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Freemind taking off (sort of)

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=freemind

Another trip on sourceforge revealed that Freemind has a couple of wiki’s that support its format along with some tools to extend its functionality.

My favourites from the above search are:

LiveMind: AJAX MindMap editor – “this is an on-line, html (AJAX) based editor & browser for FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/) mindmaps.”

Mapp.it – “A web-spider, based on the availability of URL APIs to most web based databases, mapping web pages to two dimensional FreeMind mind-maps. “

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Topographica and the NIMH Human Brain Project

Topographica and the NIMH Human Brain Project

Something interesting on the sourceforge homepage today. I found an application known as Topographica which is used to help researchers identify the functions of the brain related to sensory and motor functions.

From the webpage:

Topographica instead focuses on the large-scale structure and function that is visible only when many thousands of such neurons are connected into topographic maps containing millions of connections.

While I touched on the ideas expressed only very briefly when I studied Computational Neuroscience, I’m sure the future of this app looks promising and is something I’ll come back to when I get more time.

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New Aussie Bands

These two bands have appeared on my radar recently.

Sleight of Hand
Karnivool

I know that these bands have both performed with Cog in the past so there is a tick of approval.

I know Sleight of Hand are from Newcastle and have a catchy tune going on. It’ll be a while before they hit Melb but still worth noting.

Karnivool, as my brother tells me, are a fusion styles, focusing on rock, more technical than tool, apparently the guitarist has one an award recognising him as best guitarist in Australia! To me I hear butterfly effect and grand silent to a higher production level. Took me a little while to get into, but once I was in the right space to enjoy it, enjoy I did.

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The Making of Net of Being

http://www.alexgrey.com/net.html

This man must be my most favourite artist ever. This page on his site shows the steps of how this monster was created. If anyone wants to buy me a signed copy of Net of Being please feel free

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I heart Alex Grey

http://asap.ap.org/stories/575717.s#

Link to article about Alex Greys work with Tool and a very brief video of Alex’s workspace, along with soundbites from Adam Jones about getting the stereoscopic images onto the record.

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Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Well, those in development circles will by now at least have heard of this new fanbangled architecture for building rich web client apps known as Ajax. This article is a very small skim of the froth of what AJAX is about but I liked the pictures 🙂

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Speed Reading Links

Speed Reading Links

While searching Music Speed Reading to help my brother I came across a few pages:

Speed reading software, articles and tips (Ababasoft) – has lots of background info on speed reading plus flash games to help you develop your skills. There are lots of them, there is even a speed reading metronome. The site also has a lot of flash games to learn music theory. Great site.

RocketReader – An aussie product which is an end to end speed reading and comprehension tool. Looks good – a little pricey ($99 AUD).

There were other relevant tools (mainly screenreaders) at this site where I came across the above two links.

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Strengthening Archilles Heel

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101496.asp

The Netgear WGT634U router has been giving me connection woes of late. I’ve had to hard reboot it a few times before any client machine could connect wirelessly. Given I want to run some permanent services on my desktop, I want to swap it around with my Linksys WRT54G.

I thought I found my answer until I realised that making the WGT634U an access point, would not make it a client.

The ToNot plan I had:

  1. Backup existing router settings.
  2. Reflash the Linksys back to its original firmware (from OpenWRT)
  3. Follow the instructions at the Netgear support page to turn the WGT into an access point. I learnt this was possible for the WGT634U thanks to this support post.
  4. Connect the Linksys to the DSL Modem (via WAN port) and configure to connect to internet. Set it as 192.168.1.1, turn on DHCP. Pick a new SSID to reflect this new networks config.
  5. With the WGT634U having DHCP off and a different SSID to the one above per Netgears instruction
  6. Hope I can still connect – its not going to work. How will the Netgear know to connect to the devices on the linksys’s network? If I set the SSID’s to be the same, then that is relying on wirelessly bridging which is what I’ve already tried. I need the netgear to work in a wireless client which requires OpenWRT/OpenWGT
  7. Also Hope that I can get 108Mbps transfer when my 108Mbps wireless NIC talks to the WGT634U.

An alternate plan comes to mind

  1. Sell the WGT634U