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Leap Motion FirstThoughts

June 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago we wrote a piece on the upcoming release of a device which we thought would make a huge impact on the state of natural user interfaces for [...]

NUI FirstThoughts

March 4, 2013 // 0 Comments

Jeff Han set the user-interface world on fire with his FTIR-based multi-touch technology presentation at the 2006 TED conference. The interface’s ease of use was [...]

iOS Programming: Staying Current

May 22, 2012 // 0 Comments

Writing  software is simple, but it is not easy. It is simple because the computer will do what you tell it to do. The difficulty comes from needing to make the [...]

Installing ofxKinect for OSX

October 25, 2011 // 0 Comments

Playing  with the Kinect hacks are a lot of fun. Getting the hacks to work on the Mac, not so much. OK, not AS much. However, we REALLY REALLY wanted to see the Kinect [...]

Kinect Hacks for OSX

October 24, 2011 // 0 Comments

We  got a Microsoft Kinect 360 camera through Craigslist back in April. The main reason we got it was because the cool Kinect-based hacks, which had been Linux and [...]

iPhone Dev Setup

September 23, 2011 // 0 Comments

In case you have not heard, iPhone and iPad apps are now a billion-dollar business. Many people are making decent livings writing apps for Apple’s smartphones and [...]

iOS Programming

July 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

When  it is too hot to be outside working in the RainyDayGarden, we crank up the AC, stay inside, and brush up on our iOS programming skills. Keeping current with the iOS [...]

Digital Publishing for the iPad

June 27, 2011 // 0 Comments

Compared  to the likes of Wired and Martha Stewart Living, we are a small publisher (100K viewers/month, <2000 downloads/iPad issue). When we heard that Adobe was [...]

Spring iPad Issue Approved

April 18, 2011 // 0 Comments

It is Patriot’s Day here in New England. We know that some (many) of you don’t have this day off, but we do. So we are out cheering the runners of the Boston [...]

Spring iPad Issue

April 15, 2011 // 0 Comments

Last  Friday we submitted the first iPad issue of RainyDayMagazine to Apple for approval. The issue was constructed using a beta version of Adobe’s DMP tools. Future [...]
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