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Flash 10 running on Android

Expected to debut during the Adobe MAX developer conference, Flash Player 10 is expected to bring it’s widely popular media distribution format to a large selection of smartphone systems. According to a recent investor earnings call Adobe will be releasing Flash Player 10 for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and WebOS this October.

Postcard from Maker Faire

Chris O’Brien over at Silicon Beat had a great time at Maker Faire. In answering the question “What is Maker Faire?,” he ends up with an optimistic view of how we can use Maker Faire to take back our technology. How do you boil down an event where someone spent 13 years building a life-size […]

Listening Post uses chatroom text as art

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post generates sound and an array of scrolling text from net-based conversation – Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, […]

Share synth sounds via Twitter

Tweet A Sound let’s you design and share synth patches by way of the ever-popular Twitter. The software represents your patch via a compact string of numbers. The 140 character limit keeps your tweakable parameter count relatively low, but this could be welcome if you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed by the deluge of options common […]

Networked power outlet

Networked power outlet

Picture from Landon Cox, 360VL, Inc. Landon has a great site with loads of evidence from his hardware and software explorations. Looking for a way to fly your Green Geek flag a bit? Check out the network controlled AC outlet: The impetus for this came when I was at work at a client…their offices are […]