If you love Legos and Chess, you have to check out this huge motorized Lego chess set. Includes a 8:49 long YouTube clip of the set in action.
http://gizmodo.com/5561977/100000-lego-bricks-make-for-one-hell-of-a-robotic-chess-set
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I bought a 4GB iPhone 2G a month after they first came out at the discounted price. Then a few months after the 3G model came out, I picked up a 8GB model and have been using it since. I am planning to pre-order a iPhone4 16GB model next week. I have wanting to see some high res photos of the new and old screens side by side, so you can get a goo idea of the true screen resolution, not all the blog crops that keep coming up.
Well, Robert Scoble has a very high resolution image of the new iPhone4 screen and it is pretty impressive.
Article:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/13/iphone-4-display-all-high-resd-up/
Link to the image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4695267529/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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This will be a short post, but I wanted to share with you some great sites for online learning.
If you are new to the Mac, or have been using it some and want to learn more. There is a new site called Tech University which has numerous how to videos on Mac software and the OS. Some are free and a good number require a subscription, but the site is worth checking out.
http://techuniversity.com/
Two of my favorite iTunesU schools are Stanford and MIT. I have followed the iPhone Developer course from Stanford twice, and the Walter Lewin’s Physics course videos from MIT are excellent. If you can not learn from them and be entertained as well, something is wrong.
Stanford
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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A small thing about the new iPhone 4 that was not mentioned during the keynote on Monday, and was not really noticed until the next day. And I did not see many blogs or analysts talking about it until yesterday was that the new iPhone support new 3G bands, 900MHz and maybe 1700MHz. In the USA, AT&T uses 850MHz and 1900MHz and T-Mobile uses 1700MHz and 2100MHz.
Apple’s own website only lists 800, 900, 1900 and 2100, but the FCC also lists 1700. Having 1700 would be a big plus in the US, as that is the main 3G band that T-Mobile uses. The addition of 900 will be a big plus outside of the US, and from a few blogs I have read, many people appear to be very happy about this.
Here is just one article I found mentioning this as well.
http://www.edibleapple.com/iphone-4-support-for-900-mhz-umtshsdpa-leaves-many-jumping-for-joy/
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I have come across several articles with small mentions of Xcode4 and Safari5 features being announced at WWDC during the keynote tomorrow, or later in the week. I think this may be a little bigger than everyone is thinking. As, I have a theory that Xcode4 if announced, will include a whole suite of web development tools.
I feel with all the exposure Apple is putting on HTML5 and CSS3 on their site, and also their beta projects of desktop like website like iWork.com and Me.com. Apple is about to announce some new web based frameworks and APIs, where developers can write COCOA and/or UIKit based applications in the browser. They even have one you can use on the iPhone, it is the “iPhone User Guide” that comes in the bookmarks on every new iPhone you buy.
It is just my opinion, but I think something big will be announced related to this….
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I just a read a little about SaaS and I thought I would share some of what I learned.
You may be using SaaS and not even know it. Some examples are:
– Web based access to applications you use at your office, like a web mail version of your companies Outlook email.
– Running a network based application, where you run a link that points to a network located application, and it installs locally. When updates or patches are applied to this network application, the next time you run the link, you get the updates and patches.
This also allows for simplified management of a centralized location of an application, meaning the application only has to be maintained in one location, even if it is used across the web or a large corporate network.
Another benefit, is companies can offer there applications using a SaaS model across the web and offer access to it using a monthly subscription service instead of a large upfront cost.
More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
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I have been to several software code camps and conference where Hadoop was mentioned and demoed. I am still not 100% of all the uses of Hadoop, but with all the buzz words about computing moving to the Cloud, this is worth reading about. Hadoop is based on Java and is owned by the Apache Software Foundation.
Hadoop uses 2 main concepts:
– HDFS or Hadoop Distributed File System
– Map Reduce engine
The first, HDFS allows for rack aware distributed files across a large cluster of networked computers, or nodes. In some cases these files are replicated on 2 or more computers, which eliminates the need for a RAID setup. This file system is also ideal for very large files.
The second, MapReduce allows for distributing and/or sharing the processor workload across this large cluster of networked computers, or nodes. Since HDFS is rack aware, MapReduce can put the workload on the same rack or box the data is on.
There are several large companies using Hadoop in one aspect; like Yahoo, Amazon, IBM, Google, Sun and many others.
If you want to learn more, and I feel it is worth a read if you are interested in Cloud computing.
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