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Face Recognition for Linux with Picasa 3.5 and Wine

Face Recognition for Linux haven’t been available on Linux yet. Sure – there are some ready-to-use libs, but that’s interesting for developers only. When it came to ready-to-use applications, you only could choose between MacOS or Windows. (Excuse me, but face recognition at Google’s PicasaWeb Album is a bit too spooky for me and I [...]

One year Open Street Map in an amazing clip

Anders just told me to look at this great video about the Open Street Map project. http://vimeo.com/2598878 It’s very impressive! It’s showing the development of the OSM project on a rotating globe within the last year.

KOGAN AGORA MOBILE PHONE FEATURING ANDROID ™ – The iPhone killer?

Saw yesterday pictures of an upcoming mobile phone with Android. And read and saw amazed the specs and pictures of this device. Especially the prize took me by surprise. $299 Australian Dollar. The new KOGAN AGORA offers: 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen. Integrated QWERTY keyboard. High-speed 3G network connection. One-Touch Google Search ™. Easy Web [...]

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GPS Bicycle Navigation with free Software

More than I year ago I’ve started to cycle for the first time after a very long period of time (decades ). Those days I didn’t know my surrounding area very well, because I was pretty new to it. But I had a Pocket PC, an XDA mini and I had already a GPS Bluetooth [...]