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Slide into PointPoint with a Kinect and a PowerPoint add-in
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(1)Today's Kinect Project is one of the favorite kinds, controlling PowerPoint with gestures, via the Kinect. This one is different in that it's based on a PowerPoint add-in, so has a better connection (no pun intended) to the presentation (i.e. no need for SendKey tricks)
Creating a PowerPoint add-in that...
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Proximity Tapper helps you build/test NFC in your Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 app's
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Today's Mobile & Modern Monday project will help you built NFC (Near Field Communication) based Windows Phone 8 app's. Imagine you want to create the next cool NFC app, an app that connects two devices. But you only have one device! How are you going to test your app?
What you need is a NFC emulator/simulator...
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TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 RTW's, BUILD, modern.IE and more
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(4)This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;
- [00:28] Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 RTW's!, Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM (Visual Studio ALM), Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (Soma), VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry), Download RTM...
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Clouds would be bad today, since when we're talking "NetDuino Solar Monitor"
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(1)I've been on this house hardware kick recently haven't I? Well today's no different! MUAHAHAH... Well, okay, kind of different. No clouds, no Azure. Today Graham Ross is going to help us scratch our Green itch, will still geek'ing out in our web and Netduino world.
NetDuino Solar Monitor
The Netduino Solar...
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Push to Press with the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7
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(2)We continue with our v1.7 week theme with today's project by Vuyiswa Maseko and take a different look at the Kinect Interactions...
How to do Push to Press with Kinect SDK 1.7
Microsoft officially released the 1.7 Kinect for Windows SDK. In this article I will demonstrate or explain what interest me most....
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Getting started with Kinect Interactions
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(2)Looks like it's going to be a v1.7 kind of week (I know, imagine that!). Today's post by András Velvárt is a great getting started guide for one of the cool new features in the Kinect for Windows SDK, v1.5, "Kinect Interactions"
Kinect Interactions with WPF - Part I: Getting Started
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Go directly to... dx.h, a modern C++ library for DirectX dev
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(1)Today's project by Kenny Kerr is for the DirectX C++ crew out there. If you're C++ coding in the Direct2D, Direct3D, DXGI, DirectWrite, the Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and the Windows Animation Manager (WAM) space, this project is one you're going to want to check out. Now.
dx.h -...
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Kinect Depth Smoothing, updated for Kinect for Windows SDK v1.7
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(3)Well over a year ago we highlighted a project by Karl Sanford that helps with one of the common questions/issues encountered with Kinect, "noise" in Say No to the noise... Real-Time Kinect depth frame smoothing
Karl is continuing to improve his project and has recently moved it to CodePlex and...
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Tracking your Blood Pressure with help from HealthVault and this Windows Phone 8 app
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[Note: This is not an April Fools joke/thing/whatever. <rant>I don't know about you, but I'm getting pretty tried of the whole Tech April Fools meme. We might as well not read anything today... sigh </rant>]
Today's Mobile Monday project is one that's kind of cool, in a weird "track your...
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TWC9: Build 2013, Brew, Backbone, Git, YUI and more
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(2)This week on Channel 9, Brian and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including;