An anonymous reader writes to point out reports that Asus is “working on a new laptop that will include Kinect gestures and will be compatible with Windows 8,” and adds, “What does this mean for the consumer? Portable gestures in Windows 8!” Wired has an article based on the same report, which mentions also the ...
Lanxon writes “Noted Kinect-tinkerer Martin Szarski has used a car, a laptop, an Android smartphone and the aforementioned Xbox 360 peripheral to make a DIY-equivalent of Google Street View. The Kinect’s multi-camera layout can be used to capture some fuzzy, but astonishingly effortless 3D maps of real world locations and objects. As we saw in ...
UgLyPuNk writes “Takayuki Fukatsu, a Japanese coder who works under the name Art & Mobile, has done a bit of trickery with Kinect and openFrameworks. The peripheral will still track your movement and position, but turns your image nearly transparent. Take a look (it’s particularly obvious at about 1:30):” Read more of this story at ...
Stoobalou writes “Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller isn’t due to ship until November 4th, but one retailer has jumped the gun, leaving a number of gamers with a bit of a quandary. The un-named distributor has sent what Microsoft describes as ‘a very small number’ of Kinect systems to lucky buyers who might not consider themselves ...
This five-part series walks you through building a simple photo-sharing Web site using Perl and Apache to access Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB. ...
ALSA has been the default Linux sound system for many years, and it is a perfectly capable audio subsystem even in this modern era of fancy new things. Carla Schroder shows us how to to control Linux audio with ALSA. ...
CentOS. "What's that," you ask? Let me tell you about this Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based distribution. ...
Businesses are poised to spend more than $8.5 billion this year on cloud and hosted solutions. ...
Norway-based ForgeRock has released version 9.5 of its OpenAM access management product, which is based on Sun's OpenSSO product which Oracle have apparently abandoned... ...
A Garter report found that Sun customers aren't happy with the flow of information from the company's new owner. Now Oracle is moving to calm frustrated Sun users. ...
A Cambridge, Mass.-based compay called Backupify is pitching IT admins on a cloud-based backup service for Google Apps, offering an additional safeguard to augment Google's own storage. ...
The new release will give customers operating system virtualization, so they can run older versions of the Unix OS in virtual containers. ...
Gather around the campfire, children, as we tell you a story from or youth. You see, back in our day, we carried around PDAs driven by Palm's operating system (no, not that one). Primitive and bulky by modern standards, sure, but if there's one aspect we remember most fondly -- or at least most.. ...
3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector. Founded by BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, 3Crowd’s management tools give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once. CrowdDirector serves as.. ...
As mentioned in earlier posts, the new English wiki is scheduled to go live on Monday. Here are a few technical details about the change itself: Schedule The transition will begin on Monday, June 12 at 17:00 GMT (1:oo PM EDT) The move should be completed in 10 – 15 minutes During the move ...