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Raymond.CC Blog - Free Ashampoo Anti-Malware 1.21 Full Unrestricted License for 180 Days

Raymond.CC Blog - Free Ashampoo Anti-Malware 1.21 Full Unrestricted License for 180 Days

Free Ashampoo Anti-Malware 1.21 Full Unrestricted License for 180 Days

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT


It has been a very long time since I’ve posted any freebies that allows just anyone to get free licenses for sharewares. Thanks to JOPO and Merlin Magii for informing me about the freebies that Ashampoo is currently offering. If you head on to Ashampoo’s website, you will find that they have more than 30 [...]

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Link to TechPsych Post: Laying the Groundwork for Interactive Video Activities for Students with Special Needs: Community Places Road Trip

Link to TechPsych Post: Laying the Groundwork for Interactive Video Activities for Students with Special Needs: Community Places Road Trip

Link to TechPsych Post: Laying the Groundwork for Interactive Video Activities for Students with Special Needs: Community Places Road Trip

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:16 PM PDT

If you follow the link, you can see the first "draft" of the video.  My goal is to transform the linear video into an interactive video, with hot spots and links:


Laying the Groundwork for Interactive Video: Activities for Students with Special Needs: Community Places Road Trip

Note:  This was my first time trying to shoot video of buildings and signs from a convertible care with the top down ; )
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For Multi-Touch Techies and the Tech Curious- Touch and Retouch article, with code samples, by Charles Petzold

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Thanks to Josh Blake, I came across a good article by Charles Petzold  in the September 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine:
Touch and Response


In this article,  Charles Petzold continues his discussion of the multi-touch support in version 4 of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).  I like the introduction to his article:
"Programming is an engineering discipline rather than a science or a branch of mathematics, so rarely does there exist a single correct solution to a problem. Varieties and variations are the norm, and often it's illuminating to explore these alternatives rather than focus on one particular approach." -Charles Petzold
I also appreciate Petzold's discussion about smooth Z transitions, his thoughtful code samples and related links.

RELATED
Multi-touch Manipulation in WPF 
Charles Petzold (August, 2010, MSDN Magazine, UI Frontiers)
"Just within the past few years, multi-touch has progressed from a futuristic sci-fi film prop to a mainstream UI. Multi-touch displays are now standard on new models of smartphones and tablet computers. Multi-touch is also likely to become ubiquitous on computers in public spaces, such as kiosks or the table computer pioneered by Microsoft Surface."
"The only real uncertainly is the popularity of multi-touch on the conventional desktop computer. Perhaps the greatest impediment is the fatigue known as "gorilla arm" associated with moving fingers on vertical screens for long periods of time. My personal hope is that the power of multi-touch will actually provoke a redesign of the desktop display. I can envision a desktop computer with a display resembling the configuration of a drafting table, and perhaps almost as large." -Charles Petzold
Exploring Multi-Touch Support in Silverlight
Charles Petzold (March 2010, MSDN Magazine, Finger Style)


Comment:
I agree with Charles about the need for a re-design of desktop displays.  I like the drafting table as a form factor.  Here are a couple of my previous posts related to this topic:
Emerging Interactive Technologies, Emerging Interactions, and Emerging Integrated Form Factors (2008)
DigiBoard Multi-Touch Mixed Reality Game; Ideas for future design of a flexible, adjustable multi-touch surface (June 2008)



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Almost missed this: "MSI Announces Availability of the World’s First 3D Multi-Touch All-in-One PC in North America" (Press Release)

Almost missed this: "MSI Announces Availability of the World’s First 3D Multi-Touch All-in-One PC in North America" (Press Release)

Almost missed this: "MSI Announces Availability of the World’s First 3D Multi-Touch All-in-One PC in North America" (Press Release)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 06:36 PM PDT


I haven't had the chance to get my hands on one of these:

MSI Announces Availability of the World's First 3D Multi-Touch All-in-One PC in North America "MSI's Wind Top AE2420 3D addresses the shortage of 3D content with family-friendly PC that converts any 2D movie into 3D"  -Business Wire


The MSI 3D AE2420 All-in-One unit (Photo: Business Wire)

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Raymond.CC Blog - New Email Worm Making Rounds, offers up fake links

Raymond.CC Blog - New Email Worm Making Rounds, offers up fake links

New Email Worm Making Rounds, offers up fake links

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 07:35 PM PDT


There are a lot of things in life that we know for a fact are going to happen. We’re going to live, we’re going to die, and we’re going to be taxed. Anything between all this is uncertain. However, if you use a computer, one thing is for sure, that if you prod the dark [...]

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For the iPad: Reactable Multi-touch Mobile

For the iPad: Reactable Multi-touch Mobile

For the iPad: Reactable Multi-touch Mobile

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 03:08 PM PDT



More details later!
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