iOS 6.1 LTE tests from Helsinki
Apple updated the iOS operating system to version 6.1 this week. This update enabled the long waited LTE capabilities of recent iPhones and iPads in Finland for carriers Sonera, DNA, Elisa and also Elisa’s sister company Saunalahti. In this post
Introducing Google Fiber
Google enters the connectivity business by offering Google Fiber, starting in Kansas. Surely they’ll filter & harvest all of the traffic in the pipe to provide better “searches results and services”. Of course fiber is available in many places already
The Next Dimension of Google Maps
Press event with Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps, including sneak-peek demos and a behind-the-scenes look at Google Maps. There’s pretty interesting stuff coming. Note that the video actually starts at 30:45. So, there’s half an hour of emptiness in
Kinect: Sandbox with Water Simulation
This Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Water Flow Simulation is pretty nice. Just wait for the “God’s rain hand”. Perhaps needs few more tricks though, like plantable trees and Lemmings. They need one like this for Finland’s Heureka science centre
Obvious Engine — AR I Can Believe In
I’ve always had a bit of a distaste with marker based Augmented Reality. We can’t put markers in everything in the world now can we! Luckily there seems to be a solution to this. Just witness the Obvious Engine, which
Twitter on TV Examples
The Best of Twitter TV video highlights of the best integrations of Twitter on TV including hashtags on-air, handles on-air, live-tweeting and curated Tweets. — found via the Twitter Youtube Channel
Off Book | Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity
Description: An intriguing combination of programmers, artists, and philosophers, these creators embrace a process that delegates essential decisions to computers, data sets, or even random variables. This allows important metaphors to arise in their work, calling attention to the relationship
WinOnX — Run Windows Software on Your Mac (without Windows)
WinOnX is a clever piece of software available from the Mac App Store, let’s you run Windows apps on your Mac — without having the Windows itself. Similar software has existed for Linux forever. This can lead to big savings
How-to: Create dithered 16-bit graphics for WP7
Here’s a common problem when developing WP7 applications, solved. Problem The Windows Phone 7 platform, and apparently especially Samsung phones, require you to use 16-bit graphics. Photoshop only writes 8-bit or 24-bit PNG files. Of those, 24-bit gets dropped down
