Posts tagged video
Home Theatre Setup Using Your iPhone and Shoe Box
Mar 4th
For all TiPb readers who have dreamed of having their very own home theatre, we now have a solution for you and all that is needed is your iPhone, shoe box, and 1 to 2 hours of your time.
It’s a pretty clever idea, check out the videos after the break!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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Quick Look: Scan2pdf Mobile (Video Demo and Review)
Mar 4th
Scan2pdf Mobile has become one of my favorite apps. I’m a professor, and I give my students a lot of electronic readings. Scan2PDF mobile has made my semester so much easier. In this video, I demo it and show how simple it is to use. There is one minor bug, and I show you why it’s not a big deal. I also give you some tips for scanning pages from books. Check the link below the video, and you’ll find a sample PDF that I created with this precious app.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Here’s a sample PDF. [first page of Table of Contents from Strunk and White's Elements of Style]
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FarmVille on Nexus One Signals Death of Productivity [VIDEO]
Feb 23rd
Taimur Asad of Redmond Pie has been playing with the HTC Desire ROM on his Nexus One these last few days. As many of you might know, it features Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 as part of the build. So what’s the best way to test out how well that works? Log into Facebook and play FarmVille, of course.
As you’ll see in the video, it runs pretty well. Taimur admits that prior to playing with it on the Nexus One, he hadn’t even tried out FarmVille. That explains his hesitation and awkwardness in the clip.
While it sounds great at first, games like this might not translate as well onto a 4-inch screen as we’d hoped. If any of you play any Facebook games on a netbook, you can attest to the difference between a 10-inch screen and a full blown 19″ or larger monitor. Still, this does help give you that quick fix not currently available on any other platform.
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Apple.com/ipad Live! Brings Video Along With it!
Jan 27th
Apple.com is now showing off the iPad, and http://www.apple.com/ipad is now live.
Along with the usual Features, Design, App Store, Gallery, Tech Specs, and Pricing, and Notify Me links, there’s a video up showing designer Jonathan Ive, software head Scott Forstall, and others talking up the device.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Apple.com/ipad Live! Brings Video Along With it!
50 Android Games in One Video
Jan 27th
In this video from AndroidHD, you’ll see a short presentation of 50 Android-based games. Who said that Android was not a great platform for gaming? Looks like we’re off to a good start so far.
The games shown in the video are:
- Homerun Battle 3D
- Speed Forge 3D
- Radiant
- Flight Director
- Zen Table Tennis
- Tank Ace 1944
- Sky Force
- Shoot U!
- Armageddon Squadron
- Light Racer 3D
- Gang Wars
- Wave Blazer
- Death Ride
- Head to Head Racing
- Avatar
- Farm Frenzy
- Light Racer
- Family Guy Uncensored
- Super Boom Boom
- Toonwarz
- Air Hockey
- Meteor
- What the Doodle!?
- Raging Thunder
- The Settlers
- Lightup
- The Game of Life
- Military Madness
- Bebbled
- Jump Santa Jump
- Diner Dash
- Brain Challenge
- Assassins Creed
- Space Physics
- Million Dollar Poker
- Derek Jeter 2009
- Armored Strike
- Robo Defense
- Guitar Hero
- Air Attack
- WPT Texas Hold’em
- De Blob
- Papastacker
- Spades
- Spore
- Tennis Slam
- Iron Sight
- Tetris
- Tower Bloxx
- Mechanics Touch
- Tightrope Hero
- Fying Aces
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PLEN Robot Controlled by Android [VIDEO]
Jan 26th
Those of you with piles of cash might be interested in picking up a PLEN hobby robot for your desk. The roughly 9″ tall “droid” can be controlled via Bluetooth, either by your cell phone or PC keyboard. You know where I’m going with this… Check out the video below of a PLEN robot (android) controlled by an app on Android.
PLEN robots are already selling in Japan for 262,500 yen ($3,000 in US). Though expensive, it (he) is a very capable little guy who will be happy to perform for you. One can make it roller skate and perform skateboard stunts.
I don’t know about you but I can see Android powering more real-life Androids in the future.
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UPDATED: YouTube Beta Testing HTML5 Instead of Flash for Video [Now Vimeo As Well!]
Jan 21st
UPDATE: Yup, Vimeo has gone and pulled the HTML5 trigger as well. Good for them. Good for us. Good for the web.
Last night, Daring Fireball linked to YouTube’s new opt-in beta that allows you to get HTML5 video instead of the traditional Flash-wrapped kind.
Why is this important? HTML5 is an open standard, not owned by any company (including Apple), it’s much lighter on CPU and battery life than Flash, and doesn’t suffer from increasing malware attacks or onerous “cookie”/privacy issues the way Flash does.
And while it may be purely coincidental that this beta comes on the eve of an expected Apple tablet announcement (a device that will surely benefit from better CPU and battery, not to mention security and privacy), it’s interesting to remember that the last big change in YouTube — the move to H.264 — occurred back with the launch of the original iPhone and its YouTube app.
Now, it should be pointed out that the HTML5 beta is only available for YouTube.com proper right now, and not for videos embedded elsewhere. But here’s hoping that’s the next step. (And that Firefox decides to spend some of their Google Search revenue on licensing MP4 so we get a, you know, standard standard).
If that happens, if automatic buffering is fixed, and if other companies follow suit (the way Vimeo and even Microsoft SilverLight are already doing specifically for the iPhone), we could be seeing the beginning of a huge shift in online video, one that will crash headlong into Adobe’s plans for Flash 10.1.
If, if, if. Fair enough. But most of the time when people complain about the lack of Flash on the iPhone, it’s not actually the lack of Flash that bothers them but the fact that a lot of the video they want to see is wrapped up in Flash. If YouTube is an early bellwether that things are changing on that score, and people start getting their videos without Flash, we’re guessing the complaints will in large part evaporate.
UPDATE: As The Reptile points out in the comments below, Google owns YouTube and Google is all-in on WebKit as the foundation for the Chrome browser, Chrome OS, and Android browser. They’ve shown repeatedly they’ll push for standards and for the faster adoption of web technologies because it benefits them. Since Apple’s Safari is WebKit, it benefits iPhone users as well. That makes this interesting.
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UPDATED: YouTube Beta Testing HTML5 Instead of Flash for Video [Now Vimeo As Well!]
