An earlier post commenting on the iPhone 4S and Siri mentioned the fact that most of the heavy lifting of the Siri feature is done on the server side. Well, as a result of that fact, things like this are possible It’s a nice job of turning Siri into a service. I grabbed the code […]
Read MoreFire it up, Kindle that is… 0
My Kindle Fire arrived yesterday afternoon, and so far, it’s exactly what I was hoping for. Why did I sell my iPad 2 ? I sold my iPad 2 because: it was too big, the screen resolution is crappy, and I didn’t and wouldn’t use it to create content of any kind, ever. After trying […]
Read MoreiPhone 4S, and promising future for Siri 0
My iPhone4 went through quite the sequence of unfortunate events prompting an upgrade to a 4S, which I wasn’t originally planning on doing… My Apple devices have rarely had any concerns of loss or damage at my hands, until the ip4 that is. The original 4 went with me to, and helped me navigate Moscow […]
Read MoreNotational Velocity… kicks ass! 0
I’ve been using my own auto-hide drawer note thingies for years, and while they never evolved to what I’d envisioned, I never came across something that worked better for me. Until now. I recently came across Notational Velocity, and ever since it has displaced my own jpeekaboo app Syncs via DropBox, keyboard driven, brilliant! I […]
Read Moresoftware creativity vs. escaping poverty = similar psychologies ? 0
I read this article today, and saw similarities between the psychology described with that of the creative aspects in software development. Specifically, that in relation to common practices at a wide range of companies that enforce specific technologies and structure architectural review around the “how” instead of the “what, and why it’s important”, these practices […]
Read Morebit.ly and 1.usa.gov, thanks bit.ly! 0
Wow. Just… Wow. Very rarely do companies surprise me in good ways anymore, but bit.ly surprised me in an amazing and positive way this week that I felt compelled to share. I recently read that bit.ly had started shortening .gov domains to 1.usa.gov/foo, and I just happened to be in the middle of attempting to […]
Read MoreJoli OS/Cloud => buh bye family sys admin duties 0
If you’re tired of administering a family members Windows PC, or just happen to have an old computer lying around that you’d like to do something with, JoliOS is definitely worth checking out JoliCloud In terms of building a low-maintenance-required computer for anyone, including kids or the elderly, Joli OS works a treat. As you […]
Read MoreJavaScript RIA frameworks. Building a GUI for the web… 0
Last fall for the annual AGU (American Geophysical Union) conference, myself and my NOAA and Russian Academy of Science (RAS) colleagues put together a web UI to show what was possible using some of our data and web services. The culmination of that effort was the Auroral Resources Toolkit (ART) The RAS folks focused on […]
Read MoreCubeSat nano-satellite embedded software fun 0
It’s been a while since my last post… The reason for the absence is that I’m nearing completion of my Computer Science Master’s degree, and have been buried by work between my full time job and a project I’m working on for my degree. This project is in collaboration with a number of other students […]
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