HTC have taken it on themselves to release a YouTube app for their Windows Phone 7 Devices. It’s a horrible fact that Microsoft didn’t bother to include a YouTube app, amongst many other features, in Windows Phone 7. Call it version 1.0 or whatever you like, but even iPhone had it since version 1.0
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Another Amazing Kinect Hack: OpenKinect puts a Keyboard Anywhere You Want to Play
Just in case you didn’t know, Kinect is amazing. This new hack just proves how it keeps blowing ours minds away everyday. OpenKinect puts a keyboard anywhere you like so you can play it with your hands, feet or even create a big enough keyboard on the floor for two people to play together. Oh and it works at 30fps with minimum lag.
Kinect Hack Allows Control of XBMC Through Hand Gestures
Another day, another new Kinect hack. Kinect has become sort of like a canvas that is allowing hacker’s imaginations run wild. This time Kinect has been hacked to allow control of XBMC, a popular media center app, using just hand gestures. While this isn’t an elegant solution as you can tell from the video, it could be improved to become as useable as the Kinect hub on Xbox 360. Or Microsoft could just add more features to the Kinect hub to allow us to browse through our movie collections, minority report style. What up!
Mango update for Windows Phone 7 to bring Silverlight and HTML5 in Fall’ 2011 – ‘Apolo’ Windows Phone 8 expected in 2012
Loads of rumors have been surfacing that Microsoft is planning on bringing a major update called ‘Mango’ to Windows Phone 7 which could be seen this fall and ‘Apollo’, which is a potential codename for Windows Phone 8 which is expected to arrive in 2012.
Microsoft Releases New Plug-in To Enable H.264 Support in Firefox on Windows 7
Microsoft has released a new plug-in that lets Firefox take advantage of Windows 7′s native H.264 support. Firefox at the moment doesn’t support H.264 but Windows 7 does. The plug-in scans for HTML5 video tags and passes the video to the Windows Media Player plug-in for playback.
Buy Microsoft Kinect Studded With Swarovski Crystals For Only $632 [Video]
In my opinion, Kinect sensor is Microsoft’s greatest creation ever in the field of technology. For what its worth, you actually get so much more than what you’ve paid for and you only understand this once you experience the awesomeness yourself. But all this does not seem to be enough for DS Styles who have just come up with a crazy idea of adding “bling” to this epic piece of technology by loading it with 5,000 Swarovski crystals. Wow!
Whoa! Gears of War 3 To Support Kinect? [VIDEO]
This may sound highly unlikely but rumor has it that several big action titles including Gears Of War will be announced by Microsoft as Kinect compatible in the next couple of months. According to Inside Kinect, Epic is working on a Gears Of War Kinect version though it is not yet clear whether it will be a part of Gears Of War 3 itself or an entirely new game!
The first Windows Phone 7 ‘Jailbreak’/Unlock ChevronWP7 is Out – Download now!
Admit it. You were waiting for a jailbreak for your WP7 Phone for the sake of ‘freedom’ and whatever it is that gets you going through the day with a phone that can run apps with access to private APIs. Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh have come up with ChevronWP7 which lets you unleash the potential of your Windows Phone 7 phone.
Microsoft Kinect Hack Allows Web Browsing With Gestures Only [VIDEO]
Microsoft Kinect hacking seems to have become more of a hobby now for most developers. We saw Kinect working with an iPad as well as using a laptop with this motion sensor to create a wicked puppet show before. Now, a bunch of kids at the MIT Media Lab who belong to Fluid Interfaces Group have managed to hack the Xbox 360 Kinect motion sensor and develop a DepthJS system which makes Javascript work withKinect in order to navigate web pages, among other things.
Another Microsoft Kinect Hack Makes It Work With Apple iPad
Yesterday, we wrote about a cool Kinect hack which created an amazing puppet show while connected to a laptop. Today, this high-end toy from Microsoft has been hacked and exploited again by developer Chris Rojas who utilizes the distance data to render objects in neon cubes such that the size of the cube depends on the object’s distance from the Kinect sensor.