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Art with Flight Patterns

On a recent visit to the Gray Area Beacon, an art gallery in San Francisco, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi caught up with visual artist Aaron Koblin. His "Flight Patterns" has become a worldwide phenomenon online.

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Videos 2008-06-11

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Blood Beach for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

In Blood Beach for iPhone you are the lone defender of a remote listening post in the Solomon islands. While you have an impressive arsenal including the M2 BMG, Bofors 40mm, and Thompson SMG. The Japanese have done their homework and your island is the lynchpin for control of the...

Tags: Firing, Apple iPhone, Mobile, CoreSoft, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Aero Charts (CA,NV) 2.0.1 (Mobile)

Aero Charts (CA,NV) combines Visual flight rules, Instrument flight rules charts and direct-to navigation in an easy to use and versatile package. The charts are vector charts that are derived from official FAA data and other government sources. The information on the charts includes Class B, C, D, E airspace,...

Tags: Mobile, Chart, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-08-28

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

'Flight simulator' for flies sheds light on visual processing

Despite its tiny limited brain, a blowfly performs difficult aerial maneuvers with speed and precision with the help of eyes that can perceive 100 images per second as discrete sense impressions, compared to about a maximum of 25 for human eyes. [caption id="attachment_1694" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Specific...

Tags: Fly, Flux Field, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-04

iPhone 3GS users complain of poor battery life

iPhone 3GS users complain of poor battery lifeAre not most of the items listed[i]1.Minimize use of location services2.Turn off push notifications3.Fetch new data less frequently4.Turn off push mail5.Auto-check fewer email accounts6.Minimize use of third-party applications[/i]The very reason why people purchased the iPhone in the first place?i agreemy 3GS has worse...

Tags: Engineering, Smart phones, battery, iPhone 3GS, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3GS user, poor battery life

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

CrystalDiffract 5.1.9 (Mac)

A user-friendly, elegant program for working with x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns from crystals. CrystalDiffract can simulate and visualize diffraction patterns from any CrystalMaker binary file. You can manipulate patterns in real time, with extensive control over all aspects of the diffraction experiment - plus the ability to edit...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Pattern, Construction, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-16

10 skills developers will need in the next five years

Guest post: If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent. TechRepublic's Justin James lists the skills you’ll want to work on now to maximize your future job prospects. For more...

Tags: Job, Developer, Web, Agile, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Greenplum aims to eliminate massive data load 'choke points' with Scatter/Gather technology

Greenplum has taken massively parallel processing MPP of data to the next level with the introduction this week of its "MPP Scatter/Gather Streaming" SG Streaming technology, which manages the flow of data into all nodes of the database, eliminating the traditional bottlenecks with massive data loading. The...

Tags: Data, Node, Greenplum, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?What a crock of bullYou want to see our kids get ahead, Go back to teaching them the three R's.It doesn't mean anything.You do what's required to get the job now just as you have done before. Defining 21CS is pointless...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Defining 21CS

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Planes, trains, and automobiles

Planes, trains, and automobilesRE: Planes, trains, and automobilesIt's all about fear and control. Since planes can cover a greater distance AND are easier to control points of entry are limited to a plane and fewer connection points they also offer a higher profile of success. The natural fear of flying...

Tags: Government, train

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

How much does a flash disk increase battery life?

How much does a flash disk increase battery life?Playing DVD and CPU usage"Playing a DVD doesn't use much CPU. The wattage is mostly the drive itself"Could you please clarify if playing a DVD doesn't use much CPU, or whether it doesn't use much power? I would like to know... because...

Tags: Corporate communications, Processors, wattage, CPU, flash-disk, video, Playing DVD, battery

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

Watch out, there's a Dopplr about

If you've not heard of Matt Biddulph, CTO of Dopplr then I'm guessing you will. He is building out a socially aware travel application that is currently in beta. To quote the shpiel: Dopplr is a new service for people who...

Tags: Social Computing, Friend, Dopplr, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-05

Can personal aircraft beat gridlock?

Can personal aircraft beat gridlock?Great concept, and...The challenge goes far beyond the technology of the vehicle on which the system is based. The key will be how the system is implemented to improve the existing model.On the plus side, the infrastructure changes required would spark significant innovation and rethinking of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, traffic jam, aircraft

Discussion threads 2007-08-04

Is Relational Relevant?

Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Information Management, Database

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Trips processor reveals new architecture

In a little under an hour, researchers at the University of Texas in Austin plan to reveal a fully functional prototype of a new computer processorarchitecture its proponents claim will scale to the "end of silicon." The processor is called TRIPS, which stands for ...

Tags: AMD, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Intel

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Erich Gamma: A pattern of success

Mention the name "Erich Gamma" and what comes to mind? Patterns? Unit Testing? Eclipse? In his relatively short career, Erich has had a profound impact on the way software is developed, earning him a spot among "The People Who Shape Technology". Patterns The concept of software design patterns really got...

Tags: Erich Gamma

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Airlines ban cell phones -- but why?

Airlines ban cell phones -- but why?cell phones on aircraft...I ahve been in the industry cell pohnes working as an engineer for over 15 years.This is a response by me of an email i recieved about the possibilty of using cell pohnes in aircraft.the original email referenced this article...http://www.physics911.net/projectachilles.htma test...

Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, cell, phone

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

Zimbra makes ALE, Calc and Write

The Zimbra Gang is at it again. After making waves with its mashed up, open source email/calendar collaboration suite and Zimlets, the company is adding new Web applications what might as well be called Zimbra Calc and Zimbra Write and ALE AJAX Linking Embedding, a compound HTML document framework for...

Tags: Zimbra, ALE

Blog posts 2006-04-03

The new world of 'blogjects'

With "Why Things Matter," Julian Bleecker, a researcher at the University of Southern California, has written a "Manifesto for Networked Objects" (PDF format, 17 pages, 939 KB). In this document, he describes what he calls "blogjects" or "objects that blog." The three major characteristics of a blogject are its sense...

Tags: blogject, Things Matter

Blog posts 2006-03-15