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    Kinectfusion

    October 7th, 2011


    This is a nice new project. Sharam Izadi et al. employ the Kinect to reconstruct arbitrary surroundings in 3D by using a Microsoft Kinect depth camera.
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    Use Intel iMac 17″ Core2Duo with External Display Only

    August 29th, 2011

    Recently, I had the problem that the TFT display module of an 2008 17″ Intel iMac refused to work properly: The whole image was inverted and the right half stayed completely grey. Read the rest of this entry »


    Donald Norman’s »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural«

    August 9th, 2011

    I really like Donald Norman’s essay »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural« that he wrote for the ACM interactions magazine. In this essay Norman shares his view on the role of natural user interfaces (for him represented, e.g., by »speech, gesture, or the tapping of the body’s electrical signals for “thought control,”«) in terms of interaction with future computer systems.
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    Recognize DisplayObject Transform Matrix Change Event in Flash AS3

    May 20th, 2011

    If another object changes the transformation matrix of a DisplayObject, the DisplayObject has no means to recognize that it has been transformed, as it is transformed automatically. E.g., there is no kind of TRANSFORMATION_MATRIX_CHANGED event that is dispatched on the DisplayObject. If your DisplayObject still should react on a change of its transformation matrix, a workaround is necessary, which is described in the following approach. I show a short solution at first and will explain the actual problem and solution approach in more detail afterwards.
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    ThrongOSCDeck – an OSC & TUIO Recorder and Player [Update]

    May 4th, 2011

    I have been looking for an application on the Internet that allows to record TUIO streams. However, I did not find a sufficient solution for this problem. Thus, I decided to write my own application called ThrongOSCDeck that can accomplish this task. It builds upon my Throng application that can be used to multiplex TUIO bundles from different TUIO providers.
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    Throng – a Cross-Platform Multiplexer for Tuio Messages and Packets

    February 20th, 2011

    Throng (Tuio multiplexeR that crOps and Globalizes) provides a Tuio multiplexer with added benefits written in Java.


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    Subversion Plugin Subclipse Proxy Server Settings in Eclipse or Flash Builder

    February 11th, 2011

    Eclipse with SVN (e.g. Subclipse plugin) looks in three places for a proxy server configuration:
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    Preview: New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3

    January 13th, 2011


    Microsoft Surface 2 Preview

    January 7th, 2011

    I am Stunned


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    Suppress Fonic Huawei Surfstick Automount and Automatic Opening of Mobile Partner Application under Mac OS X

    December 20th, 2010

    This approach worked for my Huawei Fonic Surfstick (with model number E1550):
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