Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Pixlr – image editing webapp that works… well.

Remember all the hype about Adobe’s Photoshop web app? Pixlr kicks its ass all over the interwebs. It’s free, no need to set up an account, runs fast, and it even has Layers. Pretty advanced for a webapp, it won’t do your RAW processing, but well worth checking out for simple jpg edits for the [...]

I Love Moore’s Law

Last week my wife and I went out to get her a new cell phone. She has always liked my Sony Ericsson K790i with the 3.2MP camera. I like it too, while not a good camera, it makes for a pretty good cameraphone. I’ve never seen the logic in almost unusable 1.3MP cameraphones. To my [...]

Google in Space

Ok, ok, so I like Google, I often have a hard time with it given my disdain for corporations, but who can deny the innovation coming out of the ‘plex?
sky.google.com, mars.google.com, moon.google.com

overloaded?

Find yourself overloaded trying to keep up with the latest interwebs? Check out Alltop it’s an ultra clean aggregator that was inspired by Popurls.

lens reviews at dpreview.com

I’ve been a fan of dpreview ever since a friend introduced me to the site. Yesterday they launched a lens review section, well needed in my opinion, with 4 reviews at the time of writing. You can read about the technical end of the lens review process, as well as the development of the new [...]

Tagged In Motion

Tagged in Motion – a very cool 3D graffiti project:

Via Core77

fine technical writing

So my current employer bought a HP Pavilion laptop for the shop floor today, mostly for CNC/DNC communications and part program management. This is a photo of step six in the quick start poster, after the mostly obvious: insert battery, plug in power supply, turn device on etc. The first two of the seven items [...]

laser tag is cool

Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) is a project of Eyebeam OpenLab. This is a video of GRL in Rotterdam with their Laser Tag, basically, a crazy powerful laser pointer and a laptop running their open source software linked to a camera and a projector:

Wanna build one over the winter? read more