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What has cloud computing got to do with CLOUD?

Aug 18
Posted by TYH in 09. Computer Hardware/Software

my boss asked me this qn today and i realised i couldnt give a good answer. thanks to google, i arrived at Dennis Stevenson’s posting back in 2009. and being a computing person myself, i can instantly connect to the CLOUD in the network diagrams (:

so in short, CLOUD originate from network designs, and seen specifically in network diagrams. CLOUD is used to represent external unknown network, and the Internet. hence, CLOUD computing is literally Internet computing, which like what Stevenson’s mentioned, for e.g. we’re using google apps which are essentially internet apps, far far away from some unknown network (not that we’ll really care) existing in a corner of the internet network.

learnt another thing today (:

[credit: davedehetre via flickr / CC BY 2.0]

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Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator and Learning Tool

Mar 30
Posted by TYH in 03k. OpenSource, 09. Computer Hardware/Software

in his answer to a query concerning learning of CL at the recent REACH forum, PM Lee mentioned two translation tools that can be useful. one is google translate (which i guess i need not mention), and the other is perapera-kun, which works as a firefox add-on. the translations are based on the open source Chinese-English dictionary, CC-CEDICT. i have downloaded, installed and tried it myself, am impressed by the capability of the ability to recognise word and phrase （字词分辨）. there are still room for improvements for some translations but as of what it is now, it definitely minimise the need for one to switch to another dictionary software, or to flip a physical desktop dictionary. of cos, learners might start complaining the ‘confusion’ caused by too many definitions given at one glance, but isn’t this a problem of most dictionaries all along? advancement of technologies will one day help us resolve this issue i believe (:

and in case you’ll like to hear PM’s words:

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iTALC – Opensource Computer Lab Mgt Software

Dec 26
Posted by TYH in 09. Computer Hardware/Software

open source has done it again, iTALC – Intelligent Teaching And Learning with Computers is a free opensource computer lab classroom management software. and funds can be spent in obtaining other resources for learning and teaching :)

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Phone + Book

Dec 26
Posted by TYH in 03n. Misc, 09. Computer Hardware/Software

was just talking abt eBooks in the 2010 trends two days’ ago, and i found this piece of video via richarson’s post:



nice? (:
nice! :)

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Musical instrument on the move

Oct 29
Posted by TYH in 06. enTeRTAINmeNT, 09. Computer Hardware/Software

Learning and playing a musical instrument is one thing, having access to one or carrying one around so that you can play it anytime anywhere is another thing, especially when the instrument you learnt is a heavy/bulky one.

Once applications live in the cloud, the key to success will be harnessing network effects so that those applications literally get better the more people use them … Today we see that applications are being driven by sensors, not just by people typing on keyboards. They are becoming platforms for collective action, not just collective intelligence. — extracted from Webcast: Web Squared page

Was scanning an article “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On” written by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the recent web2.0 summit, and I was attracted by the Smule’s Ocarina application for iPhone. Perhaps I’m losing touch with some of the latest technological advancements without owning the phone myself, but it appears that music players can carry a synthesiser that can emulate their favourite musical instrument while moving. How conveneient (: (of cos here assumed you owned an iPhone). Check out the video below, AND do read O’Reilly and Battelle’s article to get a glimpse of the world we’re advancing into, if we are not already into it (:

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