Category: Computação

Flexamail

If you work in one of those places that has a firewall that blocks almost everything on the Internet, Flexamail might have a simple answer for your social networking needs:

Without all the problems of proxies, tunneling and all that, Flexamail provides a way of making some updates and checking services like Twitter and Facebook.
Create your account at Flexamail.com

Source: Lifehacker

Let’s ENHANCE!

How many times in TV series and movies have you seen the police, FBI, counter terrorist units, private military companies and other forensics scenarios picking up crappy surveilance cameras, cellcam footage of photos and other very bad sources, applying some pixie magic state of the art impossible software and using it to scrape out information out of nowhere?

Tons of times I’m guessing will be the answer.
For all of you who knows too well scenes like that, dunk3d created this video compilation that is hilarious and very very sad at the same time. :P
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Google Wave – Waving Goodbye to 2009

An interesting retrospective of 2009 made with Google Wave, by Whirled

I still didn’t put Wave to good use, but I see the potential… I guess I’m still not in the right environment to it just yet.

Source: TechEBlog

Kaspersky – Anti Virus Cat

Got problems with bugs in your computer?

Kaspersky cat is here to the rescue!

Source: Gizmodo

The Inspiration Behind Google Chrome Logo

Ever asked yourself where the Google Chrome Logo came from?

Federico Fieni

Federico Fieni


Cartoonist Federico Fieni might have the answer for you. xD

Source: A Kaiser-Machead comment at Gizmodo

Vitamin D Video – Video Monitoring Home Security

Here’s a very interesting software that does video monitoring and is capable of detecting and identifying objects and people’s movements:

You only need a webcam and a Mac or PC to use it.
The beta version is free – get it at Vitamin D’s official website!

Source: TechEBlog

YouTube Full HD 1080p

If you follow the tech news, you probably already heard that YouTube is already testing and slowly preparing it’s videos to play in full HD 1080p.

It seems there are already some videos working in full High Definition.
I have no way to test it out here at home, but I’m posting some of them.
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Extreme Cooling – AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier

You probably already saw some extreme cooling overclock videos out there.
This one, using liquid helium on an AMD Phenom II processor beats the 3DMark06 world record with speeds over 7Ghz!

Ok, so maybe you understood nothing of what I just said.
It’s basically a computer reaching extreme speeds by using extreme methods to keep the processor cool.
If you’re not nerd enough to get this video, at least this may serve as a lesson to people in the advertisement industry: Leave it to a big ad campaign to turn nerds doing an otherwise extremely boring task to turn it into something very awesome. xD

Source: Gizmodo

Trillions

A numerical video about the history and potential of computers – this is what Trillions by MAYA Design is about:

Quoting the Vimeo description: “This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age”.

Source: Gizmodo

Microsoft Research – Eye Tracking, Gestures and Transparent Glass Display

Like it or not, several technologies we use today were developed by Microsoft Research.
But mostly, there are lots of very promising new concepts coming out.

This first video taken from Microsoft College Tour 2009 shows theme supported text completion, content clustering and eye tracking.
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