Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan have presented the coolest digital image effect I have ever seen. “Seam carving” allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces). If I understood the […]
There’s a new update for iPhones, it says “bug fixes”… it seems louder to me, but otherwise I’m not sure what changed.
Last week I mentioned that you can use TCPMP on Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs to view H.264 encoded MP4s. I glossed over a few details, so here’s a quick guide for getting everything running. What You Need: TCPMP: download the latest version for Pocket PC or Smartphone (currently 0.72RC1)- Link H.264 ffmpeg plugin: […]
Wikipedia periodically publishes full data dumps of the encyclopedia’s content. If you wanted to make your own copy of the Wikipedia site for offline viewing, you’d typically convert and import that content into MySQL using MediaWiki’s importDump.php utility. The initial import process can take over a day. Building the indexes for searching articles takes even […]
Pete Warden wrote in about his completion of the IE port of the GoogleHotKeys (formerly PeteSearch) browser plugin. In addition to the blog posts covering the port I’ve also put together a public wiki with full documentation on creating your own Internet Explorer extensions, and there’s the full source code for the completed plugin for […]
Out of the box, Windows Mobile devices can only play WMV files. Formats like Flash video or Quicktime are not supported. Using the open source media player TCPMP and some Pocket IE tweaks, however, you can view the FLV video content available on several popular video sites like YouTube and Google Video, right on your […]
The updated version of the Wii Internet Channel web browser that was released in April has a feature that will allow you to “auto-hide” the navigation bar. It’s not enabled by default, but with a quick change to the settings you’ll get back some of that precious TV real-estate. Here’s how: go to the start […]
