Droid X promo

Via: Geek.com

Verizon Wireless unveiled a Droid successor dubbed the Droid X at a New York event last Thursday, the day before the iPhone 4 launch.
The press conference was pretty much smooth sailing except for the Verizon PR staffers rudely preventing a Silicon Valley Insider journalist from filming a size comparison between the Droid X and iPhone 4. The journalists attending the conference were also shown the below promo video highlighting key features of the Droid X, including its 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen in 16:9 format, a 1GHz Texas Instruments processor, a dual-flash eight-megapixel camera with HD capture, 720p playback via HDMI, home electronics syncing with DLNA, the ability to turn the phone into a wireless hotspot for up to five WiFi devices, and more.

Yoono as a Twitter Client

Yoono is free software that allows you to connect and share with all your social networks and instant messaging services in one place. I’ve tried a lot of other applications that brought together my social web activities, like Pidgin (only Instant messaging), Digsby (very nice and more than only IM, but not portable) and Tweetdeck – beautiful UI, but, again, not portable and designed almost exclusively for Twitter.

When I discovered Yoono, life became worth living, or at least: I grokked finally how useful Twitter could be as a social dashboard, while still giving me the opportunity to IM and to share films and pictures. It is available as a Firefox add-on, that works fine with my desktop-version of Firefox, but for some arcane reasons didn’t talk with my portable Firefox. No problem, there is also a Portable desktop-version.

The desktop version has the “Discovery” feature for related websites and more, like the good old “Juice“- add-on (that isn’t compatible with Firefox > 3.5), so this feature is not available when I’m at my work.
well, you can’t always get what you want.

Via CrunchBase:

Yoono develops products designed to simplify social life on the web by centralizing all social networks and instant messaging in a single browser sidebar or desktop app. Yoono’s sidebar enables users to get friend updates automatically wherever they are on the web and update their status instantly across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social networks. Yoono also shows users personalized recommendations for related websites, products, videos, and more based on the page they are viewing. Users can share these discoveries with their friends via their social networks or IM clients.

Listography: life in lists

Create your personal database of lists: autobiographical lists, to-do lists, catalogues, wishlists, top tens, and more. Try the list topic generator.

http://listography.com

There once was also a "OnMyList"website, that I have tried one or two times. I made some listst there, but then I forgot about it. However, this is a new website with lists and the sample page looks more like the pageflakes of lists. LifeLogging in Lists!

Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks

Great video by Andrew Orton, aka solidbronze.

I don’t know how he did it. Also very nice is the “trailer of the third and lost Dalek film, made in 1967″.

Everyone knows that there were two Dalek films in the 1960s starring Peter Cushing. It’s not generally knwon that there was a third film made in 1967, based on the Doctor Who TV serial ‘The Chase’. The master print of the film was lost in a fire in the Aaru / Amicus archives before the film was officially released. In 2009, in a box of dusty, charred old film canisters in the basement of a church in northern England, I located the last surviving footage from this film.
All that survived was the trailer…

Sure

Some info about the Daleks is here, of course. Here is a screenshot of the Dalek, taken from Andrew Orton’s film:

More on Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Phrases from THHGTTG.

Time Tracking

Computers make us more productive, at least when we use the computer simply as a tool for realizing your ideas. When I have the  1% inspiration, my computer will do the 99% perspiration, which allows me to have some more inspiration or enjoying some free time.
And there I hit the problem: will I use the computer as a workhorse, where it actually has been invented for, or as a collection of games (I admit, sometimes I do play Chess or Go at my computer), like a communication centre (Skype, IM, SocialWeb), or simply as a multimedia collection of mp3′s, funny pics and movies (don’t ask)?
The only way to know is to track the time you spend behind your screen to evaluate your behaviour. There are several applications avaialable on the web, all with their own pros and cons. However, you can’t have all the goodies in the store, so I use Manic Time, especially while it stores a lot of data, all locally.

That is also the downside of it, because who on earth only works at only one computer? So time you spend behind your computer is only partially measured.
Recently – I didn’t visit their website for a longtime – I noticed they also build a portable version and that, as you, dear reader, may know, is entirely my thing! So now I have Manic Time on my 350G Portable Disc and I can log all my activity wherever I am.
Okay, ManicTime is a private thing, and there is nothing wrong with that, but this is not the purpose of the Web 2.0! You should share everything you do – and this is also a great incentive to be as productive as you can. So, is you go all the way and want to confess to the public about your counterproductive behaviour you should use Wakoopa, that has everything including widgets for your Blog and full Facebook integration.
Another tool is the Toggl-timer. This is a great tool if you have your own business and want to determine what to charge your clients (supposed this is time-based).

Pi – Songs at YouTube

I’ve posted on Pi before, here about pi-day in Second Life, and here, a year later, and both with pi-day (March 14th, written as 3/14) as the immediate cause. I don’t like to repeat myself, so the last years I’ve celebrated pi-day on my own, watching some pi-video’s at youtube. However, this post about pi is without reason: pi-day is already over and pi-approximation day (22/7) is still far away, but I found some interesting video’s I would like to share.
It is difficult to memorize the digits (my personal record now is 30), but a song will help you, here is a video:

Lyrics:

3.
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This one is also interesting, based on “Don McLean’s “American Pie”:

And here: the Pi(ano) – song: 3.1415 92653 58979 32384 62643 38327 transformed into a piano tune, following the algorhythm: 1 = c, 2 = d etc.

Again: Life-Logging

I wrote a short post about my own Life-Logging activities on my Dutch weblog. This triggered some mixed responses from people who don’t understand the whole concept and others who became interested. It sprouted a new project – more about that soon.

Ich weiss schon was dahinter steckt. Und was denn weiter? – Ein Projekt! (Goethe – Faust)

This week I found this interesting post on collecting data about yourself – since governments are tracking your behavior anyway, why shouldn’t you want to gather some fascinating information about yourself?
Google Latitude, Foursquare, 4Mapper and Spiggler are the services mentioned.
Other interesting links:

• Total Recall Book
• The Quantified Self
• LifeLogging: 22 Tools for Storing Your Life Online
• Justin.tv: create live video and show anyone in the world what’s happening right now.

The Secret Powers of Time

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being.

Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

Here is a beautiful presentation of Zimbardo’s ideas with some very interesting observations.

Live Matrix – a TV Guide for The Web

Live Matrix is a new project by Sanjay Reddy and Nova Spivack. Spivack was the man behind Twine, a semantic bookmarking service, that was sold recently to Evri. Live Matrix will organize anything taking place on the web. Audiocasts, auctions, chats, MMO games, etc. According to TechCrunch they’re up to 80,000 scheduled events every week, and growing quickly.
Invitations for events are called “RSVP’s” (The term RSVP comes from the French expression “répondez s’il vous plaît”, meaning “please respond”. If RSVP is written on an invitation it means the invited guest must tell the host whether or not they plan to attend the party. Via about.com)

Playing to Learn

I found this accidently; it is a Prezi presentation about a theory of learning.

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The theory is interesting (although not entirely new), but the presentation itself is a good sample of the possibilities of Prezi.

.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } Academy: Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes on Prezi