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Entries Tagged as 'Prediction'

Chrome after a day of use

September 3rd, 2008 ·

Been using Google’s Chrome browser for a day, and so far it’s a great experience.
No. Sorry. That’s an understatement. It’s revolutionary. As the comic describes (yes, Google released a comic to introduce Chrome), this browser takes the web to impossible places. It makes the web more like an operating system, allowing each site (tab) an independent [...]

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Tags: Architecture · Chrome · Firefox · Google · Internet Explorer · Prediction · Safari

Viva la digital audiobook sublimation

August 4th, 2008 ·

The New York Times published Say So Long to an Old Companion on the 28th of July.
The image above is the invitation from the audio department at Hachette for a party to mourn (read: celebrate) the passing of the cassette technology. Their final audiobook released on cassette was “Sail,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Ingram Digital · Prediction · Web Services

Mobile Phone GPS - Where are we going?

June 22nd, 2008 ·

Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry · Bold · Etiquette · Facebook · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nokia · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone · iPhone 3G

The problem with instantaneous time travel - relative versus absolute paths

May 20th, 2008 ·

I don’t usually get in to philosophical scientific stuff here, but this was just too fun to write about…

image of flux capacitor intended as a joke - time dilation not included

There is a certain problem with time travel that a software engineer or sys admin will automatically understand. It has to do with relative versus [...]

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Tags: Math · Physics · Prediction · Time Travel

Twitter did some Spring cleaning - stale accounts pruned?

April 22nd, 2008 ·

While doing my typical searches for new and interesting people on Twitter to add to the flow, I noticed something indicative of Spring cleaning. You see, when you search Twitter, you usually get pages of people who haven’t updated in a year or accounts with zero updates - ever - and six months stale.
None of [...]

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Tags: Flow · Prediction · Twitter · Web Services

Flow - Day 9 - I switched to iChat for Twitter XMPP

April 1st, 2008 ·

386 - 7 minutes
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When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually impossible to have a meaningful [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · OS X · Prediction · Reviews · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · XMPP · iChat

Flow - Day 9 - Open it up

April 1st, 2008 ·

I’m used to the speed of the flow and it’s slow. It’s time to open it up and look for five-figures…
Useful link: flow entries
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I read the flow of XMPP Twitter traffic with breakfast and in the evenings. I then scan it when checking email or if I catch a lot of [...]

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Tags: Education · Facebook · Flickr · Flow · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Twitter · Web Services · XMPP