PWA Slalom Alacati 2010 is done

Straight after the Canary trip we flew back to Austria through D�sseldorf. We had just 1 and a half day to organise things for a 3 week Turkey-Greece trip, pick up the post, pick up a repaired sail, getting the right gear sorted out. What a stress! Thanks to the help of our friends J�rgen [...]

Wireless Phone Rhona Mitra Razor Cell Phone Norah Jones

Thousands Duped By Midwest Housing Scam

An investment offer pitched to several thousand Canadians and Americans in 2008 on a traveling investment infomercial/seminar circuit has gone terribly wrong. Several companies offered buyers what they pitched as an opportunity to take advantage of the foreclosure crisis: buying foreclosed homes at low prices and then collecting payments on a rent-to-own basis from people who would live in those houses. Legal documents show about 1,200 properties across the Midwest were sold to investors from the U.S. and Canada, but deeds were rarely transferred.

Miranda Kerr Siemens Reverse Cell Phone Lookups Melissa George

Alessio Sakara UFC Return Likely for February or March After UFC 122 Withdrawl

Rising middleweight Alessio Sakara is still recovering from a stomach virus that forced him out of UFC 122's co-main event with Jorge Rivera earlier this month, but is already training for a February or March UFC return.

Sarah Michelle Gellar Diodes Inorated Jennifer Gimenez Simone Mütherthies

Hacked Microsoft Kinect trained to recognize objects

With the release of OpenKinect, an open-source library that lets PC users interact with Microsoft's depth-sensing and environment-recognizing Kinect, crazy-cool applications of the technology are beginning to emerge. In this video (embedded after the break), one creative hacker mashes together a bunch of open-source libraries to create... well, a modern-day equivalent of HAL 9000.

Using OpenKinect as an interface, OpenCV to process the captured images, CMU Sphinx to recognize speech and Festvox to synthesize speech, one hacker was able to create a program that recognizes random real-world objects and communicates with a user in real time. He notes in the video's description that it's just a 'proof of concept', but one wonders how long it actually took him to cobble it together because the video was uploaded only a few days after OpenKinect's release.

The most exciting prospect though, in my opinion, is that Microsoft must surely be working on their own in-house tools (and games!) to better utilize Kinect's potential. The cocky work of lone cowboy coders is one thing, but next-generation interfaces from powerhouses like Microsoft are something else.

Continue reading Hacked Microsoft Kinect trained to recognize objects

Hacked Microsoft Kinect trained to recognize objects originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Electronic Arts At & T Wireless Plans Kelly Brook Cell Phones

TopWinPrio gives a priority boost to your focused application window

TopWinPrio's function is mashed right into its name. Once you launch the app, it hides in your system tray and automatically bumps the process priority of your foreground window. If you're focused on an app and working in it, it might as well have dibs on available CPU time, right?

Head to the options window, and you can set TopWinPrio to run at startup, boost Explorer processes, and change the update interval. You can also switch the default process priority from AboveNormal to High or Realtime (danger, Will Robinson!) Your mileage will may vary, of course, though I've found TopWinPrio to provide a nice shot in the arm for my Atom 270 netbook.

On my desktop and full-size laptop, however, I don't see myself switching from Process Lasso. It's much more configurable and offers a slew of additional features.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows

TopWinPrio gives a priority boost to your focused application window originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Novellus Systems Htc Cell Phones Top Google Searches Luján Fernández

Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)

Video Phone (Extended Remix)

• Artist: Lady Gaga
• Label: Columbia, Music World Music
• Director: Hype Williams
• Album: I Am...Sasha Fierce

Purple Cell Phones Bridget Moynahan Lokelani McMichael Katy Perry

Natalie Portman Says Her 'Black Swan' Masturbation Scene Is 'So Disgusting'

Natalie Portman had to do a whole lot to prepare her body for the rigors of playing a ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming psychological thriller "Black Swan" -- including hours of grueling workouts in both the gym and the dance studio. But for Portman that was nothing compared to preparing herself to film a graphic [...]

Koninklijke Kpn Free Search Engine Optimization 411 Reverse Phone Lookup Prepaid Cell Phones