People are getting pretty excited over the new Kinect Sensor for the recently announced Xbox One. A significant upgrade to the specs, most notably HD sensor and more accurate 3D detection, make it an even more powerful tool for people looking to harness what is happening realtime in 3D space. The more I read […]
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Great Deals on Flights! As long as you don’t care where you go.
I recently stumbled across a travel startup called “GetGoing” thanks to my RSS feeds on Pulse and decided to see what it was all about. The site promises big savings on flights if you are willing to be flexible on where you travel to. While this is not at all practical for business or family visits, […]
OSX 10.8 Tip : Always Show Scroll Bar
One thing I found annoying about the OSX 10.8 default settings is how it hides the scroll bars when you are not scrolling in a webpage or finder window (actually should be persistent across all apps). I find the scroll bar to be a useful reference for how far down a list I am or […]
Getting Ready for the 2013 America’s Cup! [Image Gallery]
To get ready for the upcoming Americas Cup in San Francisco I have compiled a small gallery of high res images that will look great on the Retina MacBook Pro, 27″ iMac, iPad and anything else for that matter. They are the only high-res desktop worthy images I have found so far (If you have […]
Custom YouTube Embeds
Google provides some hidden settings for customizing your YouTube videos, you can see the full documentation here. The following is a quick overview of the most relevant settings. URL formatting: Google’s preferred method of embedding videos is now iframes opposed to the oEmbed code, so the formatting for your settings will look like this: “Google’s Provided […]