An Evernote user once saved the company with a last minute $500,000 check. 17 December '10, 10:02pm Follow Evernote, the popular note-taking service, was once so short on cash and possibilities that it was facing the very real possibility of shutting down. After the market collapsed and a promising round of financing fell through, Phil Libin the founder of Evernote was determined to wake up and ‘do the adult thing’ the next day: wind down the company before it could no longer make payroll. Just before going to sleep a Swedish user sent Libin an email praising the service, and offering to invest in the company if they needed money.
Libin naturally said yes. $500,000 later the company was recapitalized and able to get back on financial track. Google Cr-48 for Coding. The other day I saw the announcement for the new Chrome OS test laptop and decided to sign up on the off-chance that I might be able to snag one. In the request form I made it very clear that I would be attempting to use this laptop for development (easily my primary activity). Surprisingly the laptop arrived this morning and I’ve been having fun putting it through its paces. (Note: There doesn’t appear to be a way to take screenshots of the Chrome OS UI – making this post a bit less interesting.) My Workflow I’ve seem to have settled upon a workflow that can work for me – to some limited extent. Chrome OS (as I’m sure you’re aware) is roughly just enough operating system to get a copy of Chrome running. I’ve played with Chrome extensively before now so there wasn’t anything that was too surprising.
Typically I have two pinned tabs in my browser: Gmail and Google Calendar. Virtually all of my development is JavaScript-centric (and against Git repos). The Hardware Conclusion. Words Lens For iPhone Translates Spanish To English -- InformationWeek. The Quest Visual augmented reality Apple iPhone app provides real-time Spanish to English translation and vice versa. (click image for larger view) Slideshow: Best Mobile Apps For Busy Professionals Judging by the reaction on the Web, the makers of a new app that turns an Apple iPhone into a real-time language translator have a hit. Quest Visual's Word Lens application is generating quite a buzz on Facebook and Twitter and has become the second most popular free app on the App Store, where Word Lens made its debut Thursday.
The application on Friday was one of the top trending topics on Twitter and had received more than 750 likes on Facebook. Language translation on a computer is not new. "It can only do word-by-word translations, but I understood a sign in a language that I don't speak at all. While Word Lens can only do bidirectional translation in Spanish and English today, the application has been designed to handle more languages in the future. Qualcomm Releases Augmented Reality SDK. My Photo of Zuck Gets Tsevis-ized « My Photo of Zuck Gets Tsevis-ized Posted by Jolie O'Dell on December 21, 2010 · 3 Comments I am by no means a photographer; I just have access to a lot of tech people at fairly close range.
I have a camera that’s meant for web work, not stills; and my hand isn’t the steadiest. Nevertheless, my Flickr buddy Charlis Tsevis , a visual designer living in Greece, thought this photo I took of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at f8 was pretty nifty, and he made it into the really cool mosaic you see above. Charlis’ work is really beautiful; he’s done custom mosaics for Wired and a bunch of big-brand clients. I highly recommend spending a few minutes (or hours) checking out his blog and marveling at the breadth and beauty of the work there. Here’s some detail to boggle your mind: Pretty rad, huh? Like this: Like Loading... Fred Wilson and Fortune are right about Android vs iOS (and everyone else), but I hate it. Fred Wilson is recommending developers invest first in Android and Fortune has a similar article about why 2011 is going to be the year that Android explodes.
Why? Market share. Android is about to really take off, his thesis goes. They are both right. But I hate it. I’ve been playing with a Nexus S lately and it finally is “good enough” for me to recommend to family members and friends as a smart phone. I’ve also had some quality time on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, iPad competitor. These devices are fast. Compare Android to every other platform and it stands up as the best choice. And Windows Phone 7 is superior to Nokia’s OS and RIM’s OS, which have even more significant problems to solve (bad user experiences, difficult developer systems, inadequate app stores, very few modern apps, etc). So, what about iPhone? But I don’t see how Verizon will sell enough iPhones to keep it in the numbers race with Android.
Now to why I hate this. The iPhone is easier to use. I hate that. 1. I hate that. Kinect May Support PC Games After All (Kevin Parrish/Tom's Guide) At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Our goal is to become your tech news site of record. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our human editors are: Lidija Davis, Mahendra Palsule, Andre Garrigo, David Connell, Jarrod Cugley, and occasionally Omer Horvitz and Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera.
Launched in 2005, Techmeme remains independent, bootstrapped, and privately held. Writing Jamaican. Demolition Lab. Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine. Looking back, we were American otakus, says comedian and author Patton Oswalt, who has a plan for reviving geek culture. Photo: Chris Buck; styling: Jill Roth; prop styling: Nanci Bennet; grooming: Paul Castro/Aim Artists I’m not a nerd. I used to be one, back 30 years ago when nerd meant something. I entered the ’80s immersed, variously, in science fiction, Dungeons & Dragons, and Stephen King. Except for the multiple-player aspect of D&D, these pursuits were not “passions from a common spring,” to quote Poe.
I can’t say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast. In Japan, the word otaku refers to people who have obsessive, minute interests—especially stuff like anime or videogames. I was too young to drive or hold a job. Our respective nerdery took on various forms: One friend was the first to get his hands on early bootlegs of Asian action flicks by Tsui Hark and John Woo, and he never looked back.
The topsoil has been scraped away, forever, in 2010. 50 Startup Logos from 2010. Startups have flourished in 2010. The last 12 months have yielded some fantastic success stories. Groupon is a standout and is currently receiving a lot of attention, buzz and press. Some believe the latest wave of start-ups are driving a dot-com recovery. Either way, as designers, it is interesting to reflect and see what design trends and styles are used by some of the world's newest and most innovative companies. Below are 50 logos for tech start-ups that were launched in 2010 or that came to prominence in 2010. We've categorized them into 3 groups: "The Good", "The Average" and "The Ugly".
Group 1 - 'The Good' Groupon Logo ZenDesk Logo Rockmelt Logo Shopify Boxee TV Logo Aardvark Logo Heyo Logo GIST Logo Plancast Logo 6Wunderkinder Logo Tapulous Logo SoundCloud 99dresses SimpleGeo Logo Spotify Logo Ligit Logo Outbrain Logo Soluto Logo MySnyc Pad Logo DailyBooth Logo The Cadmus Logo Group 2 - 'The Average' Stocktwits Logo Yinzcam Logo Graphic.ly Logo Crowdrise MeeSocial Logo Cinchcast Logo Kissmetrics Logo Trada.