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Raymond.CC Blog - How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player

Raymond.CC Blog - How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player


How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:46 PM PDT


Not everyone in the world uses Windows Media Player, for reason of their own choosing. Some refuse to use it for it’s sound quality and lack of custom settings in controlling it, others find it’s lack of codecs a painful reminder of how bad a mass developed music player can be. Personally, my choice [...]

Protect your Flash (USB) drive using password in Windows 7

Protect your Flash (USB) drive using password in Windows 7


Protect your Flash (USB) drive using password in Windows 7

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 10:56 AM PDT

Are you looking for a way to encrypt your pen drive (USB drive) and enable password protection in it? The in Windows 7 you can enable password protection on your USB drive using Microsoft's BitLocker technology. Using this feature of Windows 7 you can encrypt the data in your flash memory and assign a password to access those data. If you don't want to set a password you can use your smart card to unlock the flash drive.
So to use Microsoft BitLock feature to encrypt your flash memory follow the steps below.

Use BitLock to Enable Password protection on your Flash drive



1. Right click on Flash drive

2. Click on Turn on BitLocker

password Protect USB drive using BitLocker in Windows 7

Now the BitLocker feature starts encrypt the flash drive and its content.

Initializing BitLocker to enable password and encryption for USB drive

Now we will be prompted to set a password or smart card protection for our flash memory drive.

Assign smart cart protection or password protection for flash memory in Windows 7

Here you need to enter your password which need to to unlock the flash drive to continue. After enabling BitLocker feature you need this password to access data stored in the flash drive.

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Games for Health Conference, Games Accessibility Day, and Games Beyond Entertainment Week! (Via Ben Sawyer, Digital Mill, Serious Games Initiative)

Games for Health Conference, Games Accessibility Day, and Games Beyond Entertainment Week! (Via Ben Sawyer, Digital Mill, Serious Games Initiative)


Games for Health Conference, Games Accessibility Day, and Games Beyond Entertainment Week! (Via Ben Sawyer, Digital Mill, Serious Games Initiative)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 08:21 AM PDT


The Games for Health Conference and Games Beyond Entertainment Week are coming soon.

We can now reveal our excellent keynotes for the 2010 Games for Health Conference:

Day 1: Wednesday May 26
THE MIND-BODY EXPERIENCE OF SONY MOVE: Relationships between Gaming, Play, Exercise, and More!
Dr. Richard Marks
Senior Researcher Sony US R&D group

Dr. Marks also known as the "father of the EyeToy" will discuss the relationship between gaming, play and exercise, referencing his work in the development of Sony's new motion controller system, PlayStation Move, as well as his previous work with Sony's EyeToy, PlayStation Eye and other interfaces.

Day 2: Thursday May 27
THE HUMAN PLAY MACHINE
Chaim Gingold
Chaim Gingold, a longtime independent game developer and original designer of Spore's creature creator will discuss how existing game genres map onto the human brain and body and how design decisions affect who will be attracted to the game and how they will play.

You can see the nearly full schedule at: http://www.gamesforhealth.org/schedule.htm

Two of our May 25: Pre-Conference Events also have schedules posted:

Out & About: The Mobile Serious Games schedule: http://bit.ly/9MbEEF

3rd Annual Games Accessibility Dayhttp://gamesaccessibilityday.org/schedule.html (See below)




Best,
Ben Sawyer
Digitalmill
Serious Games Initiative

Games for Health Project
@bensawyer on twitter


Here is the schedule of the Games Accessibility Day,  May 25, 2010:

Tuesday, May 25, 2010


8:30 am to 9:00 am

Coffee

9:00 am to 9:50 am

Opening Ceremonies
Introduction of the Day, Mark Barlet 
Keynote Address:
Chuck Bergen – Making a commercial game targeting at the disabled community, and how he sold the idea to the biggest game company on the planet.

9:50 am to 10:00 am

Break

10:00 am to 10:30 am

Presentation: Tobi Saulnier - Winter's Tale : A Case Study of Designing for Game Accessibility on the Nintendo DS

10:30 am to 10:45 am

Presentation: Katherine Mancuso - Best Practices for Accessible Communication Using a Virtual World

10:45 am to 11:00 am

Presentation: Tim Holt: Game Accessibility in Special Education.

11:00 am to 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am to 11:30 am

Introduction to the "Hacker Hardware Challenge"
  • Adam Coe
  • Ben Heckendorn
  • Suzanne Robitaille

11:30 am to 12:00 pm

Presentation: Halimat Alabi - Making the Fantasy Real: Giving Good User Interface

12:00 pm to 12:20 pm

Presentation: Mantha Sadural - SPREAD: Appreciating Speech through Gaming

12:20 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm to 1:50 pm

"Hacker Hardware Challenge" the reveal and Q&A

1:50 pm to 2:10 pm

Presentation: Johnny Richardson - The Social Construction Model of Interactive Gaming for Disabled Users: Benefits and Developmental Evaluation

2:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Presentation: Eleanor Robinson - Game Accessibility and the Aging Community

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Group Activity: Break out into groups and solve the world's problems
How could we pass up the opportunity to flex the massive amount of talent assembled in one room. Take on a challenge and help develop a solution.

3:00 pm to 3:10 pm

Break

3:10pm to 3:40 pm

Group Activity: Presentation of the breakouts

3:40 pm to 4:10 pm

Presentation: Rock Vibe - Rock Band for People with No or Limited Vision

4:10 pm to 4:30 pm

Break

4:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Presentation: Suzanne Robitaille and Mark Barlet - Reviews for All, A New way of looking at things for our community

5:00 pm to 5:20 pm

Presentation: Heidi Silver-Pacuilla - Unleashing the Power of Innovation for Assistive Technology

5:20 pm to 5:30 pm

Closing Ceremonies


WIRED's Gallery: Eight Tablets That Aren't Made by Apple; HP Slate video teaser)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 08:03 AM PDT

The following thumbnails are from a recent article in WIRED:
Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren't Made by Apple
Priya Ganapati, Wired, 4/16/2010



Web, Flash & Air on Slate Device from HP:



The HP Slate would be very useful in education, especially for students working in pairs or small groups during activities such as digital storytelling, "kid-reporting", and so forth!

TellTable: Collaborative Creative Storytelling on a Multi-touch Table, from Microsoft Research, UK.

TellTable: Collaborative Creative Storytelling on a Multi-touch Table, from Microsoft Research, UK.


TellTable: Collaborative Creative Storytelling on a Multi-touch Table, from Microsoft Research, UK.

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 10:27 AM PDT

The TellTable is a collaborative digital storytelling application designed for Microsoft's Surface interactive multi-user multi-touch table. It was used by children in a school library in the UK, and was quite successful. The video below provides an overview about the way the TellTable worked. I think every school library/media center should have something like this!





"TellTable, a system developed in the Soci-Digital Systems group, uses Microsoft Surface technology to provide an interactive storytelling experience, similar to how children would tell stories using physical toys. Children can create various digital characters and sceneries on Surface, made out of photos taken of real world objects and environments as well as finger paintings. By manipulating these characters using multi-touch gestures, children can narrate, act and record imaginative stories together, before sharing them with friends later on.
TellTable was deployed in a primary school, and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. It has seen crowds of kids create stories featuring characters as diverse as Ninja chickens and rampaging teddy bears. Teachers were also enthusiastic about the potential of TellTable as an education tool, to help children develop communication skills and to create interactive tutorials when teaching foreign languages." -- Microsoft Research UK


Publications

Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Abigail Sellen. (2010). Telling the whole story: Anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field deployment of TellTable. Proceedings of CSCW 2010, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. p. 251-260.

John Helmes, Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, Abigail Sellen. (2009). Developing the story: Designing an interactive storytelling application. Proceedings of ITS 2009, ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. p.49-52.

Enable / Disable POP-UP Blocker in Firefox

Enable / Disable POP-UP Blocker in Firefox


Enable / Disable POP-UP Blocker in Firefox

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 05:45 AM PDT

Pop-Ups are the windows which came out when we visit certain websites without user permission. Most of the time it is an advertisement for some products or services. In 90% cases pop-ups make irritation to the user and there is an easy way to block POP-UPs in Firefox browser.

Start POP-UP blocker in Firefox




To start using POP-UP blocker in Firefox follow the steps below.

1. Start Firefox

2. Click on Tools

3. Click on Options

Now Options window will be opened.

4. Click on Content tab
How to enable POP UP blocker in Firefox browser

5. Check Block POP-UP Windows to enable POP-UP blocker in Firefox

If you want to disable POP-UP blocker in Firefox ,just uncheck the check box.


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