Archive for January, 2008

Photo Recognition documented

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

With the release of v0.2, a bit of tidying up of the documentation was in order. This is now done, you can access it here: gpuViewer user guide
The important part explains how to use the new SIFT related features, you can skip directly to that if you prefer: Photo Recognition
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gpuViewer Tech Preview 0.2.0.70

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

This has been a long update to come and I hope you will all realise the sort of step forward it represents.
First of all, let’s talk a little bit of the smaller updates.
- there has been quite a bit of improvement on previous/next navigation. Using the left or right arrow keys bring the […]

MacBook Air, multitouch only halfway there

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

This is a splendid computer, with many desirable features, but not the one I was expecting most… Multitouch is there, implemented in a shy way, through the trackpad, when I was hoping for the actual screen to be multitouch. This isn’t going to be as intuitive, and my initial impression is that it isn’t […]

dataportability.org: Connect, Control, Share, Remix

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I am looking very closely into the dataportability initiative, which is well described in the video below:

DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.
One set of features planned for GpuViewer is the ability to not only let you upload your pictures online, but also keep track of what happens to them, […]

about multi-touch

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I had an interesting exchange of mails with Torsten talking about the direction gpuViewer is headed, and realised that there are two topics I should talk about a little: one is the Mac version and the other is multi-touch screens.
With Mac World 2008 just around the corner, it’s time for predictions too, and here […]