Trexic.Net

Five second audio ads are making their way to websites near, or accessible, by you. Pay-Per-Play NetAudioAds just opened yesterday, and it allows webmasters to earn commission every time a person check out their blog. Why am I telling you this? Because this is what I am doing. The audio will probably not start until 30 to 60 days after this post, but once it starts, and you don’t like it, just go back to this post and complain. I’m open to taking this off if my users really don’t like it, but at least give it a try. Remember that I need the money to continue the blog. Oh, and if you want to try this out, don’t hesitate, you could still be a core user, Sign up here.

NOTE: You do not even have to have a website to earn the money. This program has a referral system too. Just sign up and contact you friends.

Today I am going to endorse Barack Obama. I’ve been a fan of him for months, but now I’m going to start something bigger. I know it’s not something if I just say it (like the big ol’ devil, Hillary Clinton, says) so in the next few weeks I’ll begin helping him out. Get ready to see a big change. (NOTE: I did purposely put some categories on the post that have no relevance to the intended purpose, but take a look at it. You’ll find that it is sort of related.)

Hey guys, Sorry about the two week break, but I had some work to get done. Now the holiday brake is coming and I’ll have more time to post. www.spokeo.com gives you a news feed, just like Facebook, that finds your friends on places you didn’t even know they were. It seems a bit creepy, but the news on the feed is accessible to you already, you just didn’t know where they were. For this, we are opening up a new category called “social.”

Gizmodo got a hold of the Android prototype. It doesn’t look too good in a pic, but hey, it’s just a homemade pic. 

Hello everyone who has stayed with this blog. I am very sorry that we were away this November, but am glad to inform you that I’m back. On this post, I will give a review of the month. So lets get into it.

The Kindle is a mini computer designed by Amazon that allows you to buy books, news papers, and blogs off of amazon and then download it right off of the Kindle. The internet is free because amazon struck a deal with Sprint. I don’t know the speciics of the dea, but I guess that’s why book prices are kind of high. If you just want to use the internet, though, it’s free. The screen is book-like and dim to attract the people who do not like reading of of the glossy screens of today. It also has some note-taking abilities. I would like to see Amazon strike deals with major school textbook companies so students don’t have to lug around with heavy textbooks, breaking their backs. Then and ONLY then, will I buy something like this. MacWorld has a really good article on what we know and what we don’t know about the Kindle.

Flashphone is an awesome free flash browser based phone. It is based in Russia. Right now (as a Beta procedure) you are only allowed to have three minutes talking time, but the company says that when it’s out of beta, it will have unlimited minutes. The company’s money source is based on ads that come on before the call takes place.

iHound is an iPod tracker that tracks where the iPod i so that if you ever lose it or it gets stolen, you can find it. The way it works is whenever an iPod is plugged into a computer, the computer’s wifi sends a signal to the website, informing you where it is. This tracking idea is really good unless your guy is pour, which is usually the case with stealers, and does not use wifi, likes your collection of music, is a hacker, uses a firewall, owns a gun, lives in a bad neighborhood, or lives in another continent.

Doodlekit is a nice website creator that gives advanced tools to non-techies

On another note, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (weird name) is an awesome idea. It awards $100 and a Google t-shirt to developers, 13 to 18 who do three things on several open source projects. The person who does the most for the open source projects get a free trip to Google’s complex in California baby!

But the most favorite of mine this month, isn’t that Verizon went open (which really isn’t open ), but the LiveScribe Smart Pen. It is pen that does just about everything that you hope for in a pen. Here is a summary of the pen:

Smartpen

Just slightly larger than a Montblanc, Livescribe’s smartpen is designed to replace the everyday pen as a user’s primary writing instrument. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in memory, storage, microprocessors, connectivity and component size, the smartpen is an advanced paper-based computer, with both audio and visual feedback, powerful processing capabilities and substantial built-in storage.

Dot Paper with Dot Positioning System (DPS)

Imagine a piece of paper the size of Europe and Asia, where every 3 square millimeters is covered with a unique pattern of dots that is nearly invisible to the human eye. The pattern of simple, micro-dots enables a patented dot-positioning system to precisely track the smartpen’s movement on paper. As a result, anything you write – words, numbers or drawings – can be stored, recognized, and intelligently responded to by the Livescribe smartpen.

Livescribe’s dot paper notebooks and documents will be provided by the company and partners at prices near standard paper. Dot paper may also be printed on certified home or business printers.

Applications

The possibilities for paper-based computing applications are endless – with tools and games that enhance personal productivity, learning, communications, and entertainment.

Never miss a word One of the key applications at launch for the Livescribe platform is called “Paper Replay,” which allows total recall from lectures, meetings or conversations by simply tapping on your notes. When used to take notes during a discussion or lecture, the smartpen records the conversation and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synchronizing the ink and audio. By later tapping the ink, the user can replay the conversation from the exact moment the note was written. Notes and audio can also be uploaded to a PC where they can be replayed, saved, searched or sent.

Create, share, and collaborate – Other applications will use the power of the Internet to enable personal expression. Handwritten messages can be sent as emails. Animated, hand-drawn “movies” can be posted and shared online. Spoken messages can be recorded, linked with written notes and emailed directly from a notepad.

“Live” documents that work – Other applications available for download will use handwriting recognition and pre-printed materials to bring your paper to life. Write a math problem and the smartpen will interpret your writing, calculate the answer and speak it or show it on its OLED display. Write a word and hear or see its definition or even its translation into another language. Tap a pre-printed map, conversion table, customer survey, magazine ad, or study guide, and the smartpen instantly launches an application that enables direct user interaction.

Cool, huh? It also allows you to create an application for the pen.
Bang!

Something has happened to my site. I will fix it soon, but I can’t do it now. For now, just enjoy the content.

Update: I have changed the template and it now looks pretty good (right?). There are still a few things I need to do with it so hold your horses.

This weekend we will be gone without any internet or phone service to connect to (oh no!), but we will be back on Tuesday if not Monday to give your scoopilcious.

It’s been  a slow week. Sorry I haven’t talked to much on trexic.net. I am working working on a project that  I  won’t tell you about yet. I’ll try to report new techno soon.

Our users, go to our inventions page. The tool there is pretty darn cool.

You know those pictures on websites that have words on them and you have to write the text out underneath to pass the whatever-your-doing. Whether it’s a login or sign up thing that’s what you have to do to pass as a human being instead of a computer. Well reCatcha’s doing the same thing except they are giving two pictures for you to digitalize. One is a word that they actually know, and the other is from a fancy book that needs to be digitalized for the internet archive. If you didn’t understand what I just wrote, heres a quote of how reCatcha explains itself: “reCAPTCHA asks commenters to read two words from a book. One of these words proves that they are a human, not a computer. The other word is a word that a computer couldn’t read. Because the user is known to be a human, the reading of that word is probably correct. So you don’t get comment spam, and the world gets books digitized. Everybody wins!” This is very cool so I decided to be part of this new revolution. I don’t get much spam comments (except for the one I just got today) but I’ve decided to put a reCatcha on the comments section of every post so that the internet archive can be digitalized for everyone. I hope my readers support this and don’t take this as a reason to not comment on my posts. In fact, I hope they take it as a reason TO comment on my posts.

Hey everyone! Sorry for the inconvenience, but now I’m back and better than before. I just switched hosts. You won’t even notice that I did, but you’ll notice over the next few weeks that I’m adding a few things. Tonight, I’m going to give you a storm of sites, gadgets, and extensions. See you soon.