Techno Babble

The Google Legacy (ebook) by Stephen E Arnold has a sample chapter available which discusses the Google Technology.

http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-legacy.html

And a couple of other recent stories …

Google is being sued by book publishers over their plans to index and scan millions of books as part of their Print Library project …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4358768.stm

Google will change the name of its e-mail service in the UK following a trademark dispute @gmail.com will become @googlemail.com …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm

Following hot on the heels of their recent purchase of Alias Autodesk announce their intention to purchase Engineering Intent who supply “Engineer to Order” software and services.

http://www.engineeringintent.com/index.html

Apple announces updates to PowerBooks, Power Macs and introduces Aperture.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

Enhanced PowerBook models – the 15 inch now supports a resolution of 1440 x 900 and 17 inch will now support a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

The new Power Mac G5 systems feature dual-core PowerPC processors and can support up to 16Gb Ram.

http://www.apple.com/powermac/dualcore.html

Aperture is a professional-level photography application. Is it more than yet another image manipulation program ?

http://www.apple.com/aperture/

The World’s first tablet-size flexible electronic paper display is announced today by E Ink Corporation.

LG.Philips and E Ink have constructed a 10.1″ flexible electronic paper display which at less than 300 microns thick, is as thin and flexible as paper.

It uses E Ink Imaging Film technology – a display material that looks like printed ink on paper.

Press Release at

http://www.eink.com/news/releases/pr87.html

Models created in SketchUp can be located at their exact position in the world and shared via Google Earth.

Try out some samples here

http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=408.

The next planned release of Microsoft Office products, Office v12, will incorporate the results of extensive usability tests and advances in hardware and software to provide the most significant update to the user interface for over a decade.

Worth a look.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/uioverview.mspx

What is a petabyte ?

1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes (or 1024 terabytes)

But why would you want to know that?

Its actually the amount of data contained within the Internet Archive Wayback Engine (or at least it was ! ). If you want to see how a web site looked back in 1996 chances are that it is archived here.

In addtion to an archive of web pages, the Internet Archive has archives of Moving Images, Live Music, Audio, Texts and Software.

http://www.archive.org/

Old or new technology ?

If you’ve not seen it before, take a look at the “sheet-based modelling technology” from CAD-Schroer

http://www.cad-schroer.com/…MEDUSA&thema=mask1.php?id=20&scr=1.7