Technology category
Adobe's Apollo
What if you could take all your (X)HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, Flex to the desktop, we used to use those technologies on a browser but what's Adobe is offering now is a new cross-platform runtime environment called Apollo that lets building and deploying RIA available to the desktop.
March 19, 2007, 11:32 PM Comments 1 TrackBack 0
Water harvester
The water harvester new invention that sucks in the air in separate water from it and get out pure water could generate 500 Gallons per day doesn't need much humidity only 14%, currently it costs $500,000.
Well I think we got less than 10 years before no body needs traditional water tubes to get water, Well now I'm thinking of starting saving to buy a Hummer and a tent :)
January 16, 2007, 10:45 PM TrackBack 0
Huge storage effect on the industry
Ofcourse by now most of you heard the news Hitachi Announces there World's First Terabyte Hard Drive Terabye = 1,000 gigabytes can you imagine I don't think we will need to archive and store our old data on outer storages again.
I think this new technology will have effect on many things as the new HD should be available on the first half of 2007 I think OS's IA's should begin working on more efficient finder's or explorer's like systems so it could handle all this information capacity without having the user searching for a file for hours.
And there is also an expected effect on the web as you may guess the need of really faster internet connection will increase as users now has the ability to download big files or videos without bothering with the space, and the good news for our community, the hosting prices will extremely decrease.
All those are expectations I don't know for real, what do you expect?
January 8, 2007, 11:48 AM Comments 1 TrackBack 0
Web OS
On November 26, 2005 I posted a post named Browsers replacing desktops here is part of it
I heard long time ago from some technologist that browsers are going to replace computer desktops and I keep thinking when will that happened. Now after this new state of mind called Web 2.0 I think it is happening now and happening very quickly.
I wrote about netvibes, meebo and some web apps that bring us closer to the time were browsers totally replaces desktops.
Now we are even closer as there is two serious tries of developing a full web based operating system were you can access all your data and apps all through one interface just like your Windows or Mac OS interface, ofcourse they are both still beta but I think they are a strong core of a real web based OS
First there is Goowy from it's interface you can check email, write email, manage your calendar and much more.
Second there is eyeOS an open source free OS you could access it through the web or it could be installed on a server of a company or a school for example, I see eyeOS better than Goowy as eyeOS provide an API so that any developer can develop new apps for the platform and because it depends more on the windows style that you can open more than one window in the same time and you can minimize windows, but the bad thing about it that every time you click a link the whole page has to refresh, its true that they succeeded to make a light weight page but it was still going to be great to use AJAX to call and hide windows.
imagine opening any computer in the world to find your same interface, apps, data how powerful will it be as more people are switching to broadband doing the daily actions on a Web OS will be more logical but for heavy apps like photoshop, dreamweaver etc.. I think we will still need a desktop based OS for them.
I bet Google will buy one of those projects soon.
March 12, 2006, 7:03 AM TrackBack 0
"Web 2.0 Show" interview with Jason Fried
Web 2.0 show interviewed Jason Fried the owner of 37 Signals about his different vision of some aspects that let 37 Signals an inspiration to all of us and a leader of Web 2.0 move, he kind of denied it but definitely it is.
They discussed some of his thoughts and opinions that is mainly found on 37 Signals blog Signal vs. Noise
like the less is more
vision and there way of developing web apps by designing it's interface before coding the backend and how ridiculous is beta releases. I can't agree more. any way the incredible success of 37 Signals in such a short time prove the brilliance of his visions.
It's about 45 minutes interview you gotta listen to it.
January 17, 2006, 2:55 PM Comments 1 TrackBack 0
Browsers replacing desktops
We are facing a crazy period of Web 2.0 killer apps, every one week 2 or 3 new very cool apps are announced, some of them are bought by Google, some are bought by Yahoo and the rest kept to their owners, I like to mention some of the very cool web 2.0 apps I discovered through those few last weeks.
Netvibes.com is one of those apps that collect all your data in one interface were you can record a note and keep your bookmarks, reed all your feeds and even take a look on a flickr feed all in one flexible customizable interface.
Backpack another app from 37 signals The creators of Ruby on Rails framework With David Heinemeier Hansson and one of the companies that acted quickly and filled the web with great useful Web 2.0 apps. After the success of Basecamp which is the perfect solution for project management over the web, they done it again this time on the personal level by introducing Backpack which make it very easy to organize your life by setting to-do lists, notes & much more.
meebo is an in-browser IM client for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, Gtalk & MSN.
The best benefit from this bunch of Web 2.0 apps is what Andy Budd call it device independency, the ability to work on your PC then use any other PC in any other place and open your same netvibes page and keep track of your projects progress through Basecamp, check your personal to-do list on Backpack while connected to all your IM accounts through meebo.
I heard long time ago from some technologist that browsers are going to replace computer desktops and I keep thinking when will that happened. Now after this new state of mind called Web 2.0 I think it is happening now and happening very quickly.
November 26, 2005, 1:07 AM TrackBack 0
$100 laptop for poor
A cheap, robust laptop has been developed by MIT Media Lab for only $100 Its main objective is deliviring better education for poor students.
The new laptop Nicknamed the green machine is extremly functional, it has a very low power consumption that it is powered only with a wind-up crank, instead of hard drive it has a 1GB flash memory.
here is it's specs as mentioned on Wikipedia.
Hardware
Its hardware specifications, as of October 2005, are:
- 500 MHz CPU (Processor) by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Inc.
- 1 GB of flash memory (no hard drive)
- SVGA 8" diagonal display (dual LCD Colour/Black & White mode for power conservation and outdoor reading); estimated cost $35
- 128 MB of DRAM
- AC Cord that doubles as carrying strap as the power source and a hand-crank (one minute of cranking gives enough power for 10 minutes of operating).
- The cost of materials and assembly for each laptop is estimated to be approximately $100.
Software
All of the software on the $100 Laptop will be open-source. The projected software as of November 2005 is:
- Red Hat Linux variant as operating system
- A web browser
- A word processor
- An email program
- A programming system
The laptops will only be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives, Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, United States (Massachusetts), Cambodia, Costa Rica and Tunisia already committed in various ways.
Let me add that this step is a huge step in the history of Education, IT and ofcourse the web, every body will be able to browse the net and use Email, Till now only 14% of the world use the net and 64% in the US after this step things will change.
November 17, 2005, 5:09 PM Comments 1 TrackBack 0