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On Calkoo you will find calculators for practically any purpose. Whether you are preparing a business plan for your start-up company and need to calculate the NPV for an investment, or perhaps you’re trying to compare fuel efficiency of several cars you are considering buying – check them out!
I ran across OpenYou dealing with hacking health hardware. A subject we are sure to spend more time on over hte next few years.
OpenYou.org seeks to be a central resource for news about open source development on health hardware. It provides lists of libraries and applications from the open source community, to help developers learn more about the devices that let them learn about themselves.
In addition to pointing to other libraries and projects, the OpenYou team also actively reverse engineers and develops drivers and libraries for whatever health hardware they can find.
Kyle Machulis
Kyle Machulis is an engineer working in such fields as robotics, teledildonics, biometrics, audio research, and whatever else he decides is interesting and/or can do silly things with. With reverse engineering as a hobby, he has been part of multiple health hardware projects, including drivers for the Lightstone, Omron Blood Pressure Monitor, Omron Pedometer, and multiple consumer EEGs.
Yes, I have them both. Of course both are fine. I use my Droid because I want to be like my son, or is it that I don’t use an iPhone to not be like my Dad. From the Mercury News:
New studies highlight app gap between Apple, Android: As Google and Apple continue their battle for mobile dominance through their Android and iOS operating systems, a pair of new studies report some interesting findings.
The first, a report by Xyologic, finds that “iPhone is for games, Android is for apps.” It found that of the top 150 downloads in November from the Apple App Store, 100 were games, and game downloads outnumbered app downloads by nearly a 3-1 margin (71.5 million to 25.6 million). Only one app developer (Instagram maker Burbn) was on the list of top 25 publishers of 2011 — the rest were game-makers.
On the Android side, 85 of November’s top 150 were apps, and those outnumbered game downloads by an almost mirror image 3-1 ratio (91.5 million apps to 33.4 million games). A number of game-makers were among the year’s top 25 publishers, but that list was topped by Google and Facebook, and included app developers such as Adobe, Skype and Yahoo, all of whom were missing from the Apple list.
(Personal note: That sounds about right — I have significantly more games on my iPad than on my Android phone.)
What’s it all mean? That the Apple platform is more friendly to game developers, for one, reports Venture Beat. Xyologic co-founder Matthaus Krzykowski tells them that payment issues have kept developers from the Android market, which tends to monetize more through advertising, while Apple games lean toward the booming free-to-play model where users purchase upgrades within the game. But Dan Rowinski at RedWriteWeb wonders if there’s a more sociological reason — are Apple users more affluent and do they have more free time on their hands?
Apple users certainly spend more money on apps. That was the finding in a second study, by analysis firm Distimo, that compared the top 200 apps in both the Apple and Android markets. Based on those sales, the combined App Store for iPhone and iPad reaped six times the revenue of Google’s Android market despite Android’s wide lead in smartphone market share. Distimo co-founder Remco van den Elzen tells Wired that he attributes the difference to ease of use — “Google Checkout is considered to be more cumbersome than iTunes.” With Apple, “the threshold for purchasing the first application is lower,” he said.
While none of this data is particularly new or groundbreaking, it is interesting to note the differences between the two platforms, and where future opportunities may lie.
I am having fun with my Kindle Fire and reading this to make sure I can use Calibre. Sometimes I have time to learn on my own, sometimes I like to race along.
Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.
AirDroid is a fast, free app that lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android device from a web browser Over-The-Air.
Now I don’t have to constantly click on the Droid to check what it is doing. I just loaded it and I am texting off the browser window with no problems. This is looking very, very good already.
