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August 2009

keybr.com - take typing speed test and practice typing online

by oseres & 3 others
Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the “speed of thought,” perhaps? Enter Keybr.com — the flash–based typing instructor you’ve been waiting for! Keybr.com is very straightforward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words–per–minute (wpm) — and even creates graphs of your day–by–day performance. But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare–bones, but oh, so functional. Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out. But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple — it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and e–mails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt–and–peck typing. If you are curious about how touch typing appears to onlookers, please watch a couple of short YouTube videos demonstrating really high typing speed:

Photoshop High Key Glow Effect Tutorial

by mozkart (via)
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to create a high key glow effect, which is a fancy way of saying we'll be applying a glow only to the highlights in an image. This effect works especially well with wedding portraits since it's great for adding a romantic, magical look to your photos, and wedding portraits usually contain lots of bright white areas to work with. We'll see how to easily select just the highlights in an image using Photoshop's Color Range command, then we'll copy the highlights to their own layer and create the glow effect using a blur filter and one of Photoshop's layer blend modes designed for lightening images. Finally, we'll combine layers into a layer group and use a layer mask to limit the areas where the glow effect is visibile. It may sound like a lot of work, but once you know how to do it, the entire effect can be completed in just a few minutes! I'm using Photoshop CS4 here, but any recent version of Photoshop will work.

txteagle | Mobile Crowdsourcing

by karlcow

There are over 2 billion literate, mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, many living on less than $5 a day.

Corporations pay people to accomplish millions of simple text-based tasks.

txteagle enables these tasks to be completed via text message by ordinary people around the globe.

Bintro - Online Business Matchmaking

by karlcow

What makes Bintro special is its use of advanced semantic technology for the purpose of matchmaking. There are no multiple choice questions. There are no numbered scales. All you need to do is describe yourself and your needs and Bintro will take care of the rest. All the words and phrases you use are analyzed to an extremely high level on the basis of similarity and usage. This process is completed within seconds and matches are presented to you as they become available. After this, Bintro will continue to find more matches for you every minute of every day.

Walter Vasconcelos at Drawger

by karlcow

Here's an illustration I recently completed.

I did for the Plansponsor Magazine, for the legendary AD SooJin Buzelli.

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse on Vimeo

by karlcow & 2 others

November 9th 2007 - November 13th 2008

one year on foot - 4646km through China

unlimited beard & hair growth

thelongestway.com

musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo

Additional info:

- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.

- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.

- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.

- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.

- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo - "Olive Tree" and 2) The Kingpins - "L'aventurier" - visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.

- This is not a strict "1 pic a day" video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.

- The core of this project is in fact my website "www.thelongestway.com" where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.

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July 2009

David OReilly Animation – PSS - Please Say Something - Internet turbodrama

by gregg & 1 other
PSS is a 10 minute short concerning a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. The final film was completed in January 2009 and contains 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each. Images from it can be seen on the Flickr Page. The film won the Golden Bear for best short at the 2009 Berlinale.

April 2009

Rapa Nui National Park

by innipukinn (via)
The resource requirements in manpower and services in the Park include additional ranger personnel and their training, the creation of a documentation centre on the island itself, and improvement of signage and visitor facilities. The new management plan currently being prepared with the active support of the world Monuments Fund will make a substantial contribution to the improvement of the present situation, it is recommended that this should be submitted to the world Heritage Committee for comment by the secretariat and by ICOMOS as soon as it is completed.

March 2009

The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo

by rickydrier & 1 other
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. Crisisofcredit.com The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

January 2009

Netlabel / Open Source Culture - Research Log by Bram Timmers

by mbertier (via)
Magyar This website has been created to show the progress of an academic research into the netlabel scene and its social and technical consequences for our reality and putting it in perspective with the open content movement . During the past months, I have kept you updated on the emerging results of my efforts to map and analyze this growing phenomenon, putting it in an academic perspective with several resources. The research is completed now, with many thanks to all of those who contributed. It is great to get many positive reactions from interested people, and I feel I would like to contribute even more to netaudio and academical, political and social awareness of it. For those interested, you can download the final research paper, by clicking the button below. Feel free to contact me for any comments, questions or suggestions!

A geek

by e4c5
May your projects be completed on time and may they not suffer from scope creep. May the suits realize that you are a hell of a lot smarter than they are. ....

November 2008

No Kahuna

by Spone (via)
Whether at work, home, or among your friends, we help you work together on projects big and small. Simply: * Set up your project(s). * Refine and distribute tasks. * Track them as they’re completed. There’s no fuss, no unnecessary features – just an easy, intuitive and reliable way to make sure everyone does their bit.

Linux.com :: Parallel SSH execution and a single shell to control them all

by camel (via)
Many people use SSH to log in to remote machines, copy files around, and perform general system administration. If you want to increase your productivity with SSH, you can try a tool that lets you run commands on more than one remote machine at the same time. Parallel ssh, Cluster SSH, and ClusterIt let you specify commands in a single terminal window and send them to a collection of remote machines where they can be executed. Why you would need a utility like this when, using openSSH, you can create a file containing your commands and use a bash for loop to run it on a list of remote hosts, one at a time? One advantage of a parallel SSH utility is that commands can be run on several hosts at the same time. For a short-running task this might not matter much, but if a task needs an hour to complete and you need to run it on 20 hosts, parallel execution beats serial by a mile. Also, if you want to interactively edit the same file on multiple machines, it might be quicker to use a parallel SSH utility and edit the file on all nodes with vi rather than concoct a script to do the same edit. Many of these parallel SSH tools include support for copying to many hosts at once (a parallel version of scp) or using rsync on a collection of hosts at once. Because the parallel SSH implementations know about all the hosts in a group, some of them also offer the ability to execute a command "on one host" and will work out which host to pick using load balancing. Finally, some parallel SSH projects let you use barriers so that you can execute a collection of commands and explicitly have each node in the group wait until all the nodes have completed a stage before moving on to the next stage of processing.

October 2008

QuickStart Configures Your Ubuntu System Without Terminal Work

by decembre
Linux only: QuickStart, a free automation utility for Ubuntu Linux systems, makes it easy to perform partial or full system backups of any partition, synchronize folders and update them on a schedule, and take care of other tasks a beginner would normally need to spend serious time researching. The tiny app opens a simple interface listing your choices, although dialog prompts guide you through any steps requiring input. The tools for installing DVD playing codecs, backing up your Master Boot Record, and creating synchronized backups seem particularly helpful, and while I haven't tested every function, a handful of them completed without any problems. QuickStart is a free download for Ubuntu systems only; both links below carry non-terminal installation instructions for the script.

July 2008

Handmade

by misspo & 2 others
Although it was completed nearly two years ago, Cisma can now release his lyrical short film, “Handmade,” into the wild of the interw3b.

June 2008

JavaScriptMVC

by redyrod
JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.

U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Works

by keusta & 1 other
The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to “orphan works”—copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate.

February 2008

JavaScriptMVC

by Xavier Lacot & 2 others
JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration. I just fear about the "JavaScript is awesome" that one can read in the product's homepage...

Surgery for Spinal Stenosis

by soul1383
A recent study completed at 13 spine clinics around the US, and published in the Feb. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that surgery yields more dramatic pain relief than non-operative care of spinal stenosis. The study also revealed t

memcachedb - Google Code

by znarf (via)

Memcachedb is a distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent. It is not a cache solution, but a persistent storage for high-frequency writing and reading. It conforms to memcache protocol(not completed, see below), so any memcached client can have connectivity with it. Memcachedb uses Berkeley DB as a storing backend, so lots of features including transaction and replication are supported.

EeePC

by lecyborg
The Asus EeePC is a low cost ultra portable notebook computer. To install Ubuntu on the Asus EeePC in it's stock form, you will have to create a USB based bootable installer or use a USB-connected CD-ROM drive to run/install Ubuntu. In addition to this, a few simple software modifications will have to be completed for hardware support.

Showcases | BBC - New generation of feed aggregators

by karlcow

A new generation of feed aggregators for Web 2.0 applications is being jointly developed by Asemantics and the British Broadcasting Corporation. As a first step in the process, Asemantics has completed the aggregator engine for the Memory Share service of the BBC. Asemantics has employed a novel approach based on Atom and optimised RDF/SQL data storages.

January 2008

USB Drive Systems

by cascamorto
I received 23 submissions to the contest and I have started to create some of these USB drive systems. System List This is a complete list of all the USB drive systems that I am either working on or have completed. I will also periodically update these systems. If the system is listed but there is no link to the system, then work is either in progress or it has not started.

Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL

by lecyborg
In this article you'll learn how to syndicate your own custom RSS feeds using PHP and MySQL. We'll first learn how to create two database tables and then how to retrieve data from them which will be formatted into an RSS feed. Here's an example of the completed RSS feed and a download link to the code. Let's start by taking a look at how to create the MySQL database tables.

December 2007

Parisian social housing goes green at EcoStreet - Raising Green Consciousness since 2002

by karlcow

Sustainable design architect Edouard François’s latest project changes the face of social housing in Paris. The project, Eden Bio, features terraced houses arranged along pedestrian alleys set within densely planted organic gardens. The upper level units will be reached by external timber gantries and staircases enclosed in greenery. The 100 social housing unit development will be completed in early 2008.

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