Traditional autocomplete is such a powerful tool that it’s managed to work its way into most desktop and a significant number of web applications. Type a URL into your browser, and the address bar will offer suggestions for all of the URLs in your browsing history that begin with the text that precedes your cursor. […]
Mapstraction is an abstracted Javascript mapping API that can make use of Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps and Mapquest. Instead of deciding on a particular mapping provider, you can build your web application with Mapstraction and easily switch to a different service by changing a single line of code. From the Mapstraction site: […]
Desertfoxx sent us a tip to a classic KipKay howto video. It’s pretty easy to swap out the diode in a laser pointer or similar laser housing with the diode from an old DVD burner. Put the whole deal into a mini Maglite and you’ve got yourself a nice little handheld fire starter, perfect for […]
By passing Nunchuck data to a PC via an Arduino, Melka figured out a way to convert the accelerometer output into a MIDI stream that can be read directly by 3D Studio Max’s motion capture engine: Here’s my setup under windows : Arduino using a WiiChuck adapter from todbot (thanks kurt ^^) and the WiiChuck […]
Martin Fussen tipped us off to PlaceSpotting, a user-contributed geo quiz map mashup. The idea is to create puzzles for your friends to solve by picking an obscure landmark and supplying them with a few hints. Your friends can then zoom around on the map to find the location. If they position the map at […]
Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean the kids have to stay indoors in the A/C. There are a number of worthwhile summer projects, but the KidWash looks like it has a particularly high fun/effort ratio. A trip to the hardware store for some PVC and mister jets and you can give the Wii a run […]
Traditionally, a web spider system is tasked with connecting to a server, pulling down the HTML document, scanning the document for anchor links to other HTTP URLs and repeating the same process on all of the discovered URLs. Each URL represents a different state of the traditional web site. In an AJAX application, much of […]
