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labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » DIY Android Home Energy Monitor
Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities.
Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters.
So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage.
Collectionista in Launchpad
An Android app to keep hold of your collections. Not only of collectibles but also of more plain day-to-day items, such as a "wardrobe" of clothes. Each collection has some special functions to handle its items.
03 November 2009
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE
by 1 otherBeing NOTES and SLIDES on a talk given at PLAYFUL 09,
concerning CHARLES BABBAGE, HEATH ROBINSON,
MENACE and MAGE
by James BRIDLE
Les blogueurs répliquent aux éditeurs de presse en Allemagne | Rue89
Rue89 reproduit le « Manifeste Internet » dans lequel quinze blogueurs allemands répondent aux critiques formulées par les éditeurs de presse dans leur « Déclaration de Hambourg » sur l'insuffisante protection du droit d'auteur sur le Net.
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31 October 2009
Speech Accent Archive
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
30 October 2009
Raindrop Design Development Page
Raindrop is an open design process in building a better, more personal and useful way of participating in your existing communications. Built on a web messaging platform designed to push the limits of browser based applications—we are a Mozilla Labs project.
FFFFFUUUUUUUUU - Sharenator.org Original
This is my favorite 4chan meme. I've spent half of my boring day in the office looking for the best rage threads and made this collection. I'd love to credit authors but most of them seem to be... anonymous. I found some of these on 4chan, some on sites like digg, reddit, some on google (and it wasn't easy to find something with unknown number of F's and U's in the file name), etc. These are the best of them in one place. Enjoy!
29 October 2009
jobberBase - The Open Source Job Board Software
by 7 othersjobberBase is the open-source
job board software that helps you
set up a jobsite in minutes!
HTML5 and video in email - Blog - Campaign Monitor
As momentum quickly builds behind HTML5, the new version of HTML and XHTML, we've had a close eye on what impact this might have on HTML email in the years to come. While the finer details of HTML5 are still being finalised, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera have offered support for much of the new technology for some time.
What Does It All Mean? - Dive Into HTML5
by 1 otherThis chapter will take an HTML page that has absolutely nothing wrong with it, and improve it. Parts of it will become shorter. Parts will become longer. All of it will become more semantic. It’ll be awesome.
27 October 2009
cityfont.com｜City Font Project
The City Font Project has the concept to realize the identity of city by importing respective indivisuality and attractiveness of the city into the font. By applying the font to the every media unitedly, the City Font does let the city identity build up, does let the citizen unite, and will be the tool to express the regional attractiveness effectively.
15 October 2009
Le Webnapperon
Le webnapperon reconnait les objets manipulés devant lui et affiche sur un cadre photo les contenus qui y sont associés. Il s'intègre totalement au mobilier de la personne. Il a besoin d'une prise de courant et d'une connexion au réseau.
Le webnapperon est une réalisation du Centre Erasme, Mission technologies de l’information du Département du Rhône.
Scroll Magazine
Founded by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp in 2008, Scroll is a print, PDF and online magazine for web professionals.
Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5
The definitive guide to video element in HTML5.
14 October 2009
Volery Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer
The easiest way to get apps.
1. Pick the apps you want.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You're done!
Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.
WikiReader | Home
WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go.
13 October 2009
librelist.com: Welcome to librelist.com
Librelist.com is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects. It is a place for FOSS communities to discuss all the things they want without ads, censorship, signup requirements, bundled apps, or requirements that you use any particular email client or service.
12 October 2009
Trash | Track
Imagine a future where immense amounts of trash didn’t pile up on the peripheries of our cities: a future where we understand the ‘removal-chain’ as we do the ‘supply-chain’, and where we can use this knowledge to not only build more efficient and sustainable infrastructures but to promote behavioral change. In this future city, the invisible infrastructures of trash removal will become visible and the final journey of our trash will no longer be “out of sight, out of mind”.
Portable Contacts
The vision for Portable Contacts has been around for a long time. Sites large and small share the goal of providing users a secure way to access their address books and friends lists without having to take their credentials or scrape their data. But only in recent weeks has it begun to feel that now is the right time to rally the community and the industry to work together to make this vision real by developing an open spec for exchange of contact info that everyone can embrace.
03 October 2009
Why we skip Photoshop - (37signals)
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
Here are a few reasons
02 October 2009
Réalisez un bandeau de news en jQuery, comme sur iTélé | Jay Salvat, le Blog
by 4 othersJe ne sais pas pour vous, mais moi, dès que je regarde une chaine d'information, je suis hypnotisé par les barres de news qui défilent en bas de l'écran. Je n'arrive pas à en détacher les yeux. Personnellement, je trouve celles de iTélé particulèrement réussies.
Je me suis dit que ce traitement des brèves infos pouvait être une belle manière d'annoncer les mises à jour d'un site web. Bien évidement en tant qu'obsédé de jQuery, je me suis amusé à réaliser un effet similaire. Le voici.
