I found Live Plasma, an engaging tool for exploring music and movies through a visual map. It connects related artists and films in a dynamic web, providing an intuitive alternative to traditional list-based search engines.
I built a home Media PC using a 42-inch plasma TV and an eBay Pentium III. I use it for sofa-based Skype videoconferencing, streaming Tamil movies, and managing audio wirelessly via Remote Desktop and Bose speakers.
I found Google's new image search tool which indexes 150 million images. It’s a significant update for finding visual content, and I also shared an interesting search query for 'dead.long.live' to test the results.
This is an appreciative nod to a beautifully structured data-visualization course in R designed specifically for artists and designers.
I found two useful visual tools: Photoblogs, a directory for photo-based journals, and the Visual Thesaurus, an interactive mapping tool that visually connects related words and concepts to help explore semantic relationships.
I evaluate Windows Live Local against Google Maps, concluding that Google's speed is the critical advantage. I find that performance is often the most important feature when comparing mapping services and web applications.