Computers/Infotech/UI

Looking to the future of A New Kind of Science

Today ten years have passed since A New Kind of Science (”the NKS book”) was published. But in many ways the development that started with the book is still only just beginning. And over the next several decades I think its effects will inexorably become ever more obvious and important. Indeed, even at an everyday level I [...]

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Combine 100 different files types into one PDF— PDF Fusion from Corel– jpg, tif, power point, all in one pdf– ApiBestinClass for Combining files into one pdf

     The program allow you to output all different format
into one pdf.

This is APIbestINClass.com  award winner for combining files into one single pdf file.

 Big Postive for the Program:  With PDF Fusion you have the ability to open over 100 different file types in a single application. We used this feature to combine files to make a single document and presentation. It was extremely simple to open the files and drag and drop the pages or content we wanted into a particular order. With PDF Fusion you will have the ability to create or open files and edit any of the pages you’ve opened. The editing abilities change page order, altering orientation, cropping, adding text, altering font, adding comments by highlighting certain portions of the document or adding sticky notes, adding bookmarks or watermarks, set your own security, and inserting multimedia (not Video or Audio) files and hyperlinks.

Second Positive is the price: Under $70.00

The only negative:  you can not put your videos or audio in these files.  But at this time I do not know of a way to put these types of files in any pdf.

PDF Fusion

Powerful PDF Creation Software

Open more than 100 file types: Some other PDF solutions only open PDFs.
Corel PDF Fusion is different. It lets you open, edit, annotate, and combine more
than 100 formats — even if you don’t have the software used to create the file.
You can open and reuse information from Microsoft®
 Word and WordPerfect documents, a variety of spreadsheets, dozens of graphic formats, even complex
Microsoft® Visio® and AutoCAD®  technical illustrations.

A universe of self-replicating code

What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see [...]

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The new iPad: awesome

The new iPad, introduced today, has a 264 pixels/inch “retina” display with 2048 x 1536 pixels (3.1 million), compared to 1920 x 1080 with HDTV; 5 megapixels camera with 1080P HD video (and new version of iMovie) with autofocus and face detection in still images; new A5X quad-core processor that is “four times as fast [...]

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Infinite storage in the cloud: NOT RECOMMEDED

Bitcasa has created a new cloud service that promises “infinite storage” in the cloud for Windows and Mac. Once you install Bitcasa it prompts you to choose which of your folders to “cloudify.” Cloudified folders are uploaded to Bitcasa’s cloud right away and get a Bitcasa logo added to the system tray or Finder. Any time [...]

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Evi trumps Siri for general knowledge

Move over Siri, Evi is the new kid in town. It’s no Watson, but Evi, created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based semantic technology startup, like Siri, can answer questions posed by voice (using Nuance software) in a conversational manner or by typing. But unlike Siri (only available on iPhone 4S), Evi runs on the [...]

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CES 2012 LG’s OLED 55 Inch Best in Class for CES 2012- super-slick design –Coming AT CES 2012- Las Vegas

Could LG’s new 55-inch OLED be the best TV ever?

 

by Ty Pendlebury  January 2, 2012 8:32 AM PST

While building the world’s first 55-inch OLED TV panel is nice, it’s not worth much unless you put an actual TV around it and LG Electronics will   Read more…

Beyond GPS: your phone in 2015

Attention smartphone users: the recent launch of the first two satellites for Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS) could make things a lot more interesting in about four years. Galileo will deliver real-time positioning accuracy down to one meter range, compared to 10 meters for GPS, the European Space Agency (ESA) states, and it [...]

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Microsoft offers a glimpse into the future of productivity

Microsoft has posted an awesome new concept video with some ubercool new interfaces that could be here in five to ten years, estimates Kurt DelBene, President, Microsoft Office Division. That sounds a bit conservative. “All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology,” he said. “Some of the capabilities, such as speech [...]

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The Internet, peer-reviewed

It could be one of the most important innovations on the Internet since the browser. Imagine an open-source, crowd-sourced, community-moderated, distributed platform for sentence-level annotation of the Web. In other words, a way to cut through the babble and restore some sanity and trust. That’s the idea behind Hypothes.is. It will work as an overlay on [...]

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