Georgia Tech HCI Digital Library

Nice Resources for people interested in Human Computer Interaction ...



Georgia Tech Human-Centered Computing Digital Library

http://hcc.cc.gatech.edu



You can find various lectures related to various topics in HCI ...

Also you would love to see conference videos of CHI, SIGGRAPH, etc ..

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Graphic Design & Related Tutorials

3ds max

After Effects

Amapi

Bryce

Carrara

Cinema 4D

CorelDRAW

Desktop Publishing

Flash

Illustrator

Lightwave

Misc.

Natural Media

Painter

Paint Shop Pro

PhotoPaint

Photoshop

Poser

Texturing

Web Design



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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Encore DVD

Adobe GoLive

Adobe ImageReady

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator



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TactaPad ... See ... Touch ... Feel

Interact with your computer in a direct and natural way. With the TactaPad you can reach into your computer and use both of your hands. Just like the real world.

See — The TactaPad's camera continually captures an image of your hands. Your hands are translucently overlaid on your display as live video.

Touch — The TactaPad is touched directly with the hands. The surface can be touched in multiple places at the same time. A cursor appears on your display for every touch.

Feel — The surface moves vertically when pressed, providing dynamic force feedback. Each touch has a unique feel which corresponds to the object being touched.

http://tactiva.com/tactapad.html

Also watch the Demo Movies - specially the bigger one. Quite cool.

Google Print ...

Search the full text of books (and discover new ones).

What is Google Print?
Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.

Check out ... Google Print

More about Google Print here ...

GIF Dancers ...

Can somebody tell, how do you create these GIF dancers ...

Interesting moves ...

LG launches cheapest cellphone for Rs.40

A cellphone is selling on the South Korean market for just Rs.40.

According to people in the industry, a venture company called "Interpulse" launched a new phone model for LG Telecom that is being sold for W1,000 ( Rs. 40) in well known on-line markets.

The model only supports calling and SMS service, and it weighs 63g and is 15mm wide. The mobile phone, whose identification name is NS1000, which only enables its users to use simply call and SMS service, not including camera, MP3 nor wireless internet access.

Still Cant believe it ??? well I checked it myself... on different websites... check urself.

Slashphone.com - LG NS1000 CDMA ...

Nokia Concept Lounge

Design has always been part of the essence of the Nokia brand and through the last decade, Nokia has positioned itself clearly as one of the pioneers and leader in design and innovation.



Check out the new concepts at Nokia .. you'll love them ..



:: Nokia Concept Lounge ::

IF - by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

- Rudyard Kipling

Liquid Sculpture

Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second. Creating and capturing these engaging forms requires careful manipulation of the materials and precise control of the lighting and timing.



Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes

Two more Design links ...

Two more Design links from Saurabh (www.lopezdesign.com) ...

http://www.mobilecommunitydesign.com/


http://www.informationdesign.org/


Check out ...

Awesome Design Links ...

Simplicity Blog - John Maeda
http://simplicity.media.mit.edu/

Peter Cho
http://www.pcho.net/

Levitated
http://levitated.net/

2005 Taiwan International Design Competition

Experience -- The 2005 Taiwan International Design Competition invites entries inspired by a user-centric and experience-related approach.



Registration deadline: July 20th, 2005



No registration fee, no limit to the number of entries, cash prizes worth over US$15,000!



Learn more...

RapidShare - Free Webspace

RapidShare is an absolutely free web-hosting service for providing webspace on our servers without the need to sign-up.
Just select a file and upload it. You will get your download-link and a secret delete-link immediately.

The file is hosted forever, until you delete it or it is unused for 30 days. So if nobody downloads your file for 30 days, its deleted automatically.

Upload-limit: Unlimited! (Max. 50 MB per file! Split-archives allowed!)
Download-limit: Unlimited!

Try Rapidshare ...

Free IT eBooks

Check out this Free e-Books Resource ....

Free IT Books, Free Java books, Free J2EE books, Free .NET books, Free Study Guides, Free Practice exams

HCI Encyclopedia

Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, Usability, UI Design, User Experience, Information Architecture and more..



Check this Encyclopedia ...

THE GIFT - John Maeda

A nice post from John Maeda that applies to me too ...



Check Out ... The Gift ...



THE GIFT

Its me ..

Its me .. am back ... will try to update my blog frequently ... photo credits to my friend saurabh ( aka ... kantas)

Datelens - A Revolutionary Scalable Calendar Interface

Datelens - A Revolutionary Scalable Calendar Interface: "Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop DateLens, a novel calendar interface that supports not only PDAs, but a range of devices, from desktop computers to Tablet PCs. It supports users in performing planning and analysis tasks by using a fisheye representation of dates coupled with compact overviews, user control over the visible timer period, and integrated search. This enables users to see overviews, easily navigate the calendar structure, and discover patterns and outliers. Moreover, DateLens takes advantage of each device, running quickly on PDAs and supporting ink on Tablet PCs. "

Google Labs Aptitude Test

heya ...



Wanna work wid the top geeks around the world ...

Take this GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) ...

I know its a bit late ... but options are still open ...



Test out ur wits ...



Google Blog

Nokia Imagine Photo Contest

Welcome to Nokiaimagine.com: "Explore the realms of your imagination and see beyond the obvious. Get inspired by the world around you - the objects, the people, the situations.

Just click and participate in the Nokia Mobile Imaging Contest - a unique platform that recognizes your originality.

Celebrate your inspiration and get rewarded."



Welcome to Nokiaimagine.com

Design School Reputations

When potential students or project clients ask me which is the best

architecture or design school, I usually give them the names of a few

institutions but also insist: 'don't take my word for it, get hold of

current students or researchers there, and ask them what it's like'.

Even that approach is limited: people inside one institution are not

ideally placed to compare their own experience with that of their

peers in other ones. Citation league tables are a guide, but tell

only one part of the story. There's a gap here: 33 million people in

the US have rated a product, service, or person using an online

rating system - but not, so far as I can see, the big ticket purchase

of a design education. Design portal Core 77 hosts a lively forum in

which students exchange opinions about design courses and schools -

but these exchanges are anecdotal. Is there a ratings system for

education out there that I've missed?



Core77 - Design Schools and Education

Google's Orkut code is stolen

Google's Orkut code is stolen, says the company that its eponymous author founded and left. A lawsuit filed by Affinity Engines, co-founded by Orkut Buyukkokten, claims that there are nine unique bugs in the codebase, and that's too much to be a coincidence. Buyukkokten is a Stanford graduate and developed the social networking code for Stanford alumini, founding a company to develop it commercially before joining Google. But Google says that despite requests to see the code, Affinity Engines has, like SCO, refused to reveal its hand.



Google sued over Orkut bug replication feature | The Register: "Google sued over Orkut bug replication feature"

Google India Code Jam 2005

Hi coders ...

Get ready for the biggest jam of programmers

Great prizes to be won too



Check this out ...



Google India Code Jam 2005

So ‘digerati’… are you game …?

Are you a part of the "digerati" …. A new commune of the affluent digitally elite population in India which has access to and are the only beneficiaries of the IT revolution in India and other knowledge based sectors of the economy.

The digerati totals around 50 million which is a miniscule part of the total Indian population of more than 1 billion. It is not based on caste, inherited wealth or family connections, but on a system of education, brainpower, skills and ability to stay on the “cutting edge” of knowledge.

Students from various engineering colleges in India become a part of this group every year, earn a lot of income as compared to other streams (like Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc) and live in an altogether different way. The lifestyle of the digerati tends to be metrosexual and cosmopolitan one. Regular visits generally include coffeehouses, pubs, movie theatres, shopping malls, gymnasiums, big bazaars and restaurants. The concentration of the digerati to particular cities like Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, etc has also given rise to different kinds of industries.

The high rise apartments and PG accommodations are spreading to all the nook and corners of the cities and even further to the outskirts. Similar is the scene in case of coffee houses, shops, malls, restaurants and also the cooks and servants they keep. Not to forget, the travel agencies and network of city taxis are now coming up with positioning systems and tracking devices for providing better services.

But surprisingly, this trendy knowledge-based enclave is accessible only to a handful. We say that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has led to a revolution in India. And many even call India an IT superpower. But what has IT done for the ones ‘other than the digerati’. India still remains one of the poorest societies, millions go to bed hungry, 40% of the population is still illiterate, millions of children never go to school, corruption is widespread, and thousands die everyday of diseases which can be easily prevented.

The responsibility now only lies in the hands of the digerati (I can now refer it as "us") to cut down the divide, to spread prosperity and knowledge to the rest of the society (especially to urban poor and rural villages) and to explore and innovate new services for the "rest".

So digerati … are you game …???


Ref: IT Experience in India
(Kenneth Keniston, Deepak Kumar)

"Media Lab Europe" is closing ...

Media Lab Europe Press Statement



Dublin; January 14 - The Board of Directors of Media Lab Europe announced today that it is putting the company into voluntary solvent liquidation.

The decision was taken because its principal stakeholders - the Irish Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have not reached agreement on a new funding model for the organisation.



Media Lab Europe / Press Release: "Board of Directors announces closure of Media Lab Europe

Germany Inaugurates 5 MW Wind Turbine Prototype

Amazing work done by the Germans ....

This kind of renewable sources of energy could also be helpful in India where most of the 'junta' lives in darkness.



RenewableEnergyAccess.com | Germany Inaugurates 5 MW Wind Turbine Prototype: "Germany Inaugurates 5 MW Wind Turbine Prototype "

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and also about its arch rival - Atom

that has led to a cold war between Yahoo! and Google.



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