Mick Darling's posterousAll my blogging in one spot. (mostly)Instacorder Is a No-Frills App For Emailing Yourself Voice Memos [Ios Downloads]
iOS: Instacorder is a dead-simple app that will instantly email voice memos to yourself for reviewing and organizing on your computer. More »
Arduino mechs learn RobotC, plot assimilation with Lego MindstormsArduino boards have smoothed the creation of lots of eccentric thingamajigs, but robotics and controllers are still not for the faint of heart. Luckily, RoboMatter is coming to the rescue of would-be roboticists with a public beta version of its C-based RobotC language for Arduino. Joining Lego Mindstorm and other bots, Arduino will get RobotC's straightforward sensor and motor controls, along with a debugger and sample program library, while still keeping its native Wiring language. So, if you want to be a Kickstarter magnate , or just out-weird everyone else, rolling your own droid is now a bit easier. Arduino mechs learn RobotC, plot assimilation with Lego Mindstorms originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 03:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | RobotC | Email this | Comments
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DoNotDisturb Adds a One-Tap Notification Silencer to iPhones [Jailbreak]
iOS (Jailbroken): You don't always need notifications on. Whether you need to get some work done or you don't like the fact your iPhone beeps and vibrates when you're on the phone, DoNotDisturb is a simple tweak for jailbroken iPhones that adds a single button that blocks all notifications. More »
6 Ways MIT’s Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future
Throughout the course of the past year, one group, “Opera of the Future,” also known as “Hyperinstruments,” has been examining how musical composition, performance and instrumentation can lead to new forms of expression, learning and health. From CogNotes’ cognitive learning platform to the building blocks that make up SoundStrand, here’s a look at six of the projects aimed at changing the way we connect to music. Dance Remixer – The goal is simple: “Dance to whatever you want.” The Dance Remixer is a program that takes any piece of music, from country to Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why,” and turns it into something people can dance to. Hoping to personalize the way people interact with music, the Dance Remixer gives users the ability to modify songs’ function and emotional content. Here’s “Don’t Know Why” mixed with some latin flavor. CogNotes — CogNotes can be summed up as “Alzheimer’s Disease assessment embedded in the creative act of music composition.” Together, with partners the Lincoln Park Performing Arts School and the Yamaha Corporation, a group of seniors are going through a multi-month composition workshop that’s outfitted with cognitive measures that are sensitive to the earliest transition to Alzheimer’s Disease. Drum Top — Drum Top’s goal is to transform everyday objects into percussive musical instruments, “encouraging people to to rediscover their surroundings through musical interactions with the objects around them.” To see Drum Top in action, watch the video below. Remote Theatrical Immersion: Extending “Sleep No More” — In London-based theater group Punchdrunk’s NYC show, “Sleep No More,” asked audience members to explore and interact with the environment and create their own narrative pathways. Working in collaboration with Punchdrunk, the Media Lab is developing an online world that complements the real-life experience, by allowing online participants to partner with live audience members, so they can explore the show together. Personal Opera — Personal Opera gives everyone the opportunity to create musical masterpieces. The team’s currently working on developing an environment to allow for the incorporation of personal stories, images and “both original and well-loved music and sounds.” To see some of the technology in action, check out this video of Tod Machover’s new opera Death and the Powers, which had its U.S. premiere in Boston and Chicago last spring. Machover is the head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future. SoundStrand — This music composition toy is comprised of a set of building blocks, each containing a musical motif. The blocks can be connected to create a musical theme, or manipulated with three degrees of freedom. See the blocks in use below. Photo Courtesy of Personal Opera from BostInno http://bostinno.com/2012/05/13/6-ways-mits-media-lab-envisions-the-opera-of-t...CodeTwo Sync For iCloud Syncs iCloud Data with Outlook [Outlook]
Windows: If you manage your personal contacts, calendars, and to-do items with Apple's iCloud service, CodeTwo Sync for iCloud helps you seamlessly integrate that data with Microsoft Outlook. More »
Remains of the Day: It's Confirmed: Apple's HDTV is a Real Thing [For What It's Worth]
Apple's HDTV is confirmed to be a real thing, Apple is set to drop Google Maps for its own in-house map app, and Facebook places everything you ever wanted to know about their terms and policies under one roof. More »
Put Together Your Own Arduino Board (for Half the Price of Buying One) [DIY]
You can make a lot of cool DIY electronics with an Arduino board, but you can actually make your own Arduino for a fraction of the cost—with a bit of room for customizability, too. More »
How to Securely Share a Password with Someone Using LastPass [Passwords]
Occasionally, you need to share a password with someone. Maybe it's a shared office-wide password, your family's Amazon login, or maybe you just want to share a Netflix account with your roommate. Rather than sharing it over email, you can more seamlessly and securely share passwords in just a few clicks with LastPass—and even prevent the person on the receiving end from ever seeing the password itself. More »
Social and Content Should Work TogetherThere are many components that make up a robust online marketing campaign today. It’s not enough to just have a website. In order for that website to be found you need to participate in numerous online marketing tactics that need to be integrated together into one strategy. Two important parts of an online strategy are content marketing and social media.
Content marketing involves creating a variety of content (blog posts, articles, guest blog posts, videos, whitepapers, e-books, guides, webinars, etc.) that will attract target audience members. It’s a form of inbound marketing. Instead of forcing your product upon a potential client or customer in a pushy, traditional format (like advertising), content is created for people to find when they want to and on their terms. Creating quality content that is informative and provides target audience members with beneficial information or helps them solve a problem will help keep your company or brand top of mind. In addition, you will be viewed as a trusted source and a thought leader in the industry. Social media serves a similar purpose. In order for a person to receive messages from a brand in social media, they need to opt-in and choose to Follow or to Like the brand. A social media “relationship” between a consumer and a brand can be beneficial for both parties. Consumers can share their comments, questions, and concerns and businesses can treat their social community like a focus group and gain valuable insights that can help guide business and product decisions. While content marketing and social media are valuable marketing tactics on their own, they really thrive while working together. Keeping the content marketing and social media teams separate is a mistake. Without social media integration, how will your content be found? Without content marketing integration, what will you be sharing in social media? It takes a lot of time and effort to develop good content marketing collateral. If you’re going to be spending all of that time and effort, don’t you want that content to be seen? What’s the point of creating a great whitepaper and then hiding it away on an interior page of your website? Social media is meant for sharing, so share away! Any content that you create should be shared with your followers in social media. After all, they have already expressed that they are interested in your business. Social media is meant to be social and is about having a conversation with your followers, but without the content marketing piece what will facilitate that conversation? If you aren’t using social media to share anything with any real substance, you risk getting lost in the shuffle and just becoming another noisy part of the social media equation. from BostInno http://bostinno.com/channels/social-and-content-should-work-together/Microsoft Research's MirageTable brings some augmented reality to your tabletopWe got a look at a holographic telepresence project from Microsoft Research earlier this week, but that's far from the only Kinect-enhanced rig it's working on these days. This setup dubbed a MirageTable was also shown off at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Austin, Texas this week, offering a glimpse of one possible future where two people can interact with virtual objects on a table as if they were sitting across from each other (or simply do so on their own). To make that happen, the setup relies on a ceiling-mounted 3D projector to display the images on a curved surface, while a Kinect on each end of the connection both captures the person's image and tracks their gaze to ensure images are displayed with the proper perspective. You can check it out in action after the break, although some of the effect is lost without 3D glasses. Continue reading Microsoft Research's MirageTable brings some augmented reality to your tabletop Microsoft Research's MirageTable brings some augmented reality to your tabletop originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 07:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink About Projectors | BBC News, New Scientist | Email this | Comments
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