Finally, another fine project has surfaced, developed by reality lab and yours truly for the last months:
com>screen, the first incarnation of a digital bulletin board, available both online and in meatspace, ie. as touch screens hanging in the entrance lobbies of the building Krakauer Straße 14 in Vienna.
Inhabitants are able to book washing machines, announce activities or post classifieds and of course get news from the property management.
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home. (Via hubski.)
Cuddly or cut-throat capitalism?
“Cut-throat American society [...] makes possible the existence of more cuddly Nordic societies.”
“… mistakes and misunderstandings can unleash an unpredictable chain of events, causing governments to go to war with little understanding of the consequences.”
The new Google Maps is on the verge to compete with the infamous Apple Maps: Hofburg, Belvedere and Schönbrunn are in the 2nd district. Anyway, too slow for my “old” 2008 MacBook.
Oh, I did not know I could have AirDrop on Mountain Lion:
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1
Mensch, VÖZ! Euer ORF-Gesetz hat’s dem ORF ja mal so richtig gezeigt, wo der Bartel seinen Content holt…
Ubuntu Bug #1 Fix Released Today.
Security-FAQs: “Data Dealer Offers Up Privacy Awareness In Great Gaming Style.”