Category Archives: Software

Upgraded my mac to SSD == pure bliss

February 22, 2011 – 12:55 am

I recently bought this 240 Gigabytes of awesomeness, conveniently packed into a 2.5″ SATA box. It’s an Other World Computing Mercury Extreme Solid State Hard Drive. It has no moving parts, it consumes less battery, and it’s fast. Damn fast. This thing is so fast it opens applications before you lift your finger from the [...]

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Augmented reality translation

December 17, 2010 – 4:04 pm

This is the coolest application I’ve ever seen. It does text recognition of the movie feed coming from the iPhone, then translates the text to another language on the fly (currently, Spanish to English and vice-versa) and renders the translated version on the movie itself, with proper coloring. The effect is so beautiful to be [...]

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Papers: organizing scientific publications

March 28, 2009 – 7:09 pm

Part of the job of being a researcher is organizing knowledge, which most of the time comes in the form of scientific papers. Doing a bibliography search can take a large amount of time, and organizing it in a proper way is even more complex. Recently I spotted this application for MacOSX, Papers. It behaves [...]

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