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Web News : Anti-government protests are mobilising Thailand's bloggers, with postings of dozens
of amateur videos of the demonstrations. Also on the Web: John McCain's 72nd birthday relaunches
the debate on his suitability for office.
Web News : Anti-government protests are mobilising Thailand's bloggers, with postings of dozens
of amateur videos of the demonstrations. Also on the Web: John McCain's 72nd birthday relaunches
the debate on his suitability for office.
eldavojohn writes "If you like iTunes and you are one of the billion people residing in China, you
may have noticed that you no longer have access to the eight million songs on it. An album, 'Songs
for Tibet' was downloaded more than 40 times by Olympic athletes as a sign of solidarity for
Tibet's cause. Ironically, this compilation had songs criticizing the 'Great Firewall of China,'
and that is the very thing that prohibited these songs from reaching the Chinese public. Artists on
the compilation include Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Imogen Heap, Moby, Sting, Suzanne Vega,
Underworld and others." Additional coverage is available at Computerworld. Earlier this year, China
blocked Youtube and other video services for similar reasons. More recently, the Chinese government
detained a technologist who planned a pro-Tibet demonstration.
Work on Tata's flagship Nano – the world's cheapest car – ground to complete halt today
for the first time amid increasingly fierce demonstrations over the allegedly illegal purchase of
the land on which the factory to produce the £1,250 automobile is being built.
Category: Photography
Released: Aug 29, 2008
Price: $2.99
Description:
Ghosto! is a funny tool for making funs with your friends. You can ask your friend to take a photo
in a party. And..., wow, he/she will see "things" in the picture. Little ghosts float in and out
the pictures. They will reveal or hide themselves. You can edit the little "things" and move them
around in the photo. After you have satisfied with your works, you can save it and shared it with
your friends over Flickr and forward the email. The following features are included in version 1.0:
- You can take fresh photo from the camera or retrieve from existing photos in iPhone/iPod Touch; -
You can edit the photo and the figures directly using multi-touch gestures. - You can share the
edited photo, or even anyone in library, to Flickr and send to friends; - Simple to use and
demonstration animation included in context help; very intuitive; - You can customize wallpaper and
background color of the app. Current version supports English and Traditional Chinese. Note: This
application will not intervene your Flickr login information. You have to login on a browser and
then authorize Ghosto to write to your profile. Optionally, you can choose to grant this right
every time or let Ghosto! to store the authorization token and reuse next time. You may revoke this
authorization whenever you want on Flickr site. This setting can be toggled in the iPhone's
settings app.
Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application
developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.
Mythbusters and the Mona Lisa in
Overdrive. In a demonstration at Nvidia's NVISION show, Jamie and Adam provide a graphic
demonstration of the power of multicore processors vs. a single CPU.
Yahoo's wildly popular photo
sharing site Flickr is a lot of fun to use, but it really helps
to take some time and learn how to use it well. We've recently engaged more seriously with Flickr
and wanted to share some quick tips that we think will help you get more out of it, too.
The single biggest factor in changing our relationship with Flickr has been taking the time to
set up publishing for photos taken by mobile phone. It's really quite easy. Just go to the email tab in your Flickr account and make note of
the unique email address for you to post. Then pick up your phone, create a new contact named
Flickr and enter that email for the contact.
Now take a photo and send it by MMS (Multimedia Message Service) to your buddy Flickr. Like
magic, that photo will be published to your Flickr account. The subject line of the email will be
the title, any text in the body will be a description. Knock yourself out, it's super fun. I
don't know why it took us so long to figure out how this works, but we're betting that many of
you haven't yet either.
Turn on Creative Commons Licensing
It's easy to turn the default setting for new photos uploaded to Creative Commons Attribution
(our favorite) by visiting the Privacy &
Permissions tab in your account. Unfortunately there's not clear, working links from Flickr
to an explanation of the different licenses. Here they are on the Creative Commons site.
CC Attribution is a license that says other people can use it and change it, including in a
commercial context, as long as they give you attribution as the creator. It greases the wheels
for quick and easy media sharing. That's good and it would be nice if more quality media was
licensed this way. We keep a link to the Creative Commons by Attribution search on
Flickr in our browser toolbar and use it frequently for photos in posts. Those could be your
photos we and others are using!
Video about the theory of Creative Commons Take Even Better Photos
Attendees of the Gnomedex conference this year (which was a
huge home run, by the way) were treated to an opening session with photographer Kris Krug about how to take better photos. That session isn't
available yet in video, but Krug is a fun guy to pay attention to. Other popular photography
bloggers worth checking out for inspiration and occasional instruction include Thomas Hawk (see his January post Top 10 Hacks on Flickr), Epic Edits (see their post Five Fantastic Flickr
Photographers), Rebekka
Guðleifsdóttir and Jeremy Cowart.
We're sure readers here can share some more good ones.
Those folks are all fancy pants, though, and many of us just want to have fun posting photos from
our phones. Check out this handy 5 minute video from VideoJug
about how to take better mobile phone photos. Thanks go to Amit Agarwal
again for posting this one last year. We're excited to try out some of these tips.
Share Screen Shots
Another way we've been using Flickr lately has been to share screen shots of interesting things
we find online. Some of us here at RWW use Jing for this,
others use the beautiful Mac app Skitch.
People like interesting screen shots and these apps make it really easy to shoot them up to your
Flickr account with just a click. The reigning king of this practice right now is Chris Messina, but you don't have to be a
super-early adopter to make screen shots on Flickr useful. Skitch makes annotation easy as well
and sharing annotated screen shots is a great way to explain things to people.
Video demonstration of Skitch.com. Turn on Your Grease Monkey
We use a number of Grease Monkey scripts that enhance the Flickr experience. If you aren't
familiar with Grease Monkey, you must learn about it because it's great. See our recent
post How to
Start Using GreaseMonkey in Under 5 Minutes. Specifically, we use:
FlickrPM puts links to viewing and
profile options in all the right places, where they aren't right now on Flickr.
GreasedLightbox sets up real quick little
image slide shows from almost any page. It can also be a pain to use when you're on Flickr, to
tell the truth. It works better on Ffffound, which is another
great site if you like imagery.
AutoPagerize lets you zip through page
after page of Flickr photos with no clicking or page load delays.
What are your favorite GreaseMonkey scripts for Flickr?
Use a Bulk Uploader
Grabbing a whole bunch of photos from your computer and putting them on Flickr is easier than you
might think. We think Flickr's own bulk uploader is fun to
use. Thomas Hawk prefers JUploadr.
GeoTag Your Photos
Did you know you can open a drop-down menu in the Flickr search box and search by location? You
can also go directly to http://flickr.com/map and search by
location. Flickr, all of Yahoo really, does a great job understanding location data - but you've
got to play to win, you know? Many people (ourselves, for example) have never found geotagging on
Flickr very easy to do.
Enter this awesome
bookmarklet from startup Loc.alize.us. It makes geotagging your photos super easy, if not
downright fun. You can increase your discoverability, participate in the geotagging scene and
feel smarter by grabbing that bookmarklet, renaming it in your browser toolbar and then going to
town. Which town? You'll be surprised by the sophistication of Flickr's comprehension of location
information.
Follow the Flickr Blog To Keep Up to Date
Flickr has a really active community and thriving forums, but subscribing to the company blog is a good idea to stay up to date with new
features. If you don't want to read all the entries there, and some of them are more important
than others, then consider subscribing to just the highly discussed posts from the
company.
Have Fun Off-site
It's not just on Flickr itself that you can have fun with your posted photos.
Dave Winer's FlickrFan is a screen saver slide show of Flickr
photos from you, your friends and some important international news agencies. It can be a little
tricky to set up but it's a lot of fun to use.
These are some of our favorite tips for using Flickr but we're
sure many of our readers can suggest even more. Flickr is a canonical service in the Web 2.0
world. It's really worth spending some more time with. With less time than it took you to read
this whole article, we think you can set up some systems that will make Flickr a much more
enjoyable part of your life.
In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a
2100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not
slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters
fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis.
The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and
multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.
Of course, the reality of parallel computing is
much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but as with many of the
experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of this demonstration makes its
questionable veracity completely, totally, seriously excusable. Now that they've built this
thing, the MythBusters have a clear and undeniable responsibility to turn it on a human and put
the results on TV. Thanks in advance, guys. [TGDaily via
CrunchGear
In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a
1100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not
slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters
fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis.
The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and
multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.
Of course, the reality of parallel computing is
much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but as with many of the
experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of this demonstration makes its
questionable veracity completely, totally, seriously excusable. Now that they've built this
thing, the MythBusters have a clear and undeniable responsibility to turn it on a human and put
the results on TV. Thanks in advance, guys. [TGDaily via
CrunchGear]
You are a photographer stationed in Africa in this adventure, as a professional you will have the
newest equipment such as camera lenses and computers.
Accept missions by viewing proposals via your email system, finding and tracking animals are only
the start of your mission, you might be asked to take photos of them at unique angles, such as
taking a close up shot of a giraffe's face. You'd realize you need a lot of skills to be an
accomplished photographer.
You'll have a lot of equipment to choose from, from cameras to your camping gear. Of course these
cost money, so be sure to accept as much missions as you can manage, besides, some organizations
provide you with useful equipment such as tripods that you can use even after you have completed
their request.
The game makes use of PS3's stunning graphical capabilities to render animations of animals to the
most life-like degree. Remember how a clip from the game is used as a demonstration of the
PlayStation3 prowess during the console's promotion? Now you can see why.
Get closer to nature from the comfort of your living room with Afrika. The adventure is available
as Japanese and Asian versions for US$ 59.90 and US$ 54.90 respectively only.
If you thought you had it bad, just wait until you see the new low to which
rapper/producer Diddy has been driven by booming gas prices: leaving his private jet at home and
flying commercial.
I was ready to pounce on this as a demonstration of how out of touch Coombs is with ordinary
Americans (although at least he probably knows how many houses he has).
But watching the video, it's abundantly clear that he's just trying to be funny, and besides,
it's not like the guy is running for office -- not that those details have prevented folks from
blowing their gaskets all over the
internet.
"Attention all media and hate bloggers," reads a note on the video's YouTube page. "This blog is
just me making a joke about gas prices. Loosen up."
It seems like it’s been forever since Garmin’s Nuvifone was first announced, and
unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’re any closer to seeing an actual product
launch. The folks over at Engadget managed to snag a couple of shots of a Garmin rep’s Nuvifone
prototype, but that’s about as close as anybody will be getting to the real phone at the
moment, and seeing how the Nuvi crashed when asked for a demonstration, it looks like it might be
a while more before we see this in retail stores. Hopefully Garmin will be able to keep their
promise and get this thing out in 2009, though if they fail to do so, there is always 2010, if
people are still interested that is.
Societe : HUXLEY - Lieu de travail : Paris, France - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : Negotiable -
Detail : Vous avez une première experience en tant que Business Analyst et de bonnes
connaissances sur les dérivés de credit ? Vous souhaitez intervenir sur des solutions
informatiques en Front Office pour le compte d’un Editeur de logiciel financier des plus
reconnus ? Venez rejoindre l’équipe de Business Analysts en charge des
dérivés de credit où votre mission sera de : - definir les
spécifications fonctionnelles et les aspects techniques avec les clients, - prendre en
charge la rédaction des spécifications nécessaires au developpement des
modules des logiciels - valider l’adéquation du developpement aux besoins
définis, - apporter des solutions aux difficultés rencontrées, - vous
impliquer dans les phases de test, - participer à l’élaboration de la
documentation et aux demonstrations des solutions, - assister les equipes commerciales lors de la
phase d’avant-vente. De formation école d’ingénieur, vous justifiez
d’une experience en Business Analyst/MOA au sein d’un cabinet de conseil, d’un
editeur ou d’un établissement financier. Vous avez une bonnes connaissances des
marchés financiers et principalement des dérivés de crédit. Vous
maîtrisez l’anglais. Ce poste est un CdI basé à Paris. Pour postuler
à cette annonce, envoyez votre candidature à Benoît-Joseph Ménez chez
Huxley Associates.
NEWS: The 2nd day of the convention is supposed to be a tribute to Hillary Clinton and what her
candidacy meant for women. But some haven't accepted her narrow defeat to Barack Obama.
A video demonstration of the Sony XEL-1, the first OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TV to
launch in the European market. OLED screens emit their own radiance, providing fantastically rich
colours with an incredibly thin screen.
A video demonstration of the Sony BRAVIA Z4500, the world’s first TV to showcase Motionflow
200hz technology, which calculates three additional frames for every original. This allows smooth
motion clarity, especially useful when watching sports.
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