Archive for January, 2006

People on the Internet don’t just play with themselves…

Jan 30, 2006 in internet

… excusing the pun; I was surprised to see just how many online multiplayer games there are (which you don’t have to pay for, too!)

Role Playing Games – Free Multiplayer Online Games

Curiouser and curiouser.

Use your eyeToy as a webcam on a PC

Jan 26, 2006 in internet

my new silver eyetoyUpdated 4th Feb 2007!

Today I received my shiny new silver PS2 eyeToy and Play3 software. Bit of a spur of the moment purchase from eBay (saved about a tenner from the high-street price).

While watching a company webcast, I wondered whether the eyeToy works as a USB webcam on the PC. Well, it does, and I found a driver to make it work fully on XP.

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50 miliseconds to get someone’s attention on the web

Jan 20, 2006 in internet

I’m getting into reading a few other people’s blogs now, and discovered this article on how long it takes someone to take in the first page of a website. Quite amazing: Web users form first impressions of web pages in as little as 50 miliseconds (1/20th of a second), according to Canadian researchers.

PhotoBooks on PhotoBox

Jan 20, 2006 in photography

photobooksNow PhotoBooks are a great idea. 20 pages of hardback book, printed with your photos… amazing stuff. Just 20 quid; ace.

T.

Motion-cancelling bigfoot video

Jan 18, 2006 in General

Sadly I don’t know an awful lot about how this was done.  I guess they did it by judging the velocity vector v(t) of the bigfoot relative to static objects in the video, gluing all those vectors together into a line on a different plane then moving the entire video itself so a fixed point on the bigfoot’s body, for example his (/her?) hip, travels along that path.

However they did it, it looks even more like a bloke in a gorilla suit than it did before.  See the bigfoot walking here.