Category: cool
Evernote gets Eye-Fi connectivity
Evernote gets Eye-Fi
New GE CFL Bulb
This new CFL bulb will be rolling out into stores on Dec 28, 2008. Looks like a regular bulb, but with CFL guts.
YouTube Partners Making Big Bucks
NYTimes article on people making some big money on YouTube, through their advertising program.
Game Design Tour of World of Goo
Wolfire Blog has a great game design tour of World of Goo
Design Tour – World of Goo from David Rosen on Vimeo.
Really great observations. It’s a great game too. Just $15 on WiiWare. You can also get World of Goo for the Mac and PC
Google SketchUp 7 – Dynamic Components
SketchUp 7 has been released (PC and Mac), and one of the new features are Dynamic Components. If you’ve done any 3D work, you’ll find this of interest:
Flip Mino HD – Very Inexpensive HD Video
Those Flip cameras that are so inexpensive got kicked up a notch to HD with the release of the Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder
Google Rolls out Video Chat
Google’s rolling out Video/Audio Chat in Gmail. That’s a picture of the settings with my mug on video.
Want to try it for yourself? You’ll need a Gmail account… then go to http://www.gmail.com/videochat
and install the plug-in. After you get it installed, it should take you to the Settings->Chat menu where you can configure your camera.
If you don’t see it, Google hasn’t activated it in your account yet. Be patient. It wasn’t on for me earlier this evening and when I checked again, it was up and running.
Video With a Still Camera
Check out this amazing video, shot entirely with a Canon 5D Mark II SLR camera.
David Pogue has a column on this, and how cameras like the Nikon D90
Via Pogue.
Very impressive
Free Golf Game from World Golf Tour
This free golf game is pretty impressive.