January 2011
11 posts
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IDEA: Adaptive surround sound using proximity...
There’s been some great stories of people hacking X-Box Kinect to create really cool apps and services around recognising and positioning people in 3D space.
Here’s one for someone. A system which can automatically adapt the sound coming from speakers on a laptop, desktop, TV sound system based on a persons position in a room.
In other words, I’m sitting in a space where my...
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IDEA: "Proximity" and single, intelligent device...
In a recent tweet I mentioned how I believed that location based services are going to be very “last year” and the new next big thing will be proxmity/vicinity services. In other words location puts you in a place and proximity puts you in a room, on a floor, outside a shop, next to a device etc.
(btw I’m not saying location itself is dead it’s just the first part of a...
Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0... →
In a statement he says:-
We don’t talk about our revenue, but we have 105 folks and we are hiring another 100 in 2011 and we just doubled our space in LA from 10k to almost 20k square feet.
that should tell you something.
Yep it tells us you’re not making any money and injecting more cash!
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Facetime over 3G via an iOS 4.3 Personal Hotspot?
The beta of the iOS 4.3 turns renames “Tethering” to a “Personal hotspot” and enables up to 5 devices to use an iPhones data connection via WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB.
This raises an interesting question relating to Facetime devices (including the soon to be announced and released iPad 2G).
“Can you connect a FaceTime device to an iOS personal hotspot via Wi-Fi and...
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Displaylink for iPad finally arrives, falls short
When I heard that Displaylink had finally brought their display-via-USB technology to the iPad I was looking for forward to something special.
Installation was straight-forward and no reboot required. I downloaded the paid app from the Appstore (for the price of half a beer) and installed it on my iPad.
The iPad was docked in the keyboard dock and this seemed to create the first problem. After...
msardella asked: I recently came across a post on your other site about a macro you developed for Outlook 2007 that allowed you to store notes with emails (original post at http://jasonkneen.blogspot.com/2007/08/outlook-2007-macros.html#disqus_thread). Would it be possible for you to send me the code for this magical macro? My email is michellesardella@gmail.com. Thank you!
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Skype gives out credit for outage this week, shows...
Skype had a big, widely reported outage this week which took the service down for a couple of days.
Today I had the following email :-
To our valued customers:
As 2010 draws to a close, I would like to take a moment to thank each of you for your patience, understanding, and support during Skype’s recent outage.
We know how important your Skype conversations are to you and we take any...
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Quite liking Tumbleroo for iPad
Finally found a pretty good Tumblr client for the iPad which allows you to do most of the things the iPhone client can do including posting, editing and managing multiple blogs.
Search for “Tumbleroo” in the AppStore.