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Raymond.CC Blog - Changing Windows 7 Log In Screen To What You Want

Raymond.CC Blog - Changing Windows 7 Log In Screen To What You Want


Changing Windows 7 Log In Screen To What You Want

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:30 PM PDT


I don’t know about anyone else, but the default log in screen for Windows 7 is extremely… bland. After logging in about three or four times, I’m sure a lot of people would agree: as eventful as the default wallpapers can be in Windows 7, and how colourful some of them are, it kinda leaves [...]

Raymond.CC Blog - DJL – Steam Clone for Linux

Raymond.CC Blog - DJL – Steam Clone for Linux


DJL – Steam Clone for Linux

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 07:30 PM PDT


Recently, someone emailed me to see how you could get Steam going in Linux and I replied with using Wine and PlayOnLinux, which managed to get their copy of Half Life 2 and Left for Dead 2 working, however, with glitches. When he further pressed me for more information on how to get it working [...]

Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)

Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)


Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:23 AM PDT

Is your product, service, or company awesome in the eyes of your beholders? Do you help foster "self-awesomeness" among your users, customers, readers, or audience?

The wisdom of a social media consultant won't sustain core innovation. In this video, Kathy Sierra talks about how to reverse engineer sustainable passion. What superpowers do you give your users? Watch the video to learn about a model that helps people get better

The video is about an hour, but worth your time:


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Kathy Sierra is involved with theCreating Passionate Users website, where the bloggers "are all facinated by brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools. She is one of the co-creators of the Head First books from O'Reilly. I first learned about Kathy Sierra when I was taking a Java programming class on-line, and needed more resources. She created the JavaRanch website,"a friendly place for Java greenhorns"

By the way, the Head First books are great resources for people who are tech-curious and have an urge to learn to code. I love Head First books and have several on my reference shelves.

Thanks to Lukas Mathis for the link.

"...People are not into your tool, they are into what the tool enables." - Kathy Sierra
"Make them smarter." - Kathy Sierra

Business of Software website
Head First Bloggers' Reading List

Gesture and object recognition on your kitchen counter: The Oasis Project demo from Intel Labs

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:18 AM PDT

Intel's Oasis system uses object recognition that triggers various applications that generate such things as shopping lists and recipes. The system can handle more than one item of food. It includes videos of how to prepare meals, a great feature for people just starting , or those who are learning to prepare healthier meals.

In my opinion, this sort of application would be useful to people with disabilities that affect memory.



(Previously posted on THE WORLD IS MY INTERACTIVE INTERFACE blog.)

Raymond.CC Blog - The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE

Raymond.CC Blog - The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE


The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT


As always, I was surfing around the internet looking for many things, especially for oddities and such stuff that I could share with the Raymond.cc crowd. And this is one of the times that I’m not sure if anyone has heard of this “game” or not. Going by the name of ‘Lose/Lose‘, and classified as [...]

Inside the 3D Industry with 3D Guy Al Caudullo

Inside the 3D Industry with 3D Guy Al Caudullo


Inside the 3D Industry with 3D Guy Al Caudullo

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:49 PM PDT

Innovative Interactivity (II): Latest post

In my quest to keep up with the rapid evolution of 3D stereoscopic TV and related technologies, I had the opportunity to contact a couple of knowledgeable people, and even took a trip to my local Best Buy for a hands-on demo.The first source for information about all things 3D was Al Caudullo. Al, known as the 3D Guy, was happy to respond with words of wisdom to my questions about this topic....



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3D TV: Are we there yet? (Innovative Interactivity post)

Reactable Live! at Sonar Barcelona 2010 - (You can see one at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC.)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT

I like music technology. I like interactive, tangible table systems.  I like the Reactable!


To understand this system, see it in action!

Below is a video of Reactable Live!, Performed at Sonar Barcelona 2010 on June 18th. The music and performance is by Carles Lopez, and the video was by Marc Morera.

"Reactable in Concert by Carles López sounds like electronic house, minimal, electro, techno, idm, dnb…"

Here is a video of children playing with the Reactable, at Sonar Kids, Barcelona, 2009:



I recently learned that there is a Reactable in my hometown!
The Reactable Experience was installed at Discovery Place in Charlotte.  Discovery Place is the children's science museum for the metropolitan Charlotte, N.C. region. Below is a picture from the Discovery Place museum:


The Reactable is part of a new exhibition, "Think it up"  Here's the description from the Discovery Place website:

"The Reactable is a cutting edge electronic musical instrument merged with a visual experience. Special objects are placed on a translucent surface which trigger sound clips and audio modulation. The sound produced by the objects is represented visually on the surface, providing feedback and guidance for the creation of new music."


This version of the Reactable is for museums, science centers, schools, universities, and other public spaces.  It is an outgrowth of the original Reactable that was designed for musicians. This version is intuitive and invites people to share and create music collaboratively.


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Reactable Experience brochure (pdf)

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