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#3621 "Windows ap fails to install." Support Center : Urgent Priority Tickets (5) CX.com | 10 GB of Free File Storage – Sync, Store, Share All In The Cloud. Austra - Lose It. William D. Shockey (moderndev) #3105 "CX tells me I have uploaded bilions of GB. Huh?" Support Center : All unsolved tickets (376) Subscription Changed (Any plan change) #2285 "desktop cx application" Recurly Specs- V.1. Play music together. Support Center : Migrating to the New CX. Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’ | J'adore. The Creators Project | Technology and the Brightest Young Minds in Music, Art, Film, and Design. Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon And Josh Kopelman: Schedit. “What do investors look for in a beta? What are the key metrics?” That is the question Omar Tellez poses to Chris Dixon of Founder Collective and Hunch and Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital in this episode of Founder Office Hours (a special format of Founder Stories we are trying out).
Tellez is the CEO of Sched.it, a social online calendar app getting ready to launch. Kopelman notes that “investors are always tempted and teased by large numbers,” but cautions that any site can manufacture a bump in visitors. “The real data is retention and repeat usage. Instrument your site to track that data,” he advises. Dixon agrees that focusing on “vanity metrics” will get startups nowhere. And what about limiting access to the beta to create a sense of exclusivity like at a nightclub? If you enjoy watching Founder Office Hours, be sure to check out the first one with Profitably’s founder and Paul Graham’s Office Hours at Disrupt NYC, the the original inspiration for this show. Jumio Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers – And Why Merchants Will Welcome ‘Netswipers’
If it were up to Jumio, we’re all going to be ‘netswiping’ to purchase books, clothes, travel, FarmVille crops and whatnot online in a couple of years. The startup has been extensively testing its digital payments service in private beta mode since last year, when Jajah founder Daniel Mattes started teasing whatever they were building. The startup has since assembled an impressive advisory board, including former Google exec Zain Khan, former Amazon exec Mark Britto and Maarten Linthorst, CEO of CSI Communication Systems. And we recently learned that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and other investors pumped $6.5 million into the startup. Today, Jumio is finally unveiling Netswipe, a technology solution that enables e-commerce site owners and Internet retailers to process online and mobile payments by having customers ‘swipe’ their credit cards using virtually any webcam.
Think of it as Square for the Web, without the need to purchase and install additional hardware. Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 2 of 2 Audiosocket’s Music As A Service Allows Startups To Offer Licensed Music To Users. Audiosocket, an indie music licensing and technology company, is launching a new platform today called Music as a Service (MaaS), which gives developers a way to offer users the ability to license music for applications. So content producers will be able to search, discover and license music from Audiosocket’s catalog of over 33,000 songs from more than 1,900 artists and composers around the world. MaaS can be integrated into third party photo and video sharing services, ad agencies and more.
Partners pay nothing up-front to integrate MaaS, and content creators take on the licensing charges. The virtue of using the platform is that content creators don’t have to worry about the hassle of licensing the music they want to use, because Audiosocket takes care of this. For example, slideshow creation tool Animoto is an Audiosocket client, and Audiosocket says this integration helped shape the vision for the MaaS platform. Audiosocket faces competition from Pump Audio and Jingle Punks. Lorem Ipsum Generators: 10 Ways To Make Your Dummy Text More Fun. Arcade Fire & Spike Jonze's Short Film Hits the Web. Home - Modest Needs® Activision launches limited beta test for Call of Duty Elite social network. Activision Blizzard has launched the beta test for its Call of Duty Elite social network. It’s time to armor up. The beta test began today on the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live online gaming service.
The rollout will proceed in phases as the company tests the social network, which is dedicated to the Call of Duty series of games. Call of Duty Elite is an attempt to deeply engage gamers in a service that extends their enjoyment of the most popular combat video game series in history. The series has more than 30 million active players who play Call of Duty Black Ops and other titles on multiplayer.
Chacko Sonny, studio head at Beachhead Studio (the developer of Call of Duty Elite), said that the company is seeking feedback from fans to tune and test the service. “We ask that fans be patient as we ramp up in the coming weeks,” Sonny said. Activision Blizzard plans to let users play multiplayer games and enjoy parts of Elite for free. NC State University researchers create soft memory machine, just add water. Soft Memory Device Opens Door To New Biocompatible Electronics Release Date: 07.14.2011 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments – opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices.
"We've created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O," says Dr. Michael Dickey, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the research. Researchers have created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O, and that functions well in wet environments. Conventional electronics are typically made of rigid, brittle materials and don't function well in a wet environment. Prototypes of the device have not yet been optimized to hold significant amounts of memory, but work well in environments that would be hostile to traditional electronics.
FileFly Brings Dropbox-Like File Sharing Directly to Facebook. How to Get Spotify Free Without an Invite. Learn the Secrets Behind Great Photos by Reading Their EXIF Data. I think you will find that most photographers post-processing steps differ hugely. There are several ways to achieve the same look in the applications. Or you may use the same "tricks" but do it in another order.
This does really differentiate the professionals from the amateurs, especially if they didn't know about the most basic features in the programs they use. Let's just say that if you didn't know about Unsharp Mask, then photoshop is way to advanced to even be paying for. Get something simpler and start from there. Then when you suddenly find that you are feature deprived, it's time to grab the wallet and look for a more professional solution.
At least this is my experience :) Oh, and I am quite pleased that EXIF data doesn't contain Photoshop steps (as would most photographers). Oh, I know about the whole secrecy thing. The problem is I know photoshop very well, but from a different angle. Apica Raises $2 Million To Expand To The U.S. And Make Your Web And Mobile Apps Speedier. It seems that it’s a big day for Swedish businesses expanding into American markets. First, vaunted music service Spotify announced it will be (at great long last) launching this morning in the U.S. And now, with albeit significantly less fanfare, Apica, the load-testing and performance-monitoring solution for cloud and mobile apps, announced that it has closed a $2 million series B round. Less glamorous than rock music, but fundmental to web and mobile operating procedures, to be sure. The round was led by Swedish venture firm Industrifonden, with participation from ALMI Invest and existing investor, KTH Chalmers Capital.
The startup raised $1.3 million back in August of 2010, and has raised approximately $4.4 million to date. Each of the participating investors are Swedish firms that are duly excited about Apica’s expansion into the U.S. market, as the startup will use the round to finish its move into its new U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto. For more, visit Apica at home. Microsoft Licenses GeoVector Patents For AR Navigation, Digital Watermarks. GeoVector just announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring their patented AR technology to Windows devices. The company specializes in AR-based navigation and has a special “building recognition” software that can identify sites based on their shape and size. For example, as you see in their patent info, you could point a phone at the capital and identify various buildings and tag them with URLs.
The company currently has an AR-based iPhone app called World Surfer that allows you to hold up a compass-capable phone to any scene and ID points of interest, stores, and restaurants. According to a release, “Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has entered into a licensing agreement with GeoVector Corporation, the world leader in Augmented Reality and pointing-based local search solutions for mobile devices.
SleepWell Wi-Fi Handler Adds Hours Of Battery Life. Wi-Fi is a battery hog. When stuck among a bunch of other Wi-Fi devices, most mobile gear will keep polling the access point for data while the other devices get their share. As Duke Today notes, “this means the battery drainage in downloading a movie in Manhattan is far higher than downloading the same movie in a farmhouse in the Midwest.” New software, called SleepWell, puts the device to sleep while it’s waiting its turn, essentially allowing devices to grab everything they want at once and then hand off the download to the next device.
Designed by grad student Justin Manweiler and his advisor, Romit Roy Choudhury, the system can add hours to the average battery. Manweiler described the system by analogy: “Big cities face heavy rush hours as workers come and leave their jobs at similar times. If work schedules were more flexible, different companies could stagger their office hours to reduce the rush. Wingardium Leviosa: This Rotocopter Is Controlled By The Kinect. Cover Call Of Duty With A Fresh Paint Of Star Wars. Europe Launching Gigapixel Probe To Map Milky Way. We’ve come to love the fantastic and sublime images of space taken from such satellites as the Hubble, but the truth is that the technology that created those images is incredibly out of date.
And while you can’t argue with the results, it has gotten to the point where the sensitivity, angle of view, and data collection rate just need to be moved up to 21st-century standards. The European Space Agency (ESA) is happy to bring space into the gigapixel era, and they’re packing a monster camera array onto their Gaia astrometry platform. The mission of Gaia is accurate mapping of the entire Milky Way galaxy, and they plan to chart the positions of a billion stars about seventy times each over the next five years. The result will be (they hope) a more accurate and precise three-dimensional map of the galaxy. They’ll also pick up innumerable minor bodies (i.e. asteroid, planets, and so on) and will collect a ton of other useful miscellaneous space data. Sunscreen_smokescreen-lg.png (PNG Image, 550x5263 pixels) AR.Drone - How does it work? - AR.Drone specifications.
“Create high-quality and stable movie shots” The Director mode lets you program automaticmovements so that you can shoot great videos justlike a movie director. Choose your movement: traveling, pan, crane… Adjust speed and moves in real time to compose your video sequence Stabilization system and video post-processing to get clean smooth shots Tune camera settings such as white balance, exposure and luminosity Selection of key sequences in the video Video sharing on YouTube and AR.Drone Academy *In-app purchase on ar.freeflight Learn more Camera moves. All My Faves | Blogs Visual Directory. J'adore | a song to love every morning. What's Happening Around You? Banjo Knows. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Banjo Quick Pitch: Banjo harnesses publicly-available social and local information and gives users the ability to filter that content based on their interests and location. Genius Idea: Discover what you might be missing in the world around you. The marriage of the digital and physical realms is perhaps best made by way of location services that allow users to share their whereabouts and link them to venues, photos and objects. And yet, that all-important physical link is often missed in real world scenarios when it matters most.
Case in a point: An out-of-town friend posts a photo to Instagram from a place just a few miles away from you, but you never see the update, and you miss the chance to reconnect with an old friend. The application is simple to use. Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I’ve Seen It. Used It. It’s Beautiful. “This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption.” Over the past several years, I’ve followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them. But it’s hard not to get cynical when so much of what’s out there is not only not revolutionary, it’s often not even evolutionary. Instead, much of what I see is simply derivative and quite frankly, boring. But every once in a while something crops up that is truly game-changing. And it restores my faith in technology. That’s the best way to describe what I saw when I met with Oblong Industries this week.
The technologies that Oblong is working on are anything but derivative or boring — they are absolutely revolutionary. I understand that such statements sound like absolute hyperbole — especially from a guy who has written about the death of the mouse a number of times. If you recognize Underkoffler’s name, it’s perhaps because you saw his TED presentation last year. So what is it? Thank you. Video: One Dutch Man's Huge Wind-Powered Beach Creatures - Action. Life in the Year 2050. More Infographics on Good. Invention Awards: Eco-Friendly Insulation Made From Mushrooms. Invention: GreensulateInventor: Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyreCost: $1,500Time: 2 yearsIs It Ready Yet? 1 2 3 4 5 Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre want to line the walls of your home with mushrooms. The young entrepreneurs have created a strong, low-cost biomaterial that could replace the expensive, environmentally harmful Styrofoam and plastics used in wall insulation, as well as in packaging and a host of other products.
Wind-turbine blades and auto-body panels aren't out of the realm of possibility, either. "We like to call it low-tech biotech," Bayer says. In the lab, the inventors grow mycelia, the vegetative roots of mushrooms that resemble bundles of white fiber. Bayer and McIntyre's work with mushrooms has come a long way since they first met as mechanical-engineering students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2007, the inventors incorporated under the name Ecovative Design and won $16,000 in funding through the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Pop!Tech ’09: Way Better Than Styrofoam - Environment. News Flash: Evidence Found for Large Saltwater Ocean Beneath Saturn's Enceladus. The Verbalizer - An open source board to use with Google's Voice Search for Desktop. New Online Services Offer Hope to Music Fans. FREE backup of phone contacts, texts, photos, and more :: m:IQ. Stewart to Wallace: You Swim in Soup of Partisan Ideology. Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV)
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