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Symbiosis means, the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other.
The Pilobolus dancers have created an art that tells a story about our relationships with each other and with nature and how we should work together in harmony to achieve a good meaning for a good cause and for the common good. To me, that's the message in their art.
This was the most amazing dance piece I've ever seen. The two dancers moved almost as one creature with two bodies. It was so flowing like some flower unfolding organically, or some alien creature with its own perfect internal chemistry and architecture moving in a completely new way that nothing we know of moves, but entirely right and logical, totally holistically obvious and natural to itself. I'm just mesmerized and completely seduced by the beauty and artistry here. I'm going to watch it again and again. (via Tatiana Boshenka)
I found this "Symbiosis" video in TED. If you've not heard about it, watch it here :symbiosis performance.
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Imagine this: you are filling a very long form in a website; may be shopping cart, search page, or any portal where long entry of fields is needed. When you submit, it yells : session out. please login again ! That's a bland situation when you had to type all over again. Some time it might be short, but you may not remember what you typed also.
This is purely the context-sensitive mistake of page design. Now a days, there are so many ways to retain non-important values using client side scripting. Some sites remembers what you typed and some do not. For ex: Gmail auto-saves what you typed as a draft. That's a neat thing.
What if, you loose lengthy form filling due to computer or connection error ? Here comes the life saver if you're using Firefox. 'Lazarus: Form Recovery extension'.
Never lose anything you type into a web form again! Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form, right click, "recover form", and breathe a sigh of relief. I am very glad that I got to know about this add-on. Many times I lost forms for different reasons (server suddenly disconnected, a key that I accidentally typed and got me out of the page, etc.). Now I feel confident that if this happens again I will be able to recover a whole form or just a field that was not saved, and save time | excerpt
Do give an attention to security related settings after install. After installing it appears in bottom right hand corner of Firefox. You can set password to retried details as well. Very handy feature.
>> Find Lazarus here
ThrottleLauncher was a rather popular custom UI in 2009, especially earlier in the year, but it’s been on hiatus for quite a while. APBilbo, the creator, popped up on XDA-developers today to announce a new, better version and posted a demo of it running on the HTC HD2, Touch2, Diamond and Samsung Omnia. Running on the HD2, it’s convincingly smooth and appears to support animated Sense UI-like (Android) widgets. >>
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Wow ! this is what I call an amazing innovation in touch keypad called - swype.
If typing on your touch screen mobile has not been a comfortable task for you, Swype is here to change that forever. It is a keyboard which looks almost like any other keyboard but it has one difference which makes it unique. The difference is how you type text.
You trace a path across the letters that make the word you want to input. You can use your finger or stylus, but without lifting it from the touch screen. You do not have to touch each letter of the word you want to input. Staying close to the letters while tracing the path is good enough. Swype recognizes every path you draw as one word and types it | Excerpt
Swype’s word recognition accuracy will surprise you. If Swype does not understand a traced path correctly or if you traced a path carelessly, Swype displays all possible words matching the traced path. Just tap the right word and that is it. Be careful that you do not lift your finger until you have completely traced a word.
To input a double letter in a word, just scribble on the letter and carry on with the rest of the word. You can also add your own words in the in-built dictionary | Excerpt
>> Swipe to swype
Google Buzz has demonstrated precisely why - and how - engineers really shouldn't be let loose with human relationships.This, of course, is the failure of the engineering imagination to deal with the reality of human interaction.
Google tested Buzz internally a great deal before releasing it (the product was called "Taco Town" during testing) but the weakness of that is that it doesn't have many people who really hate each other internally. Or perhaps none. And of course stalking would be the sort of thing that would lose you your job at Google.
It's when you get into the grey outside world though that the black-and-white certainties that Google thinks it can apply to search (but which it actually tweaks repeatedly to stave off the people trying to game the search results) break down. And quickly.
We can hope that this real-world example will demonstrate to Google that it has made a real mistake by not letting people opt very carefully in to Buzz. But the question is, will it? | Excerpt
>> Read more in guardian
The first time you lay your eyes on HD2 you'll be amazed by the cinematic display. Upon closer inspection, you'll discover that HTC HD2 features the best in class ... well, just about everything. From how it looks and feels to how the phone does everything you want it to do in a simple and natural way, HTC HD2 pushes the limits of what we have come to expect from our phones | via HTC excerpt
Why I call it a tablet ?
I don't know why anything is called as a tablet. Pardon my ignorance :), I assume any product which is tiny, slipable, usable, movable and carryable quite easily with new-age features. Yes, all that is possible with Leo a.k.a HTC-HD2
It's tad bigger than iPod, shade smaller than apple-tablet, wider than Nexus-one, has GPS, wifi- what apple tablet lacks, lovely 5mg pxl camera what iPod lacks, lean-figure what Creative-Zen-W lacks, mean and sturdy what Acer-neo lacks, and I call it a true tablet with 1GHz processor in such a mean machine. More over, it's geared up for Winmo-7 sooner or later :), it's a perfect lean tablet not a bloated iPod turned into a tablet.
It's stylish and I'm with it :)
HD2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning. The world’s first capacitive touch technology on a Windows phone along with 1 GHz processing power ensure a smooth and lightning-fast response to the lightest touch of your finger.| excerpt
HTC HD2 beats iPhone 3GS in Top 10 Phones List of 2009. UK retailer Omio.com has published its list of “Top 10 Phones of 2009” in which HTC HD2 was unanimously chosen over Apple’s iPhone 3GS.| excerpt
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