Eric Blue’s Blog

November 28, 2011 – 9:42 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.

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Philosophy

Increasing number of articles dealing with philosophy and psychology. Topics include Integral philosophy, consciousness, and age old advice on how to live “the good life”.

Personal Development

Learn tips and tricks on GTD (Getting Things Done), goal setting, time management, and increasing your personal power.

Mind Mapping

Put mind mapping to use in your personal and professional life. Learn tips and techniques on enhancing creativity, accelerating learning, and increasing productivity.

Knowledge Management

My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.

Quantified Self

Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. There are number of posts on my device “hacking”, open source development, and my own quantified experiments.

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MindStream – NeuroSky EEG Data Streamer

July 24, 2011 – 11:33 am | 14 Comments

Since I last posted on the NeuroSky Brainwave Visualizer, I decided to write a simple app to “stream” brainwave/EEG data from NeuroSky devices (the MindWave & MindSet). I couldn’t find any apps to save the …

Learning Faster – Automatically Extract Highlighted Text from PDF Documents

December 17, 2010 – 12:46 am | 11 Comments

Overview
I never really considered myself a “highlighter” until a couple years ago. Back in school I would, on occasion, highlight some interesting passages while doing homework or reading books and jot them down later. …

Document Management Systems: SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation)

May 18, 2008 – 11:26 pm | One Comment

gnizr: Open Source Semantic Del.icio.us With Mashup Capability

November 17, 2007 – 7:01 pm | No Comment

Persistence Strategies: DAO (Data Access Objects) and ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) – Part 2

August 13, 2005 – 3:31 pm | No Comment

Persistence Strategies: DAO (Data Access Objects) and ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) – Part 1

April 25, 2005 – 9:35 pm | No Comment