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Imagine the Possiblities of Your Netbook App Ideas

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:08:26 -0400

Imagine the Possiblities of Your Netbook App Ideas:

Today, Renee James, Intel VP for the Software & Services Group, gave additional details on the Intel® Atom Developer Program, which provides software developers and software companies a new…

Protecting valuable data on mobile devices

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:59:40 -0400

Protecting valuable data on mobile devices:

How many of us have important data on a USB memory key right now? Is your data protected? What if you lost that memory key? I lost a very small multi-Gb key a few months ago and was…

Scene Graphs and Instancing

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:59:39 -0400

Scene Graphs and Instancing:

This is the fourth blog I’ve written on the subject of porting a DirectX demo over to OpenGL. The first blog details what my project is about. The second and third blogs talk about some of the…

Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:54:59 -0400

Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications:

I wanted to point out that we just uploaded a new open source video that was recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON. In this video, Sven Dummer from Wind River talks about developing open source…

Changing partitions in Windows XP Home in order to install Moblin v2.0 Beta

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:25:00 -0400

Changing partitions in Windows XP Home in order to install Moblin v2.0 Beta:

A few weeks ago, I finished converting projects from Silverlight 3 Beta 1 to Silverlight 3 RTW. It took me more time than expected. Working with Beta versions is a difficult task. However, I’ve been…

Parenting a Connected child

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:34:17 -0400

Parenting a Connected child:

Sometimes being a parent in this newly connected world can lead to issues that our parents never had to face. Take for example these two text message I received the other night:

“Dad…

Why P scales as CV^2f is so obvious (pt 2)

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:34:17 -0400

Why P scales as C*V^2*f is so obvious (pt 2):

THE GORY DETAILS

Let’s continue from where we left off last time. Let’s figure out the why of the equation,

P = C * V^2 * (a * f)

To do this, we’re going to have to look at what is going…

Why P scales as CV^2f is so obvious (pt 1)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:29 -0400

Why P scales as C*V^2*f is so obvious (pt 1):

[apologies gentle readers if you’ve seen this twice. I’ve moved this over from my mysterious twin account (taylor-kidd-2) over to this account (taylor-kidd)]

[Warning: Math and physics alert! Math…

How should we upgrade our portable devices?

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:24:33 -0400

How should we upgrade our portable devices?:

The ability to upgrade our computers provides us with several benefits. We feel our investments continue to be useful through extending their lives. We also gain features for modest…

When you vacation, do you remain connected?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:04:26 -0400

When you vacation, do you remain connected?:

As summer vacation time winds down in the US, I’m wondering just how many people worked to stay connected while they vacation compared to those who left the connected world behind. The trends…

How the Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive will shape our Industry

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:58:40 -0400

How the Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive will shape our Industry:

What I’m going to cover here certainly isn’t new or revolutionary thinking by any stretch of the imagination. This particular blog is going to be some of my observations about hard drives, what the…

Cloudy with a chance of Moblin

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:17:52 -0400

Cloudy with a chance of Moblin:

I noticed today in this blog post a reference to Moblin being a cloud-based OS. Primarily this is because Moblin 2.0 has services such as twitter, last.fm integrated into the OS, and these web…

Look up and see people in space!

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:06:46 -0400

Look up and see people in space!:

As my son and I stood in our yard last night watching the International Space Station pass overhead it amazed me just how small the world seems to be getting and also how connected we are! We…

Photo Management and Geo-tags in use

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:41:21 -0400

Photo Management and Geo-tags in use:

On a recent trip (house hunting in AZ) I had occasion to take hundreds of pictures of homes. I used my GPS to embed the geo-tag information into the images as mentioned in this blog (…

Dirk Hohndel gives Intel keynote at OSCON 2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:52:18 -0400

Dirk Hohndel gives Intel keynote at OSCON 2009:

I just heard Dirk Hohndel give the OSCON 2009 Intel keynote for Imad Sousou. Dirk
is the chief open source technologist at Intel and this is the third year he has stepped in for Imad at the last…

How to develop apps for Moblin

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:52:17 -0400

How to develop apps for Moblin:

More OSCON 2009 observaations

Rob Bradford gave an excellent talk right after the keynotes on develoment of applications for Moblin. I really like Rob’s talks, because he is quite…

"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" (... called Moblin)

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:50:24 -0400

"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" (... called Moblin):

Over the past month or so, I viewed all of the episodes of “The Jetsons on DVD.” I grew up in the 1960s in the US, and this show formed the unconscious fabric of our thinking about how the future…

Backpacking with Mobile Internet Devices

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:27:19 -0400

Backpacking with Mobile Internet Devices:

I spent most of the last week backpacking in a very remote wilderness area where the only access is by hiking or horseback. While on this backpacking trip it was very interesting to see how…

New topics and restarting the blog

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:57:50 -0400

New topics and restarting the blog:

Oh my gosh. Looking at a history of my previous blogs, I can’t believe my last article was in September 2008. That can’t be true. I’ve written several since then. Hey wait. To quote the great down…

Why P scales as CV^2f is so obvious

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:57:50 -0400

Why P scales as C*V^2*f is so obvious:

[Warning: Math and physics alert! Math and physics alert!]

I think that you’ve all seen this equation before:

P = a * C * V² * f

Where P is power, C is capacitance, V is the voltage across the…