Technology Information

Raymond.CC Blog: “Blocking Daily Russian Comment Spammers in Wordpress” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “Blocking Daily Russian Comment Spammers in Wordpress” plus 1 more

Blocking Daily Russian Comment Spammers in Wordpress

Posted: 01 May 2010 12:06 AM PDT


This blog is powered by Wordpress and is using Akismet plugin to detect and block spam comments. I’ve used Spam Karma 2 (SK2) before which is probably outdated by now and it really slows the blog down. Then I switched to a paid plugin called Comment Guard Pro developed by Taragana which is lighter than [...]

WinPatrol Revisited – Powerful HIPS with a Bite

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT


I’m aware that while there are a lot of people glad to see me writing about Linux, I must say that it’s not the only operating system I use. And if you read my security suggestions, along side common sense, I’ve also recommended that people run an anti-virus and keep their patches up to date, [...]

0 comments

ART BY CHANCE: Ultra Short Film Festival, running on flat panel digital signage in the wild!

ART BY CHANCE: Ultra Short Film Festival, running on flat panel digital signage in the wild!

ART BY CHANCE: Ultra Short Film Festival, running on flat panel digital signage in the wild!

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:58 AM PDT


The Art by Chance festival will take place on digital screens in public places all over the world! Here is the promotional material from the Art By Chance website:


LOOK AROUND! Films leave cinemas for the streets


"ART BY CHANCE is a brand new Ultra Short Film Festival will take place from7 May to 4 June 2010 in more than 20 countries and over 100 cities worldwide. 
For this festival, you don't need to buy a ticket or go to a movie theater! Movies just pop into your lives in subways, buses, airports, shopping malls, trains, sports centers, art galleries, museums, plains, campuses, cafes and bars! Internationally selected and "TIME" themed creative short films catch you unexpectedly while traveling in the subway, waiting at the airport, shopping or just strolling around.


Art by Chance 2010 has set out to explore how the perception of time is unique to every individual and how time can influence the narrative of city life, one of modern man's greatest challenges. Films touching the untouchable theme of time in their own time. 

Digital screens scattered around the city your host for this festival. ART BY CHANCE simultaneously air in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, South Africa, Turkey, UK, USA and It reachs the largest audience ever, allowing art to break into the lives of millions around the world."


ART BY CHANCE 2010 Selection
17.01.1922 / Emilia& Marek Straszak / Poland
Before the Game is After the Game / Henriette Vogtherr / Germany
Contemplate Impermanence / Thomas Zachmeier / Germany
Cyclist / Serhat Dogan- Jeff Treves / Turkey
Eindeloos / Emmy Storm / Belgium
Eye / Todd Herman / US
Follow the white rabbit / Sylvain Favardin- Ludmila Korenarova / Belgium
Half a minute of eternity / Frank Becker- Bernd Straub Molitor / Germany
How to Use Time Flexibly / Eckhard Kruse / Germany
Irreversible / Appu N. Bhattathiri / India
Is this your limb? / Michael Ramsey / US
Mechanism / Michal Wojtasik- Agnieszka Kosinska / Poland
Melt / Kathryn Maguire / Ireland
Movemento / Ahmet Serif Yildirim- Davut Toy / Turkey
No Time / Caroline Arce Herrero / Spain
Parallel Spaces / Georgi Krastev / Bulgaria
Portrait and temporality / Pouya Ahmadi / Switzerland
Prelude to A Symphony (in Sweatch) / Christopher Dax Norman / US
Solid/ Liquid / Ozgür Erman / Turkey
Temp Mort (dead time) / Manas Bhattacharya & Madhuban Mitra / India
Thanks Warhol / Caley Jane Dimmock / Canada
The best Buddhist / Wiracha Daochai / Thailand
Time cubed / Alexander Schmutzler / Germany
Time makes every static image dynamic / Justin Lincoln /US
Timebank / Arttu Lehtovaara / Finland
Trains, dames&timetables / Daniel Coss & Neill Staines / Ireland
Twentyfour seven / Aaron Rositzka- Julius Krenz / Germany
Until, after / Emre Ozerden / Turkey
Up and down at day / Bele Albrecht / Germany
Waiting / Amila Galappatthi / Srilanka
Wake Up / Zane Raudina / Latvia

View videos on the ART BY CHANCE 2009 website:

http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

0 comments

Raymond.CC Blog: “Free 6 Months Trial Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Activation Code” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “Free 6 Months Trial Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Activation Code” plus 1 more

Free 6 Months Trial Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Activation Code

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 12:02 AM PDT


It has been a long time since I have posted something about Kaspersky. This 6 months KAV2010 license promotion which I am about to post is not from any CD magazine promo but a legitimate collaboration between Kaspersky and Microsoft for Windows Live Messenger users. As long as you have a Hotmail or Live account, [...]

Updating Ubuntu Extremely Quickly, and why Ubuntu is taking so long to release

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT


Let me start by saying that I was hoping to install Xubuntu 10.04 just as much as the rest of you did today. However, they have run into a series of serious bugs that have prolonged how long we have to wait until the true final comes out. Last week, it ran into a fatal [...]

0 comments

Multi-touch application developed by an all-woman team from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the Imagine Cup Competition

Multi-touch application developed by an all-woman team from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the Imagine Cup Competition

Multi-touch application developed by an all-woman team from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the Imagine Cup Competition

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT

According to a recent article from the Microsoft News Center, "statistics from high schools and universities suggest that percentage won't change any time soon. Only 17 percent of Advanced Placement (AP) computer science test-takers in 2008 were women, even though women represented more than half of all AP test-takers. At the college level, fewer than one in five computer and information science degrees were awarded to women."


Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition is a way to encourage female students that they can use technology to help make the world a better place, and that computer science is a field that provides an outlet for creativity a innovation.

One of the teams that participated in the Imagine Cup Competition was "Team Blob". The young women in this team attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Their work can be seen in the video presentation of Team Blob's Multi-touch Designer, which allows teachers to create multi-touch presentations for their students. The application was written in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation.


The team developed a interactive timeline to highlight history's famous women in math and science, and demonstrated it on a 40-inch multi-touch table to girls who visited their university campus. The time-line can be seen in the video clip at about 3:34.

Team Blob members, from left, Lori Rebenitsch, Robyn Krage and Jaelle Scheuerman demo their application that aims to bring emerging multitouch technology into K-12 classrooms. The all-woman team is from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
"Team Blob members, from left, Lori Rebenitsch, Robyn Krage and Jaelle Scheuerman demo their application that aims to bring emerging multitouch technology into K-12 classrooms. The all-woman team is from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology."
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

Thinking Like a Storyteller: Words of Wisdom from Cindy Chastain on the use of storytelling in for interactiondesign (IXDA 10 Video)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Cindy Chastain is a Creative Director, Experience Architecture at Rapp, a global, full-service agency in NYC. Her background is in screen-writing. She also is a film-maker and technology consultant. The video below is of her presentation at IXDA 2010. It is well worth the 47 minute watch!


Here is a quote from Nasir Barday's post on the IXDA blog about Cindy Chastain's presentation:


"Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions well and a product that engages the minds, emotions and imaginations of users." Nasir Barday, IXDA 2/26/10


Here are a few quotes from the presentation:
"How can we, as designers, provide cues that will deepen that narrative connection?"


"What can we learn from the discipline of storytelling that will help us design for more meaningful and engaging product experiences?"

"If we can move away from thinking of products in terms of interfaces and start thinking of them as representations or environments, in which agents perform actions,  we will get us to a place where we can design more fluid and engaging dialogues/experiences."



Cindy Chastain-Thinking Like a Storyteller from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

Near the beginning of this video, Cindy discusses the concept of the user's narrative, described as a stream of self-talk occurs when someone interacts with a design product. Two types of narratives are likely to occur.  According to Cindy, this phenomenon was noted by cognitive scientists.  One is narrative of use,  and involves the person's self-talk about  the products features and affordances. The other is a personal narrative, which focuses on what the product means, how it might fit into one's life, and how it might be used.

http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

0 comments

Raymond.CC Blog: “X/K/Ubuntu 10.04 Releases today – Easy to install, configure, and use!” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “X/K/Ubuntu 10.04 Releases today – Easy to install, configure, and use!” plus 1 more

X/K/Ubuntu 10.04 Releases today – Easy to install, configure, and use!

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:45 PM PDT


For those of you interested in Linux, especially the Ubuntu, Xubuntu, or Kubuntu flavors of it, good news. Sometime today marks the release of the next Long Term Supported release of it. As a supporter of Linux, today is as good of a day as ever to talk about it, the differences between other distributions, [...]

Unable to Activate Windows 7 Error Code 0xC004C008

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:20 PM PDT


I have a desktop computer which comes with Windows Vista preinstalled but I’ve wiped the drive and installed Windows 7 activating it with a Technet license. A technet license is a genuine product key where I can activate Windows 7 legally but the license agreement states that it is only for testing purposes but cannot [...]

0 comments

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)
Enter your mail address:
Template by - ADMIN | HiTechvnn Template