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In Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Windows announced their new mobile OS, Windows Mobile 7, and by the sounds of things there is much more to come. Taken from the Engadget article: Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win ” The phone operating system does away with pretty much [ READ MORE ]
Ok so maybe it’s is me way behind the times, but I have just worked out how to very easily extract and down load audio from YouTube videos onto your computer as MP3s. This can be done by simply typing ‘kiss’ in the web adress bar after at a specific place; so it reads www.kissYouTube… [ READ MORE ]
Recently I saw the film ‘Eli’s Book’ which apart from being a great film in my opinion, included some of the best lighting effects I have seen used in a film. The exterior lighting more many if not all of the scenes incorporated some truly amazing features and effects. Whether this was achieved through great [ READ MORE ]
Having trying for a while to some how access the PC at home which has my Autodesk Education Suite Licence installed I have finally found an amazing and great answer ! LogMeIn.com This is an amazingly simple solution I was introduced to which allows very easy access between PCs and Macs. It requires you to install something [ READ MORE ]
This wouldn’t be a technology Blog if I didn’t talk about the latest of amazing quality in CG arriving in films, on such amazing new title like 2009 releases District 9 and Avatar; which I saw in 3D. Aside from the massive Augmented reality based marketing which has become available due to Avatar teaming up with Coke Avatar this year [ READ MORE ]
With computer gaming a great personal interest of mine it is great to see how a company such as OnLive with such a new enervative idea have come along since they first announced their concept close to a year ago. OnLive is an on demand gaming platform which is equivalent to cloud computing, the games [ READ MORE ]
I was introduced to twitter recently. It was in class we first looked at, and I was first introduced to Twitter and Twitter based Twitter Vision; a web application which tracks real time geographical visualization of posts on Twitter. It unfortunately took me the best part of the lesson to access Twitter and create an [ READ MORE ]
Continuing from a previous post on Augmented Reality I now see the long anticipated film Avatar has teamed up with Coke to produce some amazing Augmented Reality Marketing. This AVTR logo; “Is going to be on 140 million bottle-shaped cans, 30 million fridge packs, and countless other merchandising tie-ins everywhere,” including McDonalds It looks like [ READ MORE ]
This is something which we have coincidentally looked at in nearly all our lessons, and is something I still don’t understand the concept. I mean how this all works is crazy. The concepts I have been looking at are where you print an image off and show it to your webcam and it generates a 3d [ READ MORE ]
Not sure what relevance this has to anything but came across this during Visual Auditory Literacy, thought it was cool enough to be mentioned. Do The Daft From:najle.com (Which is a really nicely designed site with a hint of Flash animation) Hmm in fact I take back: “Not sure what relevance this has to anything” [ READ MORE ]
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