Top 10 must-have original sound tracks
Apr 24th 2011
What would be a movie without a powerful soundtrack? Here is a selection of my favorite soundtracks (O.S.T). They were selected not only because of the music but also because of their originality. Rating an OST is kind of difficult, because the music is directly linked to an action or a certain scene of the movie; but let’s try to make abstraction of this and only concentrate ourselves on the musical part. More >
Android Tutorial: Developing Android Apps with Android X86 and Virtual Box
Apr 22nd 2011
In this tutorial you will learn how to develop Android application with the Android SDK without a device and without using the SDK’s emulator. What? Yes it’s possible with Android X86 and a virtual machine (in our case we take Virtual Box) to setup your machine in order to test and implement your own Android apps. Learn more about this technique! More >
Merry XMas / IT-predictions for 2011
Dec 24th 2010
I’d like to wish you all a merry Christmas with the hope that Santa Claus will bring you a lot of cool iPads, Android phones and Kinects or perhaps other IT-Gadgets like the Zhu Zhu Pets (ok it’s the low-cost Chinese version of the more interesting Furby) or a Chumby. It’s also time to ask ourselves what will be hyped or new in 2011. Like each year here are my IT-predictions. More >
Augmented Reality with Ferrero Kinder Chocolate Eggs Surprise
Dec 19th 2010
Augmented reality is cool, and combining a real surprise with a virtual one is one of the surprises delivered by Ferrero in their chocolate Kinder eggs.
Do you remember the action made by the French TV magazine Tele 7 Jours to celebrate the anniversary of Johnny Halliday? (see Post)
The French rocker came to life in a 3D virtual concert when you placed the magazine in front of a webcam.
The French company Total Immersion who did this, now teams with Ferrero in order to give us more surprise while opening the Ferrero Kinder chocolate eggs. Let’s have a look what’s inside the surprise egg! More >
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Quick Android App review: Angry Birds
Dec 10th 2010
Angry Birds by Rovio belongs to the mobile games of 2010 that are really addictive. The concept is pretty simple: you take the old concept of missiles being launched through the air over a mountain in order to hit tanks on the other side of the mountain.
Do you remember? I’ve played this game almost 12 years ago at school with the good old Texas Instrument and on the four color Casio Calculator CFX-9940GT (with 32Kb internal Memory!) More >
Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand : “Hallo Bimmelbahn” is still a hit 40 years later
Nov 27th 2010
“Huhu huhuhuhu… Barbra Streisand”. Yes we are all singing this refrain over the last weeks. The refrain is really catchy and easy to remember. But what’s pretty interesting is the history of this hit.
The first time I’ve heard “Duck Sauce” I thought the refrain is really cool, but I’ve heard something similar, but couldn’t recall when and where.
Let’s discover the history of Duck Sauce’s Barbra Streisand.
Product placement in videoclips / subliminal ads
Nov 27th 2010
This post is two years old, but I thought it would be cool to see how advertisement and product placement changed the video clips industry. A few years ago TV broadcasters did not blur each frame in which a product appeared. Now the un-blurred versions of video clips are only available on YouTube or similar video sharing platforms.
Let’s have a look back to see why broadcasters came to such a decision and to discover which famous video clips included (subliminal?) ads for cool gadgets and products. More >
Installing Android (2.2) on your iPhone (2/2)
Nov 20th 2010
In the last post I’ve explained how to install the most difficult part of iDroid (but honestly, was it really difficult ?)
Now that you’ve successfully installed your Froyo it’s time to install some apps for it and to see how it works.
To start with this second part, I assume you have the Android SDK installed on your computer (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html) because we are going to use some of its features to connect directly to the phone. More >
Installing Android (2.2) on your iPhone (1/2)
Nov 20th 2010
You have an old iPhone and you don’t know what to do with it? Perhaps reselling it would be a good idea…
No wait we are going to do something really cool with it: installing Android Froyo 2.2.
More >
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Volkswagen App My Ride: Locatunes
Jul 4th 2010
As you might have read on some webpages, Volkswagen has launched a contest called “App My Ride“. Goal of this contest is to
implement a small Flash/Flex-based application for a VW car entertainement system.
With my colleague Medhi, we have
submitted an application called “Locatunes”
Full description after the break:
Panini Album South Africa 2010
Jun 20th 2010
When the World Cup starts, I also begin to collect the stickers of the Panini albums. This year (like the others) I have a lot of stickers left and of course some that I’m still looking for in order to complete my album.
The following blog entry lists all stickers numbers I’m looking for and those I would like to swap.
If you have interests to swap Panini Stickers with me, please leave me a small message with your email or leave me a tweet : http://www.twitter.com/iMatD
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Total Immersion: Augmented reality meets paper ad
Jun 19th 2010
You might ask yourself what a good old French rocker Johnny Halliday (better known in USA as Smet thanks to star fashion designer Chrisitian Audigier )has something to do with augmented reality.
This question is legit but here is the answer: the French TV magazine Tele 7 jours are offering a pretty nice feature: if you place the cover of the magazine in front of your webcam you will have the pleasure to see our french rocker appear on the magazine’s cover playing a private concert for you; nice isn’t it? Indeed the French augmented reality specialized company Total Immersion really did a great job.
Tutorial: Using TV Out with an iPod Touch 2G/ iPhone 1-2-3G for self-written apps with XCode
Apr 13th 2010
Here we are again with a typical problem when using an iPhone or an iPod Touch: you have built a nice app with XCode and would like to show it to everyone during a presentation. Unfortunately you don’t have the magic “Steve Job” cable that will allow you to show to the whole audience what you are currently doing on your iPod Touch.
Only the Video app allows a direct video output onto the cable. This is so frustrating! But fortunately here is a solution. This solution is based on jailbreaking your device and installing a special app that will over a private Apple API output the screen buffer directly onto the cable. It’s really worth trying it out and will give your presentation a new dimension, because not so many people are using this technique. More >
What can you do with bytes ? Thibault tells you
Apr 11th 2010
Ever wanted to know what you could do with a ByteArray ? Thibault Imbert (visit his website ByteArray.org) gives you the answers and opens you the mysterious world of bits and bytes in Actionscript 3. His book will contain 7 chapters around concepts like encoders, parsers or even emulators.
If you are beginning to learn Actionscript 3, have no clue why ByteArrays are so important or if you wonder how to make an image encoder or how to send data over sockets, then this book is for you!
Thibault was kind enough to let us download the first chapter called “The first bits. The complete book will be available on his website. And by the way, don’t hesitate to check his other Actionscript 3 tuts and articles, this will show you the power of Actionscript 3 😉
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Faithless new album will rock this summer
Apr 9th 2010
After a two years absence, the electro duo (composed by Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo) Faithless comes back with a massive tune. Their first new single called “Not Going Home” re-targets the good old “God is a DJ” dancefloor-tripping ambiance. After listening this first single, you will recognize the singular, Maxi Jazz’s semi-prayerful lyrics combined with the 90’s electro rhythms: a kinda back to the roots.
The release of the album The Dance is scheduled for 17 May 2010. The single can already be heard on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvnhnw6q8As
Stay tuned for my full review of the album The Dance !
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