HTML5 Radio Tuner (powered by ShoutCast API)
Pioneer radio tuner 70s (Photo credit: Barrie Sutcliffe) Since I wrote about Skeumorphs last month, I thought I’d include this piece I had worked on. This is an older idea I had that I’d done the...
View ArticleThe News Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
Luddite FUD on Drudge Report (Photo credit: Todd Barnard) Ever felt like you couldn’t quite put your finger on it, but that something seemed to be “wrong with the world” and the way things are? What if...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Cell Phone INFOGRAPHIC
Image source: www.computersciencedegreehub.com This was provided courtesy of Aldo Baker at the ComputerScience Degree Hub.
View ArticleDIY Project – Home Theatre Projection Screen Controls
John Underkoffler explains the human-computer interface he first designed as part of the advisory work for the film Minority Report. The system, called “g-speak”, is now real and working. Note the...
View ArticleJS Podcatcher (a Podcast client written in JavaScript)
English: The “Made for iPod, iPhone, iPad” emblem appearing on accessories approved by Apple Inc. for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So just this month my 5-year old iPhone 3GS...
View ArticleHTML5 Audio Player Jukebox
A jukebox icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here’s a piece of work I did on a freelance basis back in early 2012 for a client who allowed me to retain the full rights to the code as a “library” which I...
View ArticleAudio Recognition overview (TTS, STT, Voice .vs. Speech)
Yeti brand of USB microphone by the “Blue Microphones” company. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is still in many ways the early days of innovation in the several sub-categories of Audio Recognition....
View ArticleHTML5 Audio version of the iconic Flash XSPF Player
The XSPF Music Player is one of those “history of the web” old-time greats. It is a Flash application (SWF file) that was originally created by Fabricio Zuardi in late 2003 and which gained massive...
View ArticleNoise Isolation .vs. Cancellation .vs. Reduction – protect your ears and work...
Most of the time, Developers’ day-to-day jobs can be a bit stressful. With tight deadlines, high expectations, and often unwieldy applications/codebases to manage, you can see how there really is a...
View ArticleSpeech Recognition – Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking 14
A sample dictation in Microsoft Word 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) They often call it Voice Recognition in Nuance’s marketing and promotional material, which doesn’t help the average user to have...
View ArticleAnimations on the web – Applets .vs. Flash .vs. SVG .vs. setTimeout .vs....
In a follow-up to my prior article on Interactive Graphics on the web from a few years back, today I’ll be looking a bit closer at the latest Animation options on the web. Animations have always been...
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