Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Data Visualization

Here are some great Data Visualization links for you to check out, it's worth the time:

Newsmap shows the changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. The size of data blocks represent their popularity at the moment.
Digg Stack visualizes the way Digg stories stack as users digg them. The more diggs a story gets, the larger is the stack.
Time Magazine lets you "take a look at America by the numbers" (population statistics)
We Feel Fine is a very cute application that shows human feelings, calculated from a large number of weblogs.
Universe DayLife displays events, connections and news.
Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet.
Voyage is an RSS-feader which displays the latest news in the “gravity area”.
walk2web makes cool graphs of incoming and outgoing links; it also has audio reading your blog title.

Music Related:

This post took off from a roughly related talk I had with tyxod about Last.fm and how much he liked it.

Last.fm. Downloading the application gives you some cool functions. Use it as a fire and forget
dj for your parties.
Burst Labs suggests connected items to your queries in a bubble.
Musiclens suggests music responding to your mood as a diagram.
Musicmap creates an expandable web with interconnections of your search.
Musicovery has a great interface for choosing your music taste and lets you listen and browse through similar songs.

1453-1821 video game

Έχουν περάσει αρκετά χρόνια που επαιξα για πρώτη φορά το "1453-1821". Είναι ένα turn-based παιχνίδι με θέμα την ελληνική επανάσταση (οι "μάχες" είναι real-time). Την πρώτη εκείνη φορά ο χρόνος από το install στο uninstall δεν ξεπέρασε τα 5 λεπτά.
Προχθές διαβάζοντας το bigfish απο το πρώτο θέμα στην τουαλέτα, έπεσα σε ένα 4σέλιδο αφιέρωμα για μια παρέα ελλήνων "game developers"... που έκανε "video game την Επανάσταση του 1821" και αποφάσισα να τσεκάρω την σελίδα τους. (όχι δεν διάβασα το άρθρο).

Βρήκα και demo στη σελίδα τους, (απο το οποίο προέρχονται και τα screen shots) που αφού το ολοκλήρωσα έχω να πω ότι περισσότερα συναισθήματα μου ξυπνάει το φιδάκι σε ένα παλιό nokia παρά τα ιστορικά κείμενα και οι σαν-απο-σκετσάκι-του-Αμαν φωνές των αγωνιστών του εν λόγο game.
Είμαι μέσα με το να στηρίζουμε ελληνικές προσπάθειες αλλά το να έχουμε ως παράδειγμα σε εφημερίδα (ακόμα και ένθετο) ένα τόσο χαμηλής ποιότητας παιχνίδι μόνο κακό μπορεί να κάνει. Η Ουκρανία (και δεν λέω ότι δεν είναι μεγάλη χώρα) καταφέρνει να βγάλει φοβερά παιχνίδια όπως το Cossaks απο την GSC Game World και εμείς βγάζουμε αυτό δηλαδή...

Δεν θα ασχοληθώ άλλο, απλά θα βάλω μερικά screen shots:
(το μόνο που αναρωτιέμαι είναι αν πραγματικά θα ζητάνε λεφτά για το full version.)

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Video Editing

I found this very useful tool the other day that really gave me a big help in editing some old video files. Free Video Dub deletes parts from video files without re-encoding, which sums up to spending only 5 minutes to segment a 1Gb file in many parts without loosing original quality.

Free Studio Manager includes many more functions which are optional to download (free).

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008

LyricsFinder strikes back, strikes hard.

Copying from Rockordie:

"Επιτέλους όλοι εσείς που προτιμάτε το iTunes (62MB) για να ακούτε τα mp3 σας αντί του Winamp (1.5MB), μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε το LyricsFinder11 για την εύρεση των στίχων (των αγαπημένων σας τραγουδιών)...

Επίσης βελτιώθηκε ο τρόπος εύρεσης στίχων για τους λάτρεις των ραδιοφώνων internet. Τώρα το πρόγραμμα έχει την δυνατότητα να βρει τους στίχους από τα τραγούδια αρκεί το internet ραδιόφωνο που επιλέξατε να μεταδίδει αυτό που παίζει με την μορφή:

- καλλιτέχνης_τίτλος τραγουδιού -

Κατεβάστε τώρα λέμε...
LyricsFinder11 v1.1.zip (2.67MB)
LyricsFinder11 v1.1.rar (2.67MB)"
I kind of hate itunes

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3/14 π day

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Leonard Cohen

The upcoming (after 12 years) big tour by Leonard Cohen has a big itinerary with the last concert taking place in Greece.
29-Jul-08 Athens Lykabettus Theatre
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it's come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time,
walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me,
it's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

firefox beta4, beta5 coming soon


Download, info
No installation? You can also try it by using the Portable Edition 3 Beta 4


Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Backing up your blog


To display all your posts in one page write:

http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
(N:number of posts)
Then you can use HTTrack or any similar application.

For an XML feed write:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=N

Backing up comments:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=N

Monday, March 03, 2008

Check the video


I never liked google sky.

Encyclopedia of Life

"A new project to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet."

One Billion Pixels

This is just 43% of total zoom. (link)
100% zoom. (link)
This is a 100% zoom and the image is viewed using google earth. (link)
more: W, W