Friday, March 23, 2007

Firedoodle - Turn the web into a whiteboard!

Firedoodle - Turn the web into a whiteboard! And add intelligence to bookmarking while you're at it...

Welcome to Firedoodle

When you install Firedoodle, you add a whiteboard to every web page you visit using the Firefox Browser. This is great for reviews, jotting ideas, or just goofing off. You can also mark your place on looooong pages so if you need to leave and come back, you can easily pick up where you left off. It's easy to use and you can even save your highlights or placemarks if you register so they don't disappear when you close Firefox. You can find help here covering everything the add-on can do, or keep track of development on my personal blog.

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Flickr Multi Parameter Search

FlickrCash -- Fastr Flickr Searchr Savr Sharer - multi parameter search with negative keywords (e.g. "flowers -bees") - saved searches with rollback (to save your work selecting thumbnails) - shareable lightboxes with ratings (to enable clients to give feedback to designer) - we'll display the maximum number of thumbnails your screen can hold - you can email a lightbox link to a client so they can "heart" or "hate" your selections, like the following shareable lightbox Pastel Flowers - http://flickrcash.com... - here's a video demo of the basic features of the service - we're getting some pickup

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Computer-Generated Image Looks Exactly Like a Beautiful Woman

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It's hard to believe, but you're looking at computer-generated image of Korean actress Song Hye Kyo, created by Indonesian CG artist Max Edwin Wahyudi. To create this stunning shot, he used a combination of digital sculpting and design application Pixelogic Zbrush and animation modeling software Autodesk 3DS Max.

Now that's one remarkable piece of artwork—showing that the holy grail has been reached: computer-generated imagery of the human face that's indistinguishable from reality.

Making of the Korean Actress Song Hye Kyo [CG Arena]

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Experimental Touchscreen Makes iPhone Look Like a Toy

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The main draw of Apple's iPhone is its touchscreen interface, which can respond to two points of contact. What if you could have a touchscreen with an infinite number of points of contact? What would that do for computing as we know it? How would that change life as we know it? These are but a few questions raised by the ongoing research of Jeff Han, whose work at NYU might not only make him YouTube rich, but might put him in the same category as the Edisons and Farnsworths of the world.

Han has already sold a screen to one of the branches of the military. Companies are already developing rival technologies to prevent Han from cornering the market. And to top it all off, a video of Han feeling up his screen for the cheering mob.

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Flexible Battery Charges in a Minute, Lasts for 1,000 Recharges

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Scientists at Japan's Waseda University have developed a new new polymer-based battery, which not only charges in less than a minute, but also lasts for up to 1,000 recharges. The cool thing about the superthin (200nm-thick to be exact) battery is that unlike previous polymer-based batteries, this one won't won't self-discharge. All we need to do now is get it inside our favorite kit.

Flexible See-through Battery Power [GizMag]

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