William Zhou » Software http://williamzhou.com/blog My personal blog with a touch of the latest technology news. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Google Image Labeler http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/06/google-image-labeler/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/06/google-image-labeler/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:13:19 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/06/17/google-image-labeler/

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

It’s like a game where you and a partner play. When you both enter the same keyword of a picture, Google takes that data and uses it in the image search. What a nice way to get free workers.

“You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn points depending on how specific your label is. You’ll be shown more images until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).”

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]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/05/java-vs-ruby-on-rails/feed/ 0 Leakage of HD-DVD processing key http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/leakage-of-hd-dvd-processing-key/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/leakage-of-hd-dvd-processing-key/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 04:54:40 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/04/30/leakage-of-hd-dvd-processing-key/ HD-DVD processing key is leaked today to the public allowing anyone to decrpt and play most HD-DVD movies in Linux. Movie studios are going ballistic over this leak, so Digg the story up and make it reach the front page. The first time, the story got removed.

The first story about this key was deleted when it reached the digg front page however, there is a second one at 8000 diggs the time I am writing this.

Key: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/

http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Spread_this_number_Now/

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again

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I guess I was bored again. Done with ubuntu for the day so I went on to make a site. Well, not really. It’s the Beyond! Lab Proxy. Hey, it’s not my idea to brand everything, it’s because I am too tired to give it a name. Beyond! Lab Proxy is a Anonymous Proxy Site you can use to browse blocked websites from school, work, the library, or any other firewall protected place. Just don’t get us blocked. Of course, it’s hosted under the lab.beyond-innovation which means it’s in beta and testing.

http://lab.beyond-innovation.org/proxy/

]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/the-beyond-lab-proxy/feed/ 10 How can I Make Digg Faster? http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/how-can-i-make-digg-faster/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/how-can-i-make-digg-faster/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:25:20 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/04/23/how-can-i-make-digg-faster/ Of course, with a Firefox Extension! With this extension, digg users are longer needed to click through pages to go to the page that they desire to go. In other words, this extension greatly reduces the digg pageloads required to get to your desired destination.

]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/how-can-i-make-digg-faster/feed/ 0 Breaking! Adobe uses photoshopped on thier own site! http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/breaking-adobe-uses-photoshopped-on-thier-own-site/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/breaking-adobe-uses-photoshopped-on-thier-own-site/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:15:49 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/04/22/breaking-adobe-uses-photoshopped-on-thier-own-site/ Regarding my last post, Adobe forbids the use of photoshop as a verb, they now use it on their own site!

http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/adaa/winners/winners2002/atrissi-katahira.html

“The broken egg photo in the big poster was retouched, since the broken egg photo was taken independently and then photoshopped over the invitation form.”

I know that this design achievement award is old, it’s still has the irony. Anyway, good job Adobe in breaking your own rules!

]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/breaking-adobe-uses-photoshopped-on-thier-own-site/feed/ 1 Proper use of the Photoshop trademark http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/proper-use-of-the-photoshop-trademark/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/proper-use-of-the-photoshop-trademark/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:47:00 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/04/22/proper-use-of-the-photoshop-trademark/

Found by someone on http://www.adobe.com/misc//trade.html#photoshop

“Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and Photoshop is one of Adobe’s most valuable trademarks. By following the below guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.”

So here are some of them…

Trademarks are not verbs.

 
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
   
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.

 
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
   
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
   
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
   
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.

more…

I love Adobe and their quality products but what’s up with them? I mean who will bother with this ‘photoshop can’t be a verb’? All of the people post “it’s probably photoshopped or i photoshopped this”. I wouldn’t bother and I believe most people wouldn’t either!

]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/proper-use-of-the-photoshop-trademark/feed/ 1 Throw out those Illegally softwares http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/throw-out-those-illegally-softwares/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/throw-out-those-illegally-softwares/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:06:30 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/04/10/throw-out-those-illegally-softwares/ So now you don’t have to worry about those trojan-ed keygens/cracks that you download. And here is the list for your illegally software replacement (linux+freeware)!

http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/why-use-software-illegally-when-you-can-use-legally/

Commercial Open source Exists on Windows?
Adobe Illustrator (~$500) Inkscape Yes
Adobe InDesign (~$700) Scribus Yes
Adobe Photoshop (~$600) The GIMP Yes
Adobe Premiere (~$800) Kino, Cinelerra No
Adobe Reader (free) Evince, Kpdf, GV No
Apple iTunes (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No
Kazaa (free) aMule, eMule Yes
Microsoft Excel (~$200) OpenOffice Spreadsheet Yes
Microsoft Internet Explorer (free) Firefox, Konqueror Yes
Microsoft Office (~$400) OpenOffice Yes
Microsoft Outlook (free) Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail Yes
Microsoft Powerpoint (~$200) OpenOffice Presentation Yes
Microsoft Windows Media Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes
Microsoft Word (~$200) OpenOffice Word Processor Yes
MSN Messenger (free) Gaim (Pidgin), Kopete, aMSN Yes
Nero (~$100) K3b, Gnomebaker No
Palm Desktop (free) Gnome-Pilot, KPilot No
Quark XPress (~$800) Scribus Yes
QuickTime Player (free) Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine Yes
Winamp (free) AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee No
]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/04/throw-out-those-illegally-softwares/feed/ 1 whos.amung.us, now on ShadowzBlog http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/03/whosamungus-now-on-shadowzblog/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/03/whosamungus-now-on-shadowzblog/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:08:20 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/03/31/whosamungus-now-on-shadowzblog/

whos.amung.us is a widget for any webpage or blog that I stumbled upon this week. I hadn’t gotten anytime to put it up until today. What this ‘thing’ does is showing how many people are on my site/blog (in real-time). Also, clicking on this will let the user see all of the pages that people are on and it will show them the popular pages (sort of like sitemeter).

Well, here’s the widget in real time!

web tracker

]]> http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/03/whosamungus-now-on-shadowzblog/feed/ 0 CS3 Packages http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/03/cs3-packages/ http://williamzhou.com/blog/2007/03/cs3-packages/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:05:48 +0000 William http://beyond-innovation.org/shadowz/2007/03/30/cs3-packages/ Just a little update:
More and better pictures can be found here: http://images.appleinsider.com/adobe-cs3-boxes-070325.jpg

The pictures aren’t the best quality in the world but they look pretty fresh and abstract. At least people now can see that these softwares are related to art…

Quote from some beginner way back
“does photoshop cs work on windows?”

It’s pretty self explanatory now.

Oh yea, be sure to comment which of the box design is the best!

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