Don’t Have Money for a Real iPad? Cut One Out of Paper

Although experts have been congratulating Apple on how competitive the iPad prices are, when you actually have to part with 500 bucks or more (if you want 3G, which is a must-have for such a device), it hurts.

There is a solution that won’t cost you a dime, though. It also won’t get you an iPad, but [...]

Map Wars – Bing Maps

Image via CrunchBase

Last week at the TED conference in Southern California, Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated a new crowdsourced-version Bing Maps that integrates photos and even live video that is shared by others. Microsoft will also soon launch what we’ve dubbed “Bing Sky,” the ability to use Bing to look up in the sky [...]

Google Now Has a Street View Snowmobile

Image via Wikipedia

First, there was the Google Street View Car, a special vehicle with a 360-degree camera mounted on top that brings us all that detailed Street View imagery. Then, Google engineers invented the Trike, a tricycle with a camera that can reach all those places where Street View Car [...]

Muvizu could be the next really fun 3D Tool

Muvizu
Welcome to Muvizu, a website set up to facilitate collaborative film, audio and drama projects, providing users with the right tools for the job and a shop window to exhibit their work.

The big enchilada is Muvizu 3D, free software designed to let anyone create compelling animations without expensive kit and years of training. The videos [...]

Aviary Releases Online Audio Editing: Myna

Podcasting redid the standard “Create your own multi-track ringtone” project using the tool Aviary just released last week: an  online audio editor call Myna.  http://aviary.com/tools/myna

The class voted it extremely easy to use, and useful for basic audio editing.  No doubt as more filters get added, we will find it useful for even more.  Additional comments [...]

The First Great Computer Game -> Lunar Lander

Forty Years of Lunar Lander

In 1969, an Apollo-crazy high school student wrote one of the most influential computer games of all time.

Benj Edwards of Technologizer has a nice summary of the history of Lunar Lander and the High School student who wrote one of the first computer games of all time. It started so many of us using computers, able to replicate lunar landings, so soon after we all watched images of the first man to step on the moon. I played this one for the first time in 1972 and it started me thinking, of imagining. That was a big deal, everyone knew computers counted things, but beyond what was being done at the time with computers it was easy to see more, especially when I wasn’t constrained by understanding how it worked, yet. I hope my students become as [...]

Portland Area YouTube Sensation

Hillsboro YouTube sensation looks for mainstream fame
by Wendy Owen, The Oregonian

Thursday August 06, 2009, 6:35 PM

Abby Metty/The OregonianHillsboro teen Savannah Outen has fans as far away as Kuwait and Australia but doesn’t yet have a record label. She plays a song she wrote during a visit to Coyote’s Bar & Grill in Hillsboro.

HILLSBORO — [...]

Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

He made a music video with SketchUp?

From the Official Google SketchUp Blog.

A music video is currently making the rounds of the office. Ooooh and aaaahs and catchy beats resonate from every corner…

How to use Firefox to Download Flash Files

Today, Flash is everywhere. Animations, music, games, advertisements or even streaming presentations.

How can you download some of these flash files to watch in your own time? Or convert them to another format. Or use them in a presentation.