With almost 1 year worth of data, it’s time to do some work on it and perhaps give some useful results for people and of course for myself.

I started to search for a library to perform graphing, I initially thought it would be easy to find a decent open source library. To my dismay not much. Maybe i’m using a wrong query. A few queries later, here are some of the better libraries that I manged to find

1. PChart         pchart.sourceforge.net/
2. GraPHPite  graphpite.sourceforge.net/
3. JPGraph     www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/   [Pro Version available] Meaning not fully open source
4. Libchart     naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/
5. Sparklines  www.sparkline.org

Heavier Charts ( Flash Based )
1. Open Flash                            teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/

Ligher Charts ( Javascript Based )
1. Flot JQuery based               code.google.com/p/flot/
2. Sparkline JQuery based    omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

Other Options
1. Google Chart                          code.google.com/apis/chart/

Basics of GDChart

• http://devzone.zend.com/article/3774-Dynamically-Creating-Graphs-and-Charts-with-PHP-and-GDChart

Great site, as I was searching for these information

www.webappers.com/

Will report back, once I start to do some actual work on these graphers.

Hate spam? Don’t want to use your personal email address for signups? How about using disposable/temporary email address?

Check out the following provider

1. http://www.guerrillamail.com/
2. http://mytrashmail.com/
3. http://www.mailinator.com/
4. http://www.mailexpire.com/
5. http://www.temporaryinbox.com/
6. http://www.maileater.com/
7. http://www.jetable.org/en/index
8. http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

But one of my favourite site before registering any other site
www.bugmenot.com/
Provides and share pre-registered accounts.

1. Audio bone, similar to jabra’s jawbone, but instead it is used for audio playback. Can’t wait for a bluetooth version of this. www.audioboneheadphones.com/

2. Power mat, charging by just placing your device on the mat with an adapter. www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/5025/ces-2009-powermat-wireless-charger.html

3. Vuzix wearable display. Big screen tv on your sunglasses.  elitechoice.org/2009/01/10/ces-2009-vuzix-unveils-wearable-3d-glasses/

I’m pretty sure there are many other interesting products at CES.

Do check out Hak5 for some of these products, will give a summary when i have time to read through these exciting products.

It’s has a really cool and simple iphone application, it reminds me so much of a recorder that i used to play while in primary school.

ocarina.smule.com/

Ocarina UI

By just blowing into the mic input of the iphone, and covering the 4 holes on the UI, different pitches are generated. I think i might be out of date, as this is such a simple application, but it has such fun! Online scores of popular songs are also available at their websites. Furthermore there are also some sharing of the music that you have played/created, a great social experience and also a graphical feast, as the blobs are floating around the globe. Reminds me much of flOw and flOwer.

Fl0wer gameplay on Youtube

Do check out this great app, it’s only 99 cents and have fun!

But this is tech fashion

technabob.com/blog/2009/02/03/my-document-folder-laptop-case/

Seeing this reminds me of the laptop casing for Mac Air

People making use of what Steve Jobs used in the keynote as an actual laptop holder

www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/airmail_manila_folder_notebook_sleeve_for_macbook_air/
This is what i call “The Obvious”. But it’s a nice touch.

Hmmmm. i think i better not do that, the webmaster might be unhappy with it with the “large” number of hits they are going to recieve from my post. I better download them first and upload them to my blog.

I continued to download one jpg, two jpg, and felt tired. This is so wrong. It is just so slow! Not efficient at all! How can i make things go faster? Then i recalled this technique i tried in some other program. How about during the insert image, instead of selecting a file from My Computer, how about i just paste the url to that image? I tried and waited….

BINGO! It works. Basically windows file dialog accepts http connection. How sweet. So with this i continued with my blog post.

Hope this tips helps someone out there.

Just tried this with photoshop. It worked too. Just that it’s slower than what i had hoped for. But it bascially streamlines the process of downloading saving it somewhere first etc. This is especially true for the above task of downloading and uploading images, now it’s streamlined to just one process of uploading.

And yes, i need to fix the layout in this blog.. It sucks.

Keyboards for blondes? Something new to me

Interesting feature
1. Color!

The usual suspect

DAS keyboard :

Das Ultimate Keyboard

Interesting features are

1. It’s blank!
2. Forces you to touch type.

Pro motion keyboard :

Pro motion keyboard

Interesting features are

….Pro-Motion keyboard that slowly adapts and adjusts to your typing style. Smartfish’s proprietary Dynamic Positioning Controller actually studies your usage pattern, and makes periodic, yet imperceptible adjustments to the height, angle and radial position of the device….

Optimus Maximus

Optimus Maximum

Interesting features are
1. OLED display at every key.

www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/demo/

Logitech DiNovo Edge

Other keyboards/inputs

G13 Game board

Specialized board for gaming

Space Explorer 3D

3D input to navigate in a 3D world. It gives 6 DOF to allow navigation in the 3D world. By using these controls
Moving foward by pushing forward
Moving backwards by pushing backwards.
Moving left by pushing left
Moving right by pushing right
Moving up by pulling up out of the input device
Moving down by pushing down into the input device
Turning left by rotating left
Turning right by rotating right.
*Hopefully i did’nt miss anything, only used it for like 5 mins?

From my experience on this and seeing people using it. It does get some practise to properly use this.

Some links on keyboards and such

www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2337583,00.asp

most-expensive.net/10-computer-keyboards

So do remember to use this instead of the plain jane yubikey static password. You won’t want to have people access to your physical key right? For more security, consider hashing your password before entering into any website.

Check out

clecuret.blogspot.com/2008/04/booksmart-sur-linux-cest-de-nouveau.html

A patch has been made until blurb decided to support this officially.

I’m also in the midst of creating an editor for the template for the booksmart. Anyone interested in using it?

Now with the latest firmware which was released on 7th Jan 2009, it’s much more stable now, no mapped drive dropping and the LEDs are consistently blue

dlink.com.sg/support/support_detail.asp?idproduct=147

Do try flashing your firmware if you are having problems like mine, remember to reset the settings to factory default as well. This seems to work for some people on the dlink forums.

Also turn on your jumbo frames to 9000 if you are on a gigabit network, performance have improved dramatically. Some performance testing done by others on dns323 modding forum.
forum.dsmg600.info/t3773-DNS-323-with-with-Jumbo-enabled-%28know-happy-camper%29.html
I have yet to do any emperical test on this.