Extra Future

Year: 2012

  • Twitter Introduces Expanded Tweets

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    [Embedded rich content on the web and official Twitter apps.][link] >You’ve probably expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or see photos from Instagram. Now, a diverse and growing group of new partners like the The Wall Street Journal, Breaking News, and TIME also deliver rich content inside Tweets containing a link to those…

  • Happy Trails, WWDC2012 Edition

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    Products and services that are going the way of the dodo in iOS 6, the new Macbook Pro, or likewise, based on today’s WWDC Keynote: * Firewire (still available via a Thunderbolt adapter – hat tip to Jesper) * Google Maps * Gigabit Ethernet * Optical discs Am I missing anything? Let me know: [@philnelson][link]…

  • Arduino Battery Meter

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    [A little how-to with some example code from Anonymous Hobbyist][link]. I’m considering adding a solar panel to my Arduino, and I really need to be able to monitor the battery (and the 9v backup). [link]: https://autonomoushobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/arduino-battery-meter/ “Arduino Battery Meter | Autonomous Hobbyist”

  • Suspicious Developments Manifesto

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    [Tom Francis:][link] >After eight years as a games journalist and two as a part time developer, I have decided what I think of games: I like them. I’ve also figured out some of the reasons I like them, some of the reasons I sometimes don’t, and which of these things I really care about. >…

  • xip.io: wildcard DNS for everyone

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    [A new free service from 37 Signals][link]: xip.io is: >a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. This is ingenious and will probably become the standard for web development. I’m nearly surprised that Coda 2 didn’t ship with something like this built-in. Bring it on, plugin developers! [link]: http://xip.io/ “xip.io: wildcard…

  • EventDuino

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    Based on the [previous link][prev] to a Node.js -> Arduino bridge, [@JerrySievert][guy] pointed me to [his own take: An event-driven package for Arduino/Node.js][link]. Listening for events on the board itself is a really cool idea. [link]: https://github.com/JerrySievert/EventDuino “JerrySievert/EventDuino” [guy]: http://twitter.com/JerrySievert “JerrySievert on Twitter” [prev]: http://extrafuture.com/2012/06/07/arduino-and-the-web-using-nodejs/ “Previously: Arduino & the Web using Node.js”

  • Arduino and the Web using NodeJS

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    [A tutorial on how to hook up sensor data (or anything else your Arduino can spit out) to the Internet.][link] [link]: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/389676/Arduino-and-the-Web-using-NodeJS-and-SerialPort2 “Arduino and the Web using NodeJS and SerialPort2 – CodeProject”

  • Peapod Studios

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    [My friends at Peapod Studios have released a new version of their website, and it looks as great as you’d expect.][link] If you need design, branding, web development, or otherwise, you can’t do much better than Peapod. [link]: http://www.peapod.ca/ “Peapod Studios”

  • Instapaper for Android

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    [“Finally.”][link] I use a fairly cheap Android phone, because I don’t want to give ATT or Verizon any of my money, and I hate cell phone contracts. Instapaper was one of the apps I use everyday that was really hampered by the lack of a native client. Looks like that’s fixed, now. The interesting thing…

  • In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do Not Track’ Default for IE 10

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    [This is good news for consumer and privacy advocates, and bad news for Google and Facebook.][link] The odds of either of these companies fully supporting Do Not Track are laughable, of course. This is how they make their money. You can play with the dog all you like; just don’t grab its milkbone unless you…

  • Arduino-serial: C code to talk to Arduino

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    [Relevant to my recent interests.][link] I bought an Arduino Uno this weekend and the amount of ideas I have right now are scary. The primary benefit of this C library is that it will not trigger a reset on the board. This means you can stream data at intervals and not get a reset. [link]:…

  • Jay Leno uses indie YouTube video; NBC gets it taken down

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    Obviously The System Works: >[NBC/Universal used a YouTube video by an indie comedy duo (without permission) on The Jay Leno Show – then had the video taken down with a copyright claim.][link] NBC’s position seems to be that they own any content played on any of their programs? I guess it’s nice to see their position…