The New York Times has been putting a great emphasis on public consumption of data, from understanding data to access to data. They initially started with information graphics that visualized complex data sets into something easy to digest. The nytimes.com versions were also interactive, engaging the reader to understand the data in more [...]
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Window Shopping
Amazon has released Windowshop. Essentially a pseudo 3D wall you can move across and zoom in on a product. When you zoom in you’re presented with video or audio material about the product. Looks like the products presented are recent releases in categories such as Movies, Books, and Music.
Seems like an interesting [...]
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iPhone’s Must Have Feature - 3G
My LG phone is slowly falling part. Its served me well these past three years, rudimentary browser, battery lasted days, and rarely experienced dropped calls.
So today, I decided it might be the right time to make the jump, to an iPhone 3G. Taking a peek at AT&T’s 3G coverage (3G in blue) makes [...]
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Location, Location, Location
Trulia launched a new feature, actually a few months ago, called truliasnapshot. It’s a easy to use interface that allows you to select a slice of homes in a city.
When you search for homes in Trulia, Zillow, or most other realtor websites, you enter in the following preferences:
City, State
Type of Property
Price Range
Beds
Baths
Sqft
Other Amenities
The result [...]
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AT&T Free Wi-Fi
From Gizmodo:
AT&T’s free Starbucks Wi-Fi for iPhone usersdeal didn’t last very long. Users on the MacRumors forum say that locations where Wi-Fi worked just days ago now have the free iPhone access removed.
I was looking forward to being able to roam around for free to compliment my Starbucks addiction.
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Innovation at Google
Business Week is running an article titled How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory which is an interview with CEO Eric Schmidt in regards to how Google fosters new ideas. The best question and answer in the interview is the simplest one:
Can innovation really be managed, or is it a case where you have to [...]
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Google App Engine
Google just announced a web application infrastructure called Google App Engine. Unlike Amazon’s offerings of a la carte services, Google provides a sandbox to host your application using a Python runtime environment. In addition to the Python runtime, Google App Engine provides access to a data persistence layer, Google’s account management system, and [...]
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From Big Screen to Little Screen
A recent failure in the cooling system of my television has rendered it dead. While I’m waiting for it be repaired, I’ve had to get my fix from online video streaming sites. At first I was skeptical because of the past attempts and poor interfaces, such as ads running concurrently as well as lack [...]
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Hacking RFID credit cards for $8
BoingBoing TV has posted up a little demo of how easy cracking the RFID encryption on an American Express card can be. All it takes is an $8 dollar reader easily available on eBay, some software, and the courage to walk around with a laptop waving plastic boxes
via Engadget
To this day, I don’t understand [...]
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Time Machine Extreme!
Time Machine Extreme is here, unofficially. With the latest Airport Extreme update, Time Machine Update, and Airport update, Time Machine will recognize AirDisks as valid drives to backup on. This is a huge feature. I’ve always ran nightly backups using SuperDuper! and Time Machine using a local USB drive. With Time [...]