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How Apple's Rumored Tablet Will Be a Full-Fledged Mac, Too.
There has been some discussion and rumors swirling around about Apple and a tablet PC of some sort. John Gruber discussed it, as did Paul Bucheit, and the comments on Hacker News has some insights too. For the record, here is my prediction, from the software side of view:
Apple will release some sort of tablet device, as rumored, and the primary input method will be the touchscreen. The UI will be a more advanced form of the iPhone UI, as Gruber suggests. The tablet may have similar specs to the MacBook Air. Apple will position it as a partial replacement to a full-powered MacBook/Pro, again, as Gruber suggests, targeting casual Mac users who don’t need the full power of Mac OS X.
So far, I have not said anything new.
What no one seems to have realized, yet, is that Apple will also target more heavy users of Macs - perhaps those who write a lot for a living (writers, reporters, mid-level managers who seem to do nothing but generate email after email, etc).
Apple’s current mouse and keyboard are both Bluetooth-only. I predict Apple’s tablet will allow for a more conventional Mac OS X UI, and allow regular applications to run, and allow input using the standard Mac keyboard and the Magic Mouse.
How Apple accomplishes a seamless switch between the two disparate UIs (the conventional Mac OS X UI and the tablet-touchscreen UI) will be interesting.
A new blog: Sencepta Futura
Staying in California, working at YouNoodle
Enabled DISQUS
Retiring snippits
A while ago, I wrote Snippits, a Ruby program that performed text expansion, with quite a few useful features. I built is fairly quickly, because I had an itch to scratch: I hated typing the same thing over and over and over. Computers ought to be able to automate common tasks, and they can’t figure out how to do so themselves, we should be able to teach them. At the time, there was nothing that did text replacement on Linux (but several tools for Mac and Windows existed), so I set out to write my own.
I got pretty far - Snippits was functional, stable, and speedy enough to use daily, and I did so. Of course, it could have been more functional, more stable, and more speedy, but it was good enough for me - and, actually, a couple of users. I was proud of how Snippits had helped people, and I enjoyed using it immensely - there is something extremely satisfying to bypassing tedious typing and retyping of your name, address, email, or really, anything, over and over.
Working at YouNoodle
This summer I’ll be working at YouNoodle, an Internet startup based in San Francisco. YouNoodle has a social network for everyone interested in startups, and has several analytical tools they can use to predict the success of a startup. They’ve been covered by the Times.
I’m really excited about this summer! YouNoodle is a great company, and I’ll be working with an awesome team.
Yaketee: new way to yak
Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post and read messages, you have to be on the same network as the people you’re exchanging messages with.
Using WiFi at the coffee shop? You can post messages that everyone else there can read. Maybe you’re at a conference, the office, or want your roommates’ attention, if they can only lay off the XBox for a bit.
Yaketee messages are sticky so you can use it for lost and found, haikus, raves and rants, shopping list, geocaching and what not. What you do with it is up to you, but please be nice to others.
Yaketee doesn’t use peer-to-peer so there’s no client application to install. When you access our servers from a hotspot or home/office router, the router masks your IP address with its own. Yaketee uses that to match all the people accessing it from the same place.
So you really only need to remember one URL: http://yaketee.com.
How easy is that?
There’s no guarantee you’ll get laid, but you’ll have fun using it, so check it out.
Maps as metaphor
What a great way to start off this morning: a new series of map-based illustrations by Christoph Niemann. Reserve Battery Park is a favorite. So is this omelet recipe:
The Nineties in One Picture Submitted by Nicci Relles
The Nineties in One Picture
Submitted by Nicci Relles
JägerMonkey
Mozilla’s next-generation JavaScript engine is based partly on WebKit’s, and sounds like a very clever design overall.
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Alberto Seveso
I spotted these amazing images by Alberto Seveso about a month ago but I never got around to posting them. Th effect is simple, he’s poured varnish into a fishbowl, but the end result is simply stunning. The images almost look like they were computer generated but he clearly states that they aren’t. The details in how the varnish mixes with the water is really powerful, and the colors in both of these are absolutely beautiful.
These images are actually from two different sets. The red one is titled Medicina Rossa and the blue one is called Sequence verdastra/bluastra/bastarda. Those Italians are a talented bunch!
Bobby
Honest movie titles
Posters featuring accurate movie titles for some 2010 Oscar nominees.
Up --> Suck It Dreamworks
Inglourious Basterds --> Inaccurate Trailer
Blind Side --> White Lady Saves the Day
Stem Cells Heal Dog on Local News. Will Humans Ever Get Their Turn? (video)
Local news channels have started to pick up on the veterinary stem cell phenomenon. Could generate some interest in getting the same available to humans soon.
Chances are your dog has access to stem cell treatments more advanced than your own. A Fox News affiliate in Atlanta has picked up on a local story of a dog, named Behr, who could barely run a year ago, but who is now frolicking like a puppy. The secret to Behr’s success? He underwent stem cell therapy, effectively reversing the conditions of his hip dysplasia. Regular readers will recognize this therapy as one we discussed more than eight months ago. It is growing more common in veterinarian clinics across the US to treat horses and large dogs with joint problems using stem cells, often with miraculous results. Another local news channel, this one in New York, contacted me about a similar story set to air there. These treatments use the same autologous technique we covered before, the only difference is that now local news channels are picking up on the action. Hopefully that will lead to more people questioning why a medical treatment that has such a remarkable track record in animals has yet to be FDA approved for use in humans. Watch the Channel 5 Fox News segment below to see Behr’s joyful return to playing with his owner.
Behr’s experience was common for the procedure: a local vet removed fat tissue, sent it to a company (Vet Stem) that isolated the stem cells in the fat and sent them back, the vet then injected the stem cells into the dog’s hip and six months later the dog was greatly improved. This stuff really works!
There have been thousands of successful cases just like Behr’s across the US. There’s more than anecdotal evidence, too: researchers at UC Davis, Cornell, Colorado State University, and others have all shown that veterinarian stem cell treatments work well for joint problems in horses. FDA approval is slow, necessarily so, but it is very frustrating to see a dog prance around due to a stem cell treatment, and know that humans with similar conditions are out of luck for now. It’s little wonder then that there is a growing trend of medical tourism, including stem cell therapies. We even know of a few doctors operating in the US who have sidestepped FDA approval to provide joint related stem cell therapies to humans. More on them, later. For now, enjoy watching Behr happily play with his restored hip cartilage and know that stem cell therapies for the rest of us are coming soon.
[screen capture and video credit: MyFox Atlanta]
[Source: Fox News Atlanta, Singularity Hub, UC Davis, NCBI, CSU]
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Augmented Anamorphosis [openFrameworks]
Augmented Anamorphosis (distorted projection) is a graduation project by Sander ter Braak at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. The project explores projection of a 3d object in space dependant on viewer’s location. In the movie embeded below the first scene shows a simulation, the second a user view, the third from a different angle showing the anamorphosis.
I really enjoy the simplicity of it all. Even though we have seen a number of similar projects in the past this one clearly demonstrates the concept of augumented objects in space.
Created with openFrameworks with openCV.
(via vimeo)
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