Colors

wow - finally a really good painting app for the NDS: colors

DimP

DimP is the direct manipulation player. Rather than using the scrollbar to brwose to a video one can drag the objects in the movie along its path.

This would b a great help in video editing. Take an surveillance-video for example. You watch a safe - using the mouse to drag the safe-door open one can jump right to the point were the action starts.

Alpha version available for windows here

free as in freenet

wow - what a busy week. I've 553 unread newsfeed articles waiting to be scooped. One thing to really get my fingers on is freenet - the p2p-internet. Welcome to the age of Darknet

big - bigger - the universe

Microsofts world wide telescope is now available for the public. Its a meshup of different pictures from a bunch of tetescopes including hubble.

Frankly the required software is windows only (of course^^)

See more at worldwidetelescope.org

powerset

powerset - sounds like a new datastructure ;)

In fact it's a new approach on data retrieval. The ultimat goal is o enable users to write down the search-string in natural language.

Enough of the chatter - see powerset.com for more details. Be aware though that as for now they only support searching in wikipedia . . .

TinEye

Did you ever heard of TinEye - chances are good you haven't. Guess why - its brand new ;)

It is basically google for images. You might say - well- google does images. Of course it does - but not the way it does text. This is were TinEye comes into play.

Eat this: tineye.com

Its still in private beta but nevertheless worth a look.

oh so much to see

Wow - that thing they call internet is really big - i mean really really big ;)
Found a ton of new sites - gonna list only a few of them:
twitter - not new but - well - never tried
qik - never heard of that before
ustream.tv - upstream hd-content "a must try out"

So this post is around vlogging - i guess . . .

blogger client

I've fiddled around with all the available open-source clients for blogger.com in ubuntu - none understand the newer API and therefore i cannot post posts with a title - crap crap crap.

So maybe i should start with writing a gui for the python API provided by google Python-Blogger-API

and now - something completely different

So there's rumor that Hillary finally (was) dropped out of the candidate-race for president. I haven't been following these events lately - time to catch up i guess . . .

OpenGL Extractor + more

found this site: eyebeam.org

Under Practice->Tools one can find OGL- the OpenGLExtractor. Nifty little tool.

The ultimate gadget is Cubit - a multitouch device like that of Microsoft (surface) - but only at a fraction of the estimated 5000-10000 $ price of the Microsoft-Device.

eat this

nothing out of the ordinary today. found a link to an interesting experiment from 2006 about rapid game prototyping - give it a try at gamasutra.com.

Something quite new is the house of hackers. haven't really looked into it up to now.

note to self

never start working at home in the morning - you might end up in a tram overfull with crawling students.

Microcontroller IDE

I stumbled across MiniOn - a programming environment for LPC2000 microcontrollers. funny idea to make an ARM based device programmable via an integrated webserver. It uses its own Basic-style-like language. I once played with one of these butterfly-toys (look here).

Maybe I should search for that piece of hardware - not that there's a real chance of finding it in my chaos . . .

some more links:

• ATMEL AVR Butterfly Description


• German Review

hard drives

wandering through the net for diversion i found an interesting article about hard disks:
grease and hard drive change
which names two other interesting sources:
-a google study DiskFailues.pdf
-a usenet post hiding failures

have a look and be surpised what the market-peoples universe has in store for you ;)