Articles in the Cool & Future Tech Category
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I’ve recently been doing a lot of digging into quote/unquote “newer” browser capabilities, some of which are very cool. I will share what I’ve discovered as I go.
As always I’m using a little “test project” as my sandbox, this is a real-world website that’ll use all these features and I’ll share that when it’s done. So far I’m using oAuth/Twitter integration, ASP.NET MVC/JQuery as a basic stack and am adding in HTML5 and CSS3 features. The resulting site will not be pretty but the point for me is always to …
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, html5, Web Development, Web Experiments »
What is the new Canvas tag in HTML5 all about? And why would I use it over SVG (scalable vector graphics)? I took a look and here’s what I found out…
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The other day I converted the current WordPress theme of this site from XHTML Transitional 1.0 to HTML5. It was fairly easy so here’s what I did.
An XHTML 1.0 transitional website was a great place to start. I used the trusty w3c validator located at http://validator.w3.com.
First thing was to get the Doctype fixed up: I changed
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
to
<!DOCTYPE html>
and bingo, we’re recognized as HTML5 instead of XHTML. Not compliant yet though. I removed the profile attribute from my head tag as so:
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″> which wasn’t …
Cool & Future Tech, Electronics, Featured, Headline »
We’ve reached a point now where smartphones are ubiquitous. I myself have a Blackberry Curve, the iPhone 3Gs is out, the Palm Pre is there and by summer’s end a number of Google Android powered phones are expected.
So far the trend has been to build more and more computing power into the devices so they can run plenty of applications. That’s not where things are headed though.
Switching gears for a second back to traditional Desktop computing: Pano Logic [LINK] make a tiny little box that completely virtualizes the computer. …
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A number of folks have asked for detailed step-by-step instructions so here’s how I added a nice Carousel to the Arthemia theme running under WordPress. I use the free version of the Arthemia theme which doesn’t have a carousel out of the box. It’s easy to add one though and of course these instructions apply regardless of the theme you’re using so here goes.
I’ll assume you have WordPress installed, doesn’t matter which version.
Depending on the theme you use, the pages you’ll need to edit are located in a folder under …
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First install Silverlight v2.0 [HERE] then check this out: http://www.francisshanahan.com/zoom/ then come back and read the rest.
Silverlight 3.5 was announced recently so I finally took 5mins to look at their “Deep Zoom” technology. Deep Zoom provides a way to view a HUGE image by converting it into what they call an “image pyramid”. Similar to what Google Maps does. It just so happened that I have a thing that makes huge images. It’s a side project I’ve been working on for about 18 months now. Anyway, I fired it up …
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Did you know Formula 1 racing had become boring? No? Well join the club. I guess it was always fairly boring but apparently the cars are so advanced, with so much down force and grip that F1 felt they needed to re-write the rules to jazz things up. The new rules have re-shaped the cars to increase over-taking, reduce grip and even add boost. KERS is a go fast button that uses braking force to charge a battery, when fully charged the driver hits the button and can gain up …
Cool & Future Tech, General Computing »
The Loebner Prize finals are taking place today [LINK]. This is a Turing Test competition. A double-blind test where humans converse with a mixture of humans and computers. The human test subjects then have to determine which are which. If a computer succeeds at fooling the human into thinking it’s human, it’s said to have passed the Turing Test.
Finalists are Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene Goostman, Jabberwacky and Ultra Hal
Chat with A.L.I.C.E. [LINK]
Chat with Brother Jerome [LINK]
Chat with Elbot [LINK]
Chat with Eugene Goostman [LINK]
Chat with Jabberwacky [LINK]
Chat with Ultra …
Cool & Future Tech, Science »
Well it had to happen. Call it "boson peer pressure". The Large Hadron Collider has broken and needs repair[LINK]. What’s worse is it’ll have to heat up so the repairs can take place, otherwise the workmen would DIE in the cold. The collider will be out of commission until spring 2009. So the secrets of the Universe, the Higgs boson a.k.a. god particle, strangelets etc. will all have to wait.
Maybe they can get it turned on in time for the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan …
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Nice job on the rap and science here which pretty much sums up the Large Hadron Collider
The beams start flying EARLY Wednesday morning…[LINK]
