This is a very cool piece of research coming out of Microsoft Labs.
Microsoft Research – Gesture Multitouch using Webcam
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Funcoder
Developer & Tech Enthusiast
A Look at Windows 7
Here’s a video of the PDC release (pre beta) of Windows 7. I love the gestures you can perform...
My Free Tool – Check Sites Have Been Indexed By Google
I created a simple app this morning to allow me to check when my sites get indexed by Google. I...
Social Networks for Learning Programming Languages
This week I decided to start learning Spanish as our summer holiday is a vacation to Tenerife, so I cam across a cool site called soZiety. The idea behind this site is to use Skype to learn your chosen language with other members. This got me thinking how it would be...
Slingshot Available
A little while ago I wrote about the wave of tools to allow web developers to produce desktop applications using web languages like JavaScript, Flex, Ruby on Rails. Being a Rails developer I was very excited to hear that Joyent where going to be releasing the...
Blackberry Curve – Cool
I am a big fan of Blackberry and use a 7100i to push my email and some blogs via RMail. The new Blackberry Curve has some great new features including instant messaging built in. I would still like to see RSS push built into the service, the same way as email. RMail...
Hobo Framework for Ruby on Rails
Last night I had my geek hat on again and downloaded the Hobo Framework gem after hearing about it on the Rubyoligy podcast. Watching their quicktime videos gives you an insight into how cool this framework/plugin actually is, so I recommend you start there first. As...
iGoogle – Has Apple bought out Google?
Was just using google this afternoon and noticed they have made a name change to the personalized Google page. It's like the new black, everyone want's to start with an i. Maybe I should purchase iFuncoder.com
IronRuby – Ruby on the .NET Platform
Even if your not into .NET development it is still good news for the Ruby world that Microsoft is creating a DLR called IronRuby. You may recognise this as there is already IronPython and I would think a whole host of new implementations now that DLR has gone open...
Mix07 – Live with Robert Scoble
Get in the mix with Robert Scoble and the camera on his head: UStream -Mix07 with Rober Scoble
Preserving History
After the sad loss of my cat at the weekend I started to think how I could preserve the past for my future family. It's always fascinating to look though old photo's of my family from the past and I decided to preserve this history. The plan is to scan all my old...
Microsoft Mix’07
When it comes to technology I try not to be one sided and enjoy developing for both Windows and Mac OS X. With that said, it's time for some Microsoft fun at Mix'07. I would have loved to be part of the community this year but this will be limited to being online....
