Brainteasers for a job interview
Posted by bordalix Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:01:00 GMT
Unfortunately, CNN doesn't know Excentric yet...10 reasons to invest in Apple
Posted by bordalix Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:20:00 GMT
Everyone is talking about stock, housing and credit markets, the next bubble/depression, you name it. With people asking, I have decided to compile the 10 reasons why I invested in Apple stock, and sincerely, why I don't give a damn about all the bad news. So, here are the 10 good reasons to invest in Apple stock:
Read more...CineSpin
Posted by bordalix Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:55:00 GMT
CineSpin is maybe the best tool I ever seen to know more about movies, actors and directors. It uses the freebase api and presents the data in a very elegant and shiny interface, built with flash:
The new zunePhone
Posted by bordalix Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:03:00 GMT
An exclusive sneak peek at the soon-to-be released zunePhone from Microsoft! Steve Ballmer isn't sleeping on the job.
RSS readers should click here to watch the movie.
Content-aware image sizing
Posted by bordalix Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:26:00 GMT
The following video demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. The basic idea is that if you want to stretch out an image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. The same goes for shrinking an image - it will eliminate the less important features of an image and leave the main subject areas intact and in the same relative location as they previously appeared in the image.
This is the work of Dr. Ariel Shamir from Efi Arazi School of Computer Science.
RSS readers should click here to watch the movie.
Via Fábio Pedrosa.
Subliminal messages
Posted by bordalix Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:14:00 GMT
A great video, showing what subliminal messages can do. Personally, I never thought this would work a this level, it's pretty scary, if you ask me. Watch the video till the end, or you'll lose the best part:Via Sérgio Rebelo.
Top 12 kinetic typography films
Posted by bordalix Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:37:00 GMT
Back on February, I posted one article about a Pulp Fiction dialog, presented with moving typography, perfectly synchronized with the text, with a lot of funny and creative details.Later, I found out this presentation technique was named kinetic typography, and that is being explored in the School of Design at CMU since 1996, by Johnny Lee under the direction of Scott Hudson and Jodi Forlizzi.
But, after all, what is the definition of kinetic typography?
Kinetic typography refers to the art and technique of expression with animated text. Similar to the study of traditional typography of designing static typographic forms, kinetic typography focuses on understanding the effect time has on the expression of text. Kinetic typography has demonstrated the ability to add significant emotive content and appeal to expressive text, allowing some of the qualities normally found in film and the spoken word to be added to static text.
In the meantime, I've collected some of this movies, and arranged them in a YouTube playlist. If want, you can watch the movie explaining what is kinetic typography, or be still and watch the playlist (12 videos, aprox. 22 minutes):
RSS readers should click here to watch the movies.
Related article: Vodafone's kinetic typography with user generated content. An idea for a Christmas card.
Is Google becoming evil?
Posted by bordalix Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:43:00 GMT
Google's motto is and always has been "Don't be evil". Are they planning to change it?
The BTuga case
Posted by bordalix Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:40:00 GMT
Two weeks ago, ASAE (Economics and Food Security Agency) seized the servers of three portuguese torrent aggregators, BTuga, ZeTuga and ZeMula. The news also informed that ASAE was planning to investigate all the users of this sites. Yes, we are talking about more than 200 thousand users. If the task seems impossible to achieve, due to the huge number of users, it also seems illegal under the EU law, as stated by this article from The Register (concerning a different case).
What do you think about it?
Eight financial reasons to use Mac
Posted by bordalix Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:06:00 GMT
Cio wrote an excelent article with the eight financial reasons why you should use Mac OS. In a nutshell, the reasons are:
- Macs bring a better overall value proposition
- Macintosh licensing fees are cheaper
- The Mac desktop spawns fewer calls to the help desk
- Mac users are more productive workers
- Macs last longer
- Mac OS is more secure
- Mac is just as cost-effective as Windows to manage and administer
- Add Macs while hanging on to your investments in other OSes
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