Category: Videos

PodTech:Get collaborative with Chandler

~ rbonini

Chandler ProjectThis is a great video. Pity Mitch Kapor didn’t make an appearance 🙂 .

If you want the background to all of this take a look at Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code which chronicles the early years of the Chandler Project. He really does it well. The projects problems come across so well  you want to throw the book down in frustration.

Now, the video:

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Vista Desktop Manager

~ rbonini

Seriously, you have to ask yourself why Microsoft didn’t think of this:

[via Scott Hanselman]

I think its a testament to the legions of Windows developers the world over who wont take Redmond lack of design inspiration for an answer (compared to an unnamed Computer Company).

Get it here. I am so downloading it.

It also shows how much Microsoft left out of Vista (presumably under pressure to RTM it before it was ready).

Earth to WinFS. Where are you????????? 

iPhone Accelerometer Tricks

~ rbonini

Another iPhone story landed in Google Reader (via TUAW):

today, we’ve got hot off the press news about what they’re up to with the iPhone’s accelerometer. Erling has found a way to pull the raw data off of the iPhone’s LIS302DL, a 3-axis accelerometer that’s currently used for noting when you’re looking at Safari vertically or horizontally. A few hackers, like the folks behind Tilt, have been able to catch the iPhone noting the change itself, but this is the first time, I believe, that we’re seeing live data come right off of the unit at a high sampling rate, enabling Erling to pull off the magic seen above.

 

Source code is available here.