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This is a delightful must-read fictional short story that is available for free online or $0.80 on the Kindle. It’s about a peculiar book store, Google book scanning, information visualization, and immortality. The author is Current TV’s Robin Sloan.
Hopefully the Kindle platform and/or other quick online publishing solutions will encourage more short stories like this [...]
Making touchscreen phones accessible seems like an impossible challenge. But, the Eyes-Free Android project is working on it! Skip to about 2 minute mark for the demo.
[Gizmodo]
This is the best Wiimote hack that I have ever seen. A Japanese programmer has created a Nintendo Wii and Google Maps (Street View) proof of concept. Wii Fit was a giant step forward for exercising with video games. However, some things are a little clunky. For example, to run in place, you run around [...]
Yahoo! has been under a lot of pressure recently, and I think this video proves they’re alive and well. Plus, I think this made me smile more than the original Where the Hell is Matt video. Good work, Yahoo!, great idea. But, next time, allow embedding on your videos.
Google has rolled out some new features for labels in Gmail. Personally, I am a heavy user of labels, with almost 30 different labels. I have some filters that automatically assign labels (e.g. Newbury Comics weekly deals get assigned the “Shopping” label and skip my inbox) and I assign some labels on-the-fly.
Now, you can [...]
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