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Freeware OSX Weather Util
Here is a quick link to WeatherDock for all you weather nuts. This is one of the best weather utilities I’ve seen in a longtime. Best of all…..It’s Free. Sorry Mac Only.
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Image Slicing and Stretching….
Found this while having a beer in Stuttgart, Germany. Video of the excellent paper presented by Shai Avidan from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and Ariel Shamirfrom The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)/Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). From their excellent Paper titled Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing: Seam carving is a method for content-aware resizing that…
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Siggraph07: San Diego Zoo
Yeah these were shot during the last day of my Siggraph 2007 trip to San Diego. If you like the zoo, you’ll love the one in San Diego. If you don’t, go and visit anyway, you might change your mind. From Wikipedia entry: The world-famous San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California is…
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Siggraph07: Exploring San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter
Here is another batch of pictures from my recent trip to San Diego. These were shot during an afternoon walking down 5th and back up 4th Ave. If you get a chance you should definitely hang out here, specially at night. Lots of Art Deco architecture, good food and lots of drinks. And before you…
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Last day in San Francisco…..
Okay so this was a while back, but I finally finished touching up the pictures I took while in San Francisco (WWDC07). These were shot in around 3rd/4th/5th and Market St., at the Golden Gate Park and the Japanese Tea Garden. Click this link and take a peak. You can also have a look at…
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Do you dare trust a machine…..
The people over at 5VoltCore have put together a PD installation that really tests your courage and trust in machines. The installation sets up a feedback loop between computer, robot and the user. The user is right in assuming that the machine can fail, the machine can fail because the user assumes. Let me explain,…
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Texty: The Simplest CMS……
Well maybe a bit too simple. I couldn’t decide if this one was totally evil –under a cutesy name and interface– or just simply useful and cool, so I’ll let you guys decide. Hop on over to Texty and give it a whirl. This new webapp allows you to create Texty’s (which are HTML snippets)…
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Couple of cool remote ssh commands for your UNIX arsenal
Here is a easy way to copy an entire directory tree from one Unix machine to another, while retaining the permisssions and ownership, using ssh as the middle man. Assuming that you want to copy everything under source_directory to destination_directory on another machine here is the command you would issue on the source machine (first…
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Portable Studio in a box
Hot on the heels of AJA video’s NAB announcement of their IO HD box, MOTU has just announced their version of Portable Studio in a box, the MOTU V3HD. According to MOTU’s website “With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V3HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video…
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How to turn Spotlight OFF (and ON Again)….
UPDATE: Please see this article if you use Leopard (OSX 10.5+). The procedure below, although not damaging, works for 10.4 and below (Tiger). Thanks to Anonymous for pointing this out. Got a new Macbook thru work today and after Firewire targeting my profile over from my personal MBP, I started looking around the blog for…