Tech Update Ep 17½

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Bauer and Albert prep the internets for their CES takeover. http://com.puter.tv http://Alfredeus.com http://nerdlove.tumblr.com

High-Tech Haunted Houses

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If you really want to get into the mood for Halloween, just go to one of your local haunted houses. Tracy Smith visited a modern-day haunted house for some old fashion fun.

Middle Ages Tech Support

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To see an interview with one of the makers click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8giUg-QSNLg The Book caused much mayhem and problems for middle age tech support as do our modern day counterparts.

Tech : NeXT Cube Demo

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http://www.Alfred.TV READ ME FIRST: In this video, with a run time of 53 minutes, I give a cursory overview of the hardware and operating system centric to the NeXT Computer. When Steve Jobs was stripped of all managerial rights at Apple in 1985, he resigned and started NeXT. In the mid 90's, when Apple was in dire straights for a modern, multitasking operating system, they looked to purchase Be for their BeOS. When that deal fell through, they negotiated with NeXT. With the purchase, which was for about $500 million, not only did they get the NextStep/OpenStep OS, they also got back Steve Jobs. The acquisition of NeXT, which was orchestrated by the current Apple CEO, Gil Amelio, saved the company from pending disaster. So, join me for a some time-travel to 1990, where I will give you a peek at the roots of the modern Mac OS X operating system which many of us enjoy and use today. Make sure to stay through the credits for the post video bonus scene featuring a Power Mac 7500, an Apple ][, and my nephews, Mike and Chris. Note: The REASON why this was filmed early on Thanksgiving more was due to my personal and business schedule. It was the only time I could do it in order to fulfill my promise of 'booting the NeXT Cube' prior to 2009. If you'd like to see the raw, archival uStream broadcast, which is a bit light-hearted as I interact with the live audience, please visit the URL below and click on the link for 'archived videos.' The broadcast is broken up into multiple parts for easier consumption. http://www.ustream.tv/adiblasi Please note that I did indeed film and edit this video for YOU, my regular and loyal YouTube and uStream subscribers and viewers. I hope you enjoy it. Bad jokes were kept to a bare minimum to keep the focus on the NeXT Cube. Overall, the performance of the machine was really quite amazing, especially considering that the CPU was a 68040 at 25 mhz with 16 megabytes of RAM! If you'd like to receive alerts to interesting articles as well as updates on my latest videos and live webcasts, then please subscribe to my microblog on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/adiblasi Bookmark my uStream page for future live webcasts http://www.uStream.tv/adiblasi If you'd like to Email me, use the link below http://www.alfred.tv/#-58 Please visit my sponsors: http://www.SolidNutrition.com http://www.InvestorInbox.com Stay tuned. More to come. Warm regards, Alfred http://www.Alfred.TV

Tech: Apple Lisa Demo (1984)

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http://www.Alfred.TV READ ME FIRST: The intro is VERY long. Let it buffer for 5 minutes to skip directly to the Lisa demo. Filmed in 1984, Alfred (yes, that's me) demonstrates the $10,000 Apple Lisa computer on a tri-state cable channel. This was a very early 'mass introduction' to a system that had a graphical user interface, icons, pull down menus, and a rodential input device called 'a mouse.' If you'd like to receive alerts to interesting articles as well as updates on my latest videos and live webcasts, then please subscribe to my microblog on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/adiblasi Bookmark my uStream page for future live webcasts http://www.uStream.tv/adiblasi If you'd like to Email me, use the link below http://www.alfred.tv/#-58 Please visit my sponsors: http://www.SolidNutrition.com http://www.InvestorInbox.com Enjoy the time warp with this video! Warm regards, Alfred

Wuala - a distributed file system

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Google Tech Talks October, 30 2007 ABSTRACT After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralized and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. In the talk, I will explain what Wuala is and how it works, and I will also show a demo. All attendees will also get an invitation code to join the early alpha version. Speaker: Dominik Grolimund I am 26 years old and have studied computer science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, I founded my software company Caleido, and developed the Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact management software, of which over 35'000 licenses have been sold so far in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In 2003, I did an exchange semester at the TU Delft, the Netherlands, as part of the Unitech exchange program, focusing on business and management. In 2004, a six-month internship followed with Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey in the US, where I worked in the 'Intelligent Vision & Reasoning' department, developing a prod...

The Web That Wasn't

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Google Tech Talks October, 23 2007 ABSTRACT For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In this presentation, author and information architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in search of promising ideas left by the historical wayside. The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future in the recent technological past. Speaker: Alex Wright Alex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has led projects for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.org/

"ROBO TECH" - Hyper Crush

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"ROBO TECH" by Hyper Crush. http://myspace.com/hypercrush

Tech Bubble Video - Funny!

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http://www.rockislandgroup.com If you're debating whether we are in another tech bubble, this should help... RockIslandGroup specializes in Web 2.0 Facebook Myspace Google SEO Social Media Marketing

Intel Core i7 Overclocking Tutorial (NCIX Tech Tips 19)

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In the episode of NCIX Tech Tips, Linus gives you the basics of taking your Intel Core i7 even further with an overclocking tutorial.

Helpdesk eng sub.

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this is wherry funny

Foamy - Tech-support

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Foamy is a Jonathan Ian Mathers creation. Official site: http://www.illwillpress.com *Best Foamy episode ever !!!

Factor: an extensible interactive language

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Google Tech Talks October 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Factor is a general-purpose programming language which has been in development for a little over five years and is influenced by Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk. Factor takes the best ideas from Forth -- simplicity, succinct code, emphasis on interactive testing, meta-programming -- and brings modern high-level language features such as garbage collection, object orientation, and functional programming familiar to users of languages such as Python and JavaScript. Recognizing that no programming language is an island, Factor is portable, ships with a full-featured standard library, deploys stand-alone binaries, and interoperates with C and Objective-C. In this talk, I will give the rationale for Factor's creation, present an overview of the language, and show how Factor can be used to solve real-world problems with a minimum of fuss. At the same time, I will emphasize Factor's extensible syntax, meta-programming and reflection capabilities, and show that these features, which are unheard of in the world of mainstream programming languages, make programs easier to write, more robust, and fun. Speaker: Slava Pestov Slava was born in the former USSR and emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7. He moved to Ottawa, Canada when he was 18 to study for a Bachelors and Masters degree in Mathematics. He now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An early adopter of Java, Slava wrote the popular jEdit text editor, then went on to design and implement the Factor programming language. At his day job he hacks on web apps, optimizing compilers, garbage collectors, and everything in between.

Hot Tech Gifts for the Holidays on Mahalo Daily!

January 8, 2009 - 11:31 am No Comments

Still looking for that perfect gift for the geek in your life? Well, here is our list of the top 10 tech gifts for 2008. Hope this helps with your last minute shopping! Mahalo! We're here to help.

ComputerTV: Tech Update Ep16

January 8, 2009 - 11:31 am No Comments

ComputerTV hosts Albert and Bauer give you the latest tech related news for the week, so you don't have to even bother reading the blogs! Tech Update is a YouTube EXCLUSIVE - uncensored and sometimes even funny. Live Tech Update: Fridays at 4:30pm EST. Stay tuned for more Live Events at Com.puter.tv http://com.puter.tv http://alfredeus.com http://nerdlove.tumblr.com

Tech: Apple Lisa Redux {Booting the Lisa 25 Years Later}

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http://www.Alfred.TV READ ME FIRST: By the request of my YouTube subscribers and viewers, I return to the Apple Lisa system, 24 years after the cable television spot I did, to revisit the Lisa hardware and software. I hope you all enjoy it. Please get viral with this video, add it to your blog, and pass it to your technology-centric friends. Video Shout-Outs: Steve Wozniak http://www.woz.org Adam B http://www.youtube.com/thisisadamb David aka "The Creative One" http://www.thecreativeone.tv If you'd like to receive alerts to interesting articles as well as updates on my latest videos and live webcasts, then please subscribe to my microblog on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/adiblasi Bookmark my uStream page for future live webcasts http://www.uStream.tv/adiblasi If you'd like to Email me, use the link below http://www.alfred.tv/#-58 Please visit my sponsors: http://www.SolidNutrition.com http://www.InvestorInbox.com Enjoy the video! Warm regards, Alfred

IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image

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Google Tech Talks August 5, 2008 ABSTRACT Estimating geographic information from an image is an excellent, difficult high-level computer vision problem whose time has come. The emergence of vast amounts of geographically-calibrated image data is a great reason for computer vision to start looking globally on the scale of the entire planet! In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for estimating a distribution over geographic locations from a single image using a purely data-driven scene matching approach. For this task, we will leverage a dataset of over 6 million GPS-tagged images from the Internet. We represent the estimated image location as a probability distribution over the Earth's surface. We quantitatively evaluate our approach in several geolocation tasks and demonstrate encouraging performance (up to 30 times better than chance). We show that geolocation estimates can provide the basis for numerous other image understanding tasks such as population density estimation, land cover estimation or urban/rural classification. Speaker: James Hays James Hays received his B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He has been a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department since 2003 and is advised by Alexei A. Efros. His research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics, focusing on image understanding and manipulation leveraging massive amounts of data. His research has been supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Tech Update Ep. 9 [PG-13] YouTube Exclusive

January 8, 2009 - 11:31 am No Comments

ComputerTV hosts Albert and Bauer give you the latest tech related news for the week, so you don't have to even bother reading the blogs! Tech Update is a YouTube EXCLUSIVE - uncensored and sometimes even funny. Links related to this Video: Stumble link on the ComputerTV homepage (left side): http://com.puter.tv http://alfredeus.wordpress.com http://nerdlove.tumblr.com http://gizmodo.com/5066128/chimpanzee-rides-segway-in-daring-escape-crashes-in-woods http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/21/researchers-devise-methods-to-sniff-keystrokes-by-detecting-shifts-in-magnetic-field/ http://kotaku.com/5067399/portal-still-alive-released-ignores-xbla-size-limit http://gizmodo.com/5067527/interactive-mirrors-the-inevitable-future-of-vanity http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/23/officially-official-the-real-e3-is-coming-back-next-year/ http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/23/video-emergency-part.html http://gizmodo.com/5067638/redrocks-cinematizing-kit-to-turn-video-dslrs-into-proper-movie-cams

Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

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Google Tech Talks July 15, 2008 ABSTRACT Org-mode is a large Emacs sub-systems that has been integrated into Emacs with the version 22.1 release. From it original intend, Org-mode is a system for structured note-taking and project planning. It uses strictly plain text files, making it a truly portable, system-independent solution. The project-planning features are implemented using a fairly simple outlining paradigm, upon which meta-data concepts like due dates, priorities, TODO states and tags are overlayed in a non-intrusive way. Besides outlining the system and its basic concepts, I will give background information into the history of Org-mode and discuss the properties of such an evolved system compared to a top-down designed one. Finally, I will also briefly touch on some technical aspects that may be interesting for Emacs wizards and developers. Speaker: Carsten Dominik

Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi-Tech Jazz (Live)

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Live at Metamorphose 05 - Original from Underground Resistance 025 (1993)

T.rex vs Tech 9 RD 1

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$25.000 to the WINNER. $10.000 to the LOSER.

FREE FOR ALL!: The High-Tech HighJack of Ohio

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See the whole film FREE at www.freeforall.tv! This segment illustrates how in Ohio 2004, the entire process of recording and reporting votes was handled by privatized Republican operatives.

7 Roots, 1 Tech, 2 Jawns, 1 cup

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ugh!! i regret watching this....really i do.

Texas Tech Bell Ringer

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Some things are not as they appear

Chase Jarvis TECH: High Speed Photography

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Using a camera, strobes, and exploding water balloons, you'll see how Chase and his crew freeze ultra high-speed action in the studio. Watch the results of this process, combined with Photoshop compositing, to create final still images for Superfad's Kung Fu HD project.