Category: Hack
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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…
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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 cannot go. Neither of…
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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.…
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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…
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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…