25 unusual sites to help get rid of boredom. Sometimes you end up with just too much time on your hands.
Maybe you’ve done all your work for the day and are at a loose end, maybe your work is just boring you senseless. You might have gotten sick of you’re favourite websites, you can’t find any interesting articles to read, and it’s the same old news on Facebook. Well, we’ve got some alternatives for you. Here’s a list of the best unusual and interesting websites you’ve probably never heard of. The Secret Door Every time you open the door you end up somewhere new and unexpected.
Radiooooo Choose a date and a country and you’ll be able to listen to the music which was popular at that point and location in history. Liveplasma Based on the preferences you provide, this site suggests new music, movies and TV shows which you should like. GeoGuessr This site uses Google Maps casts you into an unknown region of the world and you have to guess where you are. The Museum of Endangered Sounds 8-bit icon constructor.
Infographic: Hackers Create An Amazing, Illegal Portrait Of The Internet. It wasn’t malicious.
The file itself was the size of a small JPEG. It was given the absolute lowest priority. And it was set to self-destruct if anything went wrong. But this small file allowed one single hacker to measure the Internet activity of nearly half a million connected devices around the world, then share the results with everyone. I saw the chance to really work on an Internet scale, command hundred thousands of devices with a click of my mouse, portscan and map the whole Internet in a way nobody had done before, basically have fun with computers and the Internet in a way very few people ever will.
How was this even possible? The red represents peak traffic and the blue represents base traffic. No doubt, the general ethics of the study will likely turn some of you off. High-Low Tech. WebCam Mesh" by Felix Turner. RGBD Filmmaking with Kinect + DSLR « ITP Camp 2012. By RGBD Update:Thank you all for attending the workshop!
We had a blast with you all. Our film of perpetual introductions was on view almost immediately afterwards in the ITP hallway. It looks great. As promised here is the data from the workshop and a link to the brand new 003 release of the RGBD toolkit and a new set of tutorial videos. RGBD_preRelease_003_osx_lite.zip — RGBD PreRelease v. 003 for Mac OS XITPCamp.zip – Your data! Workshop Description: Imagine a future where the only constraint to filmmaking is your capacity to envision.
The RGBD toolkit is an open source project built in Open Frameworks for making volumetric films with a Kinect and any HD video camera. We will do a demonstration and quick workshop covering the whole RGBD workflow. With James George & Alexander Porter. Obviousjim/RGBDToolkit. Open Atrium. Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations and collaboration.
Open Atrium 2.x for Drupal 7 A new architecture for Drupal 7 that is built upon Panopoly and intended as an extensible collaboration framework. Adds the ability to have private "sections" within a collaboration space with granular access control. Drag/drop layout control with dozens of widgets that can be placed on dashboards and landing pages. Comes with Discussions, Events, Issue tracking, and Document Wiki out of the box, along with the dashboards to manage it all. Please use the Issue Queue to post bug reports and patches for OA2 only (not OA1). Demos The following webinar videos for Open Atrium 2 are available: Open Atrium 2.x Projects These modules are part of the official Open Atrium project and are actively maintained and approved.
Other Modules that work with Open Atrium 2.x System Requirements. AR-media™ Plugin for Google™ SketchUp™ Description With AR-media™ Plugin, Trimble SketchUp™ users are allowed to visualize their 3D models using Augmented Reality directly in the real physical space which surrounds them.
In a very precise sense, through AR-media™ Plugin, SketchUp™ 3D models can be visualized out of the digital workspace directly on users' desktop, by connecting a simple webcam and by printing a suitable code. By means of the Exporting feature, users can create and publish augmented reality files autonomously. Files created by this feature can be visualized on any computer with the freely available AR-media™ Player, without the need of having Trimble SketchUp™ and the Plugin installed. Users can now create their own SketchUp™ Augmented Reality models and distribute them to their clients as independent, stand-alone files and let their clients experience such models in Augmented Reality in a click.
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