Whether you’re trying to prove your roommate has been “borrowing” your clothes or you’re just looking for a home surveillance solution, the following Mac app will have you covered. Witnesswill turn your Mac’s iSight camera into a motion sensor that begins recording when it detects any activity within its line of sight. If it does pick up some movement, the app will then immediately alert you through its free iPhone or iPad app....
Not everyone is a skilled web designer and if you want to build an attractive site quickly and with little effort, services likeWix.comcan be invaluable. Wix, which already has easy to use website and Facebook Page building tools, has nowlauncheda solution for creating mobile websites. The template-based approach allows users to edit elements like the background, colours, text and icons to suit their needs with zero coding, creating a mobile-optimised website designed to suit iOS and Android devices....
The world’s geekiest search engine (that’s a ‘Computational Knowledge Engine’ to you),Wolfram Alphahaslauncheda new feature that allows you to manipulate data interactively. Using theCDF formatlaunched by Wolfram Labs recently, once you switch on CDF support in the top right-hand corner of the screen, you’ll be able to Interact with your results using sliders and controls. This allows you to: interact with your results using sliders and controls; rotate and zoom 3D graphics and visualizations, and manipulate results directly in your browser....
Wolfram Alpha, the popular computational knowledge engine containing a wealth of information, factoids and insight about a vast range of topics, has now released itsAPI version 2.0to developers, bringing open access and enhanced features. Wolfram Alpha’s API (application programming interface) 2.0 gives developers more access from numerous types of applications. With the new API, developers can integrate its results into a web and desktop applications, enterprise and mobile apps, websites along with ePublishing and cloud-computing applications....
Wolfram Research, the company behind powerful, data-heavy products like theWolfram Alpha‘computational knowledge engine’, has today launched a new file format it hopes will revolutionise the way people think of documents. TheComputable Document Format(CDF) is designed to make it easy to turn complicated data into interactive experiences, embedded into a document. The results are impressive, too and it’s easy to see how this could appeal to educators, scientists, journalists and beyond as a way of conveying complicated information in an easy to understand way....
