MC2 Post 616: New Gadgets and Software to FLIP for.

SOFTWARE:

From Giveaway of the Day

Foxonic Professional

Link: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Dicky Caveats:

Terms and conditions

Please note that the software you download and install during
the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support
2) No free upgrades to future versions
3) Strictly non-commercial usage

You have only  18 hours 7 minutes  to download and install their copy of

Foxonic Professional 4.0, while the

software is still available!

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 Hardware:

Philips BDP5010 Blu-ray / Divx player drops below $70 at Target

Link: http://www.engadget.com/

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Just a FLIP and a Possible Tri-FOLD?

Qualcomm's multi-fold mobile device is a Possible Future

Link: Qualcomm's multi-fold mobile device is the future we keep waiting for

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Hanvon TouchPad BC10C Tablet Looks Sweet!

10-inch tablet performs (peep 1080p video and Microsoft Surface Globe demos

after the break) but also know your YouTube surfing sessions will be limited by

a simply sad 3.5 hours of battery life. For when "mobile" isn't an important word

in your vocabulary... the BC10C launches in China March 25th.

Possible US price still high at $877.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/hanvons-multitouch-tablet-previewed-surfaces-in-china-march-25/

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Lenovo unleashes three new monitors, 

one boasting multitouch

The L2361p Wide is 23-inches, with a more stylized look than the L2261, with

integrated speakers and microphone, a webcam, and three USB 2.0 ports. Finally,

the real star of the show, the L2461X Wide is a 23.6-inch, multitouch display. It

also has integrated speakers and microphone, a 2 megapixel webcam.

No official pricing or availability yet.

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This is Just Too Cool!

One man band rocks the iPod touch, rescues the MIDI clarinet from obscurity

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/

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Wingman likes Cool Stuff!

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MC2 Post- Sony: You've Got The Way To 'Move' Me!

PlayStation Move: everything you 

ever wanted to know

Playstation Comebacker

Wii knew it was coming.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/playstation-move-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know/

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Let The Games Begin.

Wingman

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MC2 Backtrack: Post for 03/10/10 Android SDK

Spend the Day installing 

Eclipse Programming Environment 

(needed for Android) and the Android SDK 

(Software Developers Kit) with documentation et al.

Eclipse Link: http://www.eclipse.org/

 

Android SDK Link: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

 

Java Link: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

 

ADT and other things are needed too!

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Wingman, A Programmer at Heart.  Really.

 

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MC2 Post: Why Modern Computers Do Weird Things.

Conquering the Chaos in Modern, 

Multiprocessor Computers

Computers should not play dice. That, to 
paraphrase Einstein, 

is the feeling of a University of Washington 
computer scientist 

with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same 
computer command, 

you should get back the same result. 

Unfortunately, that is far from the case with many of today's machines.

To Find Out What in The World Is Going On Check out the article Here:

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162857.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Oh-oh...175 characters vs. 26 No Prob.

 Use the handier TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/y8noqxy

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Wingman, Always looking out for You Twitter Users, huh?

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MC2 Post 612: Is This THE Best Blu-Ray Disc Player?

THE Best Blu-Ray Disc Player?

Review Link:

http://www.digitalreviews.net/reviews/miscellaneous/blu-ray-disc-and-network-media-player-inside-hdi-dune-bd-prime-30-reviewed.html

HD Dune Prime 3.0

DigitalReviews Network seems to say Yeah!

If you want something that plays (nearly) everything

straight out of the box, the BD Prime 3.0 

is a sensible choice.

Our rating? A very high 9/10 which entitles it to our

Editor's Choice Award!

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Ok, What about the Price?

$499.00

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A Good Review Says alot.

Wingman.

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MC2 Post: You Know Where You Can STICK Twitter???

Put Twitter's TwitKit in Your Firefox Sidebar

Manage Your Twitter Account from 

 

the Sidebar in Firefox

From

Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/11887/manage-your-twitter-account-from-the-sidebar-in-firefox/

 

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And Other Distractions Coming Soon.

Panasonic's VT25 3DTVs will be 

 

nearly 50% off Japanese prices, 

 

launch this week at

Best Buy

An Interesting Price Point.

Good news for those who found themselves a few yen short after hearing the

Japanese prices of Panasonic's first 3D plasma HDTVs -- their American counterparts

will be considerably cheaper.

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iPad coming on Wednesday.

Or did you Miss All-Those-ADs on the Oscars Last Night?

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Wingman.

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MC2 Post: The Wingman's Tricks and Tweaks Journeys

Whenever I Start Using A New OS, 

the First Thing I do is Check the Web for 

Tricks and Tips.

 
For Linux Distros, this is a Must.
 
And Now It's become a Must for Windows too!

But there are other things the web has to offer to Fix Things.

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Top 20 Beginners GUIDES - 

A Wealth of Info on DIY PC Fixing -

PCSTATS.com Top

Link: http://www.pcstats.com/NewsView.cfm?NewsID=71368

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Link: http://www.python.org/doc/

Now I'm trying to Learn Python as I mentioned before.

The Online Documentation is beautiful for that.

Link: http://www.blender.org/

So is the Tutorials for Blender 3D, which is built

to use Python as its Scripting Language of Choice.

Back to My Studies.

Wingman.

MC2 Post 609: CS

CS Compressed Sensing

CS Compressed Sensing, it's been around for decades, 

but 4 scientists have brought it back into the limelight.

Another way of saying what it does is "Less Can Mean More."

I learned about it in my latest issue of Wired Magazine. The reason I get Wired is for pieces like this.  Not for their idea of the "Best SF Movies of All Time" which is churlish to say the least.  I've wanted to use that word for some time now, and there was my chance.  

Anyway, back to CS.

The article in the 1803 (It means March) issue was on page 62 was titled: "Fill In The Blanks" by Jorden Ellenberg who stated: A revolutionary algorhythm can make something out of nothing.

The touching story at the begining of the piece had to do with an MRI that needed to be done in Less time than was needed to get a highly detailed reading of a problem liver.  They needed a full two minutes.  The young patient had to be under anesthesia to keep from breathing during the scan.

By trying an alogorithm of CS they were able to get a scan in 40 seconds that could be computationally expanded to give the detail of a two minute scan.

The algorithm stated that if there are a million ways to reconstruct an image, the simplest option is always the best.

Take a picture of say 1 million pixels.  That requires a million measurements to reconstruct.  In CS, take a subset of that, like 100,000 randomly selected pixels from various parts of the image.  From that,  there is an infinite number of ways to fill-in the missing 900,000.

The way to come up with the right answer is something in mathematics called sparsity, which describes the complexity or lack thereof of the image.

That my friends is the tip of the iceberg of this new tool to create more out of less.

Read the article.

Wikipedia Logo:

Wikipedia had this opening line to say about it:

Compressed Sensing, also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling and sparse sampling, is a technique for acquiring and reconstructing a signal utilizing the prior knowledge that it is sparse or compressible. The field has existed for at least four decades, but recently the field has exploded, in part due to several important results by David Donoho, Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg and Terence Tao.



Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing

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Wingman, a Calculating kind of guy.

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MC Post 608: 8.8 Quake in Chile May have Shortened our Day.

By 6.8 microseconds.

Link: http://www.tonic.com/article/chile-earthquake-shortens-days/

Not to Mention a Shift in the Earth's FIGURE Axis...

By 2.76 inches.

Earth's figure axis (the axis on which 

Earth's mass is balanced) 

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Earth’s figure axis is not the

same as its north-south axis; they 

are offset by about 33 feet.

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Science Can Be Daunting...

Wingman.

Tomorrow's  Post:

When Less CAN Mean More.

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MC2 Post 607

Beam Me Up Scotty!

Yes Friends, It's A 3D Blu-Ray Projector

Beautiful Beamer, eh?

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/acers-h5360-and-x1261-projectors-take-it-to-the-third-dimension/

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Acer and Alienware 3D HD monitor faceoff

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/acer-gd235hz-and-alienware-optx-aw2310-do-battle-in-3d-hd-monito/

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Wingman, Where's my 3D Glasses ???

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MC2 Post 606 2-28-10

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Welcome to the Land of Sony Bravia

2010 Sony BRAVIA TV range revealed: 

3D, WiFi and Lots More
Link: http://www.slashgear.com/tags/bravia/

Sony adding Netflix and more to BRAVIA HDTVs
Link: http://www.slashgear.com/sony-adding-netflix-and-more-to-bravia-hdtvs-0948939/

Sony PlayStation Network access to spread; 

PS3 “a platform for web services”

Link: http://www.slashgear.com/sony-playstation-network-access-to-spread-ps3-a-platform-for-web-services-1143416/

Sony BRAVIA Drome Revealed Alongside New Ad Campaign

Link: http://www.slashgear.com/sony-bravia-drome-revealed-alongside-new-ad-campaign-0425237/
 

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MC2: Sony Hits the HDTV Upmanship Trail with Freeview:

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1593988/sony-unwraps-built-hd-freeview-tv

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Tv or Not TV

This IS Something Else

Wingman, Hi-Tech Couch Potato.

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MC2 Post:

 

8.8 Earthquake Hits Chile

This is 800 - 900 times more powerful 

than the QUAKE that Struck Haiti.

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From MSNBC:

Big Quake Question: Are they getting worse?

Seismic shockers are to be expected, 

but planet seems to be more active

Link:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35618526/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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MC2 Post

Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica

Story covered by the

On their page Linked Here:

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100226_iceberg_wt_sl.shtml


Wingman Sees All...

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Try a Linux Distribution on VMWare

Knoppix Inside Windows 7 and VMWare Player

 Link: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

 

Yeah!  This is what I had Planned for 

Yesterday's Post.

I have to admit this form of Virtualization is

Super Simple.

And with All the Distros 

(That's Linux-Talk for distributions or flavors)

of Linux, there is no reason why 

you shouldn't try one. 

Here's A Gteat a Great Site to

Help You Find One!!!

Link: http://distrowatch.com/

Yeah I know, I've had

a Link to It on 

My Favorites Links 

on the Right 

For Years.

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I Just Sold Myself and picked up 

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From 
Distro Watch 

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2010-02-17      Distribution Release: MilaX 0.5

MilaX     Alexander Eremin has announced the release of 
MilaX 0.5, an OpenSolaris-based mini-distribution which 
runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive: 

"MilaX 0.5 released. 

Based on OpenSolaris snv128a. 

JWM as WM, system monitor - conky, keyboard layout switcher - SCIM.

Now with fastest browser Midori - 

Twitter, Facebook and other sites are working well. 
Fast start: boot live CD (live USB), configure network 

(Menu -> Setup -> Net Setup), run zfsinstall, reboot

and enjoy. 

Two add-ons are available for this version... MilaX is released under the CDDL license version 1. Version 0.5

requires at least 256MB RAM and a Pentium or Celeron to boot into an X desktop. 128MB RAM is sufficient for booting into command-line mode. 

MilaX is fast (about 14secs from GRUB to fully functional desktop on SSD drive)."

Download is (MD5): milax05.iso (93MB).

How can anyone Wanting to try out Solaris

Pass This Up?

Wingman

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Two Days pf Playing Hookie: The Wingman.

Okay , OK....

I'm Back in the saddle.

I'm running Knoppix inside of an VMWare Player, which means I'm running Linux inside of Windows 7. 

That makes Me Feel Good!

Link: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

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Wingman's going to get some coffee...

And some sourdough...

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MC2 Post 601: Who Are The 2009 SmartPhone Growth Winners?

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From engadget.com

Who Are The 2009 SmartPhone Growth Winners?

Link: http://i.engadget.com/2010/02/23/gartner-apple-android-and-rim-winners-in-2009-smartphone-os-g/

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This was going to be a story about how well Linux Plays inside Windows 7 and VMWare Virtualization.  I ran Fedora 10 32bit just fine, until I decided to give the virtual partition of 8GB a little more headroom.

Needles to say, I'm still working on it.

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The Test Happy Wingman signing out.

 

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MC2 Post 600: The Bloom Box on 60 Minutes

The Bloom Box on 60 Minutes

I saw it First on 60 Minutes and I told myself 

I've got to Check this thing out.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/

Those two blocks can power the average high-consumption American home -- one block can power the average European home. 

At least that's the claim being made by K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, on 60 Minutes last night.

The original technology comes from an oxygen generator meant for a scrapped NASA Mars program that's been converted, with the help of an estimated $400 million in private funding, into a fuel cell.

Thus the Link to the segment on 60 minutes.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n
 

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In the Words of "the donald",  This Could Be HUGE!

Wingman.

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