Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
The web page for Blue Microphone's plug-in mic for iPhone -- known as Mikey 2 -- still says its release date is 8/20/10, but the buy now text is not clickable.
The opening blurb on Mikey 2's product page:
The all-new Mikey is the perfect tool for mobile recording. Featuring two custom-tuned ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
BumpTop -- a Mac program that converts your drab desktop from 2D into 3D -- looks interesting enough to try.
Tech Startups brings a "hands-on" review and opines.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Slow moving but breathtakingly gorgeous. HD, fullscreen it.
Full CG architecture and nature never looked more, um, (vibrantly) natural; although while gradually seeping into the surreal.
To delve into this further, visit The Third & The Seventh site and view the shorter Compositing ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
So Microsoft labs in Cairo, Egypt, have developed a way to combine various videos shot live on separate cell phones, of essentially the same scene, and combine them into a single, wider video.
A college of mine referred to this as, "adaptive supersampled combinators!"
New Scientist has a write up.
Let's take it ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Nearly A Nerd welcomes web programmer and enthusiastic new Droid owner Joel Doetsch who's also blogged his favorite Android apps.
So, sick and tired of all the iPhone hype, you took it upon yourself to go out and buy a Droid today. Maybe you were ready to break into the ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
I follow Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) on Twitter -- why, I don't really know -- and usually just pass over his copious twittering. But the other day his mention of BuzzVoice caught my eye. BuzzVoice takes the stuff you read and reads it aloud for you.
Of course a computer voice ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser.
All ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day.
By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations. All in the span of 24 hours. I am vastly oversimplifying, so ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
A while back I was chatting with some folks about how somebody needs to come up with a program that easily allows you to churn out WordPress templates with little to no programing skills. It seems Artisteer now does just this.
Only I can't use it now because it is ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Notice any difference between the two images above? That's right. Google Apps, at long last, is out of beta. This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.
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