One of the annoying things in Facebook, yes it has many annoying stuff, but I believe one of the most annoying is those application invites we get from friends, especially when you have hundreds and hundreds of friends, you will end up with a clutter that is time consuming to clean out. So if you have been wishing day and night for a way to clear this clutter formed by the hundreds of application requests, today is your lucky day.
IgnoreAll is a JavaScript bookmarklet, clicking it once while the applications request page is opened will automatically choose “Ignore” to all of the application requests, except invites to groups or events or friend requests. Clearing the clutter immediately.
I believe or actually wish that Facebook will eventually create a quick solution directly from facebook, but right now just enjoy using IgnoreAll. No more suffering.
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January 29th, 2008
“Make3D” is an algorithm developed by two Stanford computer scientists, which can convert any 2D image to 3D model, the model is made in flash so you can fly around and explore the generated 3D model.
“The algorithm uses a variety of visual cues that humans use for estimating the 3-D aspects of a scene, If we look at a grass field, we can see that the texture changes in a particular way as it becomes more distant.” said Ashutosh Saxena, a doctoral student in computer science who developed the Make3d website with Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science.
After all the website is impressive although still in experimental phase and has few bugs, but you can fully convert any image from 2D to 3D but it is best to convert a scenery image rather than an image that includes people because it still does not work well with people.
Here is a video to give you an idea what its all about:
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January 29th, 2008
Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, a leading icon in the democratic party and the brother of JFK the assassinated president, joined with his son Representative Patrick Kennedy, and niece Caroline Kennedy the daughter of the assassinated president endorsed Barack Obama for the party’s presidential nomination during a rally at the American University in Washington DC.
Sen. Ted Kennedy called Obama “an inspirational uniter”, and each one of the Kennedys linked Obama to John F. Kennedy the iconic Democratic leader who Obama usually is compared to. Sen. Ted Kennedy talked how he always was asked who he will endorse and the answer was that he was going to support the candidate who inspires him:
“Every time I’ve been asked over the past year who I would support in the Democratic primary, my answer has always been the same: I’ll support the candidate who inspires me, who inspires all of us, who can lift our vision and summon our hopes and renew our belief that our country’s best days are still to come. I’ve found that candidate. And it looks to me like you have too.”
Here is the Video of Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsement:
Sen. Ted Kennedy answered all the points raised by the Clintons, point after point, remark after remark giving a neat summary of all the criticism that the Clintons have been shooting towards Obama since the start of the campaign. Specially since Barack Obama’s win in Iowa which shocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign and made her and her husband Bill Clinton on the offence. Bill Clinton who used to be a respectable and liked ex-president lately became the designated attacker of Obama, attack after attack after attack, in my opinion he is hurting his wife’s bid for the presidency.
The question here is will this endorsement really help Obama, it will help in some areas and especially with Hispanic voters, who Obama’s campaign have been lagging behind Hillary Clinton. Any candidate would love to be endorsed by Sen. Ted Kennedy, but will this help Obama in a huge scale, I do not believe so. Only one week left for the Super Tuesday anyway, we will wait and see, although I really wish to see Obama winning, but I believe those “Super” delegates Hillary Clinton has will save her in the end of the day and she will be the “Democratic Party Presidential Nominee”.
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January 29th, 2008
