Category: computers

Elon Musk claims arm-wave design tech

Hyper-rich inventor claims to have cracked Iron Man-inspired design process

In a very meta piece of invention, PayPal hecamillionaire Elon Musk has promised that the 3D gesture-hologram system used by Musk-inspired Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies could soon be a reality.

The entrepreneur tweeted that he had come up with a way to let people design industrial parts with a few waves of their hands. Musk also promised to post a video of himself creating a rocket part with hand gestures and then immediately printing it in titanium sometime this week.

Musk said it was a case of life imitating art, tweeting to Iron Mandirector Jon Favreau that he’d been inspired by the scenes of Tony Stark designing his upgraded Iron Man suit in the movie.

Sadly, he has no plans to actually make an actual Iron Man suit and start saving us all from the military-industrial complex.

Meanwhile, Musk’s electric carmaking firm Tesla Motors saw its market value inch over $20bn for a short while yesterday, as sales increases gave investors confidence that the billionaire can keep folks interested in e-cars.

The company finished the day with stocks at a record $164.22, putting its market capitalisation at $19.94bn. Earlier in the day Tesla shares had reached a peak of $173.

Despite early teething problems, Tesla is now riding high as its Model S is the third-best selling luxury sedan in California, the biggest US market, according to the California Auto Outlook of the second quarter. ®

 

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Android apps now playable on Windows PCs

The 117MB file creates a little widget on the desktop. When launched, it offers a list of available apps. As it stands there is no Android Market support, although Bluestacks has its own Apps Channel with a small selection of utilities and games.

The company has also released an app called Cloud Connect. It can be downloaded from the Android Market and lets users send apps from their handsets to a PC, thus opening doors for any Android software to run on the Windows platform.

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How cool is that?

Will try and test if I ever find time.

Enjoy fellow readers.

Ever had a bad computer day? This should help!

Anytime I start to have some computer troubles, screen freezes, code not working right in some browser or another (eh-hem IE) I like to take a moment and let this guy take out my fustrations for me

Best video ever..Always makes me smile. Enjoy!

The guy in the cubical next to him really pulls this clip together

Store 20GB in a square centimeter? New tech coming

HP scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of memristors, a fundamental circuit type that looks increasingly likely to replace NAND flash and possibly DRAM.

Essentially, they’ve figured out the physical and chemical mechanisms that make memristors work.

“We were on a path where we would have had something that works reasonably well, but this improves our confidence and should allow us to improve the devices such that they are significantly better,” the leader of the HP research team, R. Stanley Williams, told IDG News.

Memristors are the fourth fundamental type of passive circuitry, along with the resistor, capacitor and inductor. Like flash, memristors are nonvolatile – they “remember” their state when power isn’t applied to them.

The core advantage of memristors is that they can theoretically achieve speeds 10 times that of flash at one-tenth the power budget per cell. They can also be stacked, enabling exceptionally dense memory structures.

Memristor cells can also be built using exceedingly small fabrication processes. Using a grid of nanowires whose crossing points form the memristors, Williams told The New York Times that HP Labs has working devices with three-nanometer memristors that switch on and off in about a nanosecond and could store 20GB in a square centimeter.

HP has known for some time how memristors can store bits. Simply put, a charge applied to a memristor moves what Williams calls a “oxygen vacancy” from one layer of a titanium dioxide semiconductor to the other,…Read More at the source.

How to add A2DP support to Windows 7

Windows 7 came with no A2DP support and MS asked bluetooth hardware manufacturer to add this feature in driver upgrade. All bluetooth hardware on laptop where most of the time we need A2DP are made by Broadcomm (widcomm software), Toshiba or CSR. The last 2 manufacturer seem to have A2DP in Vista which should work in W7 but for Broadcomm nothing around.

I followed the steps and worked great for my Motorola S305 Bluetooth Stereo Headset


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Stephanie Lichtenstein Message on Affiliate Tax

Hello everyone,

Some of you may have already seen the awareness badge on several blogs. This is an effective and easy way to spread awareness. This is an icon displaying our concern against the advertising tax as well as all the states being affected. Please feel free to add this to your blog or site.

The most important thing you can do is link the awareness badge to an educational resource that relates to the advertising tax. There are many you can link to such as:
http://affiliatevoice.com
http://performancemarketingalliance.com
Our Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77931506576&ref=ts
Affiliate Tax Law Forum: http://forum.abestweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=543
You can even link to an advocate blog such as Melanie Seery: http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/

Link where you wish, the idea is to spread awareness and education about the harm that the advertising tax causes.

Here are the banner HTML codes:
<a href="http://affiliatevoice.com/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge125.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="125" height="125" /></a>

<a href="http://http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77931506576&ref=ts/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge160.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="160" height="160" /></a>

<a href="http://performancemarketingalliance.com/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge250.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="250" height="250" /></a>

I have added different website links which you can edit. The awareness badge looks like the new facebook group icon but it is flashing with the affected States along with their Bill numbers. A big thanks to Joel Garcia for creating this for us. If you have any ideas on how to help, run with it! Every little bit counts.

As you can see in California we were victorious. We still need to keep an eye on things. As for Minnesota, we need more affiliates in this State to step up. Connie has been working hard and would love some support from other MN affiliates. Please feel free to email me with any questions or ideas.

Thanks and have a great weekend!Thank You Stephanie for the hard work you and the many others that have been putting into this. I’ve posted a badge and pass the word along to some of the local groups I attend.

Corrupt preferences file in photoshop

Photoshop acting bugging on you?
It started to do so to me today.

My particular Foobar reared its face in the form of “invisible images.”
That’s where you open a file and you can see all the layers in the Layers Pallet, but the work area is blank. Just an empty gray background just as if you had not even opened anything.

Ok the fix is much simpler than pulling out the install disk and going through all of that mess. Besides that would require you to save all sorts of plugins, brushes, action scripts, hotkeys, and anything else you have made custom to you give you a more productive and creative workflow.

Just erase your current preferences file and see if that fixes your photoshop woes.
Here’s how:

After starting Photoshop DO NOT WAIT for the the splash screen, and quickly press and hold <Alt><Control><Shift> simultaneously, if you are on a windows system. On a Mac press and hold <Option><Command><Shift>.

That little fix seems to fix about 85% of photoshop woes.

Oh, be sure to note any changes you have set-up in your preferences file, like scratch disk, units & measurements etc. Those are what you are resetting!

Happy Designing…

Dreamweaver has java errors.

As I was working today just fine when Dreamweaver 8 started acting up and spitting out errors.

The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:

At line 56 of file “D:Program FilesMacromediaDreamweaver 8ConfigurationSharedCommonScriptsdwscriptsExtData.js”:
ReferenceError: dwscripts is not defined

Well a search on the ole’ google turned up others have been having this trouble for years.

I would like to thank Heidi Bautista and her tip on how to fix this and cyberskillsguide  for helping find those pesky files that I swore were in another folder.

*note: Yes, I did have the hidden files in view mode.

Ok work flow continues, but still wonder what corrupted that file. Maybe a new Extension I added a few days ago…maybe

If this happens to you, hope this helped you out like it did for me.

Google Phone Approved By FCC

 

I have been wanting to get an iPhone for some time now. I am already with ATT and just learned that the plans include "unlimited" internet for about 5 dollars more than I pay now. I have also just learned that the new Gphone named "DREAM" is a go for google.

Main article I read is here

Latest News

The long anticipated and first Android handset, the HTC Dream is all set for a Fall 2008 Release. You can expect the phone to have some great features and specs to illustrate the power of Android, Google’s new open source mobile operating system.

and to get a even more information on what the DREAM is go here

 

Hmm now I wonder if I’ll just wait and see what shakes out of the competition. The 4 year old razor still works fine.