Monthly Archives: January 2011

31 jan

Surf your news with NewsMap!

**, News

There is a cool Flash based way to surf your news every morning. You basically have a newsmap, color coded by content type, which sizes the text of the news to how important it might be. Check it out here: … Continue reading

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31 jan

Netflix vs Hulu vs Amazon vs YouTube

***, Amazon.com, Google, Media, Netflix

With the emergence of the internet in technology today, we’ve seen major hits taken on large media distribution companies. Movies and music are losing money to piracy and replication, while newspapers are losing customers to online content. Blockbuster went bankrupt … Continue reading

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31 jan

Tech Spin on Egypt Protests

***, Chrome, News, Twitter

Egypt is blowing up the news, and technology has been right in the middle of it. As seen with the Gaza war, social media has been centering the stage for what the public sees. In Egypt, the government attempted to … Continue reading

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29 jan

Light Saber + Kinect = Bogus?

***, Electronics, Microsoft, Mobility

I was doing more research for my Kinect project and found this video, interesting. Apparently, this guy has an active light saber renderer implemented into his Kinect software. All the comments I see are eating this up!!! I really do … Continue reading

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29 jan

Kinect on Windows 7

***, Entertainment, Media, Microsoft

One of my open projects is to get Kinect to control my XBMC system. XBMC is simply a media center for my media PC. So, today I began testing Kinect with Windows 7. Here are the tasks I’ve setup: Get … Continue reading

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29 jan

WebGL, HTML5 Samples; Future Web!

**, 3D Graphics, Chrome, Google, HTML5/CSS3

I hope you were able to get the latest build of Chromium from my post yesterday morning. If not, here’s the link again: http://phillihp.com/projects/html5-and-webgl/ Once you get it, below are some really nice WebGL & HTML5 samples. You will have … Continue reading

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28 jan

Technology & Beer

*, beer, Electronics

It’s Friday, so what better than to read a post about beer. Looks like there’s a whole new method of filling up drinks. As soon as someone finds one of these, let me know where you found it. Until tomorrow!

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28 jan

HTC: Why I’m a Fan!

***, eBay, HTC

I am a huge fan of HTC. I’ll share the story that won my heart. I had purchased an HTC Rhodium, which is AT&T’s Tilt 2 running Windows Mobile 6.1 and Touch Flow on eBay, which I eventually swaped with … Continue reading

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28 jan

Get an HTML5 Browser!

**, Chrome, Google

Have you been wondering how to download an HTML5 browser? Want to see all the new cool technologies for HTML5? Well, I’ve started a project page and section for everything HTML5. Here you can find out how to download nightly … Continue reading

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27 jan

GoogleTV, AppleTV, MediaPC’s?

***, Amazon.com, Google, Media, Microsoft, Netflix

People all over have played with getting a pure media center setup in their home, with access to TV, Network files, and Online Content. It seems that, unless you are an avid computer wiz, PC TV’s may just start making … Continue reading

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