Greetings IMD from Qualcomm. My first week has been great and I wanted to let everyone know that we just released the public beta of our augmented reality SDK for Android. The press release is here. There is also a design challenge where you can win up to 125k. Submissions start in November and you can [...]

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I recently installed the plugin clicktoflash for Safari in OS X. This plugin is awesome because it does not completely block flash but lets me decide when i want to run and download the flash file. I am already amazed at how fast the web feels with this plugin installed and still gives me the [...]

There has been a lot written about setting your mac to automatically capture images from its built in camera. Unfortunately a lot of this is written for OS 10.4 and is partially irrelevant in 10.5 and 10.6. Commands running without a user context that access the isight produce errors that the device can’t be accessed. [...]

A lot has been written about setting up SVN on OS X server. However, very little exists about setting up SVN on 10.6 server. Following this apple guide as a template I was able to get SVN up and running and have created a Bash script to automate all of the shell commands required. It should [...]

Some Notes after the break: I basically followed the directions found here, here , and here. With some extra work in order to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Basic outline and lessons learned: 1. Backup your OS X Leopard partition using Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner to an external drive. * I ran into some issues here because I [...]

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Rapid Prototyping of Push based proximity applications. While Apple has made available the Push API’s on iPhone OS 3.0, it still takes a while to develop for your particular solution. Additionally, the Bluetooth API’s are available for OS X, but again, takes some figuring out. Thankfully, there exists an open source solution to detect proximity [...]

Today I was looking into some OSC signal apps for the iPhone. I ran across a lot of partial information and no real good examples. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough. I really wanted to use a program called touchOSC with Quartz Composer. I put together a quartz composition displaying a teapot that I can [...]

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Today I JailBroke my iphone… It’s like getting a whole new phone with lots of useless extra’s, but with some extremely useful. What I’ve done so far. 1. findmyi : Track the iphones exact location. Application runs in the background !!! 2. Qik : Streaming video to my qik account direct from my iphone. 3. [...]

I really like qik.com . I like it so much infact that I will JailBreak my iphone to get the app installed. I’ve been waiting for an app that I want enough to JailBreak my iphone, and now I’ve found one.

Follow me and join the USC Interactive Media Qik group. Link your accounts to your twitter and twitter your cell phone videos !!!

Objective: Create a remotely controlled Lego Rover capable of carrying an EEE PC running skype. The remotely connected Skype user should have control of the rover’s movement. Forward, Left, Right. The rover should be able to detect if it is near a precipice or at an obstacle. Check for a preview after the break: [...]

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Google docs provides a great way to create forms. The output gets saved into a google spreadsheet. Perfect for sign up lists or getting a list of interested people in a certain project. I’ll be using this for my workshop signups in the future !!!

Official Site Date: Saturday Dec 6th, 2008 Time: 12pm – 10pm Location: Almer/Blank Address: 525 Venezia Avenue Highlights: * The top studios set up shop on one street for one day so YOU can have some face time * Quick presentations throughout the day so you can hear what these hiring companies are looking for * [...]

I love my Eye-Fi card. It’s 2GB and all my photo’s get uploaded automatically when I get home. All I do is turn on my camera and there are all my pictures uploaded onto my computer !!! This isn’t the reason I purchased this however. The first thing I thought when I heard about this [...]