As frankps sees the world!

Layar is a ground breaking new browser. The browser is said to be an augmented reality browser, and can show what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone: The browser is at the moment only available in the Netherlands, and this is how it works: On top of the camera image Layar adds content layers. These layers are equivalent to webpages in normal browsers. Just like there are thousands of websites there can be be […] Continue reading →

I have only read the announcement on the Moblin blog and seen the following video released on Youtube: The Moblin v2.0 user experience has been designed from the ground up to provide unique ways to engage with the internet, aggregate your social networking activity, and enjoy your media content. The new user experience and core applications were developed using the Clutter animation framework, leveraging heavily from GL and the physics engine. It looks impressively good. Congrats to all the […] Continue reading →

I often read what Thom Holwerda is publishing on OSNEWS, and yesterday he published some critics of Mark Shuttleworth. His critics are so in place. How many times have we heard that this is gonna be the year of Linux?  I guess every year since 2001. And the same goes with the sentence: Now Linux is ready for the desktop. Funny thing is, Linux is not to be the preferred OS for the desktop any time soon. It is not gain enough market share to make it interesting. And market leading software […] Continue reading →

The user interface is as ugly as it can get, but what you see in this Youtube video is impressive: The Nvidia HD AVP (High Definition Audio Video Processor) with NVIDIA® PureVideo® technology currently able to run both the embedded operating systems Android and Windows Mobile. And the developer board used in the video let the developer do dual-boots of the two embedded systems. The HD AVP platform lets users both capture and playback HD 720p movies on mobile devices mobile device (and can […] Continue reading →

Novell has summed up what Linux is all about, in a half minutes video: Copying every thing from inovative vendors, now even their commercials. […] Continue reading →