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3 hours and 24 minutes ago
br /What it doesbr /br /If for any reason you are unsatisfied with either Yahoo or Google groups
and are on the lookout for a viable alternative, chances are a visit to this newly-launched service
will sort you out. br brIn principle, GroupALoop is a free service that is open to anybody, and
which has some features that intend to give it an edge over its close competitors. One of the most
notable features is the ability to create unlimited groups within any given group. It can be
claimed that this can actually clutter proceedings if not used sparingly, but it is always better
to have the chance to do something different than being constricted to tried and tested formulas.
Moreover, widgets are featured as a way of attracting further members and showing your allegiance
on the sites you visit frequently. br brOther features that merit mentioning include a
“Lurking” option that effectively enables you to keep the group in your group list
without appearing as an actual member, and the ability to add keywords to the group’s
description itself. br brTo sum it up, this is a viable alternative to related services which is
already acquiring an interesting shape. See it in action for yourself at www.groupaloop.com and
draw your own conclusions. brbr /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“GroupALoop mirrors the same
kind of fluid group interaction that takes place in real life.”br /br /Why it might be a
killerbr /br /It is an endeavor that injects some life into a established formula.br /br /Some
questionsbr /br /What features are going to be added in the foreseeable future? br /br /Link: a
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br /What it doesbr /br /A visit to this resource will certainly not go amiss for crafters of every
denomination. Broadly speaking, Craft Juice can be defined as a social site where said individuals
can submit their creations for other members of the online community to comment upon and rate. br
brIn this sense, the site could be compared to a sort of launching pad where talent comes to the
fore and has a chance of being spotted right away. br brOnce uploaded, crafts themselves can be
sorted in a plethora of ways. For instance, it is possible to see the ones that were submitted
within a specific timeframe, as well as the ones that are attracting the most attention among site
users and see what the fuss is all about. br brThe site also holds competitions as a way of
fostering user interaction and spicing up interest. For instance, the most recent competition is a
Xmas one, in keeping with the festive season. You can read about it in the section under the
corresponding heading. brbr /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“Craft Juice is a social network
site that allows craft people to add and vote on the world of crafts.”br /br /Why it might be
a killerbr /br /It provides a superb outlet for talent everywhere.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /Is
there an option for visualizing the most popular crafts that were ever submitted to the site?br /br
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[H]ardOCP News Feed -
7 hours and 19 minutes ago
Intel, Microsoft and UC Berkeley are celebrating the opening of the Parallel Computing Laboratory.
The lab is designed to foster creativity by encouraging spontaneous interactions between faculty
and students in parallel computing applications, software engineering, programming languages,
libraries, testing, operating systems and computer architecture. Parallel computing has become
essential to enhancing program performance and satisfying the increased demands for power
efficiency and small form factors. This lab helps address the challenge ahead bringing the benefits
of multi-core processing based on tens or hundreds of cores to mainstream developers and
consumers.
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13 hours and 21 minutes ago
The world will see the second Android phone in late January 2009 and Australians will enjoy its use
on their carriers as Kogan today started
pre-orders for the Kogan Agora Pro. For $399 Australian Bucks (US$256) you’ll get the
unlocked phone for use on any Australian Carrier and a toned down (not even a camera) Kogan Agora
is going for $299 Australian dollars (US$192).
That’s a heck of a price for an unlocked piece of Android, but considering the Kogan brand is
relatively unknown it’s a price point that will better lure in more curious mobilists. Those
that make the leap of faith can expect some of the following specs:
- 3G Network
- 2.5-inch LCD Touch Screen
- 2MP Camera
- QWERTY Keypad with back lighting
- WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS
- 624MHz processor
- 256MB memory, 128MB Flash, MicroSD expansion
For $100 cheaper you give up the camera, WiFI and GPS. If you’re going to be an Android
early adopter, chances are these are things you’ll want these things so dump out your piggy
bank and ante up the extra hundy.
The company promised a $199 Android Phone by the end of 2008 - the phone is technically for
sale in this calendar year but the price bump was needed due to the “the impact of the global
financial crisis on currencies”. We forgive them… and we thank them for coming as close
to making good on their promise as possible. The question is… will the phone deliver?
 I’m sure half the people reading this are
thinking, “Who the heck is Kogan?” Good question… I was thinking the same thing.
The company is of an interesting breed - listen to how they define themselves:Kogan is a new business
philosophy that places customers at the top of the food chain. We eliminate all the “middle
men” and pass the savings directly to you. We are a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, and
retailer all in one. By cutting out all the “middle men”, we provide the best possible
products at the best possible price.
This is the kind of ingenuity that Android can encourage and to be honest, I’m wondering why
companies all over the globe aren’t flocking to follow suit. Android is the ultimate
equalizer. So how come Kogan was able to put out this Android Handset while companies like Motorola have 500 people working on it and will be empty handed until late next
year?
It could be a number of reason starting with the possibility that the phone absolutely sucks.
We’ll know the scoop on that in a couple months time, but seriously… it makes you
wonder why there aren’t a flurry of Android handsets out by now, doesn’t it?
Kogan could use Android to capitalize in a big, big way and the door is wide open for other
(relatively) small companies to do the same and compete with the “big dogs” on a global
scale. Android is knocking down the barriers of entry for manufacturers which encourages a market
where good ideas can out above the battle of the big budgets.
It should be pointed out that this will be the first mobile phone Kogan has ever released with the
manufacturing being outsourced to China. For whatever that’s worth.
A few questions worthy of discussion:
- Hey Australians, what is your experience with Kogan and what do you expect from the Kogan
Agora Pro?
- Hey Australians, will you pre-order the Agora, wait for reviews and then decide or simply not
consider it?
- Hey Ruslan Kogan, founder of Kogan, hook us up with a review copy that we can either rock on
WiFi in the states or give a trusted Australian phandroid an early peek, will ya?
- Hey everyone else, I didn’t want to leave you out so I made a 4th bullet, feel better?
INTERESTING FACT: We dug this up and didn’t find it elsewhere but the
name Agora not only sounds cool but was chose for an obvious reason - it is defined as,
“The public open space that formed the heart of ancient Greek cities and it’s the
origin of most western conceptions of public, or civic, space as center of for social interaction
for ceremony and democratic life on a pedestrian scale.”
Discuss
[Via Kogan, ITWire, Engadget]
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Bioinformatics - current issue -
21 hours and 31 minutes ago
Motivation: Bacterial small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) that are not ribosomal and
transfer or messenger RNAs were initially identified in the sixties, whereas their molecular
functions are still under active investigation today. It is now widely accepted that most play
central roles in gene expression regulation in response to environmental changes. Interestingly,
some are also implicated in bacterial virulence. Functional studies revealed that a large subset
of these sRNAs act by an antisense mechanism thanks to pairing interactions with dedicated mRNA
targets, usually around their translation start sites, to modulate gene expression at the
posttranscriptional level. Some sRNAs modulate protein activity or mimic the structure of other
macromolecules. In the last few years, in silico methods have been developed to detect
more bacterial sRNAs. Among these, computational analyses of the bacterial genomes by comparative
genomics have predicted the existence of a plethora of sRNAs, some that were confirmed to be
expressed in vivo. The prediction accuracy of these computational tools is highly
variable and can be perfectible. Here we review the computational studies that have contributed
to detecting the sRNA gene and mRNA targets in bacteria and the methods for their experimental
testing. In addition, the remaining challenges are discussed.
Contact: bfelden@univ-rennes1.fr
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Bioinformatics - current issue -
21 hours and 31 minutes ago
The modular biology is supposed to be a bridge from the molecular to the systems biology. Using a
new approach, it is shown here that the protein interaction networks of yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae and bacteria Escherichia coli consist of two large-scale modularity
layers, central and peripheral, separated by a zone of depressed modularity. This finding based
on the analysis of network topology is further supported by the discovery that there are many
more Gene Ontology categories (terms) and KEGG biochemical pathways that are overrepresented in
the central and peripheral layers than in the intermediate zone. The categories of the central
layer are mostly related to nuclear information processing, regulation and cell cycle, whereas
the peripheral layer is dealing with various metabolic and energetic processes, transport and
cell communication. A similar center-periphery polarization of modularity is found in the protein
domain networks (‘built-in interactome’) and in a powergrid (as a non-biological
example). These data suggest a ‘polarized modularity’ model of cellular networks
where the central layer seems to be regulatory and to use information storage of the nucleus,
whereas the peripheral layer seems devoted to more specialized tasks and environmental
interactions, with a complex ‘bus’ between the layers.
Contact: aevin@mail.cytspb.rssi.ru
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics
online.
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Bioinformatics - current issue -
21 hours and 31 minutes ago
Motivation: During the last few years, several new small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs)
have been discovered in bacteria. Most of them act as post-transcriptional regulators by base
pairing to a target mRNA, causing translational repression or activation, or mRNA degradation.
Numerous sRNAs have already been identified, but the number of experimentally verified targets is
considerably lower. Consequently, computational target prediction is in great demand. Many
existing target prediction programs neglect the accessibility of target sites and the existence
of a seed, while other approaches are either specialized to certain types of RNAs or too slow for
genome-wide searches.
Results: We introduce INTARNA, a new general and fast approach to the prediction
of RNA–RNA interactions incorporating accessibility of target sites as well as the
existence of a user-definable seed. We successfully applied INTARNA to the prediction of
bacterial sRNA targets and determined the exact locations of the interactions with a higher
accuracy than competing programs.
Availability: http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/Software/
Contact: IntaRNA@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at
Bioinformatics online.
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Nature Medicine -
22 hours and 37 minutes ago
Breaking the pain connection
Nature Medicine 14, 1313 (2008). doi:10.1038/nm1208-1313
Author: Catherine J Pallen
A small peptide eases pain in several types of mouse models. The peptide targets a protein
interaction within a pain-mediating complex—containing the N-methyl-D-aspartate
receptor—without affecting normal physiological processes (pages 1325–1332).
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Toolinux -
23 hours and 50 minutes ago
Nous avons souvent dans ces colonnes relayé les publications de l#8217;auteur André
Ani. Aujourd#8217;hui, ce dernier veut muscler sa présence sur le web. Il annonce avoir
opté pour Wordpress pour "permettre une plus grande interaction avec les visiteurs et
lecteurs. "
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Toolinux -
23 hours and 56 minutes ago
Nous avons souvent dans ces colonnes relayé les publications de l#8217;auteur André
Ani. Aujourd#8217;hui, ce dernier veut muscler sa présence sur le web. Il annonce avoir
opté pour Wordpress pour "permettre une plus grande interaction avec les visiteurs et
lecteurs. "
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DCEmu Forums:: The Homebrew & Gaming Network :: PSP Dreamcast Nintendo DS Wii GP2X Xbox 360 GBA Gamecube PS2 Forums - Dreamcast News Forum -
1 days and 1 hours ago
via Games Industry
Red Bull is the first brand to sign up for dedicated space in Sony's online virtual world,
Home.
According to a report by Brand Republic, Red Bull will have its own island within Home, and feature
a racing game based on the real-world Red Bull Air Race.
"The game gave us the first opportunity to recreate in the gaming world what we try to do in the
real world, which is to facilitate interaction, to give people stories, memories, experiences and a
really good opportunity to interact with the brand," offered Red Bull's John Beasley, marketing
manager for the company.
"It's an easy environment for brands to take that first step into gaming," added Beasley. Home is
expected to be open to the public by the end of the year, although thousands of PlayStation 3 users
already have access to the service's beta test. |
Emmanuel de Taillac .fr -
1 days and 3 hours ago
 Ca fait déjà un pti bout de temps que j’ai testé pour la
première fois SongBird!
Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, Songbird est un lecteur multimédia opensource
basé sur XUL runner et gecko (Mozilla).
Depuis hier, SongBird a fait un joli bout de chemin et sort donc la première version
Finale de SongBird estampillée 1.0!
Depuis mes premiers tests, je vous avoue avoir été agréablement surpris par
les progrès et les horizons qui se profilent avec cette nouvelle version.
D’abord, pour vous parler de SongBird, voila ce que la bébête a sous le coude
pour vous convaincre de l’essayer et pourquoi pas l’adopter:
- Une appli cross plate-forme (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- La prise en charge des formats FLAC, OGG Vorbis et MP3 (Toute plate-forme), WMA (Windows),
AAC (Windows & Mac) => Le tout basé sur Gstreamer
- Un système d’extension pratique et bien fourni (Outils, skins…)
- Une prise en charge des baladeurs MP3 classiques et Ipod y compris
- Synchro avec votre bibliothèque Itunes existante
- Look sobre Itunes-like
Ce que j’aime maintenant personnellement dans SongBird:
- Les extensions très sympas comme (Paroles de chansons, SHOUTcast radios, lastFm, Apple
remote control, playlists Deezer…)
- Le coté Web Open Source du projet (Qui devrait pouvoir ouvrir des horizons
sympathiques dans un futur proche: MusicStore, Partage données utilisateurs, Interaction
évènements, bientôt une API SongBird)
- Les perfs qui sont encourageantes même si on est loin du coté hyper light (Mais
SongBird se débrouille bien avec des grosses bibliothèques)
Bref, je vous encourage à essayer la bébête histoire de vous rendre compte de
ce qui se fait un peu en termes de lecteur audio surtout si vous vous étiez enfermé
dans la routine Itunes du fait de votre Ipod…
Pour essayer SongBird, visitez http://getsongbird.com/
SongBird peut apporter une brique très intéressante à l’internet en
terme d’expérience musicale!
Maintenant, ce n’est qu’une question de temps, mais la communauté open source
pourrait bien révolutionner l’usage de la musique à travers ce genre
d’initiatives…
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CiteULike: Borelli's watchlist -
1 days and 9 hours ago
iBreast Cancer Research, Vol. 9 (05 December 2007), 114./ibr /br /With the characterization of the
human genome, as well as advances in technology to determine genetic variability across the genomes
of populations, there has been focused effort on the identification of cancer susceptibility
alleles through the use of genome-wide association studies. These efforts have recently resulted in
identification of a susceptibility locus for breast cancer by several groups, although the
increases in risk are modest. While genome-wide association studies will probably lead to
discoveries of potentially important previously unstudied pathways in cancer etiology, the role of
the environment, particularly gene-environment interactions, in breast cancer etiology should not
be overlooked.br /iChristine Ambrosone/i
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quasi.dot -
1 days and 10 hours ago
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Download details: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 (for IT Professionals) The
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method of identifying common
security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.1 adds Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 compatibility.
(tags: windows security reference)
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Sylpheed - lightweight and user-friendly e-mail
client Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client
(mailer, MUA). (tags: software opensource mail mua)
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SQLiteSpy [Delphi
Inspiration] SQLiteSpy is a fast and compact GUI database manager for SQLite. It reads
SQLite3 files and executes SQL against them. Its graphical user interface makes it very easy to
explore, analyze, and manipulate SQLite3 databases. (tags: windows tool sql gui
sqllite)
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Get Free In.com
Email ID: Worlds Shortest Email ID Online Offered by IN.com (tags: mail storage)
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Free Watermark. Add Custom Watermark. Protect Your Photos and
Images - PicMarkr PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images
online and free.
It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments
to your photos. (tags: webservice
tool watermark image photo)
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WordPress
› Broken Link Checker « WordPress Plugins This plugin is will
monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. (tags: wordpress plugin 404)
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Nombray - own your name on the web (tags: identity domain cybersquatting)
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Download WP
Contempo Free Wordpress Theme The WP Contempo theme is a lightweight, elegant Wordpress
theme perfect for almost any application. (tags: wordpress theme)
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TheOpenCD Edizione Italiana (tags: windows software opensource open linux ita freeware)
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linux@studenti Il progetto ILeANA si
propone di definire una raccolta di software Open Source per Windows della migliore
qualità, comodamente disponibile su supporti rimovibili (CD, DVD, flash memory). I
programmi sono accuratamente selezionati per assicurare stabilità, facilità d'uso
e un'installazione e rimozione pulita dal computer. Il progetto si propone di introdurre
l'utilizzatore nel mondo dell'Open Source, invogliandolo ad esplorare anche altri progetti,
magari spingendosi a provare un intero nuovo sistema operativo, come GNU/Linux. (tags: windows software opensource open list freeware)
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ASCII One - a free WordPress theme [at] Odd
Web Things ASCII One is a free WordPress theme inspired by typography. (tags: wordpress theme)
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MiniTask - Minimalist task management MiniTask
is a FREE, fast and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your
daily todos more efficiently. I (tags: air
task widget tool todo)
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Search and replace
in Firefox - Mozilla Links FoxReplace is a Firefox extension developed by Marc Ruiz that
brings the ability to search and replace text occurrences in a web page. (tags: firefox extension)
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Everything Search Engine Everything search engine:
Locate files and folders by name instantly. (tags: windows tool search utility)
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WordPress › WP Wall
« WordPress Plugins WP Wall is a "Wall" widget that appears in your blog's side bar.
Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the
sidebar immediately (without reloading the page). (tags: wordpress plugin)
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WordPress
› All in One Video Pack « WordPress Plugins This is not just
another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and
rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit
and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your
video content, create playlists and much more… (tags: wordpress video plugin)
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un, deux ou trois nuages - Cronjob
Control for WordPress This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of
your weblog in the "Site Admin" area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s). (tags:
wordpress plugin)
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fabiobernasconi.com »
Autodownload Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide
downloadable files either in your posts or pages. Emphasize has been put on ease of use and
thus it does most of the things automagically. Autodownload is easy to install. It should not
take more than 5 minutes. The idea of this plugin is to simplify the administration of
downloadable files. Once the download folder has been defined for a given post or blog, new
files can be added without any interaction with WordPress. (tags: wordpress plugin)
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WP-Protect | Protect your Wordpress blog
from coping | TheChetan.com simple but power full plug-in which will protect your digital
written work on your blogs. This plug-in is based on technique of “Disabling right
click” and “No text selection” scripts. (tags: wordpress plugin)
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SEO tools –
Exactfactor SEO Tools
- Check your site position in search engines (tags: website webmaster tool tracker seo)
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CSV splitter (divide large CSV files) - Forex Trading | MetaTrader Indicators and Expert
Advisors (tags: file utility cvs text split)
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Useful 404’s »
Skullbit Inspired by Dean Frickey’s A List Apart Article, A More Useful 404,
I’ve whipped up the Useful 404’s WordPress Plugin. This plugin will allow you to
set a message and email notification for the 4 main types of 404 errors:
1. mistyped URLS/old bookmarks
2. internal broken urls
3. external website broken urls
4. search engine broken urls
(tags: wordpress plugin 404)
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WordPress
› ZD YouTube FLV Player « WordPress Plugins Display FLV and YouTube
Video in your blog in a Custom Player. (tags: wordpress plugin)
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Wordpress Related
Blog Links Plugin (tags: wordpress
plugin)
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Clipboard Utility - Snippets Organizer - Email
Signatures PhraseExpress organizes your frequently used text snippets:
* Expand abbreviations and common phrases as you type.
* Launch applications by entering text shortcuts.
* Autocomplete phrases with the predictive text feature.
* Quickly handle email responses.
* Works in any Windows program.
(tags: windows write utility typing tool)
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GLADINET - Access Without Boundaries You may
have files stored online. You may have files scattered on multiple PCs. Gladinet software
brings all your files together to your Windows Desktop and your online desktop. Your files are
following you wherever you go! (tags: web2.0
virtualization storage software share)
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CPUID PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility
designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds
of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk
performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3
compression performance. (tags: windows
utility sysadmin test tool)
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Open Contacts, a flexible address book for
dynamic interactions with your contacts. Open Contacts is an advanced address book program
for managing contact info of individuals and organizations with relationships. Distributed as
freeware, the program was designed for people who need more beyond legacy address book programs
in order to improve dynamic interactions with contacts. In addition, with SyncML for Open
Contacts and a Funambol server, you may synchronize contact info with smart phone, PDA and Web
address books etc. (tags: windows vcard contacts portable pim)
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txtb.in - write a little more. (tags: text online note free write)
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DVD Identifier - Your DVD, HD DVD & Blu-ray
Companion (tags: windows utility reference)
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FredCavazza.net -
1 days and 11 hours ago
Nette amélioration de la situation à Milan avec un beau soleil et des transports
à nouveau fonctionnels. Deuxième journée de conférence avec de
très intéressantes sessions.
General Session 
Ben Forta d'Adobe (merci à Michael Chaize pour la photo)
Ambiance Men in Black pour une démonstration de Flash et
Photoshop
CS4 :
- Prise en charge avancée de MXML ;
- Insertion d’une “structure osseuse” à un objet pour pouvoir
l’animer et le déformer (avec des os et des articulations) ;
- Déformation intelligente des images en exploitant les zones creuses sans compresser
les sujets principaux ;
- Application de textures et motifs aux objets 3D.
Nouvelle démonstration de Flash
Catalyst avec une description encore plus fine des composants d’une interface (barres
de défilement, différents états…) et plus de richesse dans les
comportements (déformations, rotations 3D…).
Inévitable revue de code avec les nouveautés du futur Flex Builder :
- Possibilité d’interpréter du code C ou C++ dans Flash avec AS3 ;
- Prise en charge de nouveaux formats comme RAW et PDF dans Flash ;
- Démonstration d’un émulateur en C d’un console Nintendo avec AIR
(ça sert à rien mais c’est toujours sympa).
Amélioration des capacités de référencement des contenus Flash et
Flex avec l’élaboration conjointe par Google et Adobe d’un virtual
user qui sait bien mieux discerner les textes, boutons, liens…
Démonstration des nouvelles fonctions de dynamic streaming de Flash Video (pour
s’aligner sur ce que propose Microsoft avec Silverlight) et du
live streaming (avec possibilité de jouer avec la timeline pour passer du flux
live à l’enregistrement).
Nouvelle stratégie communautaire sur groups.adobe.com
(un réseau social dédié aux utilisateurs de produits Adobe) avec les
classiques profils, groupes, événements… prise en charge de nombreuses
langues (internationalisation de l’interface prévue pour 2009).
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Interviews avec Andrew Shorten et Ryan Stewart
J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir interviewer deux évangélistes de renom chez
Adobe ( Andrew Shorten et
Ryan Stewart).
Concernant la multiplication des logiciels, scinder l’offre leur permet de mieux
répondre aux attentes des différentes populations, voilà pourquoi nous
sommes passer de Flash à Flash Pro + Flex Builder + Flash Catalyst.
Il existe chez Adobe un groupe de travail sur les workflows pour pouvoir mieux comprendre les
contraintes “métier” des agences.
Concernant Flash 10 et la 3D, la dernière version du Flash Player utilise
déjà l’accélération matériel pour les fonctions
vidéos et pour le pixel bender (ce n’est le processeur mais la carte
graphique qui est sollicitée). Il va donc falloir s’attendre à des effets
graphiques encore plus spectaculaires dans le futur Flash 11.
Le casual gaming est un secteur particulièrement porteur où Flash est en
position ultra-dominante, les équipes d’Adobe y porte une attention toute
particulière pour ne pas perdre l’héritage de Shockwave (un des
plus anciens portails).
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Architecture 4.0 
La session sur les architecure 4.0
Hervé Crespel, directeur de l’innovation chez Orange, sur les architectures de
quatrième génération :
- Les générations accompagnent des changements technologiques majeurs (interfaces
textuelles, Client/Serveur, Web) ;
- Les piliers des architectures de quatrième génération = Interfaces
riches, comportements et interactions déportés sur le poste client, gestion de la
collaboration et de la synchronisation, API & mashup, data-on-the-cloud…) ;
- Les interfaces riches ne sont pas nouvelles (un service comme le one screen
reservation de
iHotelier existe depuis 2001) ;
- Cette architecture n’est pas sans problème (gestion du cache, du mode
déconnecté, des conflits lors de l’édition simultanée) ;
- Évolution du modèle IHM (interface homme-machine) vers un modèle IHS
(interface homme-service) ;
- Le challenge du futur sera de construire des applications en ligne viables avec des
composants partagés et remplaçables.
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Wireframing experience et applications 
Encore une session sur Flash Catalyst
Enfin une session entièrement dédiée aux aspects prototypage et
documentation :
- Le gros problème avec les outils de prototypage actuellement utilisés (Visio,
PPT) est qu’ils produisent des livrables sur lesquels il n’est pas possible de
capitaliser ;
- Flash Catalyst introduit la notion de Freeform UI sketching en piochant dans le
catalogue de composants graphiques de Flex ;
- Possibilité de partager des composants entre les différents écrans du
prototype ;
- Les custom components fonctionnent comme des modules indépendants qui peuvent
être utilisés dans différentes pages / états ;
- Les action sequences sont idéales pour les animations et autres comportements
exotiques ;
- Possibilité de rajouter des conditions dans le code source pour enrichir encore plus
le comportement des modules ;
- Le processus de substitution d’un élément d’interface brut par un
élément designé (sous Photoshop ou Illustrator) a été
facilité.
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MAX Awards
Michelle Turner et Ted Patrick pour révéler la liste des gagnants :
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Sneaks Peek
Très intéressante session où ont été présentés
une dizaine de projet expérimentaux (dont seul une petite partie risque de se
concrétiser) :
Le vainquer des Sneaks Peek (merci à Michael Chaize pour la photo)
Dans la catégorie Client :
-
RTMFP Application-level Multicast in Flash Player, qui permet de faire dialoguer deux
Flash player en mode P2P ;
-
Nitro, un environnement de conception / création / distribution de widgets
multi-supports ;
-
Durango, un outil de création de mashup qui repose sur AIR.
Dans la catégorie Services :
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Connecting Live Cycle and Creative Suite, un espace de collaboration entre les
équipes de production vidéo et le commanditaire ;
-
Meer Meer, un service de test multi browser / OS très impressionnant qui permet
de faire de l’affichage comparatif de plusieurs versions côte à côte
et même superposées (le rêve des intégrateurs HTML) ;
-
Server-Side Action Script Server, la possibilité de faite tourner du code AS
sur le serveur (visiblement ça a beaucoup plu aux développeurs présents
dans la salle...).
Dans la catégorie Tools :
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Content Intelligence Toolkit, un outil de création de meta-données sur
des contenus vidéos avec reconnaissance de formes, de visages et même
transcription de la bande son (très impressionnant) ;
-
Image Compositing, un outils de composition d’images avec une intégration
très puissante d’éléments graphiques dans une scène
déjà existante (détourage automatisé, gestion de la
luminosité et des ombres...), idéal pour faire du scrapbooking sans que ça
y ressemble ;
-
Dreamweaver’s Support for Web Widgets, une extension pour... gérer les
widgets web dans Dreamweaver ;
-
Infinite Images, un outils de création de scènes 3D en compilant un
certain nombre d’image et offrant la possibilité de naviguer au sein de cette
scène (assez proche de Photosynth) avec un gros potentiel artistique car il est possible
de définir des évènements pour substituer une image par une autre et ne
jamais passer deux fois au même endroit.
Plein de belles démos et une salle enthousiasmée par ces prototypes.
A demain pour la suite.
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