2011年3月28日星期一
Hack an Old Camera for Full Frame Sprocket Hole-style Pics
If you’re looking for a weekend project that dabbles in vintage camera and film tricks, this tutorial shows you how to hack an old and cheap medium format camera to fully expose 35mm film.
It’s a unique effect that allows you to turn expose the entire piece of 35 mm film, to the sprocket holes and beyond. If you’ve never heard of this style of photography before, be sure to check out the 35mm Spocket Hole pool on Flickr to see the neat effects people are creating with it. If the pool catches your interest hit up the link below to learn how to create your own sprocket hole images.
35mm Sprocket Hole Panoramic Photos [Instructables via Make]
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2011年3月27日星期日
Samsung ST100 Dual View digital camera
Surfing and Sailing Icon Packs for Your Ocean Themed Desktop
We have featured two beautiful ocean-related themes for Windows 7 this week but you may be less than pleased at having to use the default Windows icons with them. That is where we step in to help with Surfing and Sailing icon packs to make those themes look even better.
Surfing Icons
Click on the small dark blue arrow (outlined in red below) to download the icon pack.
Note: Available in .ico, .png, and .icns formats.
Download the Surfing Icons Pack *Note: The download link is the second one from the bottom of the page.
Sailing
Note: Available in .ico, .png, and .icns formats.
Download the Sailing Icons Pack
These icons packs will go nicely with the Sailing Theme for Windows 7, Surfing Theme for Windows 7, or any other ocean-related themes you may have set up on your desktop.
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Bing Steps Up Facebook, Twitter Integration
Microsoft Bing, the number two search engine on the Web, announced this morning that it has begun including Tweets within news results and and a tighter Facebook integration in its search results.
According to the Bing Team, the inclusion of social media in these search results will help users "make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time."
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Last month, Google announced that it would begin augmenting its search results according to whether or not certain content had been shared by your friends. Bing's integration feels similar, though slightly less nuanced.
Rather than altering search results according to what your friends share, Bing will show a feed of relevant Tweets alongside headlines on Bing News.
In terms of Facebook, however, Bing had already been doing what Google released last month - altering search results according to what your friends "like."
The latest update moves in the opposite direction. Now, users can post to Facebook directly from within Bing search results for movies, artists, musicians and television shows.
Microsoft has had a tight relationship with Facebook since 2007, when it beat out Google in a $240 million investment in the social network. Since, Bing has become the default search engine powering Facebook and a number of deals between Microsoft and Facebook have followed. The beginning of a more two-way relationship was inevitable.
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AudioVroom: Music Sharing for the Streaming Generation
Nowadays, music discovery can be a magical, yet completely disconnected, experience. There are tools to find the most popular music from blogs, algorithms to suggest music according to characteristics and custom created lists and channels made by curators. Still, something integral is missing - your friends.
Once upon a time - long before peer-to-peer file sharing services hit the Web - the way to discover music was by trading mix tapes with friends. Nowadays, you might burn a CD for a friend but, as our music collections increasingly move into the cloud, it's becoming harder and harder to share your musical tastes with your friends. AudioVroom wants to change this and bring your friends to the music discovery experience of apps like Pandora.
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AudioVroom, which should be available for iOS in the next couple of weeks, offers users the ability to create custom playlists of streaming music based on friends musical tastes. AudioVroom builds a profile of each user's musical tastes according to a few different methods. First, it can look at your iTunes library and build a profile by examining artist frequency, play counts, skip counts and star ratings. If you don't want it to look at your library, it can build a taste profile according to what you "love" and "fail" while using the app to play friends' stations. If neither of those fit your fancy, AudioVroom co-founder and CEO Marcos Lara says that the company is working on integrating Facebook and Last.fm to pull in your musical preferences.
Once the app has your musical tastes pinned down, you can begin sharing with friends. AudioVroom lets users "bump" their phones with each other (using the Bump API) to exchange profile information. From there, it looks at common interests, finds intersections and creates custom stations according to these points.
The app has yet to hit the App Store shelves but we got to hear a bit about it and give it a try and we're looking forward to seeing what new music we might find by simply bumping our phone with our friends. Lara says that an HTML5 version is on the way for Android phones, as well as a Facebook app.
For now, all we can do is wait for it to hit the app store so we can convince all of our friends to download it and stop listening to that same old Pandora station day after day.
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