Mount them everywhere: The price point is great. How about mount them around the house or office as informational display — works with any system that has a browser interface. Leave one in the bathroom for, browsing…
Education use: Again, at $499, and with a great intuitive touch UI, give them out to school children for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'technology'
Thoughts on the new iPad
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · technology
Index Cards, the Ultimate Multi-Touch Interface
November 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · idea!, managing, simplify your life, technology
Turns out, 007’s new multi-touch comm device has nothing on the decades old index card. Index cards are a great communication tool. Use them to present website designs, create conceptual layouts for applications, and brainstorm ideas in general. These two pictures were taken from one of our client meetings, when we are trying to organize [...]
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Massachusetts DOT Opens Transit Data for Public Access
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · technology
Massachusetts department of transportation, Mass DOT, recently decided to
offer real time and other transit data on a trial basis to the public. I attended
their very first developer conference (official website). My Notes follow:
Open is Good – Don’t Build Apps like Bridges
The central message was voiced by many presenters: Open is good for everyone. The case [...]
Tags: business·technology
My Accidental Connection with Senator Ted Kennedy
August 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized, django, observation, technology
Being Chinese in Boston, I always hear positive stories about the late Senator Ted Kennedy helping immigrants. In addition, I agree with most of his political views, he seemed like a good Senator. After learning of his death, I felt we had lost a great man. I added one of his biographies to my Amazon [...]
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SyntaxHighlighter plugin for Wordpress
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · technology
It has only been years, but I finally decided to install a syntax highlighter plugin for this blog. A quick search pointed me to SyntaxHighlighter 1.1.1., downloaded it, unzipped into the plugin directory, and activated it. Took all of 2 minutes. Should have done this earlier !
How watch out for some useful code samples in [...]
I am in the NY Times, sorta
November 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · django, managing, technology
Check out the NYTimes article on WilsonDailyPrep. We at Imperial Consulting did the application, using Django and Python. It is a great service and a lot of fun to work on (my own vocab and grammar has gotten better, the Math quizzes are too easy). I am glad it is getting the big time publicity [...]
Tags: business
Time to eBay my Kindle
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · technology
It’s happening. As expected, iRex announced their iRex Digital Reader 1000 and 1000S today. Larger screen, wireless connectivity and touch screen for annotation. A 10.2 inch screen makes a big difference. So demand for the e-ink display is raising, price will be dropping, while Amazon claims that they are not going to release a new [...]
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JQuery Cheatsheet
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · technology
JQuery is useful, but it is built on top of the idiosyncratic javascript and DOM model. I find the whole environment lack consistency. So here are some quick cookbook style notes on how to do specific things:
Clear all checkboxes in a form
$(”:checkbox”).attr(”checked”,false)
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My New iPhone 3G
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · mac, review, technology
Yes. I got one. Spent total of six and a half hours. Worth it? Yes. Weather was nice, a little hot but not too much. Apple staff were very nice. Especially Alex — She worked the line. Gave out (free) water, candy, went to get sunblock and more candy, even picked up a pizza for [...]
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The Beautiful Candle
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · reading, technology
Michael Faraday’s lectures at the Royal Institution in London – “The Chemical History of the Candle” :
A candle is beautiful. “Beauty means not the best-looking things, but the best-acting thing.” A candle is beautiful because its functioning elegantly and efficiently rests upon a wide range of universal laws. The heat of the flame melts the [...]
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