Clay Shirky talks about all the wasted time watching tv and doing “nothing” … youtube shows it as a multipart video, so I link to the site where I saw it on, blip.tv, I hate their embedded player, it seems to mess up my wordpress theme (cannot seem to keep the closing embed and object html tags)..
Google just launched a preview release of App Engine, I was lucky to be able to try it.
As Google describe it, “Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches..”
I’ve been learning Python the last few months, so I followed the tutorial and created an application. It’s currently limited to 3 applications, and I used-up one (you currently cannot delete applications).
Larry Cannell says “I Hate Files“, and I agree with almost every point.
Files are a major nuisance, and until another practical solution is universally accepted, we will have to live with them.
Online-only solutions cannot work until connectivity is not an issue, until it becomes an extremely cheap commodity.
Until then, maybe a hybrid solution that uses client-side software with network-based distributed storage that does not rely on folder structures and filenames could be acceptable.
I’m addicted to ProjectEuler.net … you solve math problems by any means possible, then you will have access to the problem’s forum thread where users share insight on the problems and some even post code (some are Assembly Language wizards that solve a complicated problem in just a few CPU instructions).
The site describes itself as:
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
I use several tools to solve the problem
Here’s a nice link….
When a user interface is so intuitive, that even a one-year-old can use it.
PhillRyu.com - The Power of Good UI Design
(yes, this is about the iphone)
This is interesting… look at it … the toolbox looks almost exactly like the one in CS3.
From the dumbest piece of software in the last post, we go to the coolest … Microsoft should have done this in windows …
In windows there’s no easy way to see the size of a folder… (in Linux I would du it), but even in the detailed view in windows explorer it only shows the sizes of files, leaving the size column empty for folders, here’s the solution: Folder Size for Windows Explorer .
I first saw photosynth on ted, but now it’s available for preview, If you don’t know about photosynth, have a look at the Microsoft PhotoSynth Videos on Youtube.
After Apple’s move to intel x86 CPU’s, it’s now possible to do things that were previously impossible….
Have a look at VMWare’s Fusion for MacOS, that as the video shows, will provide Unity between MacOS and Windows Applications.