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Month: November 2008

  • Pianocktail Progress Report

    We are making good progress in the Pianocktail. There are 2 more weeks left in the semester and about a month left to do in work. Thankfully we have around 10 or 20 coffee shops around NYU. Can’t wait to take the first sip out of a cocktail mixed by the Pianocktail. While I write […]

  • Oscar's Video of the Week.

  • Playing around with AJAX

    These are some of the tweens and actions that I am playing around with. Hopefully soon I will be able to use what I learned from my play time and translate it into something useful. I am using a library from mootools to help me with the tweening in javascript. I could code everything from […]

  • Messing with Google Maps.

    I made this Silly Smiley face using Google Map API: Surprisingly, Google made it really easy for people to use their maps and re-purpose the information to be used for something else. Its nothing new but its Cool stuff! http://blubee.com/itp/ajax/GoogleMaps/map2.html

  • Live Streaming Video on the Web

    The dawn of do it your self live streaming is upon us. Although it may be video feeds of cute puppies sleeping and squirrels in Alaska feeding, uStream.tv is going to be the next YouTube. Soon the link between cell phones and live streaming video will be made. When this crucial step occurs, there will […]

  • Death of a Turkey!

    This interview with Sarah Palin makes me feel like a hypocrite. At first I was really disgusted by Palin talking in front of a turkey slaughter house. When I thought about it for a minute, I concluded that these turkeys are being treated ten times better than the turkeys poultry, beef or pork that you […]

  • Composing text as a group.

    How do a bunch of people write a text document at the same time? There is a web site that allows a group of people the write a text document on the web at the same time. check it out but beware, the site still has a lot of bugs: http://etherpad.com/

  • OMG I want one!

  • Fake New York Times?

    This impostor New York Times paper is definitely fake, but if you look at the date closely you will see its dated for July 4th 2009 (or a couple of days from when it was distributed). The purpose of the project was to give you a glimpse at what things could be like if we […]

  • WAMI Dome at Electronic Social Club Exhibit.

    The WAMI Dome got some exposure at the Electronic Social Club’s Annual Exhibit at Hunter College. Everyone really enjoyed to play with the little dome and its square wave sounds. This is a video of the dome in action: The Jimmy (WAMI Dome) at ESC Exhibit. from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.