Category Archives: Computer Related

Timeline

Posted on January 20, 2007 by admin

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally. Timeline website

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Exhibit

Posted on January 19, 2007 by admin

Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code. It’s like Google Maps and Timeline, but … Continue reading →

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Experimental Touchscreen Makes iPhone Look Like a Toy

Posted on January 19, 2007 by admin

ย  The main draw of Apple’s iPhone is its touchscreen interface, which can respond to two points of contact. What if you could have a touchscreen with an infinite number of points of contact? What would that do for computing … Continue reading →

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CES 2007: The Wootable Awards

Posted on January 19, 2007 by admin

No mere mortal could see more than a fraction of the vast 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, so we don’t pretend that this is a definitive list. But here are our choices for the 2007 CES Wootable Awards, with an assist … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Night Photo in High Dynamic Range: Please Build HDR into Cams!

Posted on January 18, 2007 by admin

You might have already seen this HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photo of the Tokyo skyline at night from Boing Boing or JeanSnow’s blog. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, so here’s a post. It was taken … Continue reading →

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Minority Report Touch Interface for Real

Posted on January 18, 2007 by admin

The iPhone’s new touch interface might be nice, but it’s nowhere near as involved as the future UI envisioned in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise could drag objects across the screen and manipulate them in all kinds of ways, or … Continue reading →

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USB PC Repair System

Posted on January 15, 2007 by admin

Windows only: The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains … Continue reading →

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Create your own icon at the Tiny Icon Factory

Posted on January 8, 2007 by admin

Make your own wee little icon with the Tiny Icon Factory, a site where you can also browse through tens of thousands other tiny little icons. You can use tiny icons in a variety of ways; on a website, blog, … Continue reading →

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FooPlot: Online Graphing Calculator

Posted on January 7, 2007 by admin

Check it out at FooPlot.com

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Find local deals with BidNearBy

Posted on January 6, 2007 by admin

Find and compare deals from local stores, Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, and more with BidNearBy.com, a Google maps mashup. Here’s how it works: just type in your zip code (they’ve already geo-tagged you via your IP address, but it’s not absolutely … Continue reading →

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