The much anticipated Google/Samsung event was live streamed tonight at www.youtube.com/android. A lot of rumors have grown around the event and not learning anything from the iPhone 4S, speculation continued right up to before it aired. The event officially unveiled two things: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. … [Read more...]
Search A Directory of PDFs for Text Within Them
I had a user who needed to search for a keyword within a bunch of different PDF documents. There were about 150 files from the past three years and they needed to sort out the ones that included a receipt from a certain company. She had tried using Windows Search and the "search for text within" feature but wasn't getting any results. The issue there is that the files aren't … [Read more...]
Adobe Provides a Sneak-Peek At Photoshop’s Awesome Deblur
Last night, a post was made to the Photoshop.com blog to explain in detail a technology that was shown off at the Adobe Max conference through their Sneaks program. The feature shown off that may make it into future versions of Photoshop is called Deblur. It allows you to remove the blur from a photo and restore it to a crisp, focused image. The demo picture speaks a lot to … [Read more...]
Connected – A film about how technology is changing us
Connected has been shown at several film festivals including the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary has the simple perspective of the filmmaker but is broad enough to see the whole connected world. IMDB provides the following simple summary: "A filmmaker looks at her own family history and investigates the interconnections between the major issues of the 21st … [Read more...]
Sesame Street’s YouTube Account Hacked, Explicit Videos Uploaded, Now Disabled
Sesame Street is the latest to join the crowd of having their social network presence hacked. Unfortunately for the normally kid-friendly programming, whoever hacked their YouTube channel was malicious at heart and uploaded a few adult videos. The Sesame Street YouTube channel had 148,046 subscribers and over 454 million views. … [Read more...]