Mempile's TeraDisc fits 1TB on a single optical disc
Read - Mempile website
Read - In-depth article about TeraDisc at The Future of Things
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Read - Mempile website
Read - In-depth article about TeraDisc at The Future of Things
iPhone Safari does NOT support Flash (of ANY flavor)
Source: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/designingcontent.html
scroll down to near the bottom
Unsupported Technologies
You’ll want to avoid using Flash and Java for iPhone content. You’ll also want to avoid encouraging users from downloading the latest Flash to their iPhone, because neither Flash nor downloads are supported by Safari on iPhone.
Safari on iPhone does not support:
window.showModalDialog()- Mouse-over events
- Hover styles
- Tool tips
- Java applets
- Flash
- Plug-in installation
- Custom x.509 certificates
Rubik's Cube solvable in 26 moves or less
David Pescovitz: No matter how scrambled a Rubik's Cube may be, it can be solved in 26 moves or fewer -- by a supercomputer anyway. The previous record was 27 moves, but Northeastern University computer science grad student Daniel Kunkle and his advisor Gene Cooperman developed new algorithms to save a step in the process and optimize the problem for a supercomputer. Their next step is to bring the magic number down to 25, which is still 5 more than the minimum number of steps that most researchers believe is possible. From Science News:
Previously on BB:
• Video of tot solving Rubik's Cube Link
• Table shaped like huge Rubik's Cube Link
• Michel Gondry solves Rubik's Cube with feet Link
After 63 hours of calculation, the supercomputer found that it took no more than 16 steps to turn any random configuration into a special configuration that can be solved using only half-turns. And since those special puzzles can be solved in no more than 13 steps, this approach showed that 29 steps were enough to solve any Rubik's Cube.Link
But this answer wasn't good enough to set a new record. Last year, Silviu Radu of the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden showed that any Rubik's Cube can be solved in no more than 27 steps. Kunkle and Cooperman realized that to set a new record, they would need to eliminate three steps.
Their existing method had established that all but about 80 million sets of configurations could be solved in 26 steps or fewer. By searching through all possible moves starting from those relatively few configurations, they succeeded in finding a solution for each one that took 26 steps or fewer.
Previously on BB:
• Video of tot solving Rubik's Cube Link
• Table shaped like huge Rubik's Cube Link
• Michel Gondry solves Rubik's Cube with feet Link
500 Web APIs
Using our Top APIs for Mashups pie chart you get a sense of which APIs have been mostly frequently used in our mashup sample with the top 10 APIs being Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, VirtualEarth, Yahoo Maps, eBay, 411Sync, del.icio.us and Yahoo. You can get a sense of this by viewing our directory of APIs by Mashup Count.
If you view them sorted by category here’s the breakdown of those categories with the most competing APIs (top 20 categories):
- Mapping: 48 APIs
- Internet: 28 APIs:
- Reference: 27 APIs
- Shopping: 23 APIs
- Search: 21 APIs
- Music: 19 APIs
- Photos: 16 APIs
- Messaging: 16 APIs
- Telephony: 14 APIs
- Security: 12 APIs
- Financial: 12 APIs
- Government: 11 APIs
- Email: 11 APIs
- Blogging: 10 APIs
- Bookmarks: 10 APIs
- News: 9 APIs
- Video: 9 APIs
- Chat: 9 APIs
- Office: 8 APIs
- Advertising: 7 APIs
If you want to get a sense of which major providers offer the most APIs, check API Scorecard.
WEB OS RUNDOWN: 45+ Web Operating Systems
August 22, 2007 — 09:42 PM PDT — by — Share This
Facebook wants to be the operating system for the web, it says, and this week’s changes to its email system are a tiny part of that puzzle. But there are many more web operating systems hoping to bring all your usual desktop applications online in one place. Some replicate the entire desktop, while others are startpages with info from around the web - here are more than 45 of our favorites.
Remotely Hosted WebOS
- AstraNOS - Picture Windows 98. Then picture an OS X dock. Then picture a night sky. Then throw them all together. You now have a pretty good picture of AstraNOS.
- BeDesk - Basic wrapper for other online tools.
- cmyOS - Free hosted webtop powered by eyeOS.
- Desktoptwo - Not only do you get 1GB of space, you get a fully-featured OpenOffice.org suite. No, not a basic online editor that has simple formatting options. The full OpenOffice.org 2.0 suite from Sun, converted into a Java applet.
- DoxBoard - Slick WebOS with some basic features.
- GCOE X - Nice WebOS with a powerful terminal and support for the iPhone.
- eyeOS - Beautiful webtop powered by the eyeOS software.
- Glide - Online operating system with support for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users.
- G.ho.st - With 3GB of space, FTP access, and Zoho Office support, what’s not to like?
- goowy - Great webtop with your own email account (@goowy.com), IM, 1GB of space (via Box.net), and much more.
- jooce - Slick invite-only online OS.
- mybooo - Invite-only webtop with a ton of features.
- myGoya - Nice WebOS with PIM features, a media player, and much more.
- OOS - Basic online operating system that offers a personal webpage.
- Parakey - Not much is known about Blake Ross’s newest invention, but we do know that Facebook liked it enough to purchase it for an undisclosed sum.
- Psych Desktop - GPLed webtop with a powerful UNIX-like console.
- Purefect Desktop - Web desktop with a powerful IDE.
- SSOE - Flash-based webtop a lot of features.
- StartForce - Powerful WebOS with tons of apps and features makes the descendant of Orca Desktop a hit.
- Xindesk - File sync, a powerful API, and much more are included in this great WebOS.
- Webdesk - This Indian webtop includes 1GB of space, POP3 client, PIM, and a nice modules API.
- Webdows - We don’t know how long it will take Microsoft to sue these guys, but it’s a real enjoyment in the meantime. It has XP and Vista styles (including a few Vista effects), FTP, file sharing, IM, and much more.
- Widgets Gadgets - AJAX desktop with tons of apps and a working API.
- YouOS - File sharing, powerful shell, and 700+ applications are all available with this wildly popular operating system.
- ZimDesk - Slick WebOS with tons of apps.
Self-Hosted WebOS
- eyeOS - One of the most popular webtops on the planet, eyeOS boasts tons of apps, a booming community, and a lot more features.
- Fenestela - There’s still quite a few bugs to be ironed out in this French WebOS, but you get a cool XP interface and basic PHP apps.
- Psych Desktop - GPLed desktop with a powerful UNIX-like console.
- Purefect Desktop - Web desktop with a powerful IDE.
- Virtual-OS - Includes powerful API, web server sync, forum integration, and offline AJAX support.
- ZKDesktop - Powerful open source Java-based WebOS.
Remote Desktops
- DesktopOnDemand - A fully featured Linux-based desktop with Gnome, Gaim, AbiWord, Evolution, GIMP, WebDAV, VNC, web login, and much more.
- Free Live OS Zoo - Java applet
- Nivio - Subscription-based ($12.99/month) service that offers Windows XP, Adobe Reader, iTunes, Google Talk/aMSN/Windows Live Messenger, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, Nvu, and much more. All through a Java-based web interface.
Startpages
See also: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature
- Favoor - Basic startpage with a nice folder option.
- iGoogle (formerly Google IG) - Great startpage with the most amount of apps I’ve seen for a portal.
- iStyled - Simple startpage with basic customization.
- ItsAStart.com - Customizable page with basic features.
- Live.com (formerly Start.com) - Basic news page backed by Microsoft.
- My Yahoo! - Yahoo!’s entry into the startpage market isn’t bad: it offers news, Yahoo! Mail notification, podcasts, videos, and photo galleries to your startpage.
- Netvibes - There’s a reason everyone uses Netvibes. It has tons of apps, tabs, skins, and a great interface.
- Pageflakes - Popular, easy-to-use page with a simple interface.
- Schmedley - Powerful startpage with tons of features.
- Webwag - The main appeal here isn’t the widget on demand feature (a quick way to build a widget for the site of your choice), the toolbar, the apps, or the content directory. It’s the External widget feature, which allows you to convert and add Netvibes and iGoogle widgets to your Webwag page.
- Widgetop - Nice looking AJAX start page.
- yourminis - Great start page with tons of apps and a bunch of skins by the creator of goowy.
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For more in-depth reviews, check out 10 Web Operating Systems Reviewed over on FranticIndustries.
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