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Raymond.CC Blog - Weekend Gaming – Week 8 – Addictive Flash Games

Raymond.CC Blog - Weekend Gaming – Week 8 – Addictive Flash Games


Weekend Gaming – Week 8 – Addictive Flash Games

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:30 PM PDT


And it’s another Sunday at Raymond.cc, which means that it’s time once more for games to be played. While I’m still offering games on Sundays, I now am expanding it to free games, not just open source. Since Flash is closed source but free of charge for every operating system, I figured this would be [...]

Portable Satellite TV

Portable Satellite TV


Portable Satellite TV

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 10:07 PM PDT

Technology has had long & wide strides in terms of contributing to the world a lot in both the quality of living & inspiring man to do more. The innovations that have been created are encouraging that increasingly people & groups claw their way day in & day out towards generating new things & ideas that can readily place them in the ranks of the notables. One innovation which is reaching a high-level of confidence globally is the satellite tv.

Through the years, it's improved its expertise in order to give more efficient services to its subscribers. Another brand of development that is linked with it is the idea of satellite TV on PC. Let's take a glance on the way you can get transportable satellite TV.
Watching tv has come a long way. In the elderly times it can be a boring task to sit on your couch & change channels that are not worth watching. At present an evolution has taken place. The arrival of regular cable companies & the growth of the satellite TV industry are not to quench the thirst for better entertainment & information access. There is a new revolutionized process in the market. It's come to be known as Satellite TV for PC.
Are you fed up & down right beginning to query why you're wasting your hard-earned funds on some sub-par cable service? Then it's time to join the craze & put your desktop computer or laptop computer in to proper use. You only must acquire web connection which is not hard & you're on your way to better TV time.
The important thing to think about is this. You work your way in to the office or wherever you do your thing as a professional & when you come home you require to relax & accomplish that well-deserved entertainment. You earn your bucks & unload it to things that matter & one of which is watching your favourite TV programs, shows, movies, & sports. With this in mind, don't let your local cable & satellite TV providers dictate the way you spend your money. Go ahead & try satellite TV on your laptop computer. You can have leisure time while doing business on the net or even speaking together with your relatives & friends.
Get it fresh in your own time wherever you are. Satellite TV for PC can give you a wider array of choices in terms of channel line-up as compared to those offered by regular cable TV companies. You don't must content yourself with those boring re-runs & replays of movies & shows. You are not caged in to having only a few channels you can think about as your favourite. The power of the world wide web is in the palm of your hands. Come & take it.
Portability & affordability are the two main attraction of this new process. In case you are that sports fanatic & you're team's game is not on regular cable showing or that anticipated fight is way out of reach. Never fear because you have the chance to watch it nice clarity & high quality picture. There is more up-to-date news & weather document & you can have it with ease. The best part of it is that usually you only must deal with one-payment schemes for the program so the every month fuss on your cable bill is gone with the wind.
A transportable satellite tv experience is one thing you shouldn't think one time about.

Capture full ScreenShot using Firefox - Screen-shot of entire web page

Capture full ScreenShot using Firefox - Screen-shot of entire web page


Capture full ScreenShot using Firefox - Screen-shot of entire web page

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Which tools you are using to take quality screen shot of a web page loaded in your browser ? If you just needed to take the screen shot of the visible portion of the web page, you can just use the [PrtScn] key on your keyboard. What if you need to capture the full screen shot (full page loaded in your browser )? In Firefox you can capture full web page using one screen capture addon called Fireshot. This Firefox extension let you take the full capture of the web page loaded in Firefox.

If you are looking for a way to take full screenshot using Google Chrome browser., click on the link below.

Take Full web page Screen shot by Google Chrome

Fireshot is a Firefox extension which help us to copy the entire page in to clipboard. You can download Fireshot from the link below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648/

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Video: DYI Acrylic Multi-touch FTIR Pad - Lo-cost and Stylish (Ann Roudaut, Patrick Baudisch, Christian Holz, and Torsten Becker, Hasso Plattner Institute)

Video: DYI Acrylic Multi-touch FTIR Pad - Lo-cost and Stylish (Ann Roudaut, Patrick Baudisch, Christian Holz, and Torsten Becker, Hasso Plattner Institute)


Video: DYI Acrylic Multi-touch FTIR Pad - Lo-cost and Stylish (Ann Roudaut, Patrick Baudisch, Christian Holz, and Torsten Becker, Hasso Plattner Institute)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 01:45 PM PDT

I came across the following video and link when I visited Jonathan Brill's Multi-touch Maven blog.  The multi-touch project was developed as part of the Patric Baudisch's Human Computer Interaction Research class at the Hasso Plattner Institute.



Detailed directions, along with pictures, can be found on the Designer Multi-touch Pad website. From there, you can download the OpenCV source code, which requires Microsoft's Visual Studio, from the project's website, along with a copy of the how-to video,  a nice shopping list, and references.


-Hasso Plattner Institut
This is what graduate students and post-docs play with!

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An easy way to build your own multi-touch surface
-Jonathan Brill

CCC/CRA Roadmapping for Interactive Technology: Series of 3 Game Changing Workshops

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:03 AM PDT

The following information is from the CCC/CRA Roadmapping for Interactive Technologies website, describing an upcoming series of three three-day workshops that I think have the potential for changing the way interactive technology is designed and implemented in the future:


"The modern computing experience is shaped by the ways in which people interact with their computers. Underlying that interaction are the technologies of input, sensing, interactive techniques and interactive architecture. This is a series of workshops that will create a research agenda for revolutionizing these foundational technologies."

Workshops

Interactive System Architecture - August 11-13, 2010 - Jackson, WY http://icie.cs.byu.edu/CCCWorkshops/InteractiveArchitecture.html

Dan Olsen - Brigham Young University  

The last few decades have produced many new interactive technologies and many interactive techniques. Few of them are making their way into actual use because they are so hard to integrate. This workshop will create an agenda for new architectures for building interactive systems that integrate basic interaction in powerful new ways and provide new opportunities and foundations on which to build usable systems.

Persuasive Experiences - September 23-25, 2010 - Burbank, CA   http://icie.cs.byu.edu/CCCWorkshops/Persuasive.html

Joe Marks - Disney Research

A culture is defined by its shared stories and the messages that people communicate with each other. Computing has created new ways for stories to be told in entertainment and education. This workshop will outline how we can bring digital storytelling from the realm of multimillion dollar productions down to the practical needs of everyday social, educational and political discourse.

Ultra-large-scale Interaction - October 25-27, 2010 - Chicago, IL http://icie.cs.byu.edu/CCCWorkshops/Ultra-large-scale.html

Mark Ackerman - University of Michigan

A byproduct of the Internet's success is that large numbers of people can interact with each other and with large stores of loosely interconnected data. This workshop will create an agenda for interactions that involve thousands of participants.
NOTE:  Organizers for the Interactive System Architecture Workshop include Dan Olsen, from Brigham Young University, Andy Wilson, from Microsoft Research, and Celine Latulipe, from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.  (Dr. Latulipe was my HCI professor.)  Joe Marks is a VP at Disney Research.  The organizers for the Ultra-large Scale Interaction Workshop include Mark Ackerman and Mark Newman, from the University of Michigan, Keith Edwards, from Georgia Tech, and Scott Klemmer, from Stanford.


I'd really like to attend all three workshops.  I will try to learn all I can about these workshops and share what I find during periodic blog posts over the next several months.


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Links on the CCC/CRA Website
Welcome
Approach/Participation
Workshop Attendence Information

Events

Interactive System Architecture Workshop

Aug 11-13, 2010
Submit: June 14

Persuasive Experiences Workshop

Sept 23-25, 2010
Submit: July 1

Ultra-large-scale Interaction Workshop

Oct 25-27, 2010
Submit: July 19

Links  NSF   CRA / CCC  ACM / SIGCHI

CCC Liason: Elizabeth Mynatt - Georgia Tech


The Slide in the Subway, The Rocket Elevator, and the Skateboard- Propelled Shopping Cart Videos - Volkswagen's Fast Lane: True Use Experience (just in case you missed it all)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 08:10 AM PDT

Via Pixelsumo -Just in case you missed this:


Here's a few others you'll enjoy.  The true meaning of user experience, out and about!

The Elevator


The Shopping Cart- I love the ending with the guy skateboard-propelling his shopping cart out to the parking lot!

SIGGRAPH and INTEL's Visual Adrenaline: Look what I found in my email today about 3D lighting, UV's, and dynamic volumetric cloud rendering for games!

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:05 AM PDT

I thought I'd share a few links sent to me via Intel's Software Dispatch for Visual Adrenaline about the upcoming ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 conference. The links are to well-written "how-to" articles in pdf format.

"To keep your adrenaline pumping while waiting for SIGGRAPH to start, here's a few juicy bits of inspiration:

"Simulating Real-world Film Lighting Techniques in 3D. Light, shadows, and rendering play together to create realism in your 3D models. Learn to bring these art techniques into your 3D scenes to create compelling cinematic views."
"Creating UVs for Characters in Autodesk Maya*. Regardless of whether you're using a model in a real-time environment or as part of a rendered sequence, here are some tips and tricks to making UV mapping work efficiently."
"Dynamic Volumetric Cloud Rendering for Games on Multi-Core Platforms. Learn how the LuckyCloud demo implemented a solution for real-time dynamic simulation and illumination of clouds that didn't impact performance during game play."
 
By the way, the conference will be held from July 25-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Raymond.CC Blog - Gufw – An Easy To Use Firewall for Linux

Raymond.CC Blog - Gufw – An Easy To Use Firewall for Linux


Gufw – An Easy To Use Firewall for Linux

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:30 PM PDT


I’m aware that recently I’ve covered a lot of security posts for Windows, so today I’m going to share some advice for the Linux users. Unlike Windows, at this point, there is no need for an antivirus, though there are some solutions that presently exist, such as BitDefender for Unix, Avast for Linux, as well [...]

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