Archive for August 3rd, 2008

Aug 3

Smooth Javascript Image Zooming with FancyZoom

Cabel Sasser has released a JavaScript library called “FancyZoom” to view full-size photos and images inline on your web pages. FancyZoom provides a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like zooming effect, and is a more compact alternative to other zooming effects you might be familiar with, like Lightbox. Once loaded, it automatically attach to jpg, gif, png, bmp, or tiff link in
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Aug 3

IBM Pensieve: A human memory backup software

To help people remember key facts, IBM unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help people recall names, faces, conversations and other important information. The software dubbed as “PENSIEVE” uses associative recall to make connections between pieces of related data acquired by a person.
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Aug 3

MSDN Magazine August 2008 issue

The August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online.
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Aug 3

Buffalo readies 32GB, 64GB SSDs for Asus Eee PC 901

If you think the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop falls short of providing enough storage space for all your needs, then you might be interested Buffalo’s latest offering. The Japanese firm is reportedly working on an expansion board that plugs into the Eee’s mini PCI-Express slot and comes in capacious 32GB and 64GB sizes.
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Aug 3

Deep Zoom Composer updates “now with panoramic stitching”

The Deep Zoom Composer has been updated, which comes with major new features outside of the usual bug, performance, and stability changes include Panoramic Stitching and PhotoZoom upload. Now you can store and serve Deep Zoom photo albums you create on PhotoZoom, or upload photos from the Deep Zoom Composer. To help make uploading and
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Aug 3

IEEE finalizes FireWire 3200, USB 3.0 will be faster

The IEEE recently approved IEEE 1394-2008, a faster version of FireWire used for connecting PCs with digital video devices or external hard drives. The new classification will help increase the speed of FireWire from its current maximum of 800Mbit per second (with FireWire 800) to up to 3.2Gbit per second. Along with the S3200 that offers 3.2
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Aug 3

Sphere multi-touch computing – Video

Just when you thought the Surface was the coolest thing since sliced bread... enter the Sphere! This product is still in proto-type mode but even at this stage, you can't help but be impressed. At the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit I grabbed some one on one time with Hrvoje Benko, the lead on this project and found out
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Aug 3

Live Labs Shadow Box on the Surface

Jeff Weir and John Lynn work in the Microsoft Live Labs team (that's the group that created Photosynth). They also have a couple of Surface units in their office. So the two of them came up with an idea to build a little application called Shadow Box (or unofficially "nightmare box") that 'burns'
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Aug 3

Intel unveiled Larrabee GPU architecture

Intel publicly unveiled the basis of its Larrabee GPU architecture. Larrabee is fundamentally built out of existing Intel x86 core technology, which not only means that the chip design isn't foreign to Intel, but also has serious implications for the future of desktop microprocessors. Larrabee isn't however built on Intel's current bread and butter, the Core
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Aug 3

Windows Home Server Duplication Info addin

Duplication Info for Windows Home Server enables the user to see which files have been duplicated to a second hard drive, via Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender technology.
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