Visual Mobile Translation: Word Lens

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Word Lens has just been released on iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, sorry iPad comeback when you get a camera). The app introduces visual mobile translation. It currently works only on English-Spanish and Spanish-English but the concept is very promising. Just use your phone camera to look at signs in the other language the translation replaces it with you desired language. That simple and that amazing. Watch the video and you will see for yourself.

YouTube – Introducing Word Lens.

Google Code Blog: WindowBuilder becomes new open source project with major code contribution to Eclipse Foundation

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Google has decided to open source and donate WindowBuilder to the Eclipse Foundation.

“WindowBuilder is regarded as the leading GUI builder in the Java community (winning the award for Best Commercial Eclipse Tool in 2009). It includes powerful functionality for creating user interfaces based on the popular Swing, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), GWT (Google Web Toolkit), RCP and XWT UI frameworks.”

via Google Code Blog: WindowBuilder becomes new open source project with major code contribution to Eclipse Foundation.

Small Businesses Less Prepared for Data Leakage, Study Says | PCMag.com

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“Viruses and Trojans top the list when it comes to U.S. small business end users’ security fears. The biggest perceived threat among large business end users, however—data leakage—is barely on the radar of small businesses. Data leakage, defined as the intentional or unintentional sending of sensitive information outside the corporate network, is so low on their list that most are nearly as worried about phishing attacks, according to a recently released survey from Trend Micro.”

Read the full artice at Small Businesses Less Prepared for Data Leakage, Study Says | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

3D Video Capture with Kinect

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Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. in mere days after the Microsoft Kinect is hacked to be connected to a PC a genius has been able to use it as a 3d camera. Watch and learn that there is no limit to what one bright mind can do. let alone an internet of minds.

Computer Science Curriculum Search – Google Code University

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“The engineering Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by University faculty from engineering departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses.”

via Curriculum Search – Google Code University – Google Code.

iPhone4 available in Egypt by Vodafone

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Vodafone Egypt announced iphone4 is available for purchase in Egypt at 12am tonight (it will be 30 September 2010) at select Vodafone stores. I spoke with a Vodafone Egypt representative and he stated that only the 16Gb model is available. And yes it is locked to Vodafone Egypt only although the price is 4660 Egyptian Pounds (around 817 US Dollars). Facetime does appear on the Vodafone Egypt iPhone4 page.

Ref: http://www.vodafone.com.eg/en/Personal/Promotions/iPhone4/index.htm

Google: HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up – Google Code University – Google Code

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This is a must have series of videos that has very good value to web developers and web application developers.

“Are you looking for a basic understanding of how UIs are created on the web or who wants to brush up outdated UI development knowledge? Or maybe you’d like to learn more about the medium you’re designing for and gain basic tools for prototyping designs? Do you want a better understanding of the web and how Google makes the pages that are its face to the world? If so, “HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from the Ground Up” is for you.”

via Google: HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up – Google Code University – Google Code.