However much a mirage, the image of an impregnable "fortress" has swayed sentiment and shaped policy.
With Mirage, PC images including personalization settings run locally on a PC allowing users to take advantage of PC native performance, including the ability to run multimedia applications and work while disconnected from the network.
The green flash phenomenon arises as by-products in astronomical refraction near the horizon, and most green flashes are the by-product of mirages (see images of some below).
But it was a mirage, a fleeting image of glory unrealized.
This light bending may produce a "superior mirage", with the image of an object appearing above its true position.
As the Cloudflare's founder and CEO Matthew Prince told me, the first version of Mirage took every image on a site and then created five copies of it in different sizes to match the most often used screen sizes.
Wanova's flagship product Mirage, combines centralized PC image management with the ability to run images natively on a PC, allowing enterprise to reduce desktop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improve IT operations.
Other Mobli experiments, like ephemeral messaging app Mirage and real-time image search engine EyeIn, failed to take off (the former was supplanted by Snapchat, while EyeIn shut down after Instagram restricted its API), but Hogeg hopes to give Galaxia sticking power by rolling it out methodically, first to Mobli users.
The detour takes 12 hours by car, but the experience is truly unforgettable, as you pass through Al-Hajjarayn, meaning "two villages", twin towns located on opposite sides of the wadi, mirage-like mirror images shimmering in the desert heat.
Where many people see an industry now in decline, Thomson offers a nuanced portrait of a creative business always reaching toward, or away from, the mirage of its own public image.
