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"It had to happen. When Google showed off a new and revolutionary Gmail Motion control scheme yesterday, it failed to fool most people, but it didn't fail to catch the attention of some motion control geeks with Kinect cameras on hand. Yep, the FAAST crew that's already brought us a Kinect keyboard emulator for World of Warcraft has taken Google to task and actually cooked up the software to make Gmail Motion work. All your favorite gestures are here: opening an email as if it were an envelope, replying by throwing a thumb back and, of course, "licking the stamp" to send your response on its way. Marvelous stuff! Jump past the break to see it working, for real this time. "
"A new way to communicate
The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do we continue to use outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body. "
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British road signs use specially designed lettering, and much of it is quite distinctive. Nathaniel Porter and John Prentice have now reproduced the various types of lettering from official documents, and turned them into TrueType fonts that you can download here for free.
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This is a trick abused often: take an image and create its reflection on a surface to obtain a kind of perspective effect. Depending of your base image, style of work and target, it can be done in vectors (Inkscape) or raster (GIMP).
I just finished building a game of pong for those of you with Sudden Motion Sensors on your Mac. Using the Sudden Motion Sensor, you can now play Pong. Tilt the laptop to control the paddle and scream to increase the size of the paddle. Enjoy!]
Web site Floorplanner is a web-based floor planning application that creates complex layouts to help you design the layout of any room in your home.
To some these may be not the best tutorials on the web, but certainly they are some of the best around. I had to eliminate those that looked nice but had very little preview images. This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections..
The Chalkwork iPhone Mini-Set is a set of custom icons built specifically for the iPhone UI. Featuring base icons from the Chalkwork Family stylized to match the iPhone look and feel, each icon rests on top of a unique texture or photographic element.
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