3 Ways to Use Your Smartphones Camera When
Traveling

post from Gizmos for Geeks on 24 January 2012 11:55:27 PM. © Gizmos for Geeks

Many people leave their gorgeous smartphones at home when heading to other countries and/or take cheap phones so that they don?t risk losing them. But have you thought about how your smartphone, especially its camera, could help you out when you travel? Here?s how and when your phone?s camera (especially if it?s a good 8 [...]

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Command & Conquer coded in HTML5

post from Ubergizmo on 24 January 2012 09:05:36 PM. © Ubergizmo

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.”

As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, tooltips, and drag selection for multiple units. Currently, the full game is far from finished, as it is limited to a handful of buildings and units, an extremely tiny map, and the occasional glitch.

Shankar’s effort is far from finished, but finish it he will. You can play it here, although Chrome or Firefox works best with it, and for those who want to lend Shankar a helping hand, the source code is available here.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances can be played from your browser, Aliyun OS is Alibaba's new mobile platform,

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A Spot-Less Idea

post from Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women on 24 January 2012 08:05:22 PM. © Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

How do you get rid of dark spots or those discolorations that suddenly show up on your skin? And what about uneven skin tone? Keihl's may have found a solution. Kiehl's, the premium line of skin-care products, has developed...

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Latest PS3 Hack Messes With PlayStation Vita

post from I4U News on 24 January 2012 04:58:38 PM. © I4U News

There's a new hack that changes the way the PlayStation Vita interacts with the PS3.Yep - The device has not even launched in the biggest market - the US - yet, and already there is a major hack...

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Apple iBook Downloads Blow Up with 350,000
Textbook Downloads

post from I4U News on 24 January 2012 04:30:06 PM. © I4U News

I figured when apple launched the textbook part of iBooks the service would be wildly successful if enough textbooks that most students need were available. I was right, AllThingsD reports that there...

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Office Depot Installs PayPal POS System in 51
Locations

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PayPal is the big name in online payments even if it seems as many people hate the company as like it. PayPal is pushing to get into retail stores so that more people will sign up for the service....

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Are Apple Stores As Valuable As The White House

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Standing in an Apple Store may be closer to standing in the Oval Office than you think.That is what a bunch of people at real estate website Zillow.com who apparently have too much time on their...

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iKeyboard makes it easy to type on the iPad

post from Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women on 24 January 2012 03:05:31 PM. © Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

If you're looking for a better way to type on your iPad when you're writing emails and documents, then you'd usually have to get a Bluetooth keyboard or attach the device to a dock rather than tap away on...

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Next iPhone to feature light field camera

iPhone camera According to recent speculations, the next generation iPhone might be packing Light Field Cameras. If another excerpt from Adam Lashinsky?s upcoming book ?Inside Apple? is a sign of things to come. Apparently Steve Jobs expressed a great interest in Lytro (the creator of the Lytro Light Field Camera) and even met with the CEO of the company to discuss plans before. In case you aren?t familiar with the concept of the Light Field Camera, it is a simple camera that lets people capture ?the perfect shot? instead of having to deal with the hassles of setting up the right focus, shutter speed etc on the spot. Images captured with the camera can then be manipulated on a computer after the shooting is done.
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Audiobooks.com: the first unlimited cloud-based
service for audio books

If you?re addicted to audio books, you go through them like nobody?s business, and find it too pricey to maintain the habit – you?re in luck. There?s a new service in town from Audiobooks.com that is catered to folks just like you. Launched today, this HTML5-based streaming service gives users unlimited access to thousands of best-selling titles on any mobile device for a fixed monthly fee of $24.95. What?s great about audiobooks.com is that since it?s completely web based – there?s no need to download any apps. All they have to do is access the service through their tablet/phone?s web browser and they?re good to go.
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