News.com reports Google has launched a test of its new mail service, Gmail, and invited 1000 guests to participate. Hotmail presently offers 2MB of free e-mail storage. Yahoo offers 4MB. Gmail will dwarf those offerings with a 1GB storage limit. Update: Gmail has an About Gmail page, including a form field for signups....
The Segway Robotic Mobility Platform is a modified Segway Human Transporter designed as a base for your robot. The Segway receives commands through a dual CANbus interface. 100 pound payload, 8 mph top speed, 8-10 mile range. Available in April....
"imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply (or an image in your collection). The searching algorithm makes use of multiresolution wavelet decomposition of the query and database images." You draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek returns thumbnail views of the best matches. Written in Python....
San Francisco Giants' SBC Park will become the first stadium with wireless Internet access, according to a press release yesterday. Fans receive free access for the 2004 season, but SBC plans to begin charging its standard $7.95 daily fee or $19.95 monthly fee starting in 2005, according to the San Jose Business Journal. The Giants, along with partners SBC and Nortel Networks have installed 121 802.11b Wi-Fi access points to provide continuous universal coverage to all concourses and seating areas. [A]ll ballpark suites will be equipped with HP computers, flat-panel displays and wireless accessories that provide internet access coupled with...
Macromedia officially introduced Flex today. Rich UI through Flash, similar to Laszlo. Later this year Macromedia plans to release a new Flex development tool code-named Brady with visual layout, code editing, debugging, and data connectivity tools for creating Flex applications in Dreamweaver. IBM already has a Flex WebSphere Studio plugin. Runs on Java app servers and you can download a free developer version on the Flex site....
I was not able to find any documentation for resetting my MSN Direct watch to its factory settings, so I will post my findings here just in case another user would like to reset his or her watch in the future. I have a Fossil FX3001. Two buttons on the left and three on the right. Press down all three buttons on the right side. Wait for the watch manufacturer's logo to appear. Keep doing this until the time resets to 12:00. The watch is configured to reset to factory settings if you reboot the watch ten times within five...
Ice-Link hooks up to your car stereo's CD changer port and connects to your iPod's audio out and FireWire ports. Charge on the go and have access to all of your songs!...
Last night's 60 Minutes featured a segment on DC United player Freddy Adu. Ben Olsen was interviewed as the veteran of the team. Why was Peter Nowak, his coach, and who also started his pro soccer career at a young age, not interviewed? "Freddy's $500,000 salary from D.C. United dwarfs even the game's veterans. It has become a cliche that every rookie with a big contract buys his mama a house. Freddy may be the first one ever to do it...and then go home and live with her."...
Google Labs has released its latest project: personalized search. I created a profile, selecting things like California, rock music, and soccer. When I search for "Dublin" my top results are now Dublin, California and not Dublin, Ireland....
At Wednesday's dinner we discussed controlling a rover or submarine over the Internet. It does exist. "RemoteDriver is a home made robot made out of a tablet-pc a webcam and an old rc car chassis. When online it can be driven by anyone from anywhere in the world. All you need is a good ammount bandwith and a flash player to interact with it. Login at the indicated time above for some hot rod realtime action."...
Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »