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Have to admit, seeing this technology focused commercials gives me the goose bumps.  Saw this today on Hulu, we fortunate enough to find on youtube, tell me what you think?

Project Sikuli is a new automation program that can be programed using screenshots. Yes, screenshots! You can automate anything on your PC or MAC using screenshots. Don’t believe me, check out the vid. Then check out the Project Sikuli site.

Last one I swear, also from Rev3’s site, original post here.  Also will be at LW offices shortly, so swing on by
“Lenovo’s amazing Tablet/PC Hybrid brings a tablet and a PC together in an amazingly elegant way
It’s a tablet. It’s a notebook computer. This amazing technology marvel from Lenovo – shown at CES 2010 for the first time — combines an Apple-killing tablet with an amazing laptop computer!”

CES, what else can be said! Found this on Rev3’s site, check it out here.  We’ll be getting one of these in the office shortly….
“Lenovo releases the S10-3t, a convertible netbook that swivels to become either a tablet or a laptop

Looking for a tablet that doubles as a real computer? Lenovo released another Apple iTablet killer at CES 2010, the S10-3t. The new gadget runs Windows 7 and twists to turn into a tablet, or a clamshell laptop. Built around Intel’s brand new Atom N470, it has enough power to run videos and most mainstream programs. And with the first multi-touch capacative screen on the Windows platform, it’s a great touch computer as well. You can pick it up for $4500, when it ships later in January.”

Found this on Revision 3’s site from the CES show, awesome!!!  check it out here

“It’s Dell’s new slate, a concept model with a beautiful 5” screen. The handheld slate is based on Android – and includes Facebook, video playback and more.”

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. The concept of thin clients are really starting to take shape in this operating system. In the video below they describe how all data will be stored in a cloud.

The experience of Chrome is built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.

Here’s is a more high-level and entertaining overview and introduction to the Chrome OS.

You ever wonder how a website gets developed? Take a look at how we come up with the blueprints for your site as Pinaki discusses LW’s Information Architecture process. Send requests for screencasts to share@localwisdom.com and follow us at twitter.com/localwisdom and visit us at http://blog.localwisdom.com

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Ever wanted to setup a client staging site that is locked down to the client, has an ftp user account for your developer and is a subdomain of your company’s domain? We show you how off of Godaddy’s shared hosting. Send requests for screencasts to share@localwisdom.com and follow us at twitter.com/localwisdom and visit us at http://blog.localwisdom.com

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I’m at the Giggle Berry Fair at Peddler’s Village with Afotey talking about the new games console games like Uncharted 2, Batman AA, and God of War 3.

As we explored the back looking for a pin ball game to play we found these.

This is a joystick.

Pinball machine.

And they’re all wooden.

Saw this on the Tekzilla podcast and with it being free, I had to blog about it!  PicMarkr is the name of the site and it allows you upload your photos or import them from flickr, picasa, or facebook and add watermarks to them.  They also have a pay product called PicMarkr Pro which is a desktop app that allows a lot more then the website.

They have the right business model here in giving the basics away on the website and charging for the premium version in the desktop app.  Other sites need to implement this model if they need to finally put together a real business model….

“PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.
It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments
to your photos. ”