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Best Practices in Using LastPass Cloud Based Password Manager

Posted: 23 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT

I used to use Sxipper because Firefox built-in password manager lacks of features. However Sxipper development has stopped and it doesn’t support Firefox 4 which forces me to look for another password manager. Choosing the best password manager can be tough as there are many available to download. Other than managing or keeping your password, [...]

Display Week 2011 Recap: (Society for Information Display -SID)

Posted: 21 May 2011 01:26 PM PDT

SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY: DISPLAY WEEK 2011

49th International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition was held at the L.A. Convention Center in Los Angeles, California during the week of May 15-20, 2011. Display Week is one of a number of conferences of the Society for Information Display (SID), a group of professionals in all of the technical and business disciplines that relate to display research, design, manufacturing, applications, marketing, and sales.

I'm sad to say, I was not able to attend the conference.

In case you missed Display Week, or if you are curious to learn more about it, take a few moments to look over the conference website, and if it interests you, plan to attend the 50th next year. I hope to be there!

2011 Keynote Speakers:
Phil "Captain 3D" McNally, Stereoscopic Supervisor, DreamWorks Animation
"How My 3D Hobby Became My 3D Career"

Yasuhiro Koike, Professor at Keio University and Director of the Keio Photonics Research Institute
"Overwhelmingly Realistic Face-to-Face Communications: Photonic Polymer Technology"

Shuji Nakamura, Professor in the Materials Department at the University of Santa Barbara
"Nitride-Based LEDs and Laser Diodes: Current Status, Bright Prospects!"

Douglas Trumbull, Trumbull Ventures LLC
Note: Douglas Trumbull's multimedia website is awesome. It provides a visually pleasing overview of many of his special effects work, and more.

There were a variety of courses and tutorials throughout the Display Week 2011, including one presented by Geoff Walker, of NextWindow: Fundamentals of Touch Technologies and Applications

For more information, take a look at the Display Week 2011 program (pdf).

Information from the Display Week website:
"Display Week, the Society for Information Display's Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, is the essential yearly meeting for everyone involved in the technology, business, and application of cutting-edge displays. It is also the top North American exhibit venue for display industry products and services."

"Each year, engineers, manufacturers, researchers, and numerous others involved in the electronic-information-display industry gather at Display Week for access to a huge range of display-related technologies and applications. These include high-definition flat-panel displays, OLEDs, flexible displays, plastic electronics, large-area projection systems, and much more. This is the place to learn about the state of the art of image processing, systems software and display processor hardware, human factors and applied vision, and exciting new application areas such as 3-D and electronic cinema, touch and interactivity, solid-state lighting, and green technologies...As the must-see event for the worldwide electronic-information-display industry, Display Week is host to hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees each year."

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More about CHI 2011 and related interactive technology topics coming soon!

CHI 2011, Bill Buxton, and the Buxton Collection: Explore 35 years of interactive devices, online!

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Bill Buxton is a researcher at Microsoft who focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and is known for his work in user experience design and natural user interfaces such as multi-touch surfaces. His talk at the recent CHI 2011 conference, held in Vancouver, Canada, was an overview of the Buxton Collection, an on-line historical archive of interactive input devices spanning over the past 35 years.

It was interesting to note that at the time of the presentation, the Vancouver Conference Center, where the conference was taking place, was having serious problems with the network/internet connections, and as a consequence, Buxton was not able to demonstrate the on-line version of his collection as planned.

Not to worry. The physical version of the Buxton's archive was on display during the conference, along with Buxton, who was happy to tell the story behind every device and gadget in the archive, with much enthusiasm. The slideshow below provides a glimpse of the Bill Buxton archive displayed at CHI 2011:

My Buxton Collection Slideshow, CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada

Buxton's archive of gadgets comes with a rich history, accumulated over the years. Much of this history, until now, has resided in Buxton's head. Holding and touching the items in the archive while listening to Buxton's passionate stories about each one, was unlike anything I had ever experienced. His archive is a labor of love, and the interactive, on-line version of the Buxton Collection is his way of sharing his knowledge with the world.

During his talk, Buxton pointed out that in computer science programs, students are not required to have much exposure to the "history of ideas" in the field. Huge chunks of work are often ignored in the literature, and in some cases, the wheel is unknowingly reinvented, and this is something that must be addressed within the CHI community, according to Buxton.

I agree.

On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user experience designers to learn to appreciate one another

Bill Buxton, Bloomberg Businessweek, 4/29/09

humanaquarium at CHI 2011

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:03 PM PDT

I had the opportunity to attend the presentation session of humanaquarium: Exploring audience, participation, and interaction at CHI 2011, and also experience humanaquarium's compelling interactive performance along with a crowd of CHI 2011 attendees. It was one of my favorite events.

What I liked about humanaquarium is that it is a good example of how music, the arts, and technology are converging, on many levels. It is encouraging to know that this sort of interdisciplinary, creative collaboration is evident at a number of university research centers. humanaquarium was developed with the support of Culture Lab, Newcastle University (UK), the Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

According to the abstract for the CHI 2011 paper, "humanaquarium is a movable performance space designed to explore the dialogical relationship between artist and audience. Two musicians perform inside the cube-shaped box, collaborating with participants to co-create an aesthetic audio-visual experience. The front wall of the humanaquarium is a touch-sensitive FTIR window. MaxMSP is used to translate the locations of touches on the window into control data, manipulating the tracking of software synthesizers and audio effects generated in Ableton Live, and influencing a Jitter visualization projected upon the rear wall of the cube."

To learn more about humanaquarium and catch a glimpse of the performance, take a look at the following video clips. The first video clip was produced by Nick Barber, who was covering the CHI 2011 conference for IDG News Services. (Nick is also the host and co-producer of World Tech Update.) I produced the second video clip.

humaniquarium: Robyn Taylor/Guy Schofield/John Shearer

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Nick Barber, Computerworld, 5/13/11
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Nate Lanxon, Wired, 3/16/10

Raymond.CC Blog - Permanently Change Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 11 from German to English Without License Error Problem

Permanently Change Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 11 from German to English Without License Error Problem

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Two years ago Kaspersky China gave out 50,000 6 months Kaspersky Antivirus license for free and there is a limitation that the license key can only be used to activate the chinese version of KAV. No problem on that because I managed to figure out how to bypass that limitation by first disabling the self-protection [...]

Johannes Schoening's CHI 2011 Highlights, Linkfest, and More!

Posted: 15 May 2011 07:45 PM PDT

Johannes Shoening has posted some great videos, pictures, and links about ACM-CHI 2011, a conference that recently took place in Vancouver, Canada. Johannes is the author of the Perspectivevoxel blog, where he shares information about interactive and emerging technologies.

Weekly Linkfest (CHI 2011)

CHI 2011 Highlights in the Area of Interactive Tables and Surfaces

Take a look at a recent article about CHI 2011, by Terry Lavender, in the on-line version of the Vancouver Observer:

CHI: Computer-Human Interaction shows stunning use of interface technology (5/14/11)

Note: I have several post about CHI in the works. Sorry for the delay, I got behind when Blogger was down.

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Display Week 2011 Recap: (Society for Information Display -SID)

Display Week 2011 Recap: (Society for Information Display -SID)

CHI 2011, Bill Buxton, and the Buxton Collection: Explore 35 years of interactive devices, online!

CHI 2011, Bill Buxton, and the Buxton Collection: Explore 35 years of interactive devices, online!

Raymond.CC Blog - Permanently Change Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 11 from German to English Without License Error Problem

Raymond.CC Blog - Permanently Change Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 11 from German to English Without License Error Problem

Johannes Schoening's CHI 2011 Highlights, Linkfest, and More!

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