Chawlk

1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

By the way: something wicked this way comes.

English please.

Base example of augmented reality app: Google Maps knows your GPS location and which way you're pointing your phone.

Point your phone's camera at something, for example the White House. Looking at the live view on your phone's screen you see a floating "White House" label-graphic overlayed by the Google Maps app.

Good call. We've come a long way since a b&w screen showing a plain-text, bulleted list (^_^)

I'm guessing the lines in the US were long, considering people began queuing a week ago in NY. Crazy. I'm going to stick with my "old" iPhone I got in February until the batterylife starts wearing out.

Still waiting for an unlock, but the list looks really nice. Some apps from the free category that looked fun at first glance:

• Jott - Free transcription program apparently, definitely hopefully handy for writing ideas and brief notes.
• Evernote - I can't say I'm interested in registering with yet another service (up with open standards and cloud computing already), but the OCR tech sounds great.
• eReader - für das e-buchen.
• Pangea VR - 360deg panoramas galore. I'm sure it's interesting to try once or twice.
• Molecules - I'm just aching to rub my phone against someone's arm and then showing them their molecular structure.

I don't have the WiFi/Tower triangulation schemes back here, and I'm disappointed that there's no Sonic Screwdriver app - I thought Apple would be the end of the Daleks.

Haha - well I wouldn't go so far as to compare Twitter to SkyNet. But we're already knee deep in analysis! Especially when it comes to open information; Wikipedia's fruits fuel a lot of startup companies dealing with machine processing & intelligence. Emphasis is shifting onto finding ways to utilize open data and add standardized metadata. This will bring about exciting new opportunities in the near future.

@Mike - You're not cool unless your site's in the Drawar Gallery!

I'm totally uncool.
But hey, how about making the thumbs just a bit smaller and use grid layout? It's very tedious to browse the pages.

Congratulations on the launch! Drawar+Decaflon = Yeah baby. Delicious flavor.

Definitely one of the nicest looking space-apps to debut in recent years. I read Nils' review of it, but haven't booted up Windows to try it yet.

The last similar app I tried was Google's extension of Earth, which I felt was a bit of a flop. Difficult to navigate and a generally bumpy ride.

There are so many different intersections of the two, even without approaching the matter from a 'everything is fantasy' viewpoint. Certain elements of fantasy will include scientific ideas, and vice versa. I suppose the best definition I've heard is from my brother Kris: "Science fiction is what could be, fantasy is what could never be."

Similar to Alex's note on weaving possibilities. Perhaps a good perspective is to think of science fiction as a story that builds on scientific reasoning and current knowledge; while fantasy does so to a drastically lesser degree.

And yeah, I revitalized this Note because it's mandatory Powers of Ten time now! Everybody viddy well, viddy well.

Why did we breed a generation of hopeless morons? School is for losers, reading is stupid, and being smart is NOT COOL. WOW there's a way to get ahead in life!

My brother recently described high-school [age≈13-16] school as it was 30 years ago. It's unbelievable (I'm much younger than he is). Back then it was cool to participate in a formal student organization (part of the system). The behaviorally good- & smart students were the coolest.

I don't know about you, but I've only witnessed a captain of a football team be cool and admired in American films. My reality in school was unfortunately the beginning of a reversal; I'm not sure how it is now, I think it has calmed a bit. I'm hoping it's part of a wave that oscillates to anti-social behavior after a period of high discipline (middle ages to ... 1980?); and eventually reaches an equilibrium.

Being smart is cool. The smart ones know it.
....But unfortunately their opinion isn't considered cool.

Argh -- failed the bear spotting. Great video.

Yeah, I've done that as well in the past. I wonder -- this confusion must increase as alternate reality games become more popular (games on mobile devices that take your position/the real world into account).

Sure that'll freak many out.

@Oli - [3G sucks battery] Faster but not too fast. I've had 3 3g phones over the years including my n95, all precursing the iPhone and all of those had a significant enough battery.

Dude, the N95 doesn't have the Badass Screen from Hell™! Or a 620Mhz processor.

@amine - Everybody is talking a 3G iphone, but I seriously don't think apple is releasing one anytime soon if they ever go with 3G

They've already announced it.

"In not so unexpected news, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed that a 3G capable iPhone will be launched in 2008." [link & another link]

They will go with 3G at some point - it wouldn't make sense not to. Unless they intend to base their business plans on WiMax or something similar instead.

@JPhill - Simply swapping SIM cards won't work?

No, the technology is different. One of the main reasons they didn't create a 3G phone to begin with was battery life — current 3G tech sucks batteries dry fast. However, there've been significant (I've heard but not confirmed) advances in that area since the first iPhone debuted.

Congrats on the tablet.

I have a Graphire 4 A5. What I did was I used it for a mouse for about a week. Just unplugged my regular mouse and forced myself to use the tablet pen to navigate. I found that did a pretty good job at getting a feel for it.

After that I just dove head first into drawing.

Right. Given more thought, most will probably use down voting on spam/trash, rather than to state disapproval of clips' messages.

Great additions!

Voting down decreases the total Clip count for that article, and also hides it so that you won't see it listed anywhere on the site again.

Is that a good thing? Makes me think that in some cases I'd like to voice my opinion by giving a negative vote, but still want to monitor whether other people comment and/or vote down as well. Just a thought.

Ugh. Again Europeans suffer. Gotta wake up early so I'll miss it. Again. Have fun everyone.

I'm interested in watching the site being built.

because I think it's a new and fresh idea (I don't think I've heard of a site of this caliber doing live revisions, have you?), and because this point of Scrivs' interests me: "Maybe it will generate more discussions around the web." along with a few other points that intrigue me.

But I don't know how far along you guys are -- is it really true what you say about all there being left being minor tweaks (ToS, report button, etc) - or are we talking about a period of development where something completely new will occasionally pop up?

If it's the latter, I'd say that it'd be a very interesting experiment. But if it's just minor tweaks; then keep it in the box.

Edit:

I guess we will move forward with it

Cool.

/edit

I just thought of a potential downside (depending on how much you plan to reveal): Could there be some security risks involved ie. pages blurting out accidental SQL or something of the likes?