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Kom igang med Android programmering

10/09/2012 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Mobilplattformen Android har gått forbi Apples iOS i populæritet, og er snart tilgjengelig i versjon 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Android har en hardware-uavhengig arkitektur og kan derfor finnes på mobiler, nettbrett, og snart også andre enheter som biler, TV set-top bokser og innen sikkert en helt andre bruksområder. 1. Sjekk at du har riktige Java verktøy De fleste Android applikasjoner skrives i Java og du trenger derfor Java installert for å få utviklingsverktøyene til å fungere, og selvfølgelig for å få…

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Panorama

31/05/2012 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

A couple of weeks ago I replaced my ever faithful brick-Nokia with a recent smart phone. I like HTC and when my friend Henrik (an excellent salesman working at Elkjøp Ullevål – in case you need new a new phone) recommended X One I chose that instead of Samsungs result from the collaboration with Google, the Nexsus. This post is not so much about the phones, but more about the photographic quality of new phones and some cool features, most…

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Visuell programmering i Processing

07/11/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

I dag holdt jeg en liten innledning og workshop om visuell programmering hos Norsk Telemuseum på Kjelsås. Jeg ønsket å vise fram programmeringsmiljøet rundt Processing og var også innom forskjellige emner jeg mener er viktig i dagens IT-landskap. I hovedsak orienterte dette seg om data og interfaces, eller data og dingser som jeg kalte det. En artikkel på det kontekstuelle kommer snart, men inntil videre kan du forsøke deg på oppgavesettet jeg lagde til den praktiske gjennomføringen av kurset. Jeg tror…

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On Technology

17/06/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

This text started with the title “Technological meditations”. The text is not so much written to be a result as it is written as a stimuli for a process where my goal was to get a deeper understanding of the technological phenomenon. Technology plays an important role in how we perceive ourselves as human beings, how we perceive nature and how we organise our lives. Technology is an integrated part in most areas of our lives, and several disciplines are…

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Trenger du hjelp med digitale medier?

07/04/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Mye tyder på at digitale medier har kommet for å bli. Samtidig peker mye i retning av at disse kommer til å være like, om ikke mer, aktuelle i årene som kommer. Internet, Android, iPhone, iPad, HTML 5.0, Semantic web, nye lisensierings ordninger, cloud computing, QR koder, WiMax, Zigbee, Near Field Communication og Open Soruce. Dette er bare noen begreper og teknologier gjeldene i dag eller i nær framtid. Mulighetene er mange, og det kan være vanskelig å følge med….

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The future of Ideas

17/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

In the book The Future of Ideas –The fate of the commons in a connected world professor Lawrence Lessig at the Standford Law School introduces us to some issues of contemporary law and its implication on the Internet and creativity. Lessig, who is the chairman of Creative Commons, brings forward the restrictions imposed on the creativity by a hinge for more control on the physical, the code and the content layer. This division of layers he borrows from Yochai Benkler…

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Electronic Workshop Weekend: Arduino

10/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 2 comments

After an inspiring lecture on circuit bending and electronics held by Edinburgh based digital artist Yann Seznec last week I decided to try something new. In this lecture we looked at some interesting possibility in using electronics separately and in combination with computers. This seemed like an interesting domain to check out, so I ordered some electronic components and an Arduino to play with the ideas from the lecture to learn more about it. Perhaps the most interesting part is…

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Grown up digital

01/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Grown up digital is the second latest book signed the Canadian author Don Tapscott. Published in 2008 it was released twelve years after one of his earlier books Growing up digital. The book is a generational study of the Net Generation, and throughout the book Tapscott presents traits associated with NetGeners, and how these affect different institutions. The institutions which the computer-savvy generation is affecting includes the educational and the commercial sector, the work place, the family and the political…

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

22/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 4 comments

In the book the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction from 1936 critical theorist and member of the Frankfurt school Walter Benjamin discusses the work of art in modern time. He uses photography and film as examples of how the mechanical reproduction breaks with the traditional aspect of artworks, and with religious cultic aspects to be replaced by displayability. All art is reproducible: what man has made, man has always been able to make again, however the…

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Congratulations, Wikipedia

15/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

The 15th of January 2001 a new encyclopaedia was released. Beginning with Nupedia Larry Sanger and Jimmy Welsh created an online web encyclopaedia, where expert authors wrote articles which were followed up by a formal peer process, not unlike how articles in the academic world are created. Later Wikipedia was introduced and this site which was independent form Nupedia, became based on a more democratized model with an open editing model and collective correction based on consensus. Wikipedia, as a…

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