Technology Information: July 2010

Raymond.CC Blog - Download ShareCash.Org Link Without Doing Survey

Raymond.CC Blog - Download ShareCash.Org Link Without Doing Survey


Download ShareCash.Org Link Without Doing Survey

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:05 AM PDT


I read some interesting post in a forum few days ago about some private software got leaked and the post came with a download link. When I clicked on it, I got redirected to ShareCash.org website which is my first downloading a file from this website. Basically ShareCash.org is pretty similar to RapidShare except it [...]

Raymond.CC Blog: “Buster Sandbox Analyzer Makes Sandboxie Stronger” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “Buster Sandbox Analyzer Makes Sandboxie Stronger” plus 1 more


Buster Sandbox Analyzer Makes Sandboxie Stronger

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 12:11 AM PDT


I know a few people swears by Sandboxie is the ultimate tool to analyze malwares but it is very common for crypters and remote administration tools nowadays to have anti-sandbox module meaning whenever it detected that it is being analyzed or ran in sandbox environment, it will automatically terminate itself to prevent from being analyzed. [...]

Un-Ethical Conduct By Security Firm Leads to Facebook Leaks

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 07:55 PM PDT


I’m normally not one who wants to post his thoughts on Raymond.cc, or anywhere else for that matter. If I am to explain my deepest thoughts, usually I like speaking face to face, which is why this is most likely going to be the first and the last time you see me coming so wildly [...]

Raymond.CC Blog - Easily Delete or Replace Multiple Lines for All Files in a Folder

Raymond.CC Blog - Easily Delete or Replace Multiple Lines for All Files in a Folder


Easily Delete or Replace Multiple Lines for All Files in a Folder

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:05 AM PDT


One of my antivirus benchmark is loading of a list of websites. To automate this test, I used WATIR to auto feeding of 50 websites one by one to Internet Explorer and then used HttpWatch to record the time taken to load all websites. The 50 websites are grabbed from real websites with an offline [...]

Raymond.CC Blog: “Install Java Runtime (JRE) Portable in USB Flash Drive” plus 1 more

Raymond.CC Blog: “Install Java Runtime (JRE) Portable in USB Flash Drive” plus 1 more


Install Java Runtime (JRE) Portable in USB Flash Drive

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:05 AM PDT


The good thing about Java is the applet can be ran on different operating system such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS. One good example is the famous JDownloader that simplifies downloading files from One-Click-Hosters such as Rapidshare.com, Megaupload.com and hundreds of other similar websites. There are also free Java games that you can play [...]

Launchy – Powerful Launching from your Keyboard

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 07:35 PM PDT


Let me start by saying I love the keyboard. For you people that grew up with a mouse in your hand for your first computers, or don’t enjoy using command line stuff, you might find it odd for me to say this. But I’ve personally found that I can type a lot faster then I [...]

Wrangler Bluebell Jeans Interactive Ad on my TouchSmart PC -"How-to", plus a demo of ad on iPad

Wrangler Bluebell Jeans Interactive Ad on my TouchSmart PC -"How-to", plus a demo of ad on iPad


Wrangler Bluebell Jeans Interactive Ad on my TouchSmart PC -"How-to", plus a demo of ad on iPad

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:20 PM PDT

The Wrangler Blue Bell Jeans ad website includes an interactive component that allows visitors to the site a chance to "scrub" the video by touching the screen or moving the mouse about.   The ad was designed by KOKOKAKA Interactive, a multi-award design company.

I just had to grab my video camera and filmed a few minutes of "play"!

My video:


Official video of the Wrangler Blue Bell Fall/Winter 2010 Collection



I found information about the techniques used in the creation of the Blue Bell ads in the comments section of the KOKOKAKA/BluebellInvention YouTube channel:


"We are going to release the new Spring/Summer 2010 website for Blue Bell next week where we using a new kind of interactivity where you can click on the model in the film and drag him around. This video shows you how it works."


"We're using a technique where we synchronizing the mouse position with the character which we think creates a more intuitive way of scrubbing a video. You simply drag the character to move it. We haven't seen it done yet but please send us links if you find anything similar!"


"...Everything is done with AS3. It would be possible to do even with AS1 and 2. I think it's doable in HTML5 but unsure about quality differences.  Everytime you stop scrubbing we load a hires still on top of the movie, should also be possible in HTML5. Full screen could be difficult with HTML5."

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Download Page:  Blue Bell Soundtrack, film, and images.


"How To" preview of the interaction of a similar Blue Bell Jean ad:


Interactive Blue Bell Jean Ad on an iPad:


Interactive Timeline of Wrangler Jeans

Interesting blog roll and links on Christian Zoellner's TUI Blog by FORM+ZWECK; FILE Electronic Arts Festival

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:13 PM PDT

Christian Zoellner blogs about "tangible interaction & new interfaces" on the TUI Blog by Form + Zweck, a design magazine.  Christian is a designer and "presearcher" who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.  He teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. He maintains the Christian Zoellner website.

As I write this post, Christian is attending the FILE electronic arts festival, which focuses on "interactive art in public spaces, game design, and sonification".  It sounds like a fantastic conference! The festival is actually a group of events:  File Machinima, File Documenta, File Media Art, File Hypersonica, File Games, File Symposium, File Prix Lux, and workshops.


Christian Zoellner's Links:
(I just noticed I'm on this list of links.)

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"This year, besides the Centro Cultural FIESP - Ruth Cardoso programme, FILE launches FILE PAI (Paulista Avenue Interactive = Interactive Public Art), a project of digital public art that will occupy several spaces at Paulista Avenue with interactive works of art.

0 - Interactive Projection, 1 - Brigadeiro subway station, 2 - Electronic sound bus, 3 - Nomadic electronic graffiti, 4 - Paraíso subway station, 5 - Fnac store, 6 - FIESP Cultural Center - Ruth Cardoso, 7 - Trianon-Masp subway station, 8 - Conjunto Nacional building, 9 - Consolação subway station, 10 - Cervantes Institute, and 11 - São Paulo Art Museum - MASP compose the FILE PAI set, which intends to highlight the significance of interactive public art in order to understand and to absorb the new social phenomena provided by technology and, thus, to constitute strategies to interconnect with those new mass behaviors."


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Building Music at Spark Festival 09 (opens up to a full screen video of a musical building,from  Play the Magic.


Raymond.CC Blog - Oops! Backup syncs your files and prevents data loss

Raymond.CC Blog - Oops! Backup syncs your files and prevents data loss


Oops! Backup syncs your files and prevents data loss

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:35 PM PDT


Lately I’ve been looking for some backup software to do what SyncBack Pro does, seeing as my father purchased a copy for himself when I posted the coupon a little while ago. I’ve been simplistic in the features, at least compared to Dad, because of the fact that he needed something that ran on his [...]

Interactive Mirror, by Interference Inc. (Video)

Interactive Mirror, by Interference Inc. (Video)


Interactive Mirror, by Interference Inc. (Video)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:14 PM PDT


Via Seth Sandler, who worked on this app for Interference Inc.

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Interactive Mirror (2008)

Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

Virtual Reality Effectively Treats PTSD and Related Disorders: Skip Rizzo's TEDx Talk about promising interdisciplinary work at the Institute for Creative Technologies

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:58 AM PDT



Note: Skip's talk begins about 4 minutes into the presentation.


In this TEDx Talk video, Marilyn Flynn, Dean of the University of Southern California's School of Social Work, introduces Skip Rizzo, a research scientist and Co-Director of the VRPSYCH Lab at the USC  Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT).  Skip's research has focused on the use of virtual realty and related technologies for treatment and training purposes.

In this talk,  Skip provides an overview of the interdisciplinary research taking place at the Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT). Skip goes on to explain the urgency of ICT's current work, focusing on the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other problems experienced by people who have sacrificed so much to serve our country in places of wars and conflicts such as Iraq and Afganistan.  Neary one-third of our military personnel are significantly at-risk for developing PTSD or other debilitating conditions that will negatively affect their functioning upon returning home.

Skip goes on to show how the latest VR (Virtual Reality) related technologies and applications combine with with evidence-based intervention and treatment strategies to successfully treat PTSD.  Recent research indicates that 75% of clients treated through 10 sessions of exposure therapy no longer exhibit clinical symptoms of the disorder. Given the numbers of people suffering from PTSD and related disorders, the potential for this treatment method holds promise.

Skip points out that one problem many veterans or their loved ones experience is that they are not aware that effective treatment is available.  Additionally, there are few therapists who are trained in the use of VR as a therapeutic tool.  By working with USC's School of Social Work, this may no longer be the case in the future.  Therapist can learn ways to provide effective evidence-based treatment through interacting with a "virtual human" application that uses an "intelligent" character that simulates the conversational exchanges that are likely to occur during treatment sessions. Additionally, the research behind this effort has resulted in the creation of an on-line system that includes virtual guides that can provide support and guidance to people suffering from PSTD in order to get them to engage in the treatment they require.


Here is information from the Institute of Creative Technologies regarding Skip Rizzo's TEDx USC Talk:
Skip Rizzo's TEDx USC Talk Now Online
"ICT's Skip Rizzo spoke at this year's TEDx USC conference and was introduced by Dean Marilyn Flynn of the USC School of Social Work. Video of their talk is now available for viewing on the TEDx Talk's Channel on YouTube...Of the more than 1.6 million men and women deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly one-third are expected to return with disabling combat stress disorders that may affect some for a lifetime if left untreated.

Through and unlikely marriage of social work and cutting edge technology, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC School of Social Work are revolutionizing the training methods for a new generation of mental health professionals, shifting the way clinicians learn to interact with their patients."
  
Introduction: Marilyn Flynn, Dean, USC School of Social Work
Virtual Reality Demonstration: Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Research Scientist, USC Institute for Creative Technologies 


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USC Institute for Creative Technologies
"The USC Institute for Creative Technologies brings together high-tech tools + classic storytelling to pioneer new ways to teach + to train."
Virtual Reality & Convergence with Game Technology IMT blogpost, 7/2006
Convergence:  Video Games and Virtual Reality for Special Needs: Autism, ADD, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Social Skills TechPsych blogpost, 8/2006
(I will revisit this and related topics in future posts.)

Raymond.CC Blog - Reclaim Privacy shows how secure your Facebook Privacy Settings are

Raymond.CC Blog - Reclaim Privacy shows how secure your Facebook Privacy Settings are


Reclaim Privacy shows how secure your Facebook Privacy Settings are

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 07:30 PM PDT


There are many threats in modern day life, from credit card fraud to identity theft that we’ve all known about for a while. After all, we all have that uncle or aunt or relative or whatever that we know has lost money to these scams. But as we also know, social engineering is one of [...]

Online Lego Universe: "Lego tries to construct a new empire with pixels, not plastic" (David Kushner, IEEE Spectrum)

Online Lego Universe: "Lego tries to construct a new empire with pixels, not plastic" (David Kushner, IEEE Spectrum)


Online Lego Universe: "Lego tries to construct a new empire with pixels, not plastic" (David Kushner, IEEE Spectrum)

Posted: 24 Jul 2010 10:20 PM PDT



The July issue of IEEE Spectrum is full of articles for techies and the tech-curious. Although the cover article, The Chrystal That Will Change Everything" is intriguing, the article that caught my eye was Building the Lego Universe Online, by David Kushner. 

Photo: Holly Lindem; LEGO Sculpture: Nathan Sawaya, in Building the Lego Universe Online, David Kushner, IEEE Spectrum, July 2010

"...unlike traditional Lego play, the online version will offer unprecedented opportunities for players to share and interact. The sprawling Lego fantasyland will be able to support more than half a million "brick heads" from around the world. Each player will start by assembling a personal Lego miniature figure to serve as his or her avatar. Players can then venture into the live Lego Universe, where forces of chaos and destruction—monsters such as the Darklings—threaten to destroy the Land of Imagination."    -David Kushner

SCREENSHOT: LEGO Universe
Nathan Sawaya, the artist behind the creation in the above picture of a boy and a laptop, is known for his life-size LEGO sculptures, is one of just nine LEGO Certified Professionals. 


The LEGO Universe website has media resource section that includes game screenshots, videos of game-play, pictures of concept art, wallpaper downloads, and information for the press.


Video courtesy of joystiq BETA:
LEGO Universe trailers rebuild our capacity to love. Griffen McElroy, July 23, 2010

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