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"If you look at your iPhone when its face-down you’ll notice that the camera and the flash face “up.”..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:49:41 -0400

“If you look at your iPhone when its face-down you’ll notice that the camera and the flash face “up.” Fortunately, Apple thought through how to use the flash to alert the user when a message has been received. You’ll find this brilliant feature under Settings > General > Accessibility. Scroll down to “LED Flash for Alerts” and turn it “on.” The camera flash will now blink when a message comes through but no where near as bright as when the flash is used while taking a photo.”

- Airbag - Caw.

“Perhaps the most ‘pro of tips’ for the iPhone.”

(via thisistheverge)

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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:32:36 -0400

bylinebeat: Goodbye, anonymity: Latest surveillance tech can...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:17:01 -0400

bylinebeat:

Goodbye, anonymity: Latest surveillance tech can search up to 36 million faces per second

Welcome to the next generation in surveillance technology. A Japanese company, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, has unveiled a novel surveillance camera that is able to capture a face and search up to 36 million faces in one second for a similar match in its database.

While the same task would typically require manually sifting through hours upon hours of recordings, the company´s new technology searches algorithmically for a facial match. It enables any organization, from a retail outlet to the government, to monitor and identify pedestrians or customers from a database of faces.

Hitachi’s software is able to recognize a face with up to 30 degrees of deviation turned vertically and horizontally away from the camera, and requires faces to fill at least 40 pixels by 40 pixels for accurate recognition. Any image, whether captured on a mobile phone, handheld camera, or a video still, can be uploaded and searched against its database for matches.

“This high speed is achieved by detecting faces through image recognition when the footage from the camera is recorded, and also by grouping similar faces,” Seiichi Hirai, Hitachi Kokusai Electric researcher told DigInfo TV.

Photo Credit: (fastcompany.com)

morganmissen: Caterina Fake cited this timeline to 50M users on...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:10:17 -0500

morganmissen:

Caterina Fake cited this timeline to 50M users on why the worst thing a social network can do is force growth. “My perspective is it takes a while to grow this stuff,” she said to Liz Gannes in AllThingsD. “It takes time for the culture to grow. You need time to develop antibodies to spammers and trolls.” Adding user registrations at such a fast pace doesn’t leave enough time for a dedicated, engaged user community to organically create itself and establish norms, she argued.

Domain question

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:59:54 -0500

If you wanna make an awesome worldwide web site, what name would you choose for it? Is it:

A. related to the specific content

B. not related to the content, but sounds good

And both are not possible.

P.S. What do you think about errors on purpose in the domain?

rickwebb: God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59:51 -0500

rickwebb:

God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this morning’s comparison. I experience this at least once a day now for a variety of things.

I may not be done with Google yet, but I can see the day I will be on the horizon, and I am looking forward to it.

First post

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:18:10 -0500

My first post at tumblr