Monday 6th of February 2012, week 06



20
Aug 09

Imagine the tenth dimension

The full concept of dimensions is an area many of us run into during our late years of school and for the most part of us there it also ends. For people interested in physics dimensions is a crucial element though to understand our everyday happenings and doings. The dimensions is like the jester in a deck of cards, something we can pull out when nothing else seem to work out. The jester joins the game and bring with it logic which we can use to solve problems otherwise unsolved.

A while ago I ran into the book “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” by Rob Bryanton. Or more truthfully I ran into the website about the book where the concepts are visualized. It has become something of a mantra for me for every time I feel that I think to understand the world around us (or when Hybris kicks in as it does now and then) I use this visualization to get my feet back down to earth. Even though I’ve watched it multiple times not, I still get fascinated by it.

So I challenge you, look at the movie and really focus on understanding what is explained. Try to not think to hard though, when I look at it sometimes my brain hurts a bit.


19
Aug 09

What? No money? But I want death-rays!

stewieI don’t know if you heard but it’s all over the internetz at the moment – The Financial Crisis! Everywhere companies go bancrupt and families are in a struggle to get the accounts to stay on black numbers every month. But there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Just when you thought that a big thing in the entire world like this might unite people and nations the US just gave the go-ahead for spending three million dollars on…

Death-rays!

So I guess that the so called crisis can’t be THAT bad.

Read more about the real-life super-villian-weapons-of-mass-destruction over at Techradar.


17
Aug 09

The Ninja-bear

ninja-bear


15
Aug 09

Best online photolab

Nowdays when almost all photos we take are digital they seem to end up in a complex directory-structure somewhere on our laptop, tucked away. When we then are about to show them for family and friends we have to go through endless of mumbo-jumbo to get the photos from the computer to the tv and so forth. Well, I for one think that we all should send off our best photos to get papercopies now and then. Not only do you get your photos in a better format for show and tell, you also get the feeling that you actually created something in a better sense then just the images on your screen.

The Swedish photo-magazine “Kamera & Bild” had a test in their latest issue about the best digital photolab and once again the winner was – Crimson. This is a company that almost always come up in forums, magazines or discussions when people are to rnak their best photolabs and therefore I would like to throw them a bone here aswell.

I have not personally used this company yet but I’m looking on using their services to get some posters printed using pictures from my last trip on the Transmongolian railway. That’s right, they offer poster-printing aswell!

Worth mentioning is of course also that the cheapest contendant did come in on a whooping thrid place (out of twenty-one) and this was Fuijifilm so if you are to print alot of photos these are defenetly worth a look!


13
Aug 09

More iPhones out of the factory?

I just read a statement from the  head of sales at Telia Sonera about their queue for the new iPhone 3gs is to be finished of durig the coming two weeks. Not that would tell us that the factories building iPhones have started to produce more phones or that new products have emerged from a secret vault somewhere.

No matter which one of the two, I’m quite happy because I guess I will get my new iPhone within two weeks! :)

One have to remeber that all the rumours about the next shipment of phones that have been travelling the net lately might aswell have been just that – rumours. Once again the great Apple PR-machine did their homework and was able to kick of one awsome product release. A couple of weeks waiting for the phone is nothing anyone will remember when phone is in their hands.


12
Aug 09

Smultron is no more

When it comes to nifty editors for Mac OS X there was one that I really liked named Smultron, by the swede Peter Borg. I felt that the application had about what I needed for a small-size editor and this morning I noticed that development of the product had been halted.

The reason for this Peter said was due to the amount of time development grab. The project can be reached on sourceforge.net though so hopefully someone else will pick it up so that it can keep on evolving.

Together with Smultron, Peter also noted that his two other projects Lingon and Hallon also was halted due to the same reason.