3D for iPad!

okay, this is not the convention 3D that we usually see by tricking our brain to believe that the picture is 3D. This might be the future for 3D, in this method, your device need to have camera. So that the apps will track your face and change the images based on your face location, so that you see some sort of 3D effect on the device. See the demo after the jump:




This is created by Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, EHCI Research Group.

I have a question though, what will happen if more than 1 person is looking at the iPad? What if I got a group of 5 persons and they are moving at different direction?? :P


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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQQEcfkHoE&feature=player_embedded

Out of idea to tweet?

You see, sometime we have limitation, some of the day we are really out of idea on what to write on blog. I have a few of that moment. Here, and here. So what do you do if you out of idea of tweeting?

Fear not, if you really out of idea on what to tweet, use this page:
http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/

You just need to put in your tweeter name and the page will read all your tweets and randomly mix around your previous tweet to create a new tweet. What I got most of the time is junk! hahah, but what would be enough for your next tweet!
Example I got:
1. Outdated Penang Uncle: take a rest Donkey parallel parking, ADV: WHATBerry! What is Maxthon?
2. Check out Windows 7? Outdated Penang Uncle: The real meaning Uncle: Angry Birds for iPhone - The art of.
3. Outdated Penang Uncle: More on scam Facebook wants to party? BOLEH: only in Windows 7 Keyboard shortcut!

You see what I mean? :)

Btw, we call it 'rojak' in Malaysia and Singapore for mixing up stuffs.


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Source: internet

Angry Birds with 'Easter Eggs'

Angry Birds will receive seasons update with a special Easter version, see the trailer video after the jump:



Looks nice right? Update is very easy for iOS, Android and other mobile platform, but not sure for Windows version though.

Do you have angry birds? On which platform you have it please?



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Source: youtube

Game Boy Music - using real game boy

Erm... yes, the Mr Bender uses real game boy for making the music. Argh... Just see the video after the jump:




Make sense now? ;)


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Source: youtube

Flock shutdown

Remember I blogged about Flock sometime back last year:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-flock.html
It is going to shutdown completely on April 26th, 2011.

 With RockMelt getting more popular, this flock have to go.

It recommend their users to switch to Chrome or FireFox. You can see my posting on browsers to choose your next favorite browsers:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/browser


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Source: internet

Google on Charlie Chaplin

I was going to google for something and saw this one google:

Clicking the play logo would run a youtube video on the same place. Go to google now, not sure how long it will be there. :)

p/s: btw, today is Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday.

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Source: google

Running Meego on Laptop

More than a month ago, I was trying out Meego on my laptop and was too lazy to write down the steps in this blog :P ......

I did write a post saying coming soon, but time fly! Before I knew it, it already mid of Apr. Here is the post:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/03/coming-soonrunning-meego-on-laptop.html

I didn't get Meego for netbook to works, however I manage to get Meego for IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) to run on my laptop, well, on the VirtualBox to be exact. :)

Here are the steps:
1. Download Meego IVI live img from this website:
http://meego.com/downloads/releases/1.1/meego-v1.1-in-vehicle-infotainment-ivi

2. Convert the .img file to .iso using MagicISO:
   Get from here: http://www.magiciso.com/
     2.1. Run MagicISO
     2.2. "Tools" -> "Convert ..." to open converting window
     2.3. Enter IMG filename to source file editbox.
     2.4. Choose "Standard ISO Image file(.ISO)" as output format..
     2.5. Enter output ISO file name into output file editbox.
     2.6. Click "convert" to process

3. Setup a new Virtual Machine (get it from here if you haven't install it)
     3.1. Launch VirtualBox, "Machine" -> "New" to invoke New Virtual Machine Wizard -> Click "Next"
     3.2. Fill in the name of the Virtual Machine (VM) [Meego-IVI for my case] -> Choose "Linux" for "Operation System" -> Choose "Other Linux" for "Version" -> Click "Next"
     3.3. Choose the memory you wish to use by this Virtual Machine [at least 512M to get Meego-IVI to works properly, else crash!] -> Click "Next"
     3.4. Check "Book Hard Disk", and select "Create new Hard disk" -> Click "Next"
     3.5. click "Next at the "Create New Virtual Disk Wizard" welcome windows -> select "Dynamically expanding storage" [to keep disk usage to minimum] -> Click "Next"
     3.6. Put a name for the virtual hard disk [Meego-IVI in this case]and leave the path to default [......\.VirtualBox\HardDisks], select the size to be 512MB, that should be enough -> click "Next" -> click "Finish" at the Summary windows.
     3.7. Click "Finish" at the Summary windows for "Create New Virtual Machine" -> wait for a while for the virtual machine to appear on the VirtualBox main windows.

4. Mount the .iso file to the newly created Virtual Machine
     4.1. High light the new Virtual Machine [Meego-IVI] and click "Settings"
     4.2. Select "Storage" -> at "Storage Tree", select the "Empty" DVD icon -> at "Attributes", the Slot should be "IDE Secondary Master" -> click the icon for "Open Virtual Media Manager"
     4.3. Click "Add" and locate the .iso file that generate from step2 -> click "Open" to add it to the Virtual Media Manager.
     4.4. High light the .iso -> click "Select" to mount the iso.
     4.5. Click "OK" to close the Settings windows.

5. Fun time!
     5.1. High light the "Meego-IVI" and click "Start"
     5.2. Choose Boot Meego and press enter and wait for it to boot

     5.3. ta-da......

     5.4. Meego is linux, so you can find xterm on it :)

Okay, have fun try it out :)


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Source: myself la, except step2 from internet