Jolla - The Phone

Yes those ex Nokia folks, who left Nokia in disillusionment (over marrying Windows as an OS), to create a new phone are on the verge of launching one.

Based on MeeGo, Jolla will have its own proprietary Sailfish OS, a linux based mobile operating system, which will be open sourced and will be an integrated platform across mobile phones, tablets and smart TV’s. 

Sailfish for starters will also be android app compliant out of the box.

The phone will simply be called….you guessed it.

Jolla.

Kudos guys. You did it.

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I tried to be inquisitive to find out more on what Jolla( the word) actually means. Here is what Google gave me.

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Got me thinking even more.

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Photo Credit for Jolla Phone: Engadget

For more information head over to the Engadget article here.

Source: Engadget

SO you were talking about mobile video?

Here is an infographic on the entire ecosystem, to make you blink and then …..

Think.

Then spend some time in actually learning about each of their capabilities.

Then try and decide what solves your business requirement.

Till then shut up.

And read.

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From the article ,” Inside the massive mobile video ecosystem” on Business Insider

You can download the more detailed analysis on Business Insider here.

Source: Business Insider

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Marissa Meyer on the Tumblr Acquisition.

Now you can all relax. Then watch some cat gifs.

Amen!

Source: yahoo

Chartkick- load your JS chart graphics faster

We all love nice looking colourful charts ( 3d) on our web and mobile platforms. But most of these make the page load slower.

3d Visualizations of Pie Charts, Graph Charts, Bar Charts. Column Diagrams from web databases are generally rendered over standard JS using jQuery which sometimes can cause timeouts or may not be rendered properly if the page doesn’t load fast.

Chartkick aims to solve that problem by simplifying your admin dashboard and giving each chart its own endpoint.

With Chartkick you can create beautiful Javascript charts using one line of Ruby.

Example of a Column Chart

<%= column_chart Task.group_by_day_of_week(:created_at).count %>

 

Example of  a Pie Chart

<%= pie_chart Goal.group("name").count %>
 

So how do you install it ?

Start by downloading Chartkick here

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem "chartkick"

And add the javascript files to your views. chartkick.js runs as a Rails engine - no need to install it.

Note: These files must be included before the helper methods.

For Google Charts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "//www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>

If you prefer Highcharts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "path/to/highcharts.js", "chartkick" %>

Head over to GitHub to read the rest of the documentation or if you are wiling to fork it.

Source: ankane.github.io

Raspberry Pi ships camera module

Raspberry PI’s camera module is now shipping.

The five megapixel fixed-focus shooter — which only measures 25 x 20 x 9mm — can snap 2,592 x 1,944-pixel images and capture video at 1,080p (30fps), 720p (60fps) and VGA (60 or 90fps).

And yes just for $25 from RS Components or from Premier Farnell/Element14

Example command prompts to activate the camera:

Capture an image in jpeg format:

raspistill -o image.jpg

Capture a 5s video in h264 format:

raspivid -o video.h264

Capture a 10s video:

raspivid -o video.h264 -t 10000

Capture a 10s video in demo mode:

raspivid -o video.h264 -t 10000 -d

Here’s a video on setting it up the camera hardware

For more exhaustive documentation head over to the Pi Forums here.

Source: raspberrypi.org