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How to Take Screenshots on Mobile Phones
17.Jun - Michael Buckbee
I’ve recently been digging back into doing mobile web development for The Social Collective and had a user send me a picture (taken with his webcam) of the browser on his Blackberry. It was basically a brightly colored smudge.
Luckily, the bug he was informing me of was sufficiently bone-headed on my part that I [...]
Running an OpenSource Project - Sean Cribbs
24.Oct - Michael Buckbee
Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.
Some things really stuck out to me:
1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.
2. [...]
How 37 Signals Deploys Their Software
22.Oct - Michael Buckbee
I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things.
One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in [...]
User Augmented Reality Interface
21.Oct - Michael Buckbee
While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like.
For the time being, I think we’re still going to do more with iPhones than holographically projected images, but videos and other speculative [...]
How To Batch Convert Photos for Free with OS X
13.Oct - Michael Buckbee
Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator.
Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications.
Something many people need to do is to repeatedly convert photos from one size or format to another, and while it’s [...]

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Microsoft's Protototype Finger Cursor

Microsoft Research has come up with an interesting idea to make small touch screens more usable.

Instead of touching the actual screen, you manipulate the device by moving your fingers on the back and instead of a standard cursor showing; a finger represents your actions.

Read the full story on Xconomy

Many Eyes Twitter Visualization

Bruce Sterling pointed to an interesting visualiztion / twitter search tool developed by IBM's Alphaworks group.

The tool lends itself to exploring what's being said and turning up new and interesting bits of the twitter zeitgeist.

Many Eyes Twitter Visualization

Music CD Labeling System

Quite possibly the most accurate album cover of all time. The Lovely Package website highlights a design by Joshua Distler.

The tracks (or some portion of them) have been placed on cover as histograms.

It's difficult to think that many people would benefit from this, but it is additional information that might help you in looking for a particular song.

Batman's Icon Mutations

Despite being a Batman fan for many years, I was unaware of just how much the iconic Batman logo has changed during that time.

What a difference a few lines and angles make to the impact of something so relatively simple.

Topps Augmented Reality Baseball Cards

I had a few baseball cards growing up, but any interest I had in them quickly gave way to more adult pursuits like comic books, video games and sucking at sports related activities.

In any case, Topps's new augmented reality cards are quite interesting. Used in conjunction with a webcam, software running on your computer will display a representation of the player standing on the card on your monitor.

Along with their included software you can play some simple games of hitting, catching and pitching baseballs at the player of your choice.

You should definitely checkout the video linked to below as it makes much more sense actually seeing it in action.

When we all get outfitted with bionic eyes this tech will be everywhere.

Topps 3D Live Baseball Cards

via: The Awesomer