Kent Beatty on February 6th, 2009

The Macintosh Dating Game!
From 1983… Steve Jobs hosts the Dating Game with Bill Gates, Fred Gibbons, and Mitch Kapor!
(This is where that famous "To create a new standard…" line of Bill Gate’s comes from.)
BTW, Mitch Kapor mentions a product called “123”???

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Kent Beatty on January 13th, 2009

Inspired by Transformers, this short Visual Effects piece shows us what the future may hold for our home computers … the future is unknowable, but we can be sure that robotics will play a central part.
See more at  NICK GREENLEE – DIGITAL COMPOSITOR, check out his 2008 demo Reel at youtube or at his [...]

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Kent Beatty on January 12th, 2009

Smaller asteroids may pose greater danger than previously believed
The Sandia National Laboratories has run 3-D Supercomputer simulations that explain that the asteroid which struck the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908 with the force of a 20 megaton atomic blast, leveling more than 80,000 trees over 830 square miles, was much smaller than previously thought.  [...]

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Kent Beatty on January 9th, 2009

Apple Computer Company had three founders:  Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs AND Ronald Gerald Wayne.  Ronald Wayne had worked at Atari with Steve Jobs and the three of them co-founded Apple on April 1, 1976.  Ronald had a 10% stake in Apple.  Two weeks later he got cold feet because as a partner he would be [...]

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Kent Beatty on December 10th, 2008

Chief Information Officers focus on managing their IT infrastructures so having a good idea of what to look out for over the horizon is in their best interest.   CIO Insight asked 222 IT leaders about which technologies they expect to explode in the next 5 to 10 years:  They answered with this list:
1.  Green IT
2. [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 27th, 2008

Guy Kawasaki’s new site “AllTop” is an online magazine rack for just about any topic you can imagine.  It displays “all the top” stories for popular topics.
 

Video – Alltop Tutorial

Video - Guy Kawasaki on Alltop.com with Drue from ValleyZen.com
Video – Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start

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Kent Beatty on November 25th, 2008

Catch a glimpse of your future:
free-hand, three-space gestural input:
Forget GUI, and this isn’t even SUI (Spatial User Interface.)   g-speak is a spatial operating environment – it understands space, geometry, your hands and what they are doing, and a huge amount of real time data.   This SOE combines gestural i/o, recombinant networking and real-world pixels [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 20th, 2008

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Dual Monitor Desktop Wallpapers from Princeton
Dual Monitor Backgrounds.com
Plasma Design Dual Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Collection
 
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Kent Beatty on November 19th, 2008

I wanted to use dual-monitor desktop wallpapers on my dual-monitors, but couldn’t find any reasonably priced (OK, I really mean free) software.  Then, I came across DisplayFusion from Binary Fortress Software!  (for Windows 2000, XP and Vista) I’m using it on my Vista machine and luvin it, get yours now – it’s free:
 

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Kent Beatty on November 17th, 2008

‘When Things Start To Think’  - book by Neil Gershenfeld now online:
 

Neil Gershenfeld offers a readable tour of what the world will be like tomorrow as computers become invisible, such as wearable computers, nanotech implants, and interactive digital books with electronic ink.
 

Neil Gershenfeld
Professor Neil Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 17th, 2008

In the 6,527 days since the Tim Berners-Lee made the first web page we’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now – sharing data with the semantic web:
 

Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine) at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nov 5 – 7, 2008, in San Francisco, CA gives his impressionistic view of [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 5th, 2008

 
Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative.
 
Get software, support and visibility.  Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.)  This is a global program that provides access to full-featured development [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 1st, 2008

HP has released their impressive new HP Mini 1000 using the Intel Atom processor for snappy performance and weighing in at just 2.25 pounds.  Your choice of either an 8.9-inch or 10-inch (adds $50.00) LED backlit display.  With a 60 GB HDD, Windows XP Home, SP3, built-in webcam/microphone and excellent wi-fi you can stay [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 1st, 2008

ENESS Eyeball Installation
For one special night the Australian ski resort Mount Buller was illuminated by ENESS’ signature eyeball installation. ENESS uses their “Pixile” software to match video projections onto shapes and surfaces.  As people walk by the eyes respond and look your way.

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Kent Beatty on October 26th, 2008

 
Enhance your search experience by refining your search.  These 39 slides give you a quick overview to get a huge improvement in your searches – more targeted results.   

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