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Anyone who has followed the entire life of Apple Computers knows that they have been involved in several User Interface disputes and lawsuits. The whole desktop idea was born from a visit to Xerox PARC. Now it looks like Creative Labs has quietly patented the way that music can be navigated using the ID3 tag information.
The interesting part is that the Apple iPod might be in violation of this patent! It will be interesting to see what comes of this … I have to admit that I like my iPod!
After patent, Creative examines all options. Creative Technology is “evaluating all alternatives” now that it has received a patent for music player interfaces such as those found on rival Apple iPods. [Computerworld News]
[tags: apple ipod creative+technology patents ]
I sat here tonight and did some hacking on Radio again. I’m working on my RadioAtomBridge tool, but I also wanted to add some new functionality to the WYSIWYG editor … making it easier to add tags to posts.
I added a new toolbar button, and wrote some code that allows me to enter a series of space-delimited words. Now I can simply click the button, and enter words and hit enter … and I get the tag that you see below!
I’m not quite done with it … but it’s working. I want to change the icon of the button, and I was hoping to figure out how to insert at the caret position … something that I just could not get working within an iFrame. Oh well … I got closer!
[tags: scottclemon radio userland tags technorati javascript ]
Yeah … I know about the personalized Google home page … but check out this one! Scottoogle!
It’s actually kinda funny. I found a link to Logogle … and you can create a similar “home page” using any words. The net is always full of fun new adventures!
While working for Novell I had the pleasure of visiting India, and the
additional pleasure of meeting Harish Mehta. Harish is the
managing director of Onward Technologies, and was half owner of Onward
Novell Software (India) … splitting the venture with Novell.
I was glad to hear that Harish has now sold his half of the venture
back to Novell, and allowing Novell to take control of the
entity. I’m sure that Harish did well in the transaction, and I
look forward to contacting him to see what he is working on
lately. I actually think that it is a good time to get out of the
relationship with Novell. Now we’ll see how well Novell is able
to capitalize on the investment!
Novell takes control of India venture.
The software maker bets on the emerging technology market for Linux
software by acquiring the other half of Onward Novell in India. [CNET News.com]
As of tonight, I have fixed two more issues with the RadioAtomBridge tool.
Last night I was able to get SSL/TLS working to post to Blogger.com …
since they have now started to enforce requiring this. I also
fixed the links on the events page so that they will now take you to
your Atom feed for the appropriate blog.
Tonight I thought I would do a couple of other tweaks. First, I
added a quick fix that will include the date and time as a title if you
do not specify one. Blogger requires a title on every post.
Second, I did a fix to the prefs page for RadioAtomBridge to account
for category names that might have a ‘.’ in them. The way the
code had been written it failed on my categories where I used a domain
name for a category.
I also spent some time learning how the prefs page works, and now I
think that I am going to add a new option for SSL/TLS enabled disabled
to keep the tool working with any potential Atom site. It’s going
to take some time for that fix.
I’m still pushing to get v3.2 out the door in the next few days.
This prefs page fix is the last one that I want to address for now.
One thing that it fun is that I am still learning more and more about
Usertalk, and the underlying architecture of Radio and tools. Not
sure its useful in the long run, however its fun to experiment
with! 🙂
In the worlds of ‘virtual reality’ and ‘augmented reality’ one of the
important technologies is ‘head tracking’ … knowing the orientation
of the users head. If you want to create an artificial world, or
add an object in the field of view of the user, you often want that
object to ‘sit still in space’ allowing the user to move around the
virtual object. In the past many of the systems were based on
gyros, or accelerometers, or even some ‘base station’ that the user is
near.
In recent years there is a lot more work going on with ‘video head
tracking’ or the use of a camera attached to the head of the user, and
using software analysis of the image being sensed to determine movement
and rotation. I have seen some amazing demonstrations of using
this technique in the wearable computer realm, and the software is
becoming more and more available.
This article caught me off guard as the develop is now using this same
technique to create a virtual version of the ‘wooden labyrinth’
game. This is an impressive application of the technology … all
implemented on off the shelf hardware! What you can do with a
Tablet PC, a Webcam, and some software!
Casey hacked a Tablet PC with a Webcam to recreate wooden labyrinth game.
I had to get this one in. Phillip Torrone wrote me and said this Tablet PC hack is something I had to check out. I’m glad I did. Casey Chesnut did /cameraFlow. I wanna see this working.
Awesome.
I remember talking with Phil Windley
about one of his ideas to leverage OnStar
as a distributed sensor network. He posited that all of these
cars tend to have temperature sensors, some form of GPS, and the
wireless communications … they could be used to create a nationwide
temperature map.
Now here is another article about taking this further to use cell
phones as the source of distributed sensor information. Very cool
idea. Everyone carrying the right kind of cell phone could opt-in
to providing sensor data to one or more servers. A huge variation
on SETI@Home!
Let’s see … what would someone pay me to participate in this? And protect my identity …
Saving the World With Cell Phones.
Scientists work to turn mobile phones into a distributed network
capable of measuring pollution levels — and possibly detecting
biological weapons before they can be launched. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News]
I really have put off working on my RadioAtomBridge for a while
now. It worked for me, and that’s what counts … right? 🙂
Well, over the last week, it stopped working for me … and I was
frustrated. I haven’t seen any comments on the blog about it, and
so I figured that it was probably ok, but the more that I looked into
the problem it appears that there were two issues:
Anyhow … it was fun to get into Radio again … and it was also a
pain. I hate that I have not yet found a fully supported blogging
tool that really does what I want it to do. But I am working on
it!
Keep your eyes on the Radio Atom Bridge blog for update news!