Posted by Jeff December 23, 2006
So the Wii supports Flash in the Opera browser, and it’s not half bad. This also opens the door to Flash games, see WiiCade.
We had 8 people over last night who hadn’t seen Dick in a Box. I hooked the laptop up to the receiver but didn’t have an SVideo cable for video out. The Wii seems perfect for social viewing of vids– especially since Opera does pan and zoom.
I love the idea of sharing vids with a large group without having to wrangle A/V equipment. XBMC is great, but the Wii is a Trojan Horse with a lot of future possibilities.
Edit: SofaTube gives the Fisher Price UI needed for video selection. I’m so getting a Wii as soon as I can pay retail..
sofatube, wii, wiitube, YouTube
Posted by Jeff December 22, 2006
I had Firefox open on my laptop and clicked on a video file to download it. Firefox hung.. couldn’t get to Tools/Downloads. But it wasn’t take much CPU.
After 10 minutes, I had an idea.. was there a modal window up? Clicked into Firefox, and its titlebar was the lighter blue color of a behind window. I typed Alt-Space, M for Move, then Right Arrow for 10 seconds. Sure enough, a modal came inching onto the screen where I’d been hooked up to an external 24″ monitor.
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Posted by Jeff December 20, 2006
This photo is a 90000*40000 image of Downtown Boston. The image consists of 612 separate images taken from the Back Bay’s Prudential Tower Skywalk using a digital SLR with a 300mm lens.
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Posted by Jeff December 01, 2006
We did the 8 hour drive to Virginia from Boston over Thanksgiving. I did most of the driving, and Elana most of the navigating. As always, we used MapPoint 2004 with a RoyalTek Saphire USB GPS velcro’d to the dash.
Occasionally I did some navigating, and that’s when I realized how different our styles are. Elana views the screen the whole time and is good about announcing upcoming turns. I, alternately, leverage the EVDO connection to surf away. This leaves me behind the curve of upcoming turns.
To relax and surf, I need alerting of upcoming turns via visuals/voice synthesis. The Add-On Advanced GPS looks good for this, and it’s a good deal at only $10. The new (to me) MapPoint 2006 also has the navigation features built in:
- New Advanced GPS Features - The new GPS task pane takes information about your current location as determined from your connected, compatible GPS device and displays your current location and the speed at which you are traveling.
- Voice and Text Directions for Windows XP Users - New Driving Guidance takes your location from a connected GPS device and combines it with a route you have created to give you voice-prompted driving directions.
The day after Thanksgiving we went geocaching with E’s geo-virgin cousins. Geocaching approaches satire with the arm-busting Z60M.
gps, mappoint, royaltek
