Has anyone had this issue? It starts up with a chime but the screen is off and the keyboard isn't functional. I hear the fan running as well. This happened randomly and I'm just wondering if it's worth fixing or not.

Anyone have the backgrounds app too?

Okay, so i saved some pictures, is there a way to move these pictures from the automatic "Saved Photos" folder into my other photo folders? I have my photos organized, i dont want a "Saved Photos" folder randomly on the top of my photo folder list.

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"More than 98 percent of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, a Danish security company said Wednesday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"According to a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Secunia+Inc."Secunia ASP/a , 98.1 percent of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed during the last week sport one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes#39; a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/?source=fssr"Security Adviser blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a, both from InfoWorld. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"PSI scans Windows systems for installed applications, then compares their version numbers to the most up-to-date; if they#39;re different, it makes note, then provides a link to the patch update. To gather its numbers, Secunia tracked the results of each user#39;s first PSI scan./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Since Nov. 25, when PSI left beta and entered Version 1.0, more than 120,000 people downloaded the utility, said a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Thomas+Kristensen"Thomas Kristensen/a , Secunia#39;s chief technology officer. The company randomly selected 20,000 of those installations, then tallied the number of unpatched applications PSI found./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Most people keep Windows up to date,quot; said Kristensen, quot;because it#39;s so easy to use Windows Update. a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Adobe+Systems+Inc."Adobe/a Reader and Flash and a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Apple+QuickTime"Apple QuickTime/a are like that, too, as are browsers. But a lot of third-party [browser] plug-ins don#39;t have any [update mechanism] and so people don#39;t keep them updated.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The PSI data showed that while fewer than 1.9 percent of the users had a completely clean PC, 30.3 percent#160;of the machines contained between one and five unpatched programs, 25.1 percent#160;had between six and 10 at-risk applications, and 45.8percent#160;of the systems boasted 11 or more insecure programs./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Wednesday#39;s numbers were even more dismal than those a target="_blank" href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=spam__malware_and_vulnerabilitiesamp;articleId=9056542"Secunia collected last January/a , when it surveyed a similar number of PCs that had just installed PSI. Then, approximately 4.5 percent#160;of the machines were free of unpatched programs, more than twice as many as in the newest survey./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Kristensen explained the decline. quot;We#39;ve had a change in the user base, and managed to reach a much broader group of users,quot; he said. PSI#39;s early adopters were mostly tech-savvy types, Kristensen argued, but as word has spread about the utility, quot;it#39;s reached a completely different group of users, many who never patch their PCs,quot; he added./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Since Secunia brought the free utility out of beta test, the Copenhagen-based company claims about 900,000 users have downloaded the program. quot;We should clear one million around the first of the year,quot; Kristensen said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"PSI runs on a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+2000"Windows 2000/a , XP, Vista, and Server 2003 and can be a target="_blank" href="http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/"downloaded from the Secunia site/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/index.jsp"emComputerworld/em/a emis an InfoWorld affiliate./em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ed3519fdc7c19f37e0107a5ed38d7c3ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ed3519fdc7c19f37e0107a5ed38d7c3ap=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ed3519fdc7c19f37e0107a5ed38d7c3a style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

I've been playing around with one of Erica Sadun's examples (the persistence stuff).

In her example, she stores off the position of 16 randomly created ImageViews (which works fine) by doing;

Code: NSMutableArray *locations = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

for (DragView *dv in [contentView subviews])
{
  [locations addObject:NSStringFromCGRect([dv rect])];
}

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:locations forKey:@"locations"];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
[locations release]; I wanted to modify this so that I could also save off the background color of the image views, so I added this;

Code: NSMutableArray *colors = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; then in the for{} loop;

Code: [colors addObject:[dv backgroundColor]]; and then after the for{}loop;

Code: [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:colors forKey:@"colors"]; Now the weird thing is, the "colors" array is populated correctly by the for{} loop but if I try to read the objects back;

Code: colors = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"colors"]; it comes out with garbage but reading the "locations" back;

Code: locs = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"locationss"]; works as expected.

I've tried all sorts of things;

casting the colors as strings
getting the CGColor from dv.backgroundColor (in the for {} loop)
casting the CGColor as a string
setting all the colors to constants (in the for{} loop) i.e. [colors addObject:[UIColor redColor]];

but nothing works. When the object is read back from the user defaults, it reads back the right number of objects (16 in this case) but they're all set to the same number.

Can anyone shed some light on it or suggest a simpler way to do what I'm trying to do? I've spent a whole day on it and I'm no closer to a solution. :(

Thanks

No better way to start the day than with some news item on span style="font-style: italic;"Dissidia/span! If yesterday, we had scans, today, we get a video!brbra href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/square-enix/281" id="tag" title="Game developer, Father of Final Fantasy series"Square Enix/a's official website for the game was updated with a walkthrough video of how Story Mode works. It's mostly in Japanese, but we already know what's going on here: the video demonstrates how the chessboard (aka span style="font-style: italic;"Dissidia/span's own reincarnation of the Sphere Grid or License Board) works - something a title="Sphere Grids and License Boards? Dissidia's chessboard explained" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Sphere-Grids-and-License-Boards-Dissidia-s-chessboard-explained/pg/49/aid/124377"we've already covered here/a.brbrIf you're too busy to read that previous article, the basics are these:brullieach character gets his/her own chessboard fieldbr/liliyour goal: get to the other end and fight the boss/liliDestiny Points (DPs) are your standard mode of travel around the board (just like AP or LP in span style="font-style: italic;"FFX/span and span style="font-style: italic;"FFXII/span)/lilienemies and items are found randomly on the grid - accessing these need only that you're adjacent to their square/lilithe big red X mark on the grid means you have a requirement to fulfill (say, clear all enemies or something) before it gets unblockedbr/li/ulYou can check out the video via the source link, or if you don't mind a video with slightly less quality, this a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/youtube/2607" id="tag" title="free, video-sharing website"YouTube/a embed would do:brbrp style="text-align: center;"object height="344" width="425"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pmJ1q7vZIe4amp;amp;hl=enamp;amp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pmJ1q7vZIe4amp;amp;hl=enamp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"/objectbr/pbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Sphere Grids and License Boards? Dissidia's chessboard explained" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Sphere-Grids-and-License-Boards-Dissidia-s-chessboard-explained/pg/49/aid/124377"Sphere Grids and License Boards? Dissidia's chessboard explained/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Dissidia scans: FF12 representation confirmed, Cloud's Advent Children outfit, Sephiroth topless, Ultros summoned, more Update " href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Dissidia-scans-FF12-representation-confirmed-Cloud-s-Advent-Children-outfit-Sephiroth-topless-Ultros-summoned-more-Update-/pg/49/aid/126952"Dissidia scans: FF12 representation confirmed, Cloud's Advent Children outfit, Sephiroth topless, Ultros summoned, more Update /a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="Dissidia: Final Fantasy guidebook to be released alongside game" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Dissidia-Final-Fantasy-guidebook-to-be-released-alongside-game/pg/49/aid/126912"Dissidia: Final Fantasy guidebook to be released alongside game/a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="More Dissidia pwnage: Cloud vs Sephiroth gameplay video" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/More-Dissidia-pwnage-Cloud-vs-Sephiroth-gameplay-video/pg/49/aid/126818"More Dissidia pwnage: Cloud vs Sephiroth gameplay video/a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="Pwnage 101: new Dissidia: Final Fantasy tutorial vid on EX-Burst, more" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Pwnage-101-new-Dissidia-Final-Fantasy-tutorial-vid-on-EX-Burst-more/pg/49/aid/125912"Pwnage 101: new Dissidia: Final Fantasy tutorial vid on EX-Burst, more/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Learn how to properly pwn your enemy in Dissidia: Final Fantasy" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Learn-how-to-properly-pwn-your-enemy-in-Dissidia-Final-Fantasy/pg/49/aid/124629"Learn how to properly pwn your enemy in Dissidia: Final Fantasy/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=OE1ZsxHN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=jSFDdXR1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=uKApglyZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/a4V7aAHWnFw" height="1" width="1"/

I asked this question the other day, but apparently not precise enough.

I do NOT want to "convert" my Boot Camp installation to a virtual one. I want to know if ONE installation in Boot Camp can be CONTINUED to be used by booting via Boot Camp, while also when I am using OS X, log into it virtually?

So, I do not want to convert it over and lose the capability to log in via boot camp. A couple of days per month I need to primarily use Windows for a client. Those days I want to login to Boot Camp and use Windows. On the other days, I want to be able to use Windows via virtual access. As I may need to randomly access a Windows program but will use OS X Leopard the vast majority of work days.

Can I do this? Or, do I need two separate Windows installations, one in boot camp partition and one in virtual partition? Also, same thing for Office Pro 2007 in Windows??? Reinstall for both partitions required? Allowed? Possible? Do I need separate Windows keys and licenses?

Thanks for all assistance. I am trying to ensure best of both worlds here. As I am fortunate enough to use Leopard 28 days of the month and need Windows only a couple of days. But, would like flexibility to use Windows either via Boot Camp or via Virtual installation from Leopard.

Happy Holidays.

yoooo

i have a 24" iMac and its been working great for the most part..in the last two weeks or so my airport has been giving me some problems.....the signal just dies and is grayed out...it can't see the network that its supposed to be connected to..i also have 2 other macs in the house that have no problems seeing this network at all...running with an airport extreme base station

i reboot and reboot and nothing happens..it literally just randomly starts working again..sometimes 10 mins later..sometimes an hour later

any ideas? this used to happen to me with my macpro when one of the leopard updates came out but this system is all up to date and no issues other than this

please advise

thanks

I am still surprised that moderate Muslims around the world don´t rally in protests against radical Muslims who commit horrendous atrocities in the name of Islam. Why don´t moderate Muslims stage demonstrations in London after the terrorist attacks of July 7th as moderate basques do against ETA after ETA assassinates? I am Jewish and when the State of Israel attacks Lebanon in what I consider a disproportionate response to the kidnapping of soldiers by Hezbollah I protest and explain my views in such a way as creating a site known as Jews For Lebanon, that obtains donations from like minded Jews for organizations that rebuild Lebanon. Why don´t I see similar gestures or organizations on the Muslim side?

What happened in Mumbai is pure hatred. Muslim terrorists targeting British and US nationals and the only Jewish center in this Indian city and killing and injuring hundreds of innocent people. Now, how can the Muslim world rally so effectively into massive demonstration over such incidents as some offensive Danish cartoons, and moderate Muslims cannot organize in horror over the current Mumbai massacre?

Think of what would happen if the opposite were true. Imagine a group of racists, anti Muslim militias who would go around London asking people if they were Muslim and shooting them or randomly taking them hostage. Wouldn´t all of European society stand by Muslims everywhere and strongly condemn this act? Why can´t Muslims everywhere demonstrate against the Mumbai massacre? Why couldn’t the hundreds of thousands of Spanish Muslims condemn the Atocha massacre?

In my view, until moderate Muslims, who are the majority of Muslims, mobilize against terrorists, and not only against some Danish cartoons I don´t think things will change.

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Hello à tous (attention, long journal !)br / br / Je suis heureux de vous annoncer la sortie de a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.netiG'MIC 1.0.0/i/a.br / br / a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.netiG'MIC/i/a (GREYC' Magic Image Converter) est un outil de manipulation d'images en ligne de commande, un peu à la sauce a href=http://www.imagemagick.orgImageMagick/a , mais avec quelques particularités originales. Il a fait l'objet d'une a href=http://linuxfr.org/2008/08/18/24390.htmldépêche/a ici même, il y a quelques mois.br / br / Il est disponible à l'adresse : a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.nethttp://gmic.sourceforge.net/abr / br / Les habituels screenshots de démonstration sont ici : a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gallery.shtmlhttp://gmic.sourceforge.net/gallery.shtml/abr / br / Pour résumer très rapidement, c'est un exécutable qui est capable de lire un ou plusieurs fichiers images, qui stocke les données pixels en mémoire, et qui peut interpréter un certain nombre de commandes permettant de visualiser / traiter / combiner / convertir ces images. L'ordre de traitement se fait dans l'ordre d'apparition des options (i'commandes' G'MIC/i) sur la ligne de commande, et un grand nombre de traitements de base est disponible (opérations arithmétiques, filtrage, FFT, visu 3D, conversion de bases de couleurs, transformations géométriques simples, etc...).br / br / Un point original de iG'MIC/i est sa possibilité de lire à l'exécution iun fichier de macros/i (tel que a href=http://cimg.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/cimg/CImg/examples/gmic_def.rawcelui ci/a) qui permet d'étendre les commandes disponibles reconnues, simplement en les substituant par une série de commandes iG'MIC/i de base. La grande nouveauté de la version 1.0.0 réside justement dans l'amélioration des possibilités d'écriture de macros. On peut en particulier maintenant écrire des macros à paramètres, ainsi que des opérations simples entre paramètres de macros.br / br / Il est intéressant de remarquer qu'au final, de nombreux effets et filtres classiques de traitement d'image (tels que a href=http://docs.gimp.org/en/filters.htmlceux présents dans GIMP/a par exemple) peuvent s'écrire comme des imacros G'MIC/i, et ceci sans avoir à recompiler quoique ce soit, et surtout de manière itrès concise/i (en général, moins de 10 lignes suffisent pour la plupart des effets).br / Par exemple, si on prend l'effet bien connu de l'effet a href=http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-spread.htmlSpread/a, il s'écrit en macro iG'MIC/i comme :br / br / codebr / # Spread pixel values.br / #---------------------br / #? spread : 'dx=3,dy=dx,dz=0' : Spread last image pixel values randomly along x,y and z.br / spread :br / -e Spread pixel values of the last image with amplitudes ($(1=3),$(2=$1),$(3=0)).br / -v- -t float 100%x100%x100%x1x3 -noise[-3] $1,0 -noise[-2] $2,0br / -noise[-1] $3,0 -a[-3--1] v -warp[-2] [-1]x1,1 -rm[-1] -v+br / /codebr / De ce point de vue, on peut donc aussi voir iG'MIC/i comme un interpréteur d'un ilangage spécifique de création de filtres/d'effets/i sur des images : un utilisateur peut facilement écrire ses propres macros pour créer des traitements personnalisés, et éventuellement les partager avec d'autres. a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gallery.shtmlLa page de démonstration du site/a montre quelques exemples de l'application de commandes de base et de macros sur une même image originale. Comme on le voit, beaucoup de choses sont permises et sont possibles.br / br / iG'MIC/i se veut donc avant tout un outil de traitement d'images iextensible/i, et qui ne requiert pas de connaissances techniques très poussées pour être utilisé et étoffé en fonction de ses besoins. Une documentation plus complète que a href=http://gmic.sourceforge.net/documentation.shtmligmic -h/i/a devrait voir le jour un de ces quatres jeudis :)br / br / Si le traitement d'image vous intéresse, je vous invite à le tester chez vous et à faire remonter vos problèmes et vos idées. Les paquets 1.0.0 devraient être dispos sous peu dans le dépôt prévu à cet effet, pour les distributions courantes, grâce au travail acharné des gentils et compétents contributeurs de a href=http://ubunteros.tuxfamily.org/Linux On The Root !/a, je les bénis jusqu'à la 10ème génération pour leur aide précieuse ! Des paquets expérimentaux mais normalement fonctionnels de la version 1.0.0 sont déjà dispos pour Ubuntu 8.04 et 8.10 sur le site de Sourceforge.br / br / iG'MIC/i est développé principalement dans l'équipe a href=http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/EquipeImageIMAGE/a du laboratoire GREYC (CNRS) de Caen.br / br / Et maintenant une petite digression personnelle...br / br / span style=text-decoration: underlinebMon rêve/b : Un plug-in GIMP (utilisant G'MIC) qui s'auto-update/spanbr / br / On voit que iG'MIC/i est capable d'interpréter un fichier de macros (un simple fichier texte) qui lui donne la possibilité de définir des filtres/effets personnalisés applicables sur des images. Le gros avantage, c'est qu'un tel fichier texte ne pèse que quelques Ko, mais peut définir des filtres/effets relativement complexes.br / On voit donc que si on disposait d'un plug-in GIMP dont le seul but serait d'appeler iG'MIC/i et de récupérer l'image résultat pour le remettre dans GIMP, ca serait très chouette, car ce plug-in pourrait très facilement se mettre à jour automatiquement via Internet, et disposer d'une base de filtres/d'effets importante qui pourrait évoluer (et se corriger/s'améliorer) de manière très rapide, puisqu'aucune recompilation de code ou ré-installation ne serait nécéssaire : il suffirait de mettre à jour un bête fichier texte.br / En deux mots, un plug-in extensible sans trop de maintenance nécessaire.br / br / La grosse difficulté ici serait de faire en sorte que le plug-in soit capable de générer les interfaces graphiques permettant de régler les paramètres de chaque filtre de manière dynamique, en utilisant des informations qui seraient contenues dans le fichier texte de macros : nombre de paramètres, types des paramètres, etc..br / Ceci est théoriquement possible, puisqu'on peut déjà insérer des commentaires dans les fichiers de macros de iG'MIC/i : il suffirait donc d'écrire des commentaires destinés à ce plug-in. Par contre, je ne sais pas trop procéder. Quel langage pouvez vous conseiller ?br / br / a href=http://linuxerie.midiblogs.com/Stéphane/a a déjà écrit une petite maquette de plug-in GIMP en python capable d'appeler iG'MIC/i pour appliquer un filtre à une image chargée dans GIMP, mais il manque encore cet aspect 'dynamique' qui serait vraiment un plus je pense. Je pense que Stéphane est OK pour partager sa maquette pour ceux qui seraient tentés de jeter un oeil.br / br / Si vous l'idée vous parait bonne et que vous avez des connaissances techniques dans ce domaine, ça m'intéresse énormément. Si vous trouvez l'idée débile, ça peut être intéressant aussi par ailleurs. N'hésitez pas à me contacter dans tous les cas (sauf pour les insultes, merci, j'ai déjà donné :) )br / br / En particulier, je pense que l'actuel plug-in GIMP disponible qui a été fait pour a href=http://cimg.sourceforge.net/greycstoration/iGREYCstoration/i/a (logiciel de débruitage d'images dont je suis également l'auteur) pourrait fusionner avec celui de iG'MIC/i, car l'algorithme de iGREYCstoration/i est inclus dans iG'MIC/i. Il me semble qu'il serait par exemple intéressant de définir des macros qui correspondraient à différents profils d'utilisation de GREYCstoration pour définir différents types de débruitage, un peu comme si on avait des profils de bruit ou d'appareils photos avec des réglages de 'paramètres optimaux' à proposer.br / br / Voila, c'est tout pour cette fois, merci de votre attention et bonne soirée à vous.br / br / David.

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pimg alt="dopplr_logo.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/dopplr_logo.png" width="150" height="29" /With the relative freedom provided by laptops, mobile devices, and more affordable transportation, people have become more migratory and, yet, better at remaining connected - or at the very least, accessible. Nowhere is this more evident than in the tech sector, where individuals are jetting back and forth to attend events or meet up with coworkers halfway across the world. /p pAnd when it comes to keeping track of the techie crowd and their travels, a href="http://dopplr.com"Dopplr/a is one of the best resources around. Now, they're giving users a view into some of those travel patterns with a href="http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/11/27/new-city-pages/"Dopplr city pages/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12796amp;cb=12796' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12796amp;n=12796' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pDopplr has been testing the pages internally for some time. Now, they're exposing them to the Dopplr users. As the name implies, these new pages provide a visualization of annual visitor activity for practically any city on Dopplr. There are metrics, as well, including information on fellow travelers in town, the number of trips to the city overall, the number of trips for the given day, local time, and interesting facts - like from which cities people are generally visiting./p centerimg alt="Dopplr Austin" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgDOPPLR_%20Austin.jpg" width="600" height="549" //center pLooking at even a few pages reveals some interesting trends. Austin, Texas, USA, for example, gets a heavy influx of Dopplr users in March. Why? The annual hermitage to the a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/"SXSW interactive festival/a. Portland, OR, USA, by contrast, shows a definite uptick during the summer months. London, Paris, and Tokyo have steady traffic throughout the year. (Obviously, I could spend hours just thumbing through these cities.)/p pBut there's something else interesting happening here - which a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/obama_puts_changegov_under_cre.php"Marshall Kirkpatrick mentioned recently/a. To make the reports a little more aesthetically appealing, the city pages pull in images of the respective cities from a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10898"Creative Commons licensed content held on Flickr/a. Not only does it provide more context for the city, it offers yet another venue for Flickr users to showcase their work. All thanks to Creative Commons./p pUnfortunately, while the image concept is laudable - and often beautiful - many of the randomly selected photos tend to obscure the graphs of the travel data. So, if you're looking for beautiful images, you're in luck. But if you want to read the data, sometimes you're going to have to strain to see it./p pNonetheless, Dopplr city pages are well worth a visit. It's great to see Dopplr exposing some of the interesting data points that the company has been accumulating about its user base. And I'm a firm believer that any time this sort of data is made accessible, it's always wise to take a cursory look, for my own edification./p pTo see city pages in action, register or log in to a href="http://dopplr.com"Dopplr/a and search for the cities that interest you - or try clicking through some of the cities from your trips./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dopplr_city_pages_techie_travel.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iIdzRdUXVtz0CQFCYbEMNxpSOWo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iIdzRdUXVtz0CQFCYbEMNxpSOWo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=SM7t41T9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=tiz8husj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=ewW6NZWW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=ewW6NZWW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=HWpEeLBv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=HWpEeLBv" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=fUOzcduN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=fUOzcduN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=NysPQWXe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=pz7mnjH3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/gFQk933kIJg" height="1" width="1"/

Publication Date: 2008 Nov 29 PMID: 19040754br/Authors: Foley, J. W. - Katagiri, F.br/Journal: BMC Bioinformaticsbr/br/ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Large biological data sets, such as expression profiles, benefit from reduction of random noise. Principal component (PC) analysis has been used for this purpose, but it tends to remove small features as well as random noise. RESULTS: We interpreted the PCs as a mere signal-rich coordinate system and sorted the squared PC-coordinates of each row in descending order. The sorted squared PC-coordinates were compared with the distribution of the ordered squared random noise, and PC-coordinates for insignificant contributions were treated as random noise and nullified. The processed data were transformed back to the initial coordinates as noise-reduced data. To increase the sensitivity of signal capture and reduce the effects of stochastic noise, this procedure was applied to multiple small subsets of rows randomly sampled from a large data set, and the results corresponding to each row of the data set from multiple subsets were averaged. We call this procedure Row-specific, Sorted PRincipal component-guided Noise Reduction (RSPR-NR). Robust performance of RSPR-NR, measured by noise reduction and retention of small features, was demonstrated using simulated data sets. Furthermore, when applied to an actual expression profile data set, RSPR-NR preferentially increased the correlations between genes that share the same Gene Ontology terms, strongly suggesting reduction of random noise in the data set. CONCLUSIONS: RSPR-NR is a robust random noise reduction method that retains small features well. It should be useful in improving the quality of large biological data sets.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19040754title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a