I’m a bit of an aviation buff, so I thought this was pretty cool, even though it’s been around for a while. A guy named Aaron Koblin created a bunch of animations based on FAA flight tracking data. It’s part of the Celestial Mechanics project, where there is some more interesting stuff about what is over our heads at any given time.
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The fact that I couldn’t plug my BlackBerry device into a USB port on my laptop running Linux and have it charge really bugged me, and a whole lot of other people. A few weeks ago, I discovered the Barry project, a small part of which is bCharge, which tells the BlackBerry to request the correct power setting on the USB port, avoiding the dreaded message about insufficient power for charging. The latest version adds support for the Pearl and 8800 devices.
I used the openSUSE Build Service to create RPMs for SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.2. They are in my home repository here.
I came across this multi-touch user interface on another blog today. It’s completely amazing stuff - really just like the sci-fi type of interface that Tom Cruise uses in the movie Minority Report. Jeff Han is the brains behind this, and his website has some more cool stuff on it.
My brother also pointed me to Reactable, which is a similar concept with a much different application, equally cool.
I’m waiting for my flight at O’Hare, so I just ran a speed test with my new Cingular UMTS broadband card:
The speed has been quite nice, actually. Supposedly this speed will increase towards the 3.6 Mbps level and beyond as they continue to roll it out and upgrade equipment.