Archive for November, 2009

New Handheld News Reader

Monday, November 30th, 2009

TV Calibration

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Found a link to a free Calibration tool for any TV.

http://www.xyhd.tv/slates/

Color filters are available here:
http://www.lightingelstore.com/servlet/the-257/VIDEO-CALIBRATION-PACK-%283%29/Detail
Tokyo Blue = #071 (same as the Kodak Deep Blue Tricolor #47B = AVIA = THX Glasses)
Primary Red = #106 (same as the Kodak Deep Red Tricolor #29 = AVIA = DVE)
Primary Green = #139 (same as the Kodak Deep Green Tricolor #61 = AVIA = DVE)

Impressive Fellow plays guitar with feet

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Simply amazing talent!

Roku – De-activation links

Friday, November 27th, 2009

In case you need to remove a channel from the new Roku firmware:

Revision3 deactivation,
http://revision3.com/account#change-preferences

Facebook deactivation,
http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?v=allowed

Flickr deactivation,
http://www.flickr.com/services/auth/list.gne?from=extend

MediaFly deactivation,
http://www.mediafly.com/DigitalLifestyle#SelectedDevice

FrameChannel deactivation,
http://www.framechannel.com/mydevices/

Netflix deactivation,
https://www.netflix.com/Player?manage_device

Amazon deactivation,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/roku/ref=atv_manage_roku

Making Websites Fullscreen on WebOS / iPhone / Android browsers

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Was wondering how to make web pages that go full screen  in WebKit based browsers (WebOS / iPhone / Android) .  Turns out it is as simple as adding a meta tag:

http://www.iphonemicrosites.com/articles/format-your-website-for-the-new-mobile-web/

Example (Look at these links on your WebKit browser):

No meta tag: http://www.sharpee.com/norm.html

With meta tag: http://www.sharpee.com/palm.html

10GUI – Multi-Touch UI

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Appears to be an interesting perspective on Multi-Touch User Interfaces (appears to be based on a Unix system)

http://10gui.com/video/

Get started with this:

http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_touch.php

“Keep (plucking?) that chicken!”

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Ran across this today.. Too funny!