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CNN's Interactive Map and Timeline of Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties "Home and Away"

CNN's Interactive Map and Timeline of Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties "Home and Away"

CNN's Interactive Map and Timeline of Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties "Home and Away"

Posted: 28 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT


Via Flowing Data and CNN

Nathan Yau, of Flowing Data, posted information and a link to CNN's interactive Casualties: Home and Away website. This website allows you to visually explore the casualty statistics of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with the first of the fallen in 2001. You can zoom into a region and see pictures and names of people.  The website provides a way for friends and family to share memories about their loved ones.

Home and Away also provides a "list view" option, shown in one of the pictures below.  Visitors to the site can sort by name or year of death.  Sliders on the map view provide a way of looking at the pattern of deaths over time.  It is sad, but this website makes us remember that war is real.  Deaths are not simply statistics.










Flowing Data
Home and Away
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

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Raymond.CC Blog - URLSnooper Displays Full Path of Hidden Remote URL

Raymond.CC Blog - URLSnooper Displays Full Path of Hidden Remote URL

URLSnooper Displays Full Path of Hidden Remote URL

Posted: 29 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Akash asked a question in the comment area on yesterday’s post whether is it possible to view the full path of remote URL when computer is secretly downloading files. One example is when a user tries to download Adobe Flash Player, by default they will be asked to download the Adobe Download Manager first and [...]

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N900 Video Call with Skype

N900 Video Call with Skype

N900 Video Call with Skype

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:23 PM PDT

If you have graced my page before then odds are you know I love my N900. This past Wednesday Nokia released the PR 1.2 update for the N900 and one of the features they added was support for the front facing camera to make video calls via the VOIP services Skype and Google Talk. I made my first video call this evening on my N900 and it works quite well! The GUI for Skype video calls is fairly simple and looks as such:

The video feed fails to appear when I use the screen shot function built into the N900, but I marked the locations of where the feeds appear. In order to make a video call simply open the Skype contact and select "Video Call":


You can also start a video call from a normal Skype call by selecting it from the call's menu:


I would like to note that in order for the video call options to appear I had to first receive a video call on my N900. After this I had no trouble initiating a video call from my device.

The quality from the front camera isn't the best, but it is more than enough to do basic video calls with. I recorded a short video that displays a video call between my N900 and a laptop:



Video calls such as this are by far the way of the future! Hopefully we will see more devices follow in the N900's footsteps and start adding this functionality.

~Jeff Hoogland

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Raymond.CC Blog: “Easily Determine If a Specific Software is Secretly Connecting to Internet” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “Easily Determine If a Specific Software is Secretly Connecting to Internet” plus 1 more

Easily Determine If a Specific Software is Secretly Connecting to Internet

Posted: 28 May 2010 12:06 AM PDT


A software can be programmed to secretly connect to the internet. This is done in background and is not visible to users unless they know how to check. “Phoning home” is a term that is used to describe a software connecting to its own server probably to send statistical data or even to verify the [...]

OpenSUSE 11.2 Review – GNOME Desktop Environment

Posted: 27 May 2010 07:30 PM PDT


Let me be very frank before I start into today’s review. I was recently listening to a technical podcast which was talking about Linux and what was wrong with it as a desktop operating system. What it basically boiled down to be was lack of user education and resources combined with a fragmented amount of [...]

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Raymond.CC Blog: “What’s My Computer Doing? Shows Programs Accessing Hard Disk or CPU” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “What’s My Computer Doing? Shows Programs Accessing Hard Disk or CPU” plus 1 more

What’s My Computer Doing? Shows Programs Accessing Hard Disk or CPU

Posted: 27 May 2010 12:03 AM PDT


Windows operating system is actually very complex. If you don’t run any software, it doesn’t mean that Windows is not working. If you don’t believe me, try running Process Monitor and you will see constant reading and writing of files and registry. About two years ago I written an article to find out what program [...]

Free Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus License for a Year for all

Posted: 26 May 2010 07:30 PM PDT


Lavasoft is one of those companies that you used to hear about a lot in the past, but as of recent, has become less and less popular. While I’ve only used the Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free version back in 2008 when I was infected with Vundo, I have not used it as of recent, instead relying [...]

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