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Use wikipedia during the blackout.

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:12:40 +0000

Disable javascript is all you need. Wikipedia is usable once again. You’re welcome.

Kinect Mouse Controller Source code released!

Chris — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:03:10 +0000

As promised (from long time ago), here’s the source code of the kinect mouse controller.
I didn’t have time to clean it up but please feel free to explore around with it.
This code works with CL-NUI Platform drivers, some work might be required to get it compatible with Microsoft’s Kinect SDK, but it would not be too hard.

https://github.com/zeviance/Kinect-Mouse-Controller

Kinect + Hand = Mouse

admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:17:20 +0000

For the past couple hours I was doing some hacking with Kinect and I figured out it would be nice to show you guys how Kinect really works in the background.

Currently there are two major platforms where you can get the drivers for Kinect. Open Kinect provides C/C++/python interfaces and Code Laboratories NUI driver provides C /C++ and C#.

==========MORE TO FOLLOW====……..

You can also find my code here:

Many thanks for “L14M333″ for releasing his source code in the wild, CL and OpenKinect for opening the door for kinect hacking.

Source:
Code Laboratories NUI Kinect Drivers: http://codelaboratories.com/nui
Open Kinect Github:https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
Open Kinect:http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page
Original Code:http://codelaboratories.com/forums/viewthread/416/P15/

What’s wrong with Android?

Chris — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:26:58 +0000

From an apple’s fan boy point of view:
1. It’s not an iphone.
2. It doesn’t have a name that starts with I
3. It was not designed in California, and MIC
4. It is a death star against the good people in infinite loop.
5. (In first order logic/predicate logic syntax) For all things that are not available from Apple Store is bad.
(x AvailableAtAppleStore(x) -> Bad(x))

Couple things from my side
a. Although the Android Operation System is not branded as a game platform, we can definitely see there are more gaming application that are available on the App Store than the App Market. Given casual gaming has become part of the daily routine, I think android requires more time to catch up (With more OpenGL integrations, better API design, better API demo, ready-made game engine etc etc.)

b. The variations on hardware makes it very hard for developers to unify all the application in terms of user experience. Let’s face it, segmentation has been a problem and will be a problem. Part of the root cause of the problem relies to the frequency of the system OS updates. It’s not often to see OEM had a hard time catching up the latest branch of the android source code when they were still working on the UI layer for the last update iteration.

c. Stock Android UI is good but still far from iPhone’s.

d. Deep integration with Google/Facebook becomes a problem when the integration becomes toooooooo deep in which users can no longer pull the plug by their will.

e. Android machines need better touch screens.

Parent module ‘PIL’ not loaded.

Chris — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:29:53 +0000

Just a quick note, I was playing around with Google App Engine 1.3.5 with PIL 1.17 installed on my Windows 7 machine. Django Framework was complaining that the PIL module cannot be found from the system path when I was trying to resize an image using the Image module from Google App Engine. Since we call the Image module from Google App Engine and not using it directly, the only way to fix it is to uninstall PIL 1.1.7 and install 1.1.6 instead.

Google IO Conference + HTC Evo 4G hands on.

Chris — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:00:34 +0000

I’ve just got back from the io2010 conference and I must say this is one of the best conferences i have ever been. (not to mention free food + freebies + free phones)

All participants of the io conference received a new HTC EVO 4G handset as a compliment from google. I took mine for some test tonight and I’d really like this android handset. Compare to nexus one it has a larger screen and better social integration ( HTC Sense UI). However, it is not a GSM phone, which means it won’t work on Roger’s network.

Hopefully HTC will bring a GSM version sometime later this year.

Small Update

Chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:14 +0000

A small update from my side.

Work has been going pretty good so far. I was assigned a new project and I am aiming to do a terrific job. I haven’t made up my mind on what tool to use but I am expecting the end product will be very python/java/jython orientated.

Work aside, since I have started this blog I didn’t get time to upload some of my pics. I am currently in the stage of redesigning my photo gallery so to make it more “portfolio” styled. There will be nice pics I promise

As for GuruOnFire, the project is still alive but it will take more time than I expected. I hope a very early preview will be ready before mid-May.