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All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app | Crave : The gadget blog

All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app | Crave : The gadget blog: "All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app

Every few months, I come across something on the web that completely blows my mind. This morning, a friend of mine sent me a link to Nikon's Universcale web app. It puts the entire universe into proportion, from the smallest particle to the largest measurements of space.

From the femtometer to the light year, Universcale spans 40 magnitudes of measurement into a single cosmic web app. It's really amazing when you zoom all the way out into stars and galaxies and realize that every time you go a magnitude higher, everything you saw before, from the flea to Mount Everest, is contained in this tiny little grid in the lower-left side of the screen. Of course, the Carl Sagan-should-be-narrating-this planetarium music helps.

If you have a few minutes and want to feel really, really small (or really, really large, or really, really disoriented), check out Universcale. It will eat up your afternoon and enlighten you as to the true size and scope of the cosmos. Not bad for a Flash app."

Ego Food: In which I speak out of school, and likely sound quite smug doing so.

Ego Food: In which I speak out of school, and likely sound quite smug doing so.

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So I don't work on YouTube and I only barely know these very new Googlers. Those that I've met I like. They seem quite googley, engineery and are very competent. So, with that in mind, there are times as a Googler when you see the actions of those who would wish us ill and you think, very simply, "Go ahead."

Not like the George Bushian "Bring them on" but just... "Go ahead." as in... It's a big old world....if you make a bigger & better YouTube than we can, then terrific, do it.

And this bring me to the topic of todays post. Those last two , nikean, words.... Do It.

Don't say you're going to do it.

Do it.

You see this all the time in the computer industry.....a pr person calls a reporter or preps a press release and it talks about the grand innovation that they (and perhaps their pals) will bring to the market. It'll be great! It will change the world. It will be the Google of that particular vertical, market, or whatever.

Sometimes, when these are specifically targeted at my employer, she of the grand cafes and profligate collection of physioballs, I can only think if you do these things you speak of you will be doing us a great favor. Yes, I'm talking about the possible combination of...

News Corp, Microsoft, NBC, AOL, MSN and Yahoo.

I'm picturing the meetings. The posturing. The bandwidth provisioning. The advertising meetings. The legal reviews. The pr reviews. The plans. The emails. The cross-functional , inter corporate steering committees.

Who pays for what with what? Who is in charge? Who picks the content? Does anyone pick the content? Who can upload? What can they upload? When can they upload? How long will it take to transcode? Can a video be downloaded to iPod? Archos? Zune? Who will monitor the uploads?

The Layers.....oh god, the layers.....The managers, the lawyers, the executives, the ops people, the accountants, the lawyers, the programmers, the lawyers, the qa teams, the lawyers, the secops people, the users, the producers, directors, key grips and craft people. The talent, the fx houses, the compressors, the vast use of ffmpeg and all that entails. All from all the different companies.

Funnily enough, I don't wish them to fail. I truly believe that YouTube can continue it's remarkable path even in the presence of an efficiently functioning service like that being aspired to above. But....and I mean this.....I'm glad to not have to to be the one deploying the consortium based video site.

But they would have been better to have launched their site than to talk about it.

Secondly.....this week Microsoft got a -lot- of pr attention for announcing their intention to open source FoxPro.

Those of you who read my previous rant on the subject know that one of my favorite pet peeves centers on those that would claim open sourceyness when none is in evidence.

Microsoft says they will release source code into codeplex. This, my reportering friends in the media and on blogs, doesn't necessarily mean open source. This means that they are planning on releasing code into codeplex. No more, no less.

Until they actually do release the software onto codeplex, we have nothing but talk to rely on. It would be great if they release foxpro into open source , but until they do, it's just code you can't use. Again, nothing wrong with -not- releasing code into open source, but if it is not actually released under an open source licences, then it is just software.

So, end of today's post. The moral: Don't Talk. Do. Don't yammer. Launch. Release. Ship. FCS, you know?

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Be Free

To have a happy and a long healthy life, you need to keep your negative emotions under control. The more you display these emotions, you will lose the persons you use this against and most importantly, it will affect your health later with various illnesses. Also, these negative emotions builds in sadness in you that keeps piling more you do these. I can't prove these as facts or give scientific evidence but I think they are true. And these are not hard to follow.

"Be free for love always,

Be busy for anger, annoyance, arrogance, hate, exploitation, abuse, laziness, racism, indifference, inquisitiveness, fanaticism, lies, jealousy, bias, cheating, incest, nepotism, negativity, neglect, indecency, foul language, pride, premature judgment, mockery, lust,….

If you are free for the latter,
Then, others will be busy for you."

- Chris Veerabadran

Do you agree with this?

Funny Corporate Lessons: Review Boss

Corporate Lesson 1 : Naked Wife (For fun!)

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.

After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,…

“Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

Moral of the story:
If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 2

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, “I’ll give each of you just one wish” “Me first! Me first!” says the admin. clerk. “I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.” Poof! She’s gone. “Me next! Me next!” says the sales rep. “I want to be in Hawaii,relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.” Poof! He’s gone. “OK, you’re up,” the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, “I want those two back in the office after lunch.”

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.

Corporate Lesson 3

A priest offered a lift to a Nun. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said,”Father, remember Psalm 129?” The priest removed his hand. But,changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun
once again said, “Father, remember Psalm 129?” The priest apologized “Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.” Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, “Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.”

Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Corporate Lesson 4

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A rabbit asked him,”Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?” The crow answered: “Sure, why not.” So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.
A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Corporate Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, but I haven’t got the energy.” “Well, why don’t you nibble on my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.” The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it wont keep you there.

Women Love a Deluded Man

“So I made her smile, now what?” he says to me.

This was no small feet for him. It was the Art of Attraction workshop in Miami. He had never approached this many women in his life. And he made them all smile. They were attracted to him. But he had nothing else to say after the first 30 seconds. So he was ejecting from conversations.

You can open a conversation with a girl, but where do you go from there?

I start asking him questions about himself. Where he worked, what he likes to do for fun. What are his hobbies, what are his true interests? What was the most fun he had in the last month?

At first I found out he “worked in a kitchen.” But as we talked more, his answers revealed a whole different side to him. He loved cooking and passionately talked about it. He was into philosophy and loved being with his friends. He had an iconoclastic sense of humor.

Women want to see your passion. They want to know what you really care about.

I’m in love with music. I love to talk about it. I once mentioned to someone that I probably talk about music too much. But they said that they like to talk about it with me because they can see my face light up when I talk about it.

People can tell when you love what you’re into. Women love it.

This guy Osho has an interesting perspective on it:

Women love a deluded man. They are always searching for a deluded man, somebody who is mad and insane because they find a deluded man more attractive than an ordinary man. The insane, deluded man has certain magnetism; he is full of possibilities, dreams. Women love dreamers. That’s why women fall in love with people who have great illusions about themselves. An ordinary man is one who has no illusions; no woman is attracted towards an ordinary man. A deluded man looks magical. He has magic, his eyes flare up with something unknown, something not of this earth, something of beyond and that is the desire of the woman. He has the sense of possibility and that sense of possibility gives him the quality of magic. This is the reason lot many beautiful women hang around musicians, singers and actors.

Everybody is bored with their lives. There are few things more exciting than being with someone who is passionate about what they do.

You don’t need to be a rock star for women to be attracted to your passion. It can be whatever you are into, whether it’s rock climbing, chess, or stamp collecting. Your passion will come out.

Next time a girl asks “what you do?”, instead of monotonously giving her a job description, try answering the question “What are you passionate about?”

What are you truly interested in? What have you been thinking a lot about lately? What have you been reading about?

If you are going to take the time to connect with someone, why not talk about what YOU really WANT to talk about? It will show.

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Rock Your Google Calendar in 18 Ways «

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These are some tips to enhance Google Calendar. Check it out.

Image Mosaic Generator!

This is a neat online tool to generate a mosaic image from your picture. It is very easy to use. Just click the above link and it will ask you to upload a picture you want to generate a mosaic image.

Once the image is uploaded, it takes about 3 to 5 minutes for the mosaic image generation. Then you can save the image by clicking the button "download" (at the bottom of the mosaic image) into the computer.

Here is an example:

Leonardo da Vinci's Female Head (La Scapigliata)[/url], c.1508 also called as Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair or, Leda.


Original


Mosaic

You can surprise your friends and family by sending a picture of them like a mosaic image.

Create a Standalone Music Player

Create a Standalone Music Player:

This is a tutorial, how to create your own music jukebox, you can listen anytime.

1. Log on to Imeem.com.

2. Select your favorite song, click "Add to a Playlist" and create a name for the playlist if you don't have one.





3. Follow step 2 and add other songs to this playlist.

4. Once you are done with the playlist, click the "My Profile". You will see the "Playlist", click the "Playlist" to play all the songs.

5. Click the "Standalone Player" in the Playlist songs. It will pop up and it will play even when you close the browser.





You can have your own radio station, embed in any site, just have fun and share with your friends and family.

Here is the example of the standalone player. Click either to play all the songs here, or click the standalone player button to launch it into a new window.

How to remove misspelled words from your Firefox Dictionary

Remove misspelled words from your Firefox dictionary

We ain't none of us perfect, so if you've ever accidentally added a misspelled word to your Firefox dictionary, here's how to remove the misspelling to avoid looking like a fool in front of your friends, family, and coworkers:

1. Open your application data folder. On XP or Vista, go to your Start menu and hit Run (or just press Windows-R) and paste in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles; on your Mac, navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles.
2. Find your profile folder, which by default should look something like xxxxxxxx.default.
3. Inside your profile folder, find the file called persdict.dat and open it up in your text editor of choice.
4 Now just find the misspelling, delete it, and you're done.

Simple, huh? If you want to make your list of manual dictionary additions available on other Firefox installations, we've covered that, too. — Adam Pash

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Google Operating System: Add Gmail Features to Thunderbird

Google Operating System: Add Gmail Features to Thunderbird

If you use Mozilla's email client and you miss Gmail's features, there's an extension called GmailUI that may help you.

GmailUI lets you archive your mail to a folder to keep your inbox uncluttered, you can use a small part of Gmail's keyboard shortcuts and search operators like from: or subject:.

A good reason to use a desktop mail client is to manage more email accounts from a single interface. To make webmail services like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail work with Thunderbird, you'll have to download another extension and follow the instructions from this site. Unlike Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, that don't support POP3*, Gmail does and it's easy to configure in Thunderbird.

Gmail recently added a mail fetcher feature that works only with standard POP accounts.


* Yahoo Mail supports POP3 for the non-US accounts. To get POP3 for the @yahoo.com accounts, you need to pay $19.99 a year for Yahoo Mail Plus.