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Senseg - touch-screen tech uses electrostatic... →

Let’s put two of them face-to-face and see if they can play each other!

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Coming from a RAZR, I didn’t know the Galaxy S had GPS problems. Glad to see the GSII changes that! Yes, I am obsessed with getting this phone. No, I’m not under anyone’s payroll to post these… it’s just so frickin’ cool! (via Samsung Galaxy S II GPS — it works, it really works! (video) — Engadget)

Apr 29th

Apr 27th

Galaxy S II hits Korea with NFC payment system... →

Special notes: NFC payments are handled through an app The app is installed by Samsung at the factory (cannot be downloaded) Google is behind NFC for the U.S. (the article leads us to believe this means ‘payments’ as well) Credit Card companies are supporting NFC plans. Tech Specs: 13.56 MHz frequency for transmissions 10cm range

Apr 25th

Apr 22nd

Entrepreneurial or die! 3/4 of existing Fortune... →

“If the current trend continues, over 70 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will turnover from 2003 to 2013. In other words, over 3/4ths of the existing captains of industry will fall…” A few years ago, i had some discussions with co-workers that were more widget-development centric, but the same outcome was realized: the more we can put the power of programming into the hands of...

Apr 21st

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Video review: Samsung Galaxy S 2 - Warp speed captain! - Inspect-a-Gadget A few updates since my last search: Processors for US are expected to be 1.2Ghz (not 1.0) dual-core Onboard memory is now 16GB -or- 32GB, still has microSD as well Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 Near Field Communications expected for US 4G speed expected in the US I guess Apple is suing them over the design? If...

Apr 20th

“There’s a strong argument that says if you insist that people pay at least...”

– » Blog Archive The freemium flaw: get folk addicted, then jack up the price » blur Marketing

Apr 15th

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#thedhmn Forget about AR glasses, why not project data from inside the eye? ;) (via Tiny robot operates inside your eye | Video | Reuters.com)

Apr 12th

@thedhmn Best musical online toy ever! →

Apr 8th

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Zoom by pulling the phone closer to me? Isn’t that inherited from the super-abstract-class ‘Hand’? :P (via Samsung Galaxy S II motion zoom and rotate shown off on Video - iGyaan.in | iGyaan.in)

Mar 29th

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Building a Non-Trivial App in Node.js – Skookum... →

Some pros & cons experience from a the team who built ClickDummy, and a few gotchas to watch out. I like their teenager metaphor too :)

Mar 28th

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Mar 27th

KodeClutz: Code reading and Bug fixing 101 →

Never worked on a team project before? Always the lone-gunman? You might find this extremely helpful. I do even now :)

Mar 27th

Mar 26th

@thedhmn #dhmn Microsoft looking to 2015 for... →

Mar 26th

Samsung Galaxy S II passes first review test with... →

Mar 25th

Hanselminutes - →

A podcast with Elijah Manor and Dave Ward explaining why it’s important to learn JavaScript if you use it at all (hint: study Douglass Crockford). Stuff discussed (quickly paraphrased): How to go from beginner to apprentice to journeyman Namespace scoping (attach to an object, not the window) Read source code for patterns (jQuery for starters) Use Firebug (Firefox plugin) Unobtrusive...

Mar 24th

@thedhmn : Data to the People! Google Refine and...

Back in Nov, super tech-evangelist Bob Waldron shared a news story on Google Refine with us. Today, my pal Mark introduced me to an open source product called Data Science Toolkit. Seems it was successfully used to scrape data from 220 million Facebook user profiles. After he had this massive amount of data, he spent $100 for 10 hours of Amazon services to crunch it down to a usable database...

Mar 24th

Samsung Galaxy S II gets in depth preview -... →

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Mar 21st

jStat: It's Like R for JavaScript →

Library-independant statisticall functions, plotting using jQuery, jQuery UI and the flot plugin. They even have a plotting demo page. :)

Mar 19th

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HTC Desire S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II: Smartphone... →

Note that in the comparison table, they say it does not have HDMI out, but a comment below mentions it has MHL (USB/HDMI) to be used for HDMI out…. :)

Mar 17th

Samsung Galaxy S II India launch next month →

…closer… getting closer….

Mar 16th

“Benefits: Full medical & dental, catered lunch & dinner, biweekly...”

– [hiring] Looking for great programmer to work on eSports video : forhire It’s not too late to learn how to be a programmer. Granted, to get a job like this will take you 5 - 10 years of defending your code, but if you have 50-80 year left….

Mar 14th

The Geminoid DK robot digs into the uncanny valley... →

This would probably raise some hairs on the back of Nigel Powers head, but we are one step closer to making our own real-life avatars! Update: Okay, I confused Danish w/ Dutch. But how can anyone resist a reference to Goldmember? If only it was The Netherlands!

Mar 12th

Samsung Galaxy S II passes through FCC with AT&T... →

Oh yeah! My baby is getting closer! So, in all honesty, I probably won’t get this phone anytime soon - the priorities of paying off debts and gathering enough cash to grab space for the Distributed Hacker/Maker Network are just too high - but I am having a huge emotional affair with this phone. I admit it :) So I’m still near and dear to my current Razr v3.

Mar 12th

It’s time to stop using Subversion »... →

oooooo is SVN’s time done? I know many people who tend to agree with this….

Mar 12th