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  • Follow me on Twitter: mmaclaurin

    I've been on Twitter a lot lately to keep up with real-time stuff as the community grows before our eyes. Finding some really cool worlds; I'll get a few of them written up for the blog, but if you want real-time updates my twitter account (mmaclaurin...
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-05-2009
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  • Better image capture

    Light sensor breakthrough could enhance solar cells and digital cameras “Digital cameras are now universal, but they suffer from a major limitation: they take poor pictures under dim light. One reason for this is that the image sensor chips inside...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Empty places

    Tourist Remover photoshops stray tourists out of your snaps “Tourist Removed” is a web app that will remove other tourists from the photos you took of landmarks while on vacation as a tourist. All you have to do is take multiple shots of the...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Home sensors

    Sensors for Tracking Home Water Use “Now, Patel and his colleagues have developed a pressure sensor that fits around a water pipe. The technology, called Hydrosense, can detect leaks and trace them back to their source, and can recognize characteristic...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Adding site chat

    Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard “Once a site adds the Tweetboard code to their site, a site-wide tab appears which allows visitors to have forum discussions by simply logging into Twitter (via OAuth). All the conversations are threaded...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Phone projectors

    Stop squinting - MiLi Pro gives iPhones the big picture treatment “The projector is of the Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS), LED variety, which can pump out a 640 x 480 resolution image for a lifetime of around 20,000 hours. PhoneSuit claim the...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Technology nostalgia

    Giving up my iPod for a Walkman “As I boarded the school bus, where I live in Aberdeenshire, I was greeted with laughter. One boy said: “No-one uses them any more.” Another said: “Groovy.” Yet another one quipped: “That...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Longer lasting memory

    Carbon Ring Storage Could Make Magnetic Memory 1,000 Times More Dense “If they’re right, carbon ring storage should allow engineers to access this extraordinary stability, and that could lead to fantastically long-lived memory. It should also...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • New models for architecture

    Getting real with Physical Design “Instead of building each structure as a custom object, people can use software and hardware to make repeatable designs that can be manufactured and assembled where and when they are needed.” Make Read More...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-03-2009
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  • Special Ship Week Desktop

    We survived, we launched, people are doing awesome stuff with it. We've got some bugs (many fixed,) and a patch in the works, but it's all looking quite good. Here's to all our new friends...
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-02-2009
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  • Emerging Community

    One of the hardest parts of Kodu was launching without a central community. It's a long story; buy me a beer next time you're in Redmond and I'll cry into it for you. What we have been betting on (big time) is that communities will start to...
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-02-2009
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  • Kodu Walkthrough on Joystiq

    Richard Mitchell over at Joystiq has done a very nice walkthrough video of creating in Kodu. His level design is cool - I want that level! Reminds me of Scramble, which I've been meaning to recreate for like a year now. Richard, if you're reading...
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-02-2009
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  • Collaborative drawing

    SwarmSketch “Each user can contribute a small amount of line per visit, then they are given the opportunity to vote on the opacity of lines submitted by other users. By voting, users moderate the input of other users, judging the quality of each...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 07-02-2009
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  • "Secret" Glyph Codes to Use in Your Level Descriptions

    Want to know how to get those cool little pictures in your level description? Just type something like this: "Look out for the falling <apple>! Press <A> to jump and <LS> to move!" Here, apple would be replaced with a picture...
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-01-2009
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  • Purchase link problems being addressed

    The Community Games Folks have found a problem in the purchase links - purchasing from the console should now work and they're hard at work on the web purchase link. I'll update here as we learn more.
    Posted to kodu by mattmac on 07-01-2009
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