Measuring Emotions
Dr. Rosalind Picard demonstrates two technologies for measuring emotional response that were invented at the MIT Media Lab and are being developed into products at Affectiva.
Links for January 12th through February 3rd
Recommended reading
- TechCrunch Review: The Name’s iPhone. Verizon iPhone. – Very interesting overview of the differences between using your iPhone on at&t versus verizon. Also it seems Apple did a sleuth fix of the attenna problem with the latest verizon phone release.
- Red Sweater Blog – The Mac App Store Debug Menu –
iOS app vs. Web Apps
Interesting article here.
Who should know how to spell Analytics
It’s been a good day for pathetic emails:
How to revert back to previous version of Skype
Skype 5 looks like it has some UI improvements, although many seem to disagree, but it’s almost three times as memory hungry as the previous version. I need that like I need a hole in my head, as my granny used to say.
- Skype 5.0: 178 MB memory usage
- Skype 2.8: 67 MB memory usage
And as usual, it’s nigh impossible to find any useful information on the Skype website. If you want to downgrade:
- Delete the Skype.app from the Applications folder
- Download the old Skype version here
Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us
“Over the next couple of years, the volume of data generated by digital sensors will surpass the flow of e-mails and social-network entries combined, predicts Stephen Brobst, chief technical officer at data analytics firm Teradata. ‘Sensors will touch nearly every aspect of our lives,’ he says.”
(Via http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-01-26-digitalsensors26_CV_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)
How to discover the model and spec of your Mac hardware
Check out Mactracker on the App Store. This free app will help you find the exact model and spec of your Mac (or iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, etc) which will make it a lot easier to figure out things like:
- how many watts power supply you need
- max RAM capacity
- graphics card capability
- speed of USB port
It turns out my mbp is “late 2008″ or MacBookPro5,1, and contrary to what the Apple site and Crucial say, it has a capacity for 8GB RAM, which I think it needs.
Accessing the contents of iOS Apps
It’s quite straightforward to get to the contents of any app, this is how you do it on a Mac:
- sync your device to your PC, make sure the relevant box is ticked in iTunes to sync your apps
- in the Finder go to <home>/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications and select the .ipa file for your app
- change the .ipa extension to .zip and unzip the file
- within the contents, go to Payload/YourApp.app
- right click on the .app file and choose “Show Package Contents”
You can often find some interesting things.
