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• Feb 03 2011
  Talking Piano by David Goligorsky
  Art, Code, Computers, Data Presentation, Engineering, Musician, Politics, Remix, Robots, Software

  [Ed. Note: I found this in the drafts folder... started this draft on February 8th, 2010 and now it's February 3rd, 2011.] I'm totally floored. (via today and tomorrow)
  
  
• Feb 08 2010
  ONull by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Art, Code, Computers, Data Presentation, Graphic Design, GUI, Illusration, Remix, Software

  ONull is written in Java and uses Processing as a graphical engine. Awesome vector generator that rasterizes an image to give you a vector output file. You can choose the squares, crosses, circles, etc. or you can import your own vector to use as the "pixels." Excellent tool.
  
  
• May 12 2009
  Finding the average color in an image by David Goligorsky
  Code, Data Presentation, Graphic Design, photography, Remix, Software, Visualization

  Just thinking about a project and quickly found this free online tool by Wise Geek that finds the average color in an image. Seems to be good! I've done things like this in MATLAB before, but it's unnecessarily complicated and Photoshop doesn't seem to have a good way to do this... please comment if you have a better solution. [caption id="attachment_1208" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Color Averaging"][/caption] The photo here is of the Stanford Solar Car.
  
  
• Apr 30 2009
  Come a long way, kinda by David Goligorsky
  Apple, Art, Associative Thought, Code, Computers, Iconoclasm, Interaction Design, Music, Past Future, Remix, Software, video

  Check out this "record player" iPhone app. The author, Theodore Watson, threw it together in one morning. I really like projects that get the point across quickly. It's a build-to-think mode and sparks dialogue (like this blog post) that gets people thinking about how to use what's around them. At Free Art and Technology, via NOTCOT
  
  
• Dec 15 2008
  TuneUp for iTunes by David Goligorsky
  Computers, Music, Software

  Just got wind of a new plug-in for iTunes called TuneUp. They just released the Mac software a couple days ago (PC version had already been up.) It's supposed to do all the music library housekeeping for you. That includes cleaning mislabeled music (artist names, genres, track numbers, genres, etc.), finding missing cover art. It can also alert you of concert dates and pull in YouTube videos and news. It's refreshing to see a new product with a clean-looking website too!
  
  
• Nov 13 2008
  Google Talk: Video Chat by Christian Eager
  Google, Software

  Since Google Gears uses an Input Manager to work on the Mac, I was a little skeptical that Google Talk's new Video Chat didn't also use undocumented features to work. I checked the installer package, though, and it's a plain old browser extension. Who knew? True, it's beta, but it makes Google Talk even betta'.
  
  
• Sep 13 2008
  Keepon by David Goligorsky
  Academia, Aesthetics, Code, Design, Engineering, Experience Design, Interaction Design, Japan, Materials, Music, Product Design, Robots, Science, Software, video

  I subscribed to Ambidextrous, Stanford University's Journal of Design. The magazine is edited by the Stanford Design community and receives content from contributors around the world. It's a very well-done publication and I would recommend subscribing if you are a designer, engineer, scientist, anthropologist, interaction, UX, HCI, or really anything else because you're bound to find these articles worthwhile. Reading through issue nine, I was particularly impressed by a robot designed by Hideki Kozima in Kyoto and programmed at Carnegie Mellon by Marek Michalowski. It is known as Keepon (from Japanese kee for yellow and pon for bobbing). ...
  
  
• Sep 09 2008
  PEBKAC by David Goligorsky
  Code, Computers, Quotes, Software

  PEBKAC: "Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair" also known as PICNIC: "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer" These are acronyms for computer programmers to belittle human beings. (via swissmiss)
  
  
• Sep 06 2008
  Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld by David Goligorsky
  Advertising, Computers, Iconoclasm, Software, video

  JS: Churro? BG: I'm good. via NotCot
  
  
• Sep 02 2008
  Bruce Nussbaum on product testing in the marketplace by David Goligorsky
  Apple, Code, Computers, Design, Engineering, interview, Product Design, Software, video

  So Google just released a beta version of their Chrome browser without offering software for Mac OSX and Linux users. That fact was the content of my previous post. This is one major example of companies doing their product testing in the marketplace. The trend of early adopters as unpaid software testers was one of the major messages in BusinessWeek innovation writer Bruce Nussbaum's interview with David Armano of Critical Mass (no, not the overly-political and generally-counter-productive bicycle thing.) If you don't have time for the whole half-hour interview, jump to 18:08 for the discussion of product testing ...
  
  

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