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Chronories diary software for Mac

Jan 22, 11 Chronories diary software for Mac

Posted by in Apple, Blog, Tech

It must be tough to market this app. ‘Diary’ is too small a term for what this programme does, but there isn’t really a snappy way to advertise a ‘diary – weather tracking – mood mapping –  web history – music recording and more’ piece of software. If you want to keep a diary,...

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Always the fucking turtleneck

Jan 19, 11 Always the fucking turtleneck

Posted by in Apple, Blog, Featured Articles, Tech

Even as a confessed Apple fanboy, I do wonder whether I should be concerned over their last set of results. It’s not that they’re doing well – they’re doing phenomenally well. The Mac App Store saw one million downloads in its first day, and iTunes is heading towards its 10 billionth download. They sold 7m...

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Augmented reality, take 2

Jan 12, 11 Augmented reality, take 2

Posted by in Featured Articles, Tech

Maybe my previous post re the Word Lens application wasn’t ambitious enough.  Not withstanding the odd spoof site, a monocular iPhone attachment isn’t in the works as far as we know. But why bother wearing it behind your ear? Swiss company Sensimed has already released an active device which measures glaucoma via a...

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Finally, finally happy with the blog

Jan 11, 11 Finally, finally happy with the blog

Posted by in Blog, Featured Articles, Tech

With high-end web publishing applications, you can create mind-blowingly zowwy pages. For the rest of us, things have moved on a bit from the days of hand-coding HTML in Notepad. I first looked at WordPress a couple of years ago, with a view to creating a meteorite/astro blog. After posting a few items I quickly grew bored, mainly...

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Don’t screw with hackers :)

Jan 03, 11 Don’t screw with hackers :)

Posted by in Tech

This is very funny. Good stuff starts about 3m 15s in.

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Autotranslation software is getting there

Jan 02, 11 Autotranslation software is getting there

Posted by in Tech

Some years back it was thought that speech generation and recognition were tough, but soluble, problems. Speech generation is largely good enough for practical purposes, although still very lacking in emphasis, emotion and intonation. Speech recognition turned out to be much harder than anticipated, although slowly improving over...

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