April 29, 2009
Awesome Trial Bikers
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April 29, 2009
A Mobile App That Saves Lives, Literally
Written by Jolie O’Dell (www.readwriteweb.com) DataDyne‘s EpiSurveyor program, funded by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, has been implementing mobile technology to track and contain disease in developing nations since 2007. In a recent and potentially devastating polio outbreak in Kenya, EpiSurveyor’s new mobile platform was used to track virus carriers and immunize affected children. The campaign targeted around 2 million […]
April 28, 2009
Photoshop? nope, aviary
Always wanted to have photoshop or software to edit photos? Well, photoshop is very expensive, heavy and very difficult to use. On previous posts I have mentioned several “cloud” software. I do like the “cloud” approach. For those who are not familiar with the term, it would basically mean that you run programs on your […]
April 28, 2009
Blocked port when webcasting with Stickam or Ustream
This is an open question. I am trying to broadcast with Stickam and Ustream from a location that apparently has the port 1935 closed. This plus probably a private ip. I tried and skype video goes through, but skype is clever and can go over http if necessary. Stickam and ustream use a flash application where […]
April 28, 2009
Genius G-Shot HD520 HD cam with 720p for less than $150
Are you looking for a low end camera that records pretty good video resolution? Here you have the winner: Genius HD520. It shots 5MB stills and 720p video. It is a high definition video camera, can output on high-resolution flat-panel TVs using the HDMI cable ; it supports high efficient MPEG4/H.264 image compression format and […]
April 28, 2009
Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home
Silicon, OEM, Cable and Content Partners Embrace Adobe Flash Platform for Televisions, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-Ray Players So, basically, Flash available on new TV sets. Endless possibilities. Click here to see the press release.
April 27, 2009
Time to patch Google Chrome
Earlier this month, a problem was discovered in Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, that would have allowed an attacker to launch and run scripts on a compromised machine. The issue, originally discovered by Roi Saltzman of the IBM Rational Application Security Research Group, had been given a security rating of “high.” Interestingly enough, although the attack takes […]
April 27, 2009
Flu
Worried about Swine Flu? Keep this links at hand: Official news on the WHO website: http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/ Online map: http://healthmap.org/en And a very nice wiki that people can update regularly (best resource): http://flu.wikia.com/wiki/Flu_Wiki And real time google maps: Google maps Swine Flu
April 27, 2009
::norai.net is gone for photos only
During this weekend I have been working on both sites, tokao.com and norai.net. I decided to focus ::norai.net on what is best: photography. ::norai.net has been up since 2000. The actual domain was bought in early 2002. It has always been a mambo/joomla CMS and a lot of energy went into it at the beginning […]
April 27, 2009
Brightkite
I would like to talk a bit about a very promising web application and also great iPhone application that has been out there for a while but has not been very successful in terms of people using it. It is true that we are surrounded by Social Apps. For iPhone, web, such a facebook, twitter, […]