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Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
iphone app for skin cancer
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Wow, this does look cool. Skin scan is an app on the iPhone or iPod touch that analyses a spot on your skin to examine if the spot looks like melanoma. Techcrunch has more of the details.
The app takes a picture of a mole on the skin, then uses a proprietary algorithm to look at the fractal-like shapes which exist in human skin (have a look up close, you can see little triangles in normal skin, honest). It then calculates if the shape of the mole means it is is developing normally, or abnormally thus in a into a potential cancerous melanoma.
New form features in HTML5
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
I’ve read many articles about how fantastic HTML5 is going to be. But I haven’t really seen many articles showing how it can enrich the end-user experience until I saw this post on the Opera website. It details all of the new elements that are available to web developers in the new standard.
HTML5 aims to standardise some of the most common rich form controls, making them render natively in the browser and obviating the need for these script-heavy workarounds.
Firefox 4
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Version 4 of Firefox had just been released. Already over 6 million downloads have been registered. Just got it myself and all of my addons don’t work. But it does look more modern and seems faster. What’s interesting is that I found out about it on the new linked in feature of top discussions.
Windows Live Writer
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
A test using Microsoft’s blog editor. I just downloaded it. Is it the standard for blog writing? The others I used in the past have not been updated in quite a while.
Oracle Vs SAP
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The Financial Times covers the Oracle Vs SAP courtcase which starts on Monday. What was particularly interesting if you work in this area and thought about developing some utilities what could bolt-on to any of that software is the last paragraph.
The theatre has obscured a more serious side to the TomorrowNow trial.
Through its lawsuit – and another case against a similar company called Rimini Street – Oracle has left a chill over the independent maintenance business, according to some analysts.
“Oracle is using that tactic to intimidate entrants into the market,” says Paul Hamerman, an analyst at Forrester Research.
With more than 70 per cent of his software revenues coming from maintenance and support, the tactic is understandable.
Asus Tablet
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Now this is an interesting device which was reported by laptop mag has reported. The article also mentions a device where a 12 inch table can attach itself to a keyboard to transform itself into a notebook. However, I’m a fan of devices becoming as small as possible but also to be usuable. The iPad (which I saw for the first time yesterday) is too heavy and too big for my liking. That’s what makes the third device to interesting.
As a note-taker, the Eee Tablet could hardly offer more functionality. Its stylus uses Wacom technology to give it an incredibly smooth drawing / hand writing experience. But if writing down notes or drawing diagrams when you’re in a meeting or class is not enough, why not take a picture of the whiteboard? The Eee Tablet has a back facing camera that will take photos of anything and let you annotate it. You can also record sound while you take notes. So just imagine recording a college lecture and then playing it back while you read the notes and look at photos of the whiteboard.
It seems to me to be something business people would take to in droves. The iPad is notoriously unhelpful for productive tasks like writing, there is no camera and as far as I’m aware, there is no microphone. The ASUS tablet has all three. It seems that ASUS has stolen a march on their competitors yet again. Watch them try and catch up.