The myvirtucalcloud.net VDI Calculator has been used by thousands of users over the years to size VDI deployments using tradicional and hyper-converged infrastructures Source: GitHub – aleibovici/vdicalc

In a test lasting until December this year, KLM will be using an AI to answer questions from a pool of 60000 responses in the database. It will learn from user responses to these questions. Currently KLM is answering 100000 user queries per week on social media, so this must make a huge saving! Source: Read more about KLM to use AI on social media[…]

Free vector graphics editor. A simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool for everyone. Source: Vectr – Free Online Vector Graphics Editor You don’t have to use the online version, you can also download the offline client.

Across the nation, and also on Twitter, Lexus owners say the navigation systems in their luxury cars suddenly stopped working today for some as-of-yet unknown reason. Source: Lexus Owners Experiencing A Nationwide Blackout Of Nav Systems It seems a software update was the cause – QA testing fail!

WebGazer.js is an eye tracking library that uses common webcams to infer the eye-gaze locations of web visitors on a page in real time. The eye tracking model it contains self-calibrates by watching web visitors interact with the web page and trains a mapping between the features of the eye and positions on the screen. Read more about WebGazer.js: Democratizing Webcam Eye Tracking on the Browser[…]

Redmond assumes closing nagware dialog means ‘yes’, says that’s by design […] Redmond recently created a new Windows 10 nagware reminder that presented a dialog asking you to install the OS. But if users clicked the red “X” to close the dialog – standard behaviour for dispelling a dialog without agreeing to do anything – Read more about Microsoft now upgrades to Windows 10 even if you click the big red X to close the nagware window![…]

Get it on Github have fun resolving dependencies 🙂

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Franz is a free messaging app / former Emperor of Austria and combines chat & messaging services into one application. He currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. You can download Franz for Mac, Windows & Linux. Source: Franz – a free messaging app for Slack, Read more about Franz – a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more[…]

It’s a simple bot that helps with court appeals — but could it replace the need for human lawyers? Source: A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets

As of March 15, 2016, we will no longer be supporting the Picasa desktop application. For those who have already downloaded this—or choose to do so before this date—it will continue to work as it does today, but we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates. If you choose Read more about Google retires Picasa for Photos, no desktop alternative in sight[…]

How about this for bizarre bug of the week: the latest version of Adobe Creative Cloud deletes the first hidden directory in root directories on Macs. That’s bad news for users of BackBlaze: the backup software stores a .bzvol folder in the top level of every drive it backs up, and uses these folders to Read more about Adobe Creative Cloud update deletes first file in directories. Kills backups.[…]

This has been done in the past, but the computing power required has made it impractical. A new algorithm makes it possible to do this with much less computational grunt. Source: Computationally Efficient Carrier Integer Ambiguity Resolution in Multiepoch GPS/INS: A Common-Position-Shift Approach

It looks nice 🙂 Better than a todo list, better than a scrum board, software kept simple. Download it here

The tool allows you to browse a lot of the data (and I will be adding even more over time) that is accessible through the Unifi Controller API. The tool currently only supports Unifi Controller versions 4.x.x. and requires a server running an apache2 web server with php and curl installed Source: Unifi API browser Read more about Unifi API browser tool[…]

developers of applications that rely on the Java browser plugin need to consider alternative options such as migrating from Java Applets (which rely on a browser plugin) to the plugin-free Java Web Start technology. Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9. This technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and Read more about Java getting rid of b0rked plugin[…]

Wrap web apps natively Source: nativefier Don’t have to alt tab through open tabs, but have an app for that site you use a lot…

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Gov. Jay Inslee says the Washington Department of Corrections has been making mistakes in calculating sentences since 2002, resulting in thousands of inmates leaving prison early. Corrections officials learned of the problem in 2012. Source: ‘Totally unacceptable’: State knew thousands of inmates were released in error This is why QA is so important!

George Hotz is taking on Google and Tesla by himself, Source: The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage. He’s sticking it to Elon Musk, who isn’t very happy about it! Which is why they’ve issued a “correction” which sounds highly petulant.

New PHP 7 engine is focused on speed, speed, and speed Source: PHP 7 Released After Years of Development, Worth the Wait