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Documenting Historical Past Through Info Technology

Posted by on Wednesday, 11 January, 2012

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SELDOM can we get to meet somebody making a living out of being a historian. People like him are thought of among the many brightest, having been born with a sharp reminiscence where they store details of what has transpired. With using pen and paper, they checklist down particulars and events as they unfold.

Gone are these Days

That was before. Modern-day know-how has altered what was a tedious technique of documenting history. In actual fact, we could all make good historians amongst ourselves — because of Info Technology.

Through IT, audio recording was made attainable, so as capturing actual still photographs and footages of moments that folks do not get to see everyday.

Info expertise has been transferring at an extremely rapid tempo and improving enormously to an extent that every innovation launched can hardly converse of how it actually evolved.

Uploading History in a Click

Right this moment, history is recorded without utilizing pen and paper. It doesn’t even require our presence. Browsing the web, we’ll discover articles, photographs and movies that we might arrange right into a virtual library where we might really store them for future references.

IT has rendered typewriters, onerous-certain encyclopedias and traditional cameras obsolete. In lieu of typewriters are computer systems, replacing encyclopedias are data-wealthy web, and taking the place of the standard manual cameras are digital imaging systems.

Take the nonetheless cameras, which have been developed within the early 1900s. Images were taken via using a gadget that looked more of an elevated safety vault, with the knob as the lens. Photographers, peep by its lens, cover his head along with the digital camera (except for the lens) with a blanket of types if only to ensure that the method through which the image is taken is protected against any light — then comes a loud boom. By the best way, the cameras that point use 9″ x 12″ movie sheets.

From there, we look forward to the print-outs that are processed inside a small dimly lit cubicle often called the darkroom. Print-outs are collated to form part of the historical past that’s extra on prose narratives, which were both handwritten or typewritten.

Evolution of cameras and typewriters

The cameras evolved so as the typewriters. Modifications after another modification, the cameras of the previous are far more behind with what now we have today.

Current day imaging system no longer makes use of movies but an inside information storage system plus an extended room for data storage called as and the reminiscence cards. In truth, the difference might very well be spelled in its size, the seems, and operational options, amongst others.

Right now’s digital cameras, light weight and useful at that, are person friendly. Anybody who gets to learn the user’s manual can simply undertake to the gadget, that now presents smooth measurement, stylish look, preview screens, automated zooming units, rechargeable nature of its power source, and essentially the most great of all of it — the digital digital camera doesn’t require movies, as what many people have been accustomed to.

Insofar as typewriters are concerned, they’re gone. In lieu of the typewriters are computer systems had been we do stuffs like typing. Keeping those typewritten files is also no longer required as computer systems are geared up with a reminiscence system that enables us to save lots of information for revision and future references.

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Japanese iPhone users can buy $1,000 cases from today

Posted by on Friday, 14 August, 2009

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Despite being able to choose between an enormous number of super-advanced cell phones for years now, the Japanese have come to embrace the iPhone. The number of iPhones in circulation is estimated to have topped the 1 million mark quite some time ago, which triggered SoftBank BB (a sister company of Japan-exclusive iPhone provider SoftBank Mobile) to start offering something very Japanese and unique today: handmade iPhone cases [JP] priced at $1,000 each.

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The so-called JAPAN TEXTURE [JP] series consists of a total of five cases with different designs. Created under the supervision of a historian, SoftBank says each case is covered with special lacquer and gold dust. It takes three to four weeks to make one, which kind of explains the price.

The main idea of these cases is to show how Japanese warlords from the Sengoku period would probably use their iPhones if they lived today. Each case comes with a specially designed pouch, a booklet explaining the historical background of the design and a storage box.

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If you own an iPhone, have $1,000 to spare and a strong penchant for Japanese history, this might be the right thing for you (but SoftBank isn’t planning to sell the cases outside Nippon).

Hat tip and top picture credit: Nobuyuki Hayashi.



The 404 392: Where we get spifflicated

Posted by on Wednesday, 29 July, 2009

Today, we’re joined by two ladies: Ace Reporter Caroline McCarthy again and “Allie” of Heavy & Flo fame. This makes the two remaining boys of The 404 very happy. On today’s show, we’ve got sex offenders, speakeasies, 1920s Prohibition, and Ashton Kutcher. Excited? We are.

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So what does “spifflicated” mean? It means we all got wasted. According to 404 historian Caroline McCarthy, most of the terms we use today to mean inebriated come from the 1920s era of Prohibition. “Spifflicated” happens to be our favorite.

While Justin Yu was out, we found a way to track him using this new iPhone app, which will tell you where the closest sex offenders live near you. With the help of the girls, we come up with some more useful apps like an “Is she underage?” app, or a “Please, just cut to the chase. How much money do you make?” app. We wish there was an app to tell when you’re about to make a mistake late one night at a bar. Apple? Anyone?

We chat a bit about the Microsoft and Yahoo deal, but we think it’s funnier to ask the eternal question, “Why Ashton Kutcher?” We have no idea why nearly 3 million people are following him on Twitter. I mean, give us a break. We know you lucked out, and you get to wake up to Demi Moore every morning, Ashton. You don’t have to rub it in our faces.

Finally, a woman gets sued for $50,000 because she Twitters out, “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon Realty thinks it’s okay.” Of course, we think this a whole load of bull, but we are perplexed as to why this company, Horizon Realty, has decided to unleash the Internet because of its fairly asinine move to “[s]ue first, then ask questions later.” So far, we’ve collected these tweets about our new favorite company we love to hate:

Send in your favorite “Horizon Realty” tweet to The 404 at the usual: the404 [at] cnet [dot] com. Also, leave a voice mail at 1-866-404-CNET (2638). Peace!




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The Apollo program: One massive rocket designed by young engineers

Posted by on Sunday, 19 July, 2009

revellapollooldThere has been a good deal of focus on the Moon lately. First, the LRO sent back high-res photos of the surface, which was followed by the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the release of restored video footage from the Moon. Then the LRO produced the first photos of the equipment left behind from the Apollo missions and Walter Cronkite, the trusted voice who informed America about the events, passed away.

The LA Times is keeping the buzz alive with a fantastic article about the construction of the Saturn V rocket that shot the astronauts to the Moon.

“What set us apart was our ability to build a very big rocket to get us to the moon,” said Roger Launius, the Smithsonian Institution’s space historian, reflecting on the U.S.’ race with the then-Soviet Union to reach the moon first. “The Russians were never able to do that.”

If you think about it, that’s about as accurate as it gets. Our engineers who were backed by a massive budget, out-developed the Soviets with the Saturn V rocket. Well done, boys. Well done.