Archive for August, 2005
Tue 30 Aug 2005

- Multiple Themed Windows XP CSS Desktop v1.0. Vedere il codice sorgente per credere.
- The Louvre 360°.
(Quicktime VR).
- The Queue.
- “The movie shall be a short film; shall be shot in Super 8, 16 mm or 35 mm and in Black&White; it shall be silent. No audio recordings is allowed.”
(from Neomuet Manifesto)
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Mon 29 Aug 2005
“Our music library contains approximately 300,000 songs from over 10,000 artists. The collection is amazingly diverse and covers every type of music except classical and world. It’s great music from all sources: the big record labels, the indies, and musicians recording and self-publishing from their garage. We think of it as the very best music from the last 100 years.”
Pandora rischia di diventare un grande strumento web per conoscere nuovi artisti e gruppi affini ai propri gusti musicali.
Potete provare immediatamente il servizio inserendo l’account giavasan@gmail.com/giavapandora (e non fate troppi casini).
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Mon 29 Aug 2005

…not to make the Greatest Albums Lists.
Sempre in tema di classifiche segnalo la 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since 1963, con tutti i brani scaricabili in formato WMA.
Mon 29 Aug 2005

Finalmente qualcuno ha sviluppato un’applicazione che consente di backuppare completamente il profilo di Firefox. Solo per Windows, la trovate qui.
Sat 27 Aug 2005
“To engineer a search engine is a challenging task. Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them.
This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine — the first such detailed public description we know of to date.”
(Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. Mi sento l’ultimo dei nerd, emozionato come Amelia davanti alla Numero Uno)
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Fri 26 Aug 2005

- “Normally, within the installation, the spectator claps hands to make the umbrellas appear. Clapping does not work in this downloaded version; instead, you can make the umbrellas appear by clicking rapidly with your mouse.”
- MC Copycon Windows.
(Mp3, 1 Mb, 2:08)
- Black Google.
- The Photo Posing Guide.
(Pdf, 4 Mb)
- Star Trek & Star Wars Business Cards.
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Tue 30 Aug 2005

- Multiple Themed Windows XP CSS Desktop v1.0. Vedere il codice sorgente per credere.
- The Louvre 360°.
(Quicktime VR).
- The Queue.
- “The movie shall be a short film; shall be shot in Super 8, 16 mm or 35 mm and in Black&White; it shall be silent. No audio recordings is allowed.”
(from Neomuet Manifesto)
Mon 29 Aug 2005
“Our music library contains approximately 300,000 songs from over 10,000 artists. The collection is amazingly diverse and covers every type of music except classical and world. It’s great music from all sources: the big record labels, the indies, and musicians recording and self-publishing from their garage. We think of it as the very best music from the last 100 years.”
Pandora rischia di diventare un grande strumento web per conoscere nuovi artisti e gruppi affini ai propri gusti musicali.
Potete provare immediatamente il servizio inserendo l’account giavasan@gmail.com/giavapandora (e non fate troppi casini).
Mon 29 Aug 2005

…not to make the Greatest Albums Lists.
Sempre in tema di classifiche segnalo la 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since 1963, con tutti i brani scaricabili in formato WMA.
Mon 29 Aug 2005

Finalmente qualcuno ha sviluppato un’applicazione che consente di backuppare completamente il profilo di Firefox. Solo per Windows, la trovate qui.
Sat 27 Aug 2005
“To engineer a search engine is a challenging task. Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them.
This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine — the first such detailed public description we know of to date.”
(Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. Mi sento l’ultimo dei nerd, emozionato come Amelia davanti alla Numero Uno)
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- “Normally, within the installation, the spectator claps hands to make the umbrellas appear. Clapping does not work in this downloaded version; instead, you can make the umbrellas appear by clicking rapidly with your mouse.”
- MC Copycon Windows.
(Mp3, 1 Mb, 2:08)
- Black Google.
- The Photo Posing Guide.
(Pdf, 4 Mb)
- Star Trek & Star Wars Business Cards.
Show Comment »