Lunascape, three major browser in one
Yeah you read it right. Three major browser in one browser. Technically, it’s a browser with 3 different engine. Here’s the equation:
Lunascape = IE (Trident) + Firefox (Gecko) + Chrome/Safari (Webkit)
Namely the world’s first and only triple engine browser, this of course suited well for web designers and/or web developers. I look at this browser as one of the answers for cross-browser compatibility problem.
5 sickening habits of mainstream websites
1. Breaking stories in many different pages to increase the number of impressions
Have you ever seen those “Top 25 Web Celebrities” or “Top 20 Richest People in the World” lists on Forbes? The number of items on the list is the number of pages that they use to display the information…. Slide shows they call it. I call it “trying to get as many page views as possible from each visitor to make more advertising money, because we are some greedy folks!”
And this practice is not limited to lists. If you take a look on Wired or PC World, you will notice that even 500 word stories get broken down into two or more pages!
Coffee table is universal remote control
We all have a little bit of sci-fi dream inside. Can’t deny that. We’ve all seen how Hollywood pictured a single device control every tiny bit inside the house. Now here’s something that might just be it. Except that it is only a coffee table, and it controls only the living room.
Introducing CRYSTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces), a recent research project that tries to create a unique bonding between devices in a room.
The main idea is having a single device to control everything in a room from lights, fans, TV, sound system, to digital frame, while you’re comfortably sitting in your couch.
Basic photography: understanding ISO
Here goes the third post of my basic photography series. This is ISO setting, so here goes the basic definition.
In traditional (film) photography ISO (or ASA) was the indication of how sensitive a film was to light. It was measured in numbers (you’ve probably seen them on films – 100, 200, 400, 800 etc). The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re taking.
In Digital Photography ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The same principles apply as in film photography – the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds (for example an indoor sports event when you want to freeze the action in lower light) – however the cost is noisier shots. I’ll illustrate this below with two elargements of shots that I just took – the one on the left is taken at 100 ISO and the one of the right at 3200 ISO (click to enlarge to see the full effect).
Image credit of DPS. Click to see larger image.
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