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Arty things

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:51:47 +0000

Bad things with cardboard

Funky little robot

NYC Marathon Ants

Matchbox cars gone mad

A dysmorphic Xbox body

Better interaction

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:44:49 +0000

A better small-device keyboard

Easier interaction with small devices

3D sculpting with multi-touch

Oliver Jeffers’ new interactive iPad kids book

Improving traffic lights

Content Aware Fill In Real Time

felix — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:46:56 +0000

Think about it as Adobe Photoshop Content-Aware fill but in real time, using a video camera connected to your computer or smartphone.

Here is the result:

Taste Kid: When you want to have ‘relations’ with your mediaz

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:50:39 +0000

Check it out:
http://www.tastekid.com/like/American+Psycho

This will at least help when you’re stuck thinking about how to use up your monthly bandwidth quota!

Google Docs Konami Code

felix — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:36:50 +0000

Google has added a new easter egg to Docs.

Go to your Google Docs, create a new document, and hit:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and then enter, and behold.

This is why Google forever will be fucking awesome. The Pac-Man doodle, this Konami code easter egg… they truly are a geek company.

Google Docs

Tipp-Ex + Hunter + Bear = Good funny

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:27:42 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tippexperience&annotation_id=annotation_820885&feature=iv

It’s certainly not the first one of these YT takeovers I’ve seen, but it is one of the better ones.

Obviously the fact that they’ve included the whole Subservient Chicken thing, where you can tell the hunter what to do to the bear is rad too.

Marketing vs Intelligence: The road to victory, or just some light reading

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:06:29 +0000

Interested in some futurey webernet things and how they’ll impact marketing, read this:

If not, I am not bovverd.

But I do wonder how far away an Australian Marketing Director is from actually being interested. My guess is a loooooooooooonnnnng way.

Bret Easton Ellis @ Melbourne Writers Festival

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:33:36 +0000

Some digital set-top boxes are more equal than others

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:45:42 +0000

A few months back, I bought a cheap digital set-top box (dgtec hd usb dg-hd6760) to go with my hundred year old CRT TV.

I had low expectations to start with, but somehow, they weren’t low enough.

Everything was fine, except recording to USB never worked and the aspect ratio was always wrong.

So I updated the firmware that they supplied on the website, and BOOM!, everything went to shit. As it rescanned, it could only find the SBS mux, and it would crash at about 557MHz.

As you’d expect, Whirlpool has heavily documented this issue, so my bad for not reading up first I guess.

After some begging with DSE, they supplied the original firmware to roll back to. Why it’s not available on their website with the upgrade is an absolute mystery. So I’m making it available here for anyone like me. You need WinRAR or something similar to extract it too.

Verdict: Do not buy this STB or anything made by DSE!

I take it back… There is a use for stock footage.

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:19:13 +0000

Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.