Found this article while surfing the web. Makes interesting reading :-)
BBC NEWS | Americas | Christians purge video game demons
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Postcards from Chatteris
I came across this in a post on textually.org . The idea is really simple , it is a record of school kids from Fenland, Cambridgeshire, using mobile phone picture messages.
Info on their site
"Each person taking part had the camera phone for one week. They sent one picture message each day direct to this site, showing something from their day-to-day lives in Fenland, and it was completely up to them what they decided to photograph and send in. Nothing was more or less important than anything else. At the end of one week, they passed the phone on to the next person in the chain"
There is nothing new about photo blogs, the idea of photo blogging (well atleast photo sharing) was the the original concepts behind introducing a camera in the cell phone. I believe Phlog.net was one of the first sites that came up that were made specifically for camera phones. The creator had made this site for his mother to share pictures and it quickly evolved into a place where anyone and everyone could post and share pictrures.
Postcards from Chatteris does offer some amusing pictures... great to kill some time in the office.
You can access the site here Postcards from Chatteris
Info on their site
"Each person taking part had the camera phone for one week. They sent one picture message each day direct to this site, showing something from their day-to-day lives in Fenland, and it was completely up to them what they decided to photograph and send in. Nothing was more or less important than anything else. At the end of one week, they passed the phone on to the next person in the chain"
There is nothing new about photo blogs, the idea of photo blogging (well atleast photo sharing) was the the original concepts behind introducing a camera in the cell phone. I believe Phlog.net was one of the first sites that came up that were made specifically for camera phones. The creator had made this site for his mother to share pictures and it quickly evolved into a place where anyone and everyone could post and share pictrures.
Postcards from Chatteris does offer some amusing pictures... great to kill some time in the office.
You can access the site here Postcards from Chatteris
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Mail from xiaoxiazhang09@yahoo.com.cn
I usually dont spend time on reading through spam but I was exceptionaly bored today. It does make interesting reading... The following email was sent to publicnetwork@gmail.com and it ended up in my inbox. Didn't know the publicnetwork email address existed.
From: 晓霞 张
To: publicnetwork@gmail.com
Date: May 10, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Thank you for your advices and recommendations in the YAHOO chat room...
Hi,
Thank you for having a cheerful chat with me the otherday in the YAHOO chat room.
Already forgot me? Hehe...I was that 20/femalecollege student in Shanghai. During our cheerfulchat, you kindly indicated that my English was justso-so and definitely could need some improvements.
So I took your advice and paid a visit to
As I've been learning American English fromhttp://www.hellofrogs.com/ on a regular basis, Ibelieve my English skills have drastically improved.Amazingly enough, I feel my confidence in English isgetting higher and higher every day. All thanks toyou and your recommendations last time when we chatted.
Look forward to seeing you in the chat room soon.
Xiaoxia Zhang
Shanghai Fudan University
From: 晓霞 张
To: publicnetwork@gmail.com
Date: May 10, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Thank you for your advices and recommendations in the YAHOO chat room...
Hi,
Thank you for having a cheerful chat with me the otherday in the YAHOO chat room.
Already forgot me? Hehe...I was that 20/femalecollege student in Shanghai. During our cheerfulchat, you kindly indicated that my English was justso-so and definitely could need some improvements.
So I took your advice and paid a visit to
As I've been learning American English fromhttp://www.hellofrogs.com/ on a regular basis, Ibelieve my English skills have drastically improved.Amazingly enough, I feel my confidence in English isgetting higher and higher every day. All thanks toyou and your recommendations last time when we chatted.
Look forward to seeing you in the chat room soon.
Xiaoxia Zhang
Shanghai Fudan University
Monday, May 09, 2005
KDDI devices Rock
Have been playing around a KDDI device ( W2SSA) for the last week or so and I am just wonder struck right now. The implementation of the BREW API speically the ICamera interface is just perferct. Havent seen a device yet that supported so many of the parameters that are mentioned in the BREW API. The specs too are very detailed, the only down side ... all the info available on the phone is in Japanese. Its been tough trying to translate the Japanese into English using the google language translator service.
Here are a few titbits... the default size to run the preview mode is 320 * 240 pixels ... snaps go upto 1280 *960 pixel resolution. The camera on the device has a autofocus that can be controlled through the code.
For a complete list of the device refer to http://www.au.kddi.com/english/product/index.html
Here are a few titbits... the default size to run the preview mode is 320 * 240 pixels ... snaps go upto 1280 *960 pixel resolution. The camera on the device has a autofocus that can be controlled through the code.
For a complete list of the device refer to http://www.au.kddi.com/english/product/index.html
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Wonder what happened to this project
Motorola, Firms to Transform Bar Codes
Wonder what happened to this project ... must have been scrapped cause I dont see any motorola devices that scan barcodes and nor do I see the camera's of moto phones to be anywhere close to allow barcode decoding at the native level.
Wonder what happened to this project ... must have been scrapped cause I dont see any motorola devices that scan barcodes and nor do I see the camera's of moto phones to be anywhere close to allow barcode decoding at the native level.
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