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TED | Talks | Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote (video)
by sbrothier
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.
14 April 2008
Photonic: A Flickr desktop client for Mac OS X
by sbrothier
Working with a lot of photos to upload can be a pain, especially with any sort of web-based interface. No matter how well-designed the interface is, you're still in a web browser and suffer from the limitations therein. The answer to effectively organizing and uploading tens, or even hundreds, of photos to Flickr is to use a desktop application specifically designed to help you accomplish this task. Enter Photonic.
Sean Patrick O'Brien : UI & Resolution Independence
by sbrothier
I, like most developers, love shiny new user interfaces. Rounded corners, gradients, drop shadows, custom drawing — all of these things make me smile. What I don’t love, though, is an application that can’t draw with resolution independence and whose Resources folder weighs in at around 100MB. It seems that almost every new app (with a few notable exceptions) handles its custom UI needs by filling the Resources folder with bitmaps of every part of their interface in every possible state. To draw their controls, they tape these bitmaps back together on the screen and call it a day.
11 April 2008
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scalr - Google Code
by camel
Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2.
It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI's for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, others), and a generic AMI to build on top of.
The health of the farm is continuously monitored and maintained. When the Load Average on a type of node goes above a configurable threshold a new node is inserted into the farm to spread the load and the cluster is reconfigured. When a node crashes a new machine of that type is inserted into the farm to replace it.
4 AMI's are provided for load balancers, mysql databases, application servers, and a generic base image to customize. Scalr allows you to further customize each image, bundle the image and use that for future nodes that are inserted into the farm. You can make changes to one machine and use that for a specific type of node. New machines of this type will be brought online to meet current levels and the old machines are terminated one by one.
The project is still very young, but we're hoping that by open sourcing it the AWS development community can turn this into a robust hosting platform and give users an alternative to the current fee based services available.
07 April 2008
04 April 2008
The Highly Extensible CSS Interface ~ The Series ~ Authentic Boredom
by vrossign
& 1 other
Une série de 4 articles pour construire une interface riche et extensible
03 April 2008
Openfiler — Openfiler Community
by camel
Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler ScreenshotsOpenfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Openfiler is built on the rPath Linux metadistribution and is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source.
File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5.
Openfiler includes support for volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (target and initiator), scheduled snapshots, resource quota, and a single unified interface for share management which makes allocating shares for various network file-system protocols a breeze.
02 April 2008
01 April 2008
PHP File Upload Configuration
by camel
& 1 other
Though PHP presents a very versatile and user friendly interface for handling file uploads, the default installation is not geared for working with files in excess of 2 Mega Bytes. This article will help you configure your PHP engine for handling such large file transfers.
30 March 2008
27 March 2008
Le tactile à portée de main
by Ousonmetong
Lorsque l'on parle de nouvelles interfaces tactiles, les premières images qui viennent à l’esprit sont celles de Minority Report, vues dans le film d’anticipation de Steven Spielberg. Il se pourrait bien que l’ingénieur Jeff Han nous offre cette ...
Remastersys - Cedynamix
by camel
& 1 other
(via)
Basé sur le script mklivecd (Mandriva), la dernière version de Remastersys a été complètement réécrite pour des problèmes de compatibilité avec Ubiquity et Casper, ayant pour causes de nombreuses dépendances spécifiques à Mandriva. Cette dernière version offre une interface graphique qui permettra aux réfractaire de la ligne de commande de pouvoir bénéficier d'un outil que l'on pourra comparer aisément dans l'univers Windows à Norton Ghost de par son utilité.
Remastersys est donc un outils qui permet créer et de partager une installation de Ubuntu (et de toutes ses versions dérivées) à partir de votre installation actuelle.
* On peut faire un Backup du système comprenant toutes vos données personnelles sur un Cd/Dvd que vous pouvez utiliser n'importe où et que vous pouvez aussi installer ou réinstaller.
* On peut créer une copie distribuable (LiveCd) que vous pouvez partager avec des amis. Elle ne contiendra aucune de vos données personnelles.
25 March 2008
20 March 2008
Fluency Admin at deanjrobinson.com
by sbrothier
Despite the huge overhaul that the WordPress admin interface has received its still not quite what I would really like. I had grown quite attached to the Tiger Admin theme by Steve Smith and when I found that it didn’t work with WP2.5 I was a little disappointed. But this gave me the opportunity to do something different, my own admin theme. Fluency is the result.
