmented reality space in Oz. Below are 2 of the startups that are leading the Aussie AR charge
Adobe Launches Photoshop.com Mobile for the iPhone | Mac|Life
Adobe announced the release of Photoshop.com Mobile for the iPhone today. The new app is free and gives you access to your Photos
In a Strange Land: 1939 World's Fair in Reaction Grid
From the Code 1 orientation area at Reaction Grid, a quick teleport takes the visitor to a very impressive showcase of what can be done, at very low cost, in Open Sim worlds. And how they hooked me with the one event I would attend in a time machine: the 1939 New York World's Fair.
DiegoLeal.org: My first Open Course: e-Learning'09 (ELRN09)
This post is meant to talk about the first Spanish Open Course that I get to offer (actually it's the first one, no matter the language :D ), which came from an invitation by University of La Sabana, in Bogotá. They contacted me a few months ago, inviting me to do a course on their master on educational informatics program. I accepted on one condition: It would have to be open.
iPhone the Body Electric - University of Utah News Release: October 7th, 2009
University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images.
Virtual autopsy: Finally a use for the Surface PC | Education IT | ZDNet.com
new technologies out of the Swedish Norrköping Visualization Center demonstrate designed primarily for forensics have potentially broad applications in education as well. The so-called “virtual autopsy table” combines CT scanning with new techniques in MRI to produce three-dimensional models of bodies that can be visualized at very high resolution in ways not possible with traditional autopsies. Because autopsies are so invasive, studies of gross anatomy (as well as forensic investigations) can be hampered by the process. However, this technique, for example, allows users to simply make the skin transparent or to view cutaways of organ systems.
Building Rome in a Day
In this project, we consider the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images. All this to be done in a day. This poses new challenges for every stage of the 3D reconstruction pipeline, from image matching to large scale optimization. The key contributions of our work is a new, parallel distributed matching system that can match massive collections of images very quickly and a new bundle adjust software that can solve extremely large non-linear least squares problems that are encountered in three dimensional reconstruction problems.
Building Rome in a Day
In this project, we consider the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloadi
Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser on Vimeo
DOK, Library Concept Center made this incredible application that browses the collection of the local photo archive "Erfgoed Delft" and presents photographs of streets of patrons/users based on their ZIP code. See http://www.dok.info/
The History and Evolution of Social Media | Webdesigner Depot
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems there are social solutions to just about every need. In this article, we’ll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day.
The History and Evolution of Social Media | Webdesigner Depot
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share p