Double screen all the way

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Well, I set this up today. It’s a full on, triple double screen.

IBM’s Sim City

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

CityOne is going to be IBM’s Sim City where players work towards solving real world problems. Let’s just hope it’s better than SimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation — released during the Clinton years, a DOS game made by Maxis with none of it’s good music.

Wolfram Tones

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

From the math jerks at Wolfram, here’s WolframTones. It’s pretty neat — you choose a music genre and it creates a unique song based on it. Here’s my best work. The music it outputs is hardly that impressive, but for being a piece of software, it’s really interesting. Too bad they implemented it using midi.

Google Shell

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Do your Google searches in a unix-like shell at goosh.org. I know, it’s not very practical, but it searches the web, images, videos, etc and it’s super fast. Also, none of those nasty ads — just a geek hard at work. Overall, nicely implemented.

Bzzt

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Ever wonder what’s actually making your cellphone vibrate?

Quick man

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Who has the fastest hands — the pianist or the typist? — For any given interval, is it possible to hit more keystrokes on a computer keyboard than musical notes on a piano? If so, has anyone ever tried mapping a computer keyboard to a piano’s keys so that they could play the piano on their computer keyboard, and thus becoming the de-facto fastest piano player ever?

I’ve done some searching around, but so far the internet has yet to yield me an answer. So for now, the best we can do is watch these two videos, simultaneously.

Amazing Computing

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

mustache

Today I learned something — don’t fall behind.

Search engine comparison machine

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Brought to you by Christian Langreiter, compare the search results between Google and Yahoo. It’s easy to try whatever searches you want and the visual output is a bunch of dots. It also has a compare tool for the USA Google vs China Google — which is especially interesting considering recent events.

dots

Maintaining the space-time continuum

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

check out 80s gun guy

Animated search? Sure. Website? SpaceTime 3D. So basically, it’s like a regular search engine, where you can choose from Google, Images, Wikipedia and YouTube. But when you type something and hit Search, instead of getting some kind of usable list populated with inspiring blue links, you get this crazy tile looking system that works kind of like iTunes cover flow. On each tile, one of your page results, and you can click around to navigate to other results. It’s pretty cool, but not very practical. It’s sluggish and you can only see a few results at a time. And beside aesthetics, the only real advantage is that it preloads a snapshot of each of your page results. That might sound trivial, but it does make it a lot easier to scan through a large number of websites because you can see all the content on one page without having to open up a million tabs. Definitely worth the look — just for fun. Requires flash.