Thursday, February 28, 2008

WorldWide Telescope Wow!

I've been reading about the WorldWide Telescope project this past few days. And I've been as excited as Scoble and other bloggers on it.

What is the WorldWide Telescope?

* WorldWide Telescope is an observatory on your desktop, allowing you to see the sky in a way you have never seen before; individual exploration, multi-wavelength views, stars and planets within context to each other, zoom in/out, and a capability for anyone to create and share a tour of the universe.

* The Visual Experience Engine delivers seamless panning zooming around the night sky.

* WWT delivers seamless integration of science:-relevant information including multi-wavelength, multiple telescope distributed image and data sets, and one-click contextual access to distributed Web information and data sources. (Source: http://worldwidetelescope.org/buzz/FAQ.aspx)

It really is an incredible use of technology in bringing the beauty space and the universe to kids and to the rest of the public.

Watch Roy Gould of Harvard Center of Astrophysics and Microsoft's Curtis Wong in a sneak preview of WorldWide Telescope at TED Talks.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Gmail's Amazing Feature






Makeuseof.com posted an amazing Gmail feature I think every Gmail user ought to know.

My email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Basically, all messages sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to my email.

* firstnamelastname@gmail.com
* f.i.r.s.t.n.a.m.e.lastname@gmail.com
* firstnamel.a.s.t.n.a.m.e@gmail.com

What makes it more interesting is the fact that Gmail does not allow others to sign up with an almost similar address. If someone tries to sign up using firstnamelastname@gmail.com or with the dots in-between, Gmail will treat such cases as one and therefore will be rejected. Read it in Gmail's Help Center

You're sure that those emails are only going to your inbox and not someone else's mail.

If you have other cool tips, let me know.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Twitxr - A picture is worth a thousand words



Share random thoughts, ideas and pictures with your mobile phone.

Twitxr is a microblogging system, much like Twitter but has the capability to add photos along with your text. What I find exceptional about Twitxr is the geolocalization feature. Your friends are Google-mapped based on the location setting in their profile.

If you wanna test this service. Add me as a friend in Twitxr http://twitxr.com/roice/

Some screenshots of Twitxr...