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Make your LCD 3D with a Wii(mote)!
27 December 07 10:41 PM | urig | with no comments

Johnny Chung Lee is a Ph.D. Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon university who is seriously into modding the Nintendo Wii, taking it to places other people can only dream of. Below is what, IMHO, is Lee's most impressive achievement - a superb and realistic 3D display that is made up of a PC, a Wiimote and a sensor bar : By placing the Wiimote in front of the PC display and attaching the sensor bar to his head, Lee lets the PC know where his eyes are in relation to the display. Thus the PC knows...

תגים:usability, nintendo, wii, 3d, hacks, vr, wiimote

Microsoft Surface - A Multi-Touch Screen to hit the market soon?
31 May 07 02:12 PM | urig | with no comments

Kudos to liorz for beating me to it (link to post in Hebrew). Veteran readers of Tidbits might recall my fascination with the "Multi-Touch Screen" technology developed by Jeff Han of NYU and how it might revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. Microsoft Surface promises to be a commercial implementation of a Multi-Touch Screen that will hit the market this winter (according to their PR site). See Bill introduce the product at the Wall Street Journal's D conference : It's very surprising...

תגים:gui, usability, microsoft

Paint.NET is the open source Photoshop
08 May 07 10:49 AM | urig | with no comments

Back after a long period of time away from the internet. This won't be much of a comeback though, as I'm getting married (!) the day after tomorrow and then I'm going here for a week: Santorini on 43places . But I digress. I just want to recommenced Paint.NET . In a sentence, it's the open source Photoshop. It's a free for download open source photo editing software. Of course it's not a real competitor for Photoshop - certainly not for professionals - but all the basic stuff is there - the lasso...

תגים:gui, usability, tools, development, open source

Some nice tweaks for your blog
09 April 07 08:49 AM | urig | with no comments

I've finally gotten around for some long delayed blog maintenance. Here are some nice tweaks that you too can employ: I've added a button linking to my LinkedIn profile . This is one of Guy Kawaski 's Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn . LinkedIn have a wide selection of customized buttons available. If you want one, sign in, click "My Profile", click "Edit my Public Profile" and there find the link to "Promote your profile with customized buttons". On a side note, I would recommend that you set "Your Public...

תגים:usability, tools, blogs, snap preview anywhere

When did Open Source Software become so friendly?
14 December 06 04:18 PM | urig | with no comments

I've just finished installing MediaWiki 1.8.2 (the same wiki engine that powers Wikipedia ) on my machine at work. MediaWiki requires three things to be present on the machine prior to installing: A web server, A database server and the PHP engine. In my case that meant that I had to install Apache Http Server 2.2.3 , MySQL 5.0.27 Community Server and PHP 5.2.0 - all from scratch. The point of this post is that I was surprised at how easy it was to obtain and install these 4 (counting MediaWiki)...

תגים:usability, development, social software, cool, open source

What's missing in the new Google Reader?
06 November 06 12:00 PM | urig | with no comments

I've been giving Google Reader a spin and I'm finding it very easy to get used to reading my RSS feeds through it. They've done an excellent job with the UI, as usual. But then I needed to find an old blog entry from Oren Eini's blog (a book recommendation for a fantasy trilogy of all things) and I've discovered that Google Reader is missing something very important. Something that Google is almost synonymous with - a search box. What and odd surprise - there is no search feature (that I could find...

תגים:google, gui, rss, google reader, usability