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August 22, 2005

Remote-Controlled Humans

Remote-Controlled Humans - Forbes.com
Yikes!!!

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Wikipedia - Spoken

Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Very nice.. I will have to get a feed of these.. (RSS included) Too bad my iPod doesn't play Ogg files.

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Everybody else is doing it, here is how you can do it too..

Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications

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Local Report

local report: home
For those of you wondering what I have been up to for the past month or so, here is your answer: Called, Whitman Local Report, this is a performance piece utilizing mobile phones to create a montage of video "reports" and phone "reports" all in real time (live).
I created some custom software that runs on the phones (Nokia 6710's) to shoot and automatically upload video from the participant's phones (30 of them) and more software to playback the videos as they come in (with some controls for play, pause, stop, next and previous).
Hans, my technical collaborator, took care of setting up an Asterisk server and queue to receive the phone in reports and play those out as they came in.
We have one performance to go, please tune into the live stream, come to the live event or check it out afterwards. The previous 4 are available now if you would like a taste.

Here is some press that I just came across: Art and Innovation Collide

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Launch those JARs

SourceForge.net: launch4j 2.0.RC3 released
From the site:
Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found.

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The XML You Need to Know for Web Services

The XML You Need to Know for Web Services
Article title says it all...

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Developer.com: Open Source Article Index

Open Source Article Index
Looking for an article to help you get started with Ant or Subversion (or many other Open Source technologies), this is a good place to find them..

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August 21, 2005

Mobile phone to Skype..

Usefulapps - Skype and VOIP for Nokia and more cellular phones,
smartphones and PDAs over Bluetooth, WiFi, GPRS and 3G

Very nice! Can't wait to get to work to try!

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InstantSOUP, an electronics cookbook.

InstantSOUP - Cover
From the site:
InstantSOUP is a path into electronics using an approach of "learning by making", introducing electronic prototyping in a playful, non-technical way. It was developed following the experience gained in teaching physical interaction design at Interaction-Ivrea.

Uses the ealier linked to Wiring language and prototyping board.

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August 20, 2005

Servlet/AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX) With Java 2
Of course, AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
Just completing my research for my next project which will use AJAX, Derby and Servlets instead of my standard LAMP development styel.

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IBM/ASF Cloudscape/Derby (in terms of MySQL)

IBM's Cloudscape Versus MySQL
I loathe articles that pit one piece of software vs. another but this one has a good explanation of Cloudscape/Derby (IBM's recently open sourced java embeded database). Sounds pretty nice.. Perhaps my next project will veer from my standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) environment and go the AJAX/Servlet/Derby route..

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Why AJAX (finally) works

The Return of AJAX?
Good discussion regarding why AJAX took so long to hit.

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August 11, 2005

Working with Binary Files in Java

Heaton Research :: Working with Binary Files in Java
Good article about working with Binary Files in Java.

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Processing Moving into the Mobile world

Processing 1.0 (BETA)
From the site:
http://mobile.processing.org (coming soon)
Processing Mobile, a programming environment and library for writing software
for mobile phones.

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Processing and PComp come together

Wiring
From the site:
Wiring is a programming environment and electronics i/o
board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and
learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics. It illustrates
the concept of programming with electronics and the physical realm of
hardware control which are necessary to explore physical interaction design
and tangible media aspects

Very nice.. A compiler (Java/Processing) and board for physical computing type work.

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August 09, 2005

DTV for MacOS X released

Participatory Culture: News and Ideas
From the site:
This is a big day for us we just released a Beta of DTV for Mac OS X.

Nice interface, easy to use.. Great stuff!
A couple of important things missing: Comments and Permalinks to the vlog entries. Vlogs aren't vlogs without them.

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OnTV: Open Source Video Blogging and Streaming Subscription and Viewing

ONTV: Ideas Through Digital Content
An alpha release with some nice features such as searching, marking as a favorite, sending to friends and so on. Includes the ability to view streams.. Very nice..

From the site:
The Internet is filled with
innovations,
artistic expressions and independently created entertainment. Our goal
is to make that digital content easy to find, view, share and manage.
ONTV builds conduits between you and others, to enable the exchange of
thoughts, ideas, and emotions, embodied within digital content.



With the Beta Release of I/ON,
we hope to begin to make our vision a reality. I/ON is an Internet
Video Console that allows you to watch the web - accessing rich media
content directly, on-demand.

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Modes of Media Delivery

Streamingmedia.com: Multiple Delivery Mechanisms for Streaming
Interesting discussion regarding some obscure and emerging areas of content delivery: P2P, Quality Layers and Personal Area Networks.
From the article:
P2P, personal area networks, and progressive layering of downloads are just a few of the mechanisms that will ensure streaming's success in the future.

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Small, Java BitTorrent Suite

The Hunting of the Snark Project - BitTorrent Application Suite

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Freenet - Anonymous File Distribution on the Internet

The Freenet Project - whatis - beginner
From the site:
Freenet is free software which lets you
publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of
censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely
decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without
decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.

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Cron and Crontab usage and examples

Cron and Crontab examples and usage
Title says it all..

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Conference: Online Video and the Future of Television

Online Video and the Future of Television - PrimeTime
From the site:
This one-day conference, created by Archival.tv and Intelligent Television (http://www.intelligenttelevision.com), brings together archivists, educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online video and television content. Demonstrations and interactive panel discussions will highlight new video technologies, services, legal issues, and economic models. Participants from diverse -- and until now, largely disconnected -- specialties will be especially encouraged to interact.

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Darknet: J.D.'s New Book is out

Darknet
From the site:
Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation is a new book that offers first-person accounts of how the personal media revolution will impact movies, music, computing, television and games

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August 04, 2005

Nokia J2Me Issues *big issues*


Russell Beattie Notebook - Nokia 7650 J2ME Sockets Fun

Russell, thank you. You just saved me hours of trying to figure out why available() wasn't ever returning anything other than 0.

I also want to point out that Nokia's Java support while seemingly great from the outside is dismal once you get into it.

For instance, on my 7610, not only is the function you describe broken but so is the the vibra function in the Nokia UI (their own classes!) as well as the backlight functions.

I have been working on a project for weeks and still have mysterious *poofing* (the app just goes away, no exceptions, no nothing, just poof, gone, kaput) issues with no hope for resolution.

On top of that, I know I am using an older version of the firmware. Ok, how do I get that upgraded? If I was in Europe it seems everyone does it but in the US, nada.

Sad..

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