I'm leaving the internet for a year 263inShare Jump To Close At midnight tonight I will leave the internet. Depending on your perspective, you might be completely shocked that I'd even attempt such a thing, or you might be completely unimpressed. I feel like I've only examined the internet up close. Now I want to see the internet at a distance. I'm also interested in a sans-internet reality as a technology writer. In my wild fantasies, leaving the internet will make me better with my time, vastly more creative, a better friend, a better son and brother... a better Paul. The specifics "Internet use" includes web browsing from any device, asking anyone to web browse for me, surfing the internet over someone's shoulder, and enjoying entertainment streams like Netflix, even if started by someone else. Additionally, I'm going to attempt to eliminate my text messaging, at least as far as that's in my power. And just like an old-time journalist, I won't have comments to read, retweets to bask in, or forums to troll. Wish me luck.
I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. And now I'm supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. But instead it's 8PM and I just woke up. I didn't want to meet this Paul at the tail end of my yearlong journey. In early 2012 I was 26 years old and burnt out. I thought the internet might be an unnatural state for us humans, or at least for me. My plan was to quit my job, move home with my parents, read books, write books, and wallow in my spare time. My goal would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years But for some reason, The Verge wanted to pay me to leave the internet. My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years. This was going to be amazing. I dreamed a dream Back to reality Family time
L'actu 3.0 Société Publié sur avril 29th, 2013 | Rédigé par Mohammed Khial À ceux qui vous diront qu’un bureau mal rangé est révélateur d’un esprit mal organisé, vous pourrez désormais leur demander avec assurance de quoi peut bien être révélateur un bureau vide. Selon une étude portant sur l’organisation au travail, menée par des chercheurs allemands, on apprend que le « bordel » serait indicateur d’une forte conscience productive. Vous êtes bordélique ? Avec ces résultats, il semblerait que ce soit tout un mythe qui s’effondre. Alors petite question pour finir. 0 instagram Imaginez un distributeur de Pepsi Next dans lequel il ne faut pas insérer une pièce mais une canette de cola vide.
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Descriptive Camera The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype uses crowd sourcing to output a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of "parsable" metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. As we amass an incredible amount of photos, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage our collections. Technology The technology at the core of the Descriptive Camera is Amazon's Mechanical Turk API. The camera itself is powered by the BeagleBone, an embedded Linux platform from Texas Instruments. Presentation Video Results After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results. This is a faded picture of a dilapidated building. Acknowledgements
Matt Richardson has invented a camera that tells you what you're seeing Matt Richardson: Descriptive Camera (pictures from www.mattrichardson.com) I love this project so much it makes me a bit dizzy. Right, I’m sitting down now. New York-based developer Matt Richardson has created a camera which provides a text description of the scene focussed on rather than capturing it visually. Like a lot of amazing stuff it actually works by technology rather than magic, in this particular case sending off the image to a person in the Amazon Mechanical Turk service who then provides a couple of sentences about what the image depicts; this is then printed out via the original camera. Brilliantly this means that the camera doesn’t necessarily just record objectively what is in front of it, it can also have opinions such as “Looks like a cupboard which is old and ugly” adding a fascinatingly fun edge to Matt’s invention. Some of the print-outs from The Descriptive Camera (pictures from www.mattrichardson.com)
Summly ou la tentation de l'info hyper-résumée L'histoire a fait les gros titres en début de semaine. Summly, une application mobile de news, développée par un britannique de 17 ans, a été rachetée par Yahoo! pour quelque 30 millions de dollars. Bien sûr, cette acquisition a quelque chose d'un coup de pub et il y a aussi une face cachée derrière le conte de fées. Pourtant, cette opération est très intéressante en raison de ce qu'elle révèle de l'état actuel de l'information en ligne. "Notre vision est de simplifier la façon dont nous obtenons l'information et nous sommes ravis de poursuivre cette mission à grande échelle avec Yahoo!" Le rachat de Summly par Yahoo semble confirmer le pari que beaucoup d'autres ont fait, en matière de résumés d'information. Cependant, je suis gêné par la motivation de ces services qui semblent miser surtout... sur le volume. Or, c'est précisément ce qui me dérangeait tant avec Summly : chaque fois que j'ouvrais l'application, un terrifiant "99 + summlys non lus" m'accueillerait.
Un ado britannique devient millionnaire en créant l'appli Summly A 17 ans, un adolescent de la banlieue sud de Londres a inventé une application pour téléphone que Yahoo ! vient de lui acheter pour plusieurs dizaines de millions de dollars. L'application Summly résume rapidement les informations par thèmes pour les smartphones. Nick d'Alosio © Droits réservés - 2013 / Droits réservés Yahoo a annoncé le rachat de la start-up Summly, dont la technologie d'agrégation de nouvelles devrait permettre au groupe internet de muscler son offre en applications mobiles, pour laquelle il a multiplié ces derniers temps les petites acquisitions. Ecoutez le reportage à Londres de Franck Mathevon La société travaille étroitement avec News Corp et compte parmi ses investisseurs l'acteur Ashton Kutcher et Yoko Ono. Le jeune entrepreneur a déclaré que Yahoo utiliserait ses technologies d'agrégation des flux d'actualités pour réinventer la diffusion d'informations, comme les nouvelles, la météo et les informations boursières et financières, sur les appareils mobiles.
Geek calculator separates the tech buffs from the technophobes... so how do you score? The UK population has been divided into five personality types based on their love, or hate, for technologyThe groups include Tech Rich, Social Addict, TV Worshippers, Quality Seekers and Price PragmatistsGeek calculator asks 10 questions about gadgets and lifestyle to detemine which group you belong to, with 'TV Worshipper' the most common By Victoria Woollaston Published: 07:35 GMT, 4 July 2013 | Updated: 11:13 GMT, 4 July 2013 Are you obsessed with the latest technology and have a burning desire to own every new device? A new study has divided the nation into five personality types based on the technology they own and their lifestyle choices. The industry body behind the research has also created The Great British Geek Calculator so you can discover which group you belong to. CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW to take The Great British Geek Calculator Technology advertising spend is also on the increase - at £1.5 billion in 2012, up from £1.4 billion in 2011. Almost half are over 35 years old.
I Went Social Media Sober I recently cut myself off from social media. No Facebook, no Instagram. (I did have to allow myself Twitter, which I need for work, so while this was a crash diet, it wasn't like that lemonade nonsense where you have no solid food at all.) I've read all those studies about how Facebook makes you sad. By eliminating the two social networks I spend most of my free time on (and you are lying if you are a twentysomething who claims to spend her time differently, unless it’s because you’re playing Candy Crush), I figured I'd finally have time to do all the things I’d been meaning to: exercise, learn how to meditate, master Ina Garten’s carrot cake cupcakes. Crash diets don't work — and neither did my social media one. My Instagram feed consists of pictures of my dog and food and thus wasn’t anything important, but not posting made me feel like I was missing the chance to assert my existence — or at least that I have a cute dog and eat good things. The shutdown continues for now.