EkosDeux

The other day I heard about Hulu developing and releasing a desktop application native to Mac OS X. I was immediately off to download it, and put it through a very light test. I downloaded, and mounted the image file. Inside there was the application, and a file folder with plugins. After the installation, I started the application. It was fairly fast and the GUI was nice and simple.

The initial launch has what I assume to be the show of the week, and as you can see mine was “The Listener”. I hadn’t even heard of this show, but found it very interesting.

The Menu was very simple, and easy to use. The selections cascaded and allowed for faster flow.

You also have an option for selecting the popular shows, and episodes. This was the route I took, and selected a show.

After the choice it allows for watching, queueing, and recommending. I chose to watch the show.

Finally, the quality of the image was good. It was an easy to use application, and for those of us on the move its great. I enjoyed the app, and use it to keep up with my shows. It comes with 15 sec, and 30 sec commercials. The alternative is up to 20 minutes of commercials, so I will continue to use this app.

I was reading an article today that said google was releasing Squared… “The Wolfram Alpha killer”. Immediately I was intrigued by this declaration, and read a couple of other blogs. I thought to myself, “If this is supposed to be a Wolfram Alpha killer… Let me test it”. As an engineering student I thought of a couple of things that Wolfram Alpha can do, and compared two stocks. The results were below…

First, I wanted the integration of Cos(x)… Easy enough, but unfortunately Squared could not perform the operation. Winner= Wolfram Alpha

Second, I asked the gravitational constant. Simple enough, just spit out a number, but squared built some knowledge boxes and failed to provide the answer at all. Winner= Wolfram Alpha

Last, but not least. A small comparison, but squared did not comply. Winner= Wolfram Alpha

Conclusion, Google Squared is a good data gathering site. Wolfram Alpha is a computational site capable of performing mathematical operations. The two should be in separate categories as Squared has a long way to go before it can even be considered a contender. I know these test were a little biased, but I wanted to see if it could truly kill Wolfram Alpha. What are you thoughts?

Welcome back!!!

I am currently sitting in Fairfield, Tx writing this. Unfortunately, there is no internet on my location. Last month I decided that my little Sony DSC-P9 had outlived its usefulness and I needed a new digital camera. I began my research under the assumption that it needed at least 10x Optical zoom. This limited my choices, but I knew that the camera I purchased would be a good one to have.
I began looking on NewEgg to see if they had anything I liked; unfortunately the camera I really liked took AA batteries, which I did not like. I remembered being in Best Buy and seeing a Sony I liked, which happend to be the Sony CyberShot DSC-H20

The camera was nice, and had a rechargeable battery (Big must for me) and I liked the fact that they didn’t pack some small card with it, but instead left the choice up to me. I chose a 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo . This camera was small, but was full of features. Needless to say I purchased the Camera, and for the first time in my life will actually read the manual and learn to use the camera’s features… As soon as I get back of course, but for now I have learned that the camera has an easy shoot mode, and a shutter mode which will take pictures for as long as you hold down the button at a set interval.

Check back and see the camera in action as I will do my best to update as I learn the features. This was a picture I took at the site, as you can see the small inset on the upper right in the original size.
As always, thanks for reading and check back often.