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This is a video demonstration of how static photographs can enhance lower quality video to enhance lighting, resolution, camera shake and much more. It’s an amazing example of where video technology is headed. You can find out more about the technology and even download the source code here.

As exciting as this technology is, I think it does bring a few things to mind. For one, YouTube in the future will not be dependable. The cameras can and will ‘lie’. The line between the real and the fake is being increasingly blurred. Using video surveillance will require knowing the source of the video and ensuring that the video hasn’t been tampered with. We are living in a media driven world; a world in which it is increasingly easy to manipulate media. ‘Seeing is believing’ is becoming less and less prudent. There are alot of pros and cons from any new technology and the greatest defense against the ‘cons’ is understanding the technology and what it is capable of.

This simply goes to prove that there is always more than one way to learn something. There is a lot of basic but key lessons to this song. Listen and learn. If you already know all of this, you will at least enjoy the entertainment value of it and your brain will benefit from reiterating facts once again. Enjoy!

I just installed minefield on my computer and enabled the new TraceMonkey javascript engine and all I can say is wow. In case you don’t know what TraceMonkey is, in short it is an extremely powerful javascript engine that allows for native compiling of javascript. Javascript is now competing with compiled languages instead of interpreted scripting languages. To see TraceMonkey in action for yourself simply download ‘MineField’ from Mozilla and go to your config (about:config) and set javascript.options.jit.content to ‘true’.

I recently finished up a project at Qorvis for Horatio Alger Association. Qorvis did a beautiful redesign of the website but as anyone who has ever built a website knows, it doesn’t matter if you have the most beautiful website in the world if no one ever sees it. Ensuring that a website is seen is no easy task and there are many different solutions to this. In this particular case we took the route of building a widget for Horatio Alger.