High Level Design

Family

Our team at QNX has finished Aviage MM 1.2. Its got some excellent features and new platforms that it supports. Notably:

• DVD-V playback
• Video file playback
• Microsoft Zune support
• Significant improvements to Album Art support
• Significant improvements to metadata synchronization speeds
• Additional playlists supported
• Faster startup, much less memory used
• RTP & HTTP streaming
• TI OMAP3 Codec Engine (audio decoders)
• Intel Performance Primitives codecs

There are lots of other improvements also. We’ve been busy this past 6 months!

You can find more information about it here: http://www.qnx.com/products/middleware/multimedia.html

This project is developed openly on the foundry27 site where you can get source code and daily builds. If you’re looking to try it out you can do that for free with one of those daily builds on top of QNX Momentics 6.4.0 or 6.4.1(soon to be released).

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Family

Family

This looks like a very impressive tool.

Here is the link to use it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

Watch this screencast to see what it can do: http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

It goes live today but you can’t use it yet.

[update] It goes live on monday

Computers, Internet

Got my tripod last week and got out tonight with Gilles to take some photos of Ottawa at night. The sky was pretty bright since we were in town, I think next time it will be interesting to go out of town a bit to get a darker and clearer sky for stars.

The tripod is excellent. It’s a Manfrotto 190CX3 Pro with a Markins M-10 ballhead which is a pleasure to use. I was able to lock into whatever shot I wanted with no hassle and no slop.

Here are some photos:

Photography

Thought I’d share two photos with you. Click on the image for a bigger version.

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