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Spotlight on 'seam carving'

At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ariel Shamir, a visiting scientist with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, discusses "seam carving" technology, which lets an image be expanded or shrunk without distorting the important parts.

Tags: 6sight, image, distorting, seam, carving, news, stephen shankland, scientists

Videos 2007-11-15

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What I learned in 2008

If politics is the art of distorting reality for your own purposes, IT really ought to be seen as the art of applying reality for corporate purposes - but IT politicians often win, and it's not good for anybody when they do. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Bottom Line, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-12-30

Bright days ahead for solar in California

Bright days ahead for solar in CaliforniaSolar power is the next bubble... after IT and real state.It's a good idea, but always with wrong emphasis.Yes, it will reduce emissions, but always takes the wrong focus. Enforce higher priced cars. Enforced higher priced energy. Enforced higher existing corporate...

Tags: car, emission

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Sometimes stuff just works - or almost, anyway

Sometimes stuff just works - or almost, anywayLearning to play well with WindowsYou're right, that last hiccup is reminiscent of the times when the producers of other software did not feel a need to respond to Microsoft products.That usually doesn't happen now.And the future, Microsoft products connected to other Microsoft...

Tags: Construction, Financial Planning, Quality, Insurance adjuster, Microsoft Corp., wall, Murph, insurance, standards

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Magic Mirror 3.0 (Windows)

ZeallSoft Magic Mirror is a funny and easy to use photo distorting software. You can distort your friends' or family's faces and produce surreal effects. Whether yours is a group of friend or children, whether you opt for a face warp or warp picture, Magic Mirror will generate a laugh...

Tags: Friend, Image, ZeallSoft Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-10

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYou forgot to mentionany bit of the Lotus 1-2-3 stories and the whole memory problem (expanded memory cards, EMS, HMS)And the IPX stories (Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange).Internet or intranet?By December, 1995 there were still only 16 million internet users. That number wouldn't support a...

Tags: Operating systems, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM Corp., Internet

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime

Logitech's line of Pure-Fi iPod speaker docks has swelled to seven, so you could be forgiven for mixing them up. The latest entry--the Pure-Fi Anytime--is basically a cheaper entry-level version of the Pure-Fi Dream. It boasts the same dual alarm AM/FM clock radio and motion-activated backlit controls ("wave to snooze")...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Logitech, Pure-Fi, Apple iPod, radio

Product reviews 2008-11-13

Imagistik Photo Editor 2.1 (Windows)

Imagistik Photo is an intuitive program for preparing your photos for printing or archiving. The program has many of the photo editing options of expensive software and the edit tasks are very easy. Imagistik Photo features the following editing functions: Cropping for both horizontal and vertical output; sizing to the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Informatik, Imagistik Photo

Software downloads 2008-10-23

2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8

Photo gallery:2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8Riding around in a bright red Dodge Challenger SRT8 is not the best way to go unnoticed. With its wide and low design and deep HEMI V-8 growl, all eyes were on us as we cruised the streets of San Francisco. But the kind of attention...

Tags: Performance management, Monitors & displays, Challenger, Dodge Challenger SRT8

Product reviews 2008-10-15

What's a Little Money Between Friends?

Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...

Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Logitech Z-5

A couple of years ago Logitech brought out the Z-10s, an interesting set of PC speakers that featured USB connectivity and a digital readout on the front of one of the speakers. They looked good, sounded decent, and were cutting edge in their nod to visually incorporating digital music playback--though...

Tags: Logitech, speaker, Z-5s

Product reviews 2008-09-17

Magnavox TB100MW9

As the digital transition gets closer and media coverage increases, the important thing to remember is that if you get your TV from cable or satellite now, you don't need to do anything. If you do rely on analog over-the-air TV, the next important thing is to not panic--you don't...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Magnavox TB100MW9, EPG, digital television, Magnavox

Product reviews 2008-09-17

GLUON ProScale ID 8.02 (Mac)

ProScale is a resizing plug-in unlike any other and a quick look will let you know why we call it Pro. Speed, accuracy and stability are only the beginning. Besides being the only scaler for InDesign, it's the only scaling tool with IntelliScaleTM Technology which allows InDesign users to scale...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tool, Gluon, ProScale, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-09-05

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PR Practitioners, PitchEngine, public relations, bad apple, public beta

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Image Retargetter 1 (Windows)

Image Retargetting allows you to make images wider, narrower, taller or shorter without smooshing up the important details. Normally, if you were to stretch or squeeze a family photograph, the people in the shot would look too wide/tall/thin/short and it'd be obvious to anyone looking at the image that it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, Allicorn

Software downloads 2008-06-02

Microwaves from silicon chips?

X-rays are widely used for medical imaging and security, but they still are dangerous. Would it be possible to replace X-rays by an imaging technology based on microwave radiation? Until now, it was not feasible because portable devices were not powerful enough. Now, two U.S. scientists have found how to...

Tags: Microwave, Signal, Silicon Chip, Capacitor, Chip, Lattice, X-rays, Ehsan Afshari, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Document Management, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Frequent open source miles

Frequent open source milesThe gov. should pay for FOSS!Since FOSS is like a free utility for everyone, like a library where membership is free, the government should pick up the tab and pay the developers and companies that develop GPLed software.We doDon't overlook the fact that "open source" is publishing....

Tags: Vertical industries, F/OSS, open source mile, government, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"

Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"Australian Senator Kate Lundy is on target about softwareSenator Kate Lundy is very well placed to make the comments she made - and to be heard where it matters. She is a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory ACT which was created as...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Particle swarm optimization for pictures

Particle swarm optimization PSO is a computer algorithm based on a mathematical model of the social interactions of swarms which was first described in 1995. Now, researchers in the UK and Jordan have carried this swarm approach to photography to 'intelligently boost contrast and detail in an image without distorting...

Tags: Swarm, Algorithm, Optimization, Image, Particle Swarm Optimization, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-03