Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Jul 30th 2003cyberchucktxWearables
Information/URLs on SMART-ITS at Lancaster University’s Ubiquitous Computing Portal
Jul 28th 2003cyberchucktx3D
The Khronos Group: OpenML and OpenGL ES dynamic media APIs: specifically designed for embedded applications & devices.
Announced this week at SIGGRAPH 2003.
Jul 26th 2003cyberchucktxTest
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Tranxition Corporation: – Migrating to a new PC, upgrading, or backing up settings, files and other personality items.
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxGraphics
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
.:F L U X B O X:. – Welcome to fluxbox: Blackbox-based Minimal Window Manager.
Designed to be a *very* lightweight but fully-funtional window manager.
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Fedora Linux Home Page: portal for RPMs for Redhat LINUX.
A related (and similar) portal is at FreshRPMs.net.
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxCSS & Media & Online & Programming & Technical & Web & Web22
nontropo.org: Interesting site with some nice examples of CSS coding.
An example of neat CSS work is at:
CSS-based tabbing
http://nontroppo.org/test/tab1.html
His description of his site (title of the main page) –
{Non-Troppo}-{not, um, exactly | well, more or less}={half-baked and badly prepared, but i’m taking lessons.}
Jul 24th 2003cyberchucktxWeb
web-graphics: interesting CSS hacks (CSS2 & CSS3 as well).
Ongoing discussion of the death of the standalone browser (at least IE, according to Microsoft).
Jul 23rd 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
Dreamweaver extension for MovableType: DW extension to allow using MT tags from within Dreamweaver!
Jul 22nd 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
domesticat.net : beautiful example of Moveable Type skins & formatting. Also tutorials and other writings.
Jul 21st 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
iCal access to SUN Calendar: from Rutgers, information on (among other things) how to get iCal to subscribe to a SUN Calendar server.
It involves a PHP script which is downloadable from the Rutgers site.
Jul 18th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Tek-Tips: Forums for computer professionals.
Free subscription to forums. Many different topics, mostly MS-related. Includes topics such as LDAP.
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Jul 17th 2003cyberchucktxGeneral
Jul 16th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Jul 16th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Linux1394.org: site for all things 1394 (Firewire) in LINUX.
In particular, check out:
Linux1394: Links and Related software
Jul 16th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Jul 16th 2003cyberchucktxWearables
Embedded ViaVoice Mobility Suite: voice recognition for Handhelds @ Pervasive Computing @ IBM.
Impressive features & cost ($30!) for iPAQ Handhelds. Includes TTS (Text to Speech) as well as speaker-independent voice recognition; they claim a vocabulary of 500 words!
System requirements (from their website);
• 5-10 MIPS ( 6 typical)
• Less than 200 KB RAM
• Less than 200 KB ROM
• 8 kHz sampling rate
• Telephone microphones acceptable
Wow. JAVA API support too.