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Revolutionary changes thru inputs

Posted by Ramesh on May 31st, 2007

In a very interesting article in WSJ, Bill Gates emphasized that r4evokutionary changes in computing will come thru inputs. Mr. Gates predicted that a “revolutionary” change to computing will come as new ways of inputting data into the computer gradually come into vogue. Included, he said, touch input, speech input, vision input, he said. This [...]

Richer Maps

Posted by Ramesh on May 30th, 2007

While on the topic of maps, I think it is equally interesting  — in fact in some respects more impressive, to visit Microsoft’s maps.live.com and see the 3D maps of New York or other areas there.  

Maps getting richer

Posted by Ramesh on May 30th, 2007

Google maps now offers some more interesting new features: Google Maps now offers a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, with other cities to roll out later The street features first became available in A9 and are now being launched by Google.  This [...]

Colorful reading

Posted by Ramesh on May 30th, 2007

A very interesting idea — to redefine alphabet in colors rather than balack and white shapes — to chage the way we read is proposed. Freedman has been working on Kromofons–an innovative alphabet in which the 26 English letters are represented solely by individual colors–waiting for technology to catch up with him. And now, thanks to [...]

Photo uploads on Facebook

Posted by Ramesh on May 29th, 2007

I was playing with photo upload tools on Facebook — this is the best photo upload tool that I have seen so far.  it makes adding photos very easy and a pleasent task.  No wonder so many people are adding so many photos on Facebook.  I heard that the number of photos — or some [...]