Tag: software

We-Fi

Our goal is to make open Wifi act more like a wireless infrastructure that can compete with 3G networks, except freely created and shared by the users. We want to be able to get on fast, free Wifi wherever we go, so we’re building the tools to make that possible. Today we are releasing the first version of our client that replaces the wireless connection manager in Windows. It tests all the networks around you and automatically connects you to the best one. Metrics about all the access points users see are reported to our server, and we show them on a map, so you can see where there is open Wifi coverage – updated constantly, in real time, by the WeFi users.

any headway into the fearmongering surrounding open wifi is good. Tests all the networks around you and automatically connects you to the best one. Metrics about all the access points users see are reported to our server, and we show them on a map.

iPhoto

as usual with apple apps, way overblown. this POS can’t even apply corrections to multiple photos at once.

Google Map Image Cutter

an application designed to take any image and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map. Using this tool, large images can be published on the web in a format that allows the user to pan and zoom using the standard Google Maps interface.

Music OCR

Zenph is creating building blocks for the musical equivalent of software you know from text and graphics. Our first offering is a service that’s something like “OCR (optical character recognition) for piano recordings.” We take piano recordings and convert them back into the precise, nuanced keystrokes and pedal motions that would have been used to create them. This is done in a new format which can be played back with phenomenal reality on corresponding computer-controlled grand pianos. Horowitz, Glenn Gould, and Art Tatum can literally play “live” again. Consider the potential for extracting “artistic DNA.” What distinctive things did Horowitz do that made him unique as a performer?

Software — Cheap!

(1) I can buy Quicken for $79, therefore (2) it will cost a LOT more than $79 to write my own clone of Quicken — maybe as much as 3x as much, but (3) I’ll cut it down to an even $200 as a starting point for negotiations.

Layoffs at IBM, Novell

IBM is laying off half of its massive Global Services group. The RIF starts with 1300, and is expected to hit as many as 150K employees.

having worked in consulting, good riddance. a world without dim-witted consultants is a better one.

StuffIt Expander

download location without having to sign up for their spam

Master Color

The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?

Desktop Last.fm

Wakoopa’s tracker logs what applications you use and for how long, updating your personal profile every 15 minutes. On the website, the aggregate data lists the most recently used applications and most used applications of all time. Each application has a profile that lists the people and groups who use it, reviews, and tags.

on the other hand, microsoft already has all this usage tracking infrastructure, but what are the chances of that being widely available? maybe all this data could lead to non-annoying clippy suggestions. that would actually be kind of awesome.

Uncensor the Internet

There’s an article on-line from Money Magazine called “50 Bulls**t Jobs.” That’s right. Bulls**t. With those 2 asterisks in there. Come on. We know what word they mean. So why not just say it? If they think we’re adult enough to be reminded of the word, why don’t they think we’re adult enough to see the actual word?

see all the foul language that people are pretending they don’t use.