Saturday, January 16, 2010
I made previous reference to a scan available online of a map of San Francisco and my intention to put that map on a Google Map. Well, I’ve spent way more time on it than I anticipated but it finally, actually works as I originally envisioned. Challenges: Google Maps are aligned with “true north”; the [...]
pet peeve: "simple" script in <new language> gets unwieldy and I wind up re-doing it in Perl … maybe all I have is the 1 hammer? #
Thursday, January 7, 2010
love my eyetv but the only API is AppleScript :( # if you had bit.ly preview, you would already know where that link goes … http://bit.ly/p7aq #
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I tweeted a few days ago about an article on SFGate about the little street we live on. A couple days after that, the SFist posted an old map of the city from 1862. Take close look at the map, in the lower left corner. If you follow Market Street to the lower left corner, [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
We have finally seen the HP Slate, and it is … a PC with no keyboard. Add the Kindle application and it’s at least a general-purpose PC. But we found out nothing about battery life, pricing, data plans/connections, or system specs. That, and there is no mention of it on HP’s web site. I managed [...]
“Maybe it’s awesome” Props to Mr. Gruber for the perfect summary of Microsoft & HP’s tablet/slate prototype. Complete with stylus! That is just what the world is waiting for, two years post-iPhone. A stylus! Can’t wit for the demo. OK so seriously, there are a few things missing from this demo: twitter facebook gmail flickr [...]
nice "leak:" http://bit.ly/6Bdo8v you forgot to make the CPU speed a half-integer multiple of the bus speed. # so it seems we are finally about to have new/proper owners in the downstairs unit. w00t! meeting them on sunday. #
More iSlate speculation: Apple will have to figure out tethering before they launch a tablet/slate device. Why? If Apple is going to launch a mass-market general-purpose tablet device, it is going to need network access. Very few consumers are going to be willing to accept that they have to pay for a second data plan. [...]
Ray Kurzweil has joined the reader fray and his is software only. So the defection from dedicated readers begins! A hope for the Apple device that absolutely positively be announced the 27th (unless it is not): a screen that switches between a reflective, low-power mode similar to the Kindle and a higher-power backlit mode for [...]
The “Skiff” reader that Hearst is working on, at least as described by The New York Times, is Yet Another Kindle Killer. Trouble is, the “Kindle” category has a lot more hype than it has sales, or Amazon would go ahead and release their sales figures. The Kindle doesn’t need killing, at least not yet. [...]