• Zoomable User Interface

    Posted on December 5, 2003

    There’s an article over at TheFeature about zoomable user interfaces, or ZUI for short. Some of the concepts given there are interesting, such as the calendar view that leaves the context of the month view around the edges of the screen when zoomed in to day view. Some of the... [Read More]

  • Cell Phone Spycam

    Posted on December 4, 2003

    There’s a post at picturephoning about a Symbian app that allows for remote commands to request an image from the handset. One possible app is finding your phone if you’re lost, but there are lots of others. The page for the app mentions using it to check the weather at... [Read More]

  • Printing Camphone Pictures

    Posted on December 4, 2003

    There’s a post at picturephoning.com about the Kodak kiosks in CVS stores offering printing from cell phone images. I’m not sure about market numbers, and I have no clue about the actual implementation of the system, but taken in the abstract I think this sounds like a great idea. Everyone... [Read More]

  • Sensor Networks Article

    Posted on December 3, 2003

    There’s an article in Wired about Intel’s play to get wireless sensors shrunk down over coming years. I’ve been working with some people looking to make products using existing sensor networks technologies. I’ve gone to a couple of sensor network specific workshops and forums in the area, including the Hitachi/Stanford... [Read More]

  • Opte Internet Maps

    Posted on December 3, 2003

    There’s an article at NewScientist.com about a new network mapping project called Opte. I had heard about it before, but hadn’t seen any images yet. I’m really into mapping projects like this. They’re interesting both for the theory and implementation detail that goes into the mapping software, and because they... [Read More]

  • Amazing Info About Text Messaging

    Posted on December 2, 2003

    There’s a release by TXT4info about the use of text messaging as a marketing tool. Apparently it great that the firm did the research, because no one was really sure if customers liked being charged a lot of money. And they were a bit sketchy on if the customers liked... [Read More]

  • Palm Web Services

    Posted on November 29, 2003

    I recently went to listen to the VP of Product Marketing from PalmSource, Charlie Tritschler, speak at a SDForum Web Services Special Interest Group. The presentation itself was very informative. It sounded like Palm was really taking a great approach to Web Services. Charlie spoke about how PalmSource had a... [Read More]

  • What Will 2004 Bring for Linux

    Posted on November 29, 2003

    Gadgetopia has an entry linking to an article at eweek about what the year 2004 will bring for Linux. The article is very positive, which of course makes me happy. Every year since 2000 I’ve heard from one sector or another that Linux is going to just “blow up” during... [Read More]

  • Corporate Decentralization

    Posted on November 28, 2003

    The trend all over seems to be decentralization of the corporation. This is certainly true of software development here in the US, where more and more of the work is farmed out to lower cost workers in India, China, Russia, or just about anywhere else. But offshoring is just one... [Read More]

  • Programming Education, Open Source Style

    Posted on November 27, 2003

    OSNews has a review of the book “Code Reading: An Open Source Perspective”. It looks like it could be pretty interesting. There’s a lot of great code out there now, produced by thousands and thousands of open source projects. I don’t think it can be stressed enough that the benefit... [Read More]