Home - Icelandic Saga Database. World Wonders Project. James Gleick: Bits in the Ether. Science thrives in virtual worlds. Courtesy of George Djorgovski Second Life residents Desdemona Enfield and Curious George work on a virtual-reality visualization that classifies stars, galaxies and quasars according to their colors, brightness, distance and morphology.
By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Does the virtual-reality world known as Second Life have anything to offer for real-world scientists? Absolutely — and a trailblazing researcher says the payoffs are sure to increase when the Internet goes 3-D. "We are really meant to interact in 3-D, with other people and with information," Caltech astronomer George Djorgovski, director of the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics, told me today during an interview in Second Life. Djorgovski will talk about the past, present and future of virtual worlds on "Virtually Speaking Science," a talk show that's simulcast in Second Life and on the Web via BlogTalkRadio.
"This technology is already basically a killer app," he told me. HitFix Film. Darren criss Addict-o-matic Aggregator. Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, News, Stories, Forum. Unallocated Space, Unlimited Possibilities for Hackers - Technorazzi. Demystifying Usability : New Study- Gender differences in Web Usability. Comscore just released a new study last month (June 30 2010) entitled Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (download here).
The worldwide study adds some key insights into the growing research on gender differences on the Web and in particular around social networking usage. Why is this a big deal? Differences in gender are important to understand so we can increase our ability to provide more targeted, relevant and desirable user experiences. It's a design issue as much as an advertising and strategy issue. I feel the User Experience community, has not fully tapped the potential of gender-specific design aka Woman-centered Design.
Gender as an audience sensitive criteria (differentiation) is barely present in North American technology product design (where it is much easier to do) let alone Web experiences. Comscore report 'Women on the Web' Key Findings 1. Memory Collection and Analysis Tools. Recently, there was a post on the SANS Forensics blog about memory collection and analysis tools, but for some reason, it seems that folks are STILL having trouble with this process; I'm seeing posts in forums (forii??)
Saying that "...this tool doesn't work... " or "...that tool crashed when I tried to use it... ". My suspicion is that the tools aren't being used correctly as folks may not understand their limitations. File Carving: Recover Data From Hard Drive, USB and CD-ROM. When you erase a file on your computer, it doesn’t just disappear.
The directory table is updated saying that the space used by the file is now able to be overwritten. 10 Destructive Faults in Our Way of Thinking. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email The human mind is wonderful and powerful, but it’s far from perfect.
There are several common judgment errors that it’s prone to making. Untitled. SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT. Mom.me. Working at the Apple Store: Tales from the Inside. While I think Apple's approach is a little over the top, welcome to working retail and dealing with the public.
iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows. Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft.
Here is the money line from Jobs yesterday: “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device – just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch. We’re going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud.” Just like they used to say at Sun Microsystems, the network is the computer. 30+ Accessibility Tools, Softwares & Resources for The Visually Impaired. Free ebooks are meant to be read and enjoyed by everybody regardless of physical imperfections, hence why this post is being made, although I must admit that this should be the first post that should be posted here.
Having said that, do join me in the journey to increase this list of resources to make it a comprehensive one, to provide and create the proper accessibility channels. I’m sure there are other list out there which covers some of the areas below, but I do hope this post will somehow be a part of the whole effort in making this a reality. Audio Ebooks Been covered here, 35 total sites found so far providing free downloadable audio ebooks. Adobe Reader 9 Accessibility Taking note that 99% of the ebooks on this site are in PDF format, Adobe has a site dedicated specifically in providing information in greater details on making it easier for people with disabilities to read PDF files. Screen Readers (Free) One of the most obvious ones came with your copy of Windows. Other Resources. Ideas worth spreading.