ChordChord: Chord Progression Generator & Music Maker Building an iOS App like Siri | Ray Wenderlich - Mozilla FireFox for eBuro Learn how to build an iOS app like Siri Siri is a voice-based personal assistant that takes voice commands and performs tasks like sending messages, making phone calls, setting alarms, searching on the web, finding directions and more. Unfortunately at the time of writing this tutorial there isn’t an official API by Apple, but there are few third party frameworks that allow developers to include functionality similar to Siri. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Nuance Dragon Mobile SDK (SpeechKit), which is one of the leading frameworks in this arena. Specifically, you’ll learn: The key concepts of SpeechKit frameworkThe advantages of SpeechKit when compared to other frameworksHow to perform speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis using SpeechKit APIs. You’ll use this knowledge to build a Siri-like application to help your users find nearby restaurants, narrowed down by cuisine or category. What is SpeechKit? The framework carries out the following processes: Getting Started
Particles in Canvas - hop.ie Canvas is an exciting new way to create animated content for the web. With it you can create eye-catching animation in the web browser using only HTML and JavaScript, without adding much size to your web pages. In this article I will explore some ways you can make use of canvas to create particles, bounce them around the screen and respond to gravity. The Canvas tag HTML5 contains many tags and tools that allow you to create and animate amazing interactive content. Introduced in 2004 by Apple, the canvas tag was initially designed to be used in the webkit-based Safari browser. Canvas is frequently used as a basis for HTML-based games as it allows for a self-contained area of a web page, within which you can draw and animate shapes, respond to user input and add interactivity to your page. Recommended: Zevan Rosser’s video tutorial If you like to watch tutorials, one of the best introductions to the topic is presented by Zevan Rosser. Follow along A blank canvas Introducing a particle Movement
808 Cube InMoov » open-source 3D printed life-size robot And They All Look Just the Same — Web, Design, Code I borrowed the title from Malvina Reynolds’ song, “Little Boxes.”No doubt, many of you have heard the lyrics, though sung by a different artist than the original songwriter. Malvina wrote the song to protest the mass conformity of home development taking place in a suburb of San Francisco in the early 1960s. If you have ever driven through the area, you can still see all the ticky-tacky, little boxes dotting the hillsides and throughout the area. Today, ticky-tacky seems to have crept into another area of our society: the World Wide Web. Before his current gig as CEO for Basecamp, Jason Fried was a talented web designer (still is); his client services company 37signals was a smashing success, because of his insightfulness and business acumen. He recently wrote about redesigning his company’s websiteand what he’s seeing as a trend that’s not for the better. When I look at what’s hot in Web design these days, I’m turned off. Let me reiterate that Jason’s business savvy is keen.
beatlab - make music together let's get started making music... 1draw on the grid with your mouse to make a beatshow me2 save your track and share it with friends. show me3 out of ideas? roll the dice and start remixing. show me4 explore the beatlab community show me For more tips, tutorials vidoes, and FAQs, check out our community wiki. You can use the following keyboard shortcuts while composing a track. spacebar Press to start or stop playback. commandcontrol key Hold down the commandcontrol key while drawing notes to create "loud" notes. optionalt key Hold down the optionalt key while drawing notes to create "soft" notes. shift Hold down the shift key to select a region of notes. Playback starting point By default, playback always starts from the beginning of a track. You can change where playback begins by setting the playback start marker. Clicking on the arrow icon again will remove it. show me Column volume There is a speaker icon to the left of each row on the grid.
Patent Bolt According to a Korean press source, a new standalone variant of the Samsung Gear 2, equipped with a universal subscriber identity module, or USIM, will likely be christened the Samsung Gear Solo. Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom are jointly preparing to release the new smartwatch. Continue reading "Samsung Reportedly Preparing New Standalone Smartwatch" » Priceplay Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google. The patent infringement lawsuit concerns two specific Priceplay patents. The company alleges that Google's Cost-Per-Click" bidding and "Quality Score"/"Ad Rank" systems relating to "AdWords" infringe upon their intellectual property. Continue reading "Google Sued by Priceplay for Infringing Patents Related to Ad Business" » Back in November we reported on Samsung's patent application relating to 3D Orientation-Free Wireless Power Transfer. Continue reading "Samsung Invents Wireless Charging for Pacemakers & Beyond" » Last week the U. The U.S.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this distance in a spaceship. Sit back and relax. When are we gonna be there? Seriously. This is where we might at least see some asteroids to wake us up. I spy, with my little eye... something black. If you were on a road trip, driving at 75mi/hr, it would have taken you over 500 years to get here from earth. All these distances are just averages, mind you. If you plan it right, you can actually move relatively quickly between planets. Pretty close to Jupiter now. Sorry. Lots of time to think out here... Pop the champagne! We're always trying to come up with metaphors for big numbers.
Otomata - Online Generative Musical Sequencer 16 Jul 2011 Click on the grid below to add cells, click on cells to change their direction, and press play to listen to your music. Update: Click here to get Otomata for your iPhone / iPod / iPad! Official facebook page: Also this reddit page has many examples: And there is a subreddit for Otomata: Otomata is a generative sequencer. Each alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. If you encounter something you like, just press “Copy Piece Link” and save it somewhere, or better, share it! Here is something from me to start with: And here is an action video: Here are replies to some common questions: Q: MIDI Output?
This Man-Made Biological Leaf Creates Oxygen from Water and CO2 A young graduate of the Royal College of Art, Julian Melchiorri, has designed and produced the first synthetic biological leaf capable of producing oxygen from water and carbon dioxide (CO2). The process is enabled by extracting a unique material from silk. The fibers stabilize plant organelles. Melchiorri extracts chloroplasts from living plant cells and places them inside the silk material. The end result is a synthetic material that operates and breathes like a normal leaf. Silk-Leaf-by-Julian-Melchiorri on buildings in urban centers. Melchiorri is just beginning to imagine the applications his invention might deliver, including house lamps that breathe, facades on buildings (see image above) or possibly inside building ventilation systems where air would be piped in, oxygenated, and distributed throughout a building. Finally, talk has begun about the use of Melchiorri’s invention for space travel in which oxygen can be produced naturally to supply astronauts. David Russell Schilling