My cloud-based tool tutorial, embedded in a powerpoint presentation is about Rapportive, a tool made for G-mail, that provides users information about a contacts various Social Media usage. Here is the link.
https://docs.google.com/a/myedge.cc/leaf?id=0B61WE26YGpJXMTBlZGE4NjQtY2NhOS00NmNmLWExZWUtNDU2ZTQzMjQxYTA3&hl=en
Monday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Snippshot is a code collector tool. It can be accessed from any computer, and no account is needed. There are no screens or menus. Code is edited in real time. Simple to use, just click on the code and its ready to be edited.
http://snippshot.skyscarf.com/
Picnic, is an image editor tool that contains special effect for photos. You can crop, resize and rotate pictures in real time. There is no download and nothing to install.
www.picnik.com/
Google Docs, a cloud based software that deliver services that at one time had to be hosted on a local computer. The user can now save and share, create and edit RTF AND html files. File formats like Microsoft Office can also be opened and shared through the Google Docs platform
www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html
iCloud or Cloudme is online storage for photos, movies, calendars, media player and word processors. iCloud, the free version has 3GB of drive storage. Cloudme can be accessed from your mobile phone or from your browser. Anywhere access is gained through this cloud based tool.
www.cloudme.com/en
Microsoft Security Essentials, a cloud based antivirus that installs in about four minutes. Its interface has four tabs across the top. The color codes are red if you are in danger and unprotected and turn green as you update definitions from the cloud run scans on your computer to ensure that it is protected. The cloud based service (mostly) anonymously compares file behavior across computers running various Microsoft operating systems. By default the service will run at 2:00 a.m. when most people’s computers are idle. Not the slowest full scan service, but a full scan can take around two hours
www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/mse.aspx
Dropbox is an online file storage tool, which allows uploads and downloads of files. Software is downloadable to many devices (phones) to keep files accessible from any computer you are using. 2GB of storage space is free. Others can link into specific files if you want to share files, making Dropbox usable for projects of all types.
www.dropbox.com/
Rapportive is a tool that can enhance your social contacts. You can see other information about the e-mail address owner by exposing their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts that are connected to the e-mail address. As a business use it can be used to personalize a business contact, making clients feel a more personal touch.
http://rapportive.com/
http://snippshot.skyscarf.com/
Picnic, is an image editor tool that contains special effect for photos. You can crop, resize and rotate pictures in real time. There is no download and nothing to install.
www.picnik.com/
Google Docs, a cloud based software that deliver services that at one time had to be hosted on a local computer. The user can now save and share, create and edit RTF AND html files. File formats like Microsoft Office can also be opened and shared through the Google Docs platform
www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html
iCloud or Cloudme is online storage for photos, movies, calendars, media player and word processors. iCloud, the free version has 3GB of drive storage. Cloudme can be accessed from your mobile phone or from your browser. Anywhere access is gained through this cloud based tool.
www.cloudme.com/en
Microsoft Security Essentials, a cloud based antivirus that installs in about four minutes. Its interface has four tabs across the top. The color codes are red if you are in danger and unprotected and turn green as you update definitions from the cloud run scans on your computer to ensure that it is protected. The cloud based service (mostly) anonymously compares file behavior across computers running various Microsoft operating systems. By default the service will run at 2:00 a.m. when most people’s computers are idle. Not the slowest full scan service, but a full scan can take around two hours
www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/mse.aspx
Dropbox is an online file storage tool, which allows uploads and downloads of files. Software is downloadable to many devices (phones) to keep files accessible from any computer you are using. 2GB of storage space is free. Others can link into specific files if you want to share files, making Dropbox usable for projects of all types.
www.dropbox.com/
Rapportive is a tool that can enhance your social contacts. You can see other information about the e-mail address owner by exposing their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts that are connected to the e-mail address. As a business use it can be used to personalize a business contact, making clients feel a more personal touch.
http://rapportive.com/
Monday, April 18, 2011
The eyes have it!
Remember the $6 million man, with that squint, seeing through things. Technology is catching up to him. Millions of people struggle with eyesight. Certain conditions like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, damage photo-receptors in the eye. Now thanks, to a biotechnology, specifically, the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, some people will have the chance to see again (detect light and dark).
It works like this; a digital camera is built into a pair of glasses, the glasses captures images in real time and sends the messages to a microchip that has been inserted in the brain (six-hour operation, above the ear or under eye). This microchip processes the video (to a handheld unit) into electrical impulses that are then sent to the radio-transmitter in the glasses. This radio transmitter then transmits wirelessly to the implant (microchip). The receiver in the microchip sends impulses to the retinal implant. This implant becomes the photoreceptors that receive the light patterns and pass them to the brain. An image is seen as light or dark pixels, these pixels (in the form of electrical impulses) upon reaching the retinal implant excite the electrode array (artificial photoreceptors). The receptors accept these digitally encoded patterns and send them to the optic nerves, and then the brain interprets the patterns as a tree.
Hopefully, soon the bionic legs are coming.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern/bionic-eye.htm
It works like this; a digital camera is built into a pair of glasses, the glasses captures images in real time and sends the messages to a microchip that has been inserted in the brain (six-hour operation, above the ear or under eye). This microchip processes the video (to a handheld unit) into electrical impulses that are then sent to the radio-transmitter in the glasses. This radio transmitter then transmits wirelessly to the implant (microchip). The receiver in the microchip sends impulses to the retinal implant. This implant becomes the photoreceptors that receive the light patterns and pass them to the brain. An image is seen as light or dark pixels, these pixels (in the form of electrical impulses) upon reaching the retinal implant excite the electrode array (artificial photoreceptors). The receptors accept these digitally encoded patterns and send them to the optic nerves, and then the brain interprets the patterns as a tree.
Hopefully, soon the bionic legs are coming.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern/bionic-eye.htm
Friday, April 1, 2011
It really is ........a superchicken
Yes, Americans love chicken, so much that 11 billion pounds of industry waste is produced annually. A team at the University of Nevada has developed a process that will take this waste and produce storage for biofuel. The chicken feather meal that is used as a fertilizer and animal feed, contains a fat content of 12% that is extracted with hot water. When the feather is heated the feathers develop nano sized caverns that are capable of storing hydrogen. The keratin that is produced when heated makes the feathers strong and porous. This porousness increases the surface area and its capacity to store hydrogen gas.
“Carbonized chicken feather fibers have the potential to dramatically improve upon existing methods of hydrogen storage and perhaps pave the way for the practical development of a truly hydrogen-based energy economy,” says Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering and director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources program at the University of Delaware in Newark. – Renewable Energy World
The problem with using hydrogen as a fuel is that storing the fuel in the car is a dangerous and expensive proposition, the more you store in a small space will increase the chance of an explosion. Scientist first looked at carbon nanotubes as a solution, but not a practical solution because this would have added $5.5 million(really,$5.5 million) to the price of a car. University of Delaware scientists also studying chicken feathers, but for the effect of the keratin in building microcircuits, noticed that the structural strength was similar to those of carbon nanotubes.
A carbon nanotube is any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders and are very expensive.
Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe. It is considered to be clean alternative to fossil fuels. Wool has estimated that a 75-gallon tank could go about 300 miles.
http://sciencecastle.com/sc/index.php/home/chicken_feathers_hydrogen_fuel
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/fuel-from-chicken-feathers/
“Carbonized chicken feather fibers have the potential to dramatically improve upon existing methods of hydrogen storage and perhaps pave the way for the practical development of a truly hydrogen-based energy economy,” says Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering and director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources program at the University of Delaware in Newark. – Renewable Energy World
The problem with using hydrogen as a fuel is that storing the fuel in the car is a dangerous and expensive proposition, the more you store in a small space will increase the chance of an explosion. Scientist first looked at carbon nanotubes as a solution, but not a practical solution because this would have added $5.5 million(really,$5.5 million) to the price of a car. University of Delaware scientists also studying chicken feathers, but for the effect of the keratin in building microcircuits, noticed that the structural strength was similar to those of carbon nanotubes.
A carbon nanotube is any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders and are very expensive.
Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe. It is considered to be clean alternative to fossil fuels. Wool has estimated that a 75-gallon tank could go about 300 miles.
http://sciencecastle.com/sc/index.php/home/chicken_feathers_hydrogen_fuel
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/fuel-from-chicken-feathers/
Monday, March 28, 2011
The car may drive itself, but you still got to pay for the hot wings
The things that can be done with software code are amazing. Researchers from the University of Berlin have created a system that will allow driving without hands. Called the EyeDriver, a converted bicycle helmet equipped with two cameras and an infrared LED will autonomously steer the car in the direction the user looks. It works with one camera looking outward and the other camera trained on the driver's eyes. The information is sent to a laptop computer and relayed to an onboard computer in the car. There are two modes, "free ride" and "routing," in the first, the car will go exactly where the eyes move, in the latter, the system is automatically steering the car,at intersections the system asks the driver the direction that is desired, requiring the driver to hold a stare for three seconds, even going backwards with the driver turning his head around.... I know what you may be thinking though, attractive people everywhere will be mowed down continuously with this type of technology,looking at a sign would be out of the question, so there's some kinks to work out. But the car does have some autonomy, during a demonstration a pedestrian jumped out in the car's path and the car stopped just fine (OK, it was only going 10 m.p.h.).
But that's not all, Apple smart phones have technologies that will operate the car remotely.
And there's more, Google is developing cars that drive themselves similar to the above mentioned routing mode. This is obviously the safer method excluding software error. There are other benefits like decreasing fuel consumption as it allows cars to drive closer together with the computer software's instant reaction times and perfected techniques. The latter making the cars safer than humans by taking distraction and emotion out of the driving equation. Again an advantage would be allowing the driver, or should I say the "would be driver" to be productive or entertained on the go.OK, this is my dream car,now if it could just pay for the chicken wings and other miscellaneous items I need.
http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/#
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36737137/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
But that's not all, Apple smart phones have technologies that will operate the car remotely.
And there's more, Google is developing cars that drive themselves similar to the above mentioned routing mode. This is obviously the safer method excluding software error. There are other benefits like decreasing fuel consumption as it allows cars to drive closer together with the computer software's instant reaction times and perfected techniques. The latter making the cars safer than humans by taking distraction and emotion out of the driving equation. Again an advantage would be allowing the driver, or should I say the "would be driver" to be productive or entertained on the go.OK, this is my dream car,now if it could just pay for the chicken wings and other miscellaneous items I need.
http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/#
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36737137/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
No dipping into the stream
There is a new trend in software that appears to be gaining traction in today's app happy market that goes by a variety of names like "anti-distraction" or "no-distraction" software utilities. They also show that when the pendulum swings so far in one direction, money can be made by simply swinging back the opposite way. Computer and many consumer electronic devices pride themselves on the many tasks that can be handled continuously, and simultaneously, but that is not always a good thing for users who need to get things done, not twiddle around with Twitter or checking faces on Facebook.
These programs go by such names as LeechBlock and Isolator. Some fill up the screen to keep alerts that users loose focus with. Others turn off the internet or disable specific websites, with the difference being that users impose these restrictions on themselves.
Some word-processing packages such as Scrivner and Writespace have incorporated some of these programs by offering a "no distraction mode," that takes all unnecessary menus off the screen, or disables them. Other programs hide or blur everything except the active program.
For $10 a program called Freedom (Windows and Macs) will ask you how long you want to disable internet access by entering your system password and severing the feed. LeechBlock gives you the customization options that will disable some websites and allow others for those of us that need access to complete certain tasks.
Freedom designer Fred Stutzman, a graduate student in information science from the University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, comments, "Just being on-line means you have this continuous partial attention, or this sense that at any point in time, you can dip into the stream." The plethora of ways to be connected, also potentially causes a lot of distractions.
Is it interesting with so many devices touting their connectivity that there's a demand for items that disable so many features we pay money to have.
http://www.economist.com/node/16295664
Hopefully soon they'll create something like that for drivers!
These programs go by such names as LeechBlock and Isolator. Some fill up the screen to keep alerts that users loose focus with. Others turn off the internet or disable specific websites, with the difference being that users impose these restrictions on themselves.
Some word-processing packages such as Scrivner and Writespace have incorporated some of these programs by offering a "no distraction mode," that takes all unnecessary menus off the screen, or disables them. Other programs hide or blur everything except the active program.
For $10 a program called Freedom (Windows and Macs) will ask you how long you want to disable internet access by entering your system password and severing the feed. LeechBlock gives you the customization options that will disable some websites and allow others for those of us that need access to complete certain tasks.
Freedom designer Fred Stutzman, a graduate student in information science from the University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, comments, "Just being on-line means you have this continuous partial attention, or this sense that at any point in time, you can dip into the stream." The plethora of ways to be connected, also potentially causes a lot of distractions.
Is it interesting with so many devices touting their connectivity that there's a demand for items that disable so many features we pay money to have.
http://www.economist.com/node/16295664
Hopefully soon they'll create something like that for drivers!
Monday, March 21, 2011
Radioisotope batteries
Researchers at the University Of Missouri are working on a new battery that will utilize a liquid semiconductor that is more resistant from the attacks by radioactive elements. Conventional batteries use solid semiconductors that are not as resistant. The researchers believe that their battery has the potential to make a phone charge last a couple of months.
Jae Kwon, a assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at U.of M. said the battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries(a million times the charge of a normal battery).
Problems to be overcome in its development is the size of the battery, which of course needs to be small to fit the many consumer devices that it will be used. The prototype is the thickness of a penny, but the researchers still want to reduce the size and test other materials to improve the battery. Kwon believes that the final product that will be used in commercial gadgets can be thinner than a human hair. The research team has a provisional patent.
Jae Kwon, a assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at U.of M. said the battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries(a million times the charge of a normal battery).
Problems to be overcome in its development is the size of the battery, which of course needs to be small to fit the many consumer devices that it will be used. The prototype is the thickness of a penny, but the researchers still want to reduce the size and test other materials to improve the battery. Kwon believes that the final product that will be used in commercial gadgets can be thinner than a human hair. The research team has a provisional patent.
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