Reserchers at MIT’s “Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab” are using Microsoft’s Kinect depth sensor as a part of a camera system designed to create real time building maps as users walk around.
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Google has been working at upgrading what was formerly known as Google Docs. Their new and improved product is Google Drive. Drive is Google’s cloud storage solution, very similar to Dropbox. You get 5GB of storage and can sync and manage files across multiple computers with a desktop app. A huge benefit to Drive over other solutions is the ability to collaborate on work from your computer and the Drive viewer which supports viewing a variety of file types like Adobe’s Illustrator or CAD files without needing the software installed. Click here for more Drive features.
Google has just updated its app for iPads and iPhones.In Google Drive’s first release on the iPad/iPhone, you were only be able to view items that you had in Google Drive/Docs and edit the document’s permissions. With the newest version, you can now create and edit documents too!
If you are collaborating with someone on a document, the app will continue to refresh every couple of seconds so that you have a similar experience as you do when collaborating on documents from your computer.
Take a moment to relax, perhaps grab a cup of tea, and picture the following scenario. You’ve stumbled upon a brilliant article, on the internet, containing some of the most relevant information on a particular subject of your choice, and your only wish is to share said information with your friend, who just happens to have no internet connection, or a computer. What do you do?
Like most people, you’ll probably attempt to print the article directly from your web browser, hoping that the layout stays true to the original web page design. Most of the time, however, one is sorely let down by the quality of the printed material. While the article is originally only about a page long, the printout might consist of five pages of advertisements, blank spaces, weird web code or some other useless data. Sometimes the article itself doesn’t print properly at all, because of the web design limitations, and sometimes you simply don’t want to include all the images contained therein.
It’s very helpful when websites provide a print-friendly version of the article, which is increasingly becoming the norm, but i still often find myself in need of a way to make any webpage printer friendly. Luckily, there exists a very useful web service, which allows users to turn any old webpage article into a printer friendly format, whether it is for printing or for generating PDFs.
As the image implies, the service is called PrintFriendly, and it can be found at www.printfriendly.com.
To get started:
Give it a shot, go to www.printfriendly.com and paste your article in there. See if this free web service is right for you. It has certainly saved me a lot of paper and headaches. Click on the print-friendly logo above to visit their site, and see if this helps you as much as it has helped me.
