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I use Facebook as a kind of simple RSS feed (I never used actual RSS though). I subscribe to different groups (companies, bands, TV Shows etc.) and I end up getting news about certain topics this way. It's also good for sharing photos but that's pretty much it.
It's ugly and clumsy but people still use it because it's what everyone else they know uses.

I also don't think I've ever clicked on an ad on my Facebook page.

The part where you stay in contact with people you know in real life doesn't interest me much unless they have some photos to share. If you're going to use it just for posting text, you might as well get yourself a real blog.

I had the videos URL in my clipboard ready to post this and Maddus Mattus beat me to it
While the Kinect can still do different tasks that this thing can't because it has cameras, the Leap looks FAR more useful as a controller.
It would make a great controller for virtual musical instruments too. It just needs to send MIDI messages to your DAW.

Let him keep turning, I don't care

9 hours ago, Dr Herbie wrote

@dentaku: Brett?  What an upstart!  Basil Rathbone is turning in his grave!

Herbie

It just feels wrong to me when Sherlock Holmes isn't Jeremy Brett.

That's what I mean. It wasn't using all MS technology but the fact is he was using a Win7 PC to do it is enough.

11 hours ago, Bass wrote

Matlab is a multiplatform application (Linux, OS X, Windows), and he is using Arduino. But really cool regardless.

When people create fun stuff on regular Windows machines and tech new sites take notice, THAT's the kind of stuff MS should acknowledge.
Just have employees at MS (like the people from DPE) look out for creative projects that use Window PCs and give them some kind of official words of encouragement and maybe an offer of help if they have some technical questions.
It doesn't matter that this project doesn't use a Kinect or isn't programmed in Visual Studio, It's still a generic Windows 7 laptop doing something cool.

2 hours ago, elmer wrote

The latest news is that Nokia can't keep up with demand for the Cyan 900 and are currently in talks with Verizon.

Hopefully that's true and that they become available on Bell because Rogers doesn't even have 3G where I live.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Bell as much as any logical Canadian but at least hey have useful coverage in this part of the world.

Yup. Much Music (in Canada) used to play it allot back when they actually played videos.

14 hours ago, cbae wrote

@dentaku: I saw that video a handful of times on MTV back when they used to play music videos.

34 minutes ago, cbae wrote

@magicalclick: The brightness is kept really low with the automatic adjustment settings. If you set it to manual and select "high" or even "medium", the whites look much brighter. Blacks stay black, obviously, since it's OLED.

OLED displays typically look oversaturated, but I tend to like it like that since I'm so used to it now.

On a larger device where colour accuracy is important, having over saturated colours isn't good but I can see it's helpful on a mobile device you will be using outside.

I heard the original version on the radio today and knew a woman did a version of it but I couldn't remember who it was. Obviously I just searched on Youtube when I got home and found it was Bette Midler but what did we do before search engines?