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A New Kind of Demonstration

Earlier this month you should have received Stephen Wolfram's announcement that we have released a radically new version of Mathematica.

We wanted to follow up and point you to a major resource that our new technology has made possible: The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a free site dedicated to a new form of interactive demonstration.

Already, there are more than 1,300 Demonstrations on the site, and we are rapidly receiving new contributions in a remarkable range of areas.

Any Mathematica 6 user can author a Demonstration and submit it to the site. Published Demonstrations can be downloaded and run by anyone--even those without Mathematica 6--using the new free Mathematica Player.

We hope you'll have a chance to take a look. Please give us your comments and suggestions--and, of course, consider publishing your own Demonstrations on the site.

Best wishes,

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project Team
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com

Jott & Twitter

Posting to Twitter via Jott

Good evening folks. I've been getting lots of questions from my on-line buddies as to how I've gotten things setup to post from my Jott account to my twitter page.

In case you're not aware, Jott is a service that allows you to call a number from a cellular or land line based phone and have your messages transcribed into text. Twitter is a service that allows you to keep all your friends updated with what you're doing, in the manner in which they prefer with short messages via phone, IM, or web.

I've been using these two services for a few months now and decided the other day that it would be pretty cool if I could easily hook the two of them together so that I could simply call a number and post to twitter by simply speaking my mind. This turned out to be incredibly simple and required no coding at all.

Here's the deal in a nutshell.

1. Create a blog that allows for e-mail publishing and automatically creates an RSS feed for you. I use Blogger.
2. Create a Jott account and a contact in that account that posts to the e-mail address in step 1.
3. Create a twitterfeed account and setup a twitterfeed using the RSS feed from the blog in step 1 to post to your twitter page.
4. Start posting to twitter via jott.

That's pretty much it. You can see my blog that is dedicated to providing this posting capability here. This is of course different from my desire to have my twitter comments weaved into my blog posts. I'm currently archiving all of my twitters, sent via the manner describe here, or via other means, to this blog.

Eventually I'm going to use some of the "life streaming" code floating around the net to splice all of my on-line activity together. This will due for now.

Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. If you think this post was useful, please Digg it or link to it for me. I'd like to see what happens if we get multiple people using this method.

Smart Mobs: Set up a free, web conference page in minutes with Web 2.0 tools

Smart Mobs: Set up a free, web conference page in minutes with Web 2.0 tools

Set up a web page with tables, click on a few URLs, copy and paste some code, and you have an instant web conference room, with voice, text chat, and slide-sharing in a matter of minutes. Free. Point to this when someone asks what Web 2.0 means.

Internal HTC Document reveals more Shift (X9500) info! - Kornel's Blog - News - UMPCPortal.com

Internal HTC Document reveals more Shift (X9500) info! - Kornel's Blog - News - UMPCPortal.com

This linked PDF of HTC's new lineup reveals a ton of info about the Shift UMPC.
Codenamed "Shangri-La" (Model number X9500) this one will run on Intel's 800mhz processor and have 1GB of Ram as well as 30 or 40GB of HDD depending on the model.

What the big news is, it will run both Windows Vista and Windows Mobile 6 Professional! This will allow for instant on in HTC's newest device, which is starting to look a lot like the cPC that was never released... It will include 128mb of ROM and 64mb of RAM for WM6.

Another positive aspect is that along with the built in GPS, there is a VGA cam, MiniSD slot and a Fingerprint reader. Bluetooth and WiFi are also standard. Now the disappointing thing: the screen is only 800x480.

YouTube Ripper | Ripzor.com

YouTube Ripper | Ripzor.com

Microsoft Surface Video - Touchscreen, Multi Touch Coffee Table - Behind the Scenes - Popular Mechanics

Microsoft Surface Video - Touchscreen, Multi Touch Coffee Table - Behind the Scenes - Popular Mechanics: "Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video)
The software giant has built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on."

GottaBeMobile.com - How to buy a UMPC or Tablet PC - Your Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC, and Mobile Internet Device news source

GottaBeMobile.com - How to buy a UMPC or Tablet PC - Your Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC, and Mobile Internet Device news source

If there is one question I get asked more often than anything it would have to be “Which is the best Tablet PC?” For those of us watching this space closely we tend to agree that there is no such thing. It seems that each and every time I cough up cash for a new Tablet I think loooooooong and haaaaaaaaaaaaard smaaaaaaaaart about my choice. At present I am in between Tablets (in between 17 of them to be exact) so I thought I would take this opportunity to express, or put done on blog at least, some of my thoughts regarding the buying process. I know some of you own Tablets already and perhaps are looking for a second one; while I know many of you are still contemplating your first. So for all of you reading this post…the following is a definitive account of how to buy a Tablet PC. (I’ve even prepared a special spreadsheet for you to use when you’re done reading.)

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