Archive for the 'New technology' Category

Flash Arrays

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Companies have recently started to offer flash based disks. What is cool with these disks is that it is possible to dramatically increase performance by creating tiny raid subsystems. There are already two examples Panasonic’s P2 and Addtron ArrayPro. Hard disk can be used for raid too but flash memory is so small even small […]

HDR Gallery

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

I’ve been spending most of my time on new features for searchengine-analysis.com but I have had some time to create more HDR tone mapped images. I have now created a gallery for all my High Dynamic Range (HDR) images at pbase.com.

HDR Tone mapped high dynamic range images

VOIP in depth FAQ

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Toms Networking has a great VOIP FAQ. The most interesting part is the “Exact Figures Please?”. There you will find exactly how much bandwidth you need depending on what kind of network connection you have.

Serious Microsoft trashing

Monday, March 27th, 2006

The recent postponement of Vista has not been met with positive comments. There have been two hard hitting articles wondering if Microsoft has been starting to dig its own grave with the ever increasing Windows code base.
The New York times writes Windows Is So Slow, but why? … each new version of Windows carries the […]

The next Google

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Business 2.0 has an article about the Next Net 25.
Not to many interesting companies though. There is a Social Media category with Tagworld, Digg and YouTube.
I have a serious problems with the content of the Social Media sites. They are populist and in many cases they favour stupefying and sensational content. Sure that […]

Not too many exiting products at CES 2006

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

With a million or so web logs about gadgets there were almost no surprises or really hot products. Engadget singles out a couple of hot products:
The Toshiba Gigabeat S Series mp3 players looked cool and are made of aluminum.
Sony Blue-ray players were hotter than the HD-DVD-players which were not up for prime time.
The Dell […]

New York Times Sunday Book Review - Amazon Mash up

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I just finished a new mash up. It does not look very spectacular but it is pretty cool. I download the latest New York Times Sunday Book Review and lookup the Asin-codes on Amazon. I cache the result in order not to violate Amazon Api rules.

New York Times Sunday Book Review - Amazon Mash up

Browse Amazon nodes with Ajax

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I have started working on the Amazon API. My plan is to make it possible to compare prices with eBay with a simple click. The first step is to make a little Ajax-based browser for the Amazon categories.
The Amazon API is very straight forward BUT, the categories or browsenodes as they call them are a […]