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keithshaw
Member since: January 2011
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Follow Keith on Google+Keith Shaw writes the Cool Tools column for Network World, and is the Multimedia Content Editor for IDG Enterprise, responsible for editorial video and audio content creation. Follow him on Twitter @shawkeith.
Areas of Interest: Hardware, Mobile, Networking, video games, comic books, gadgets, IT geek culture
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This week on Joerg Sprave's Slingshot Channel, we get a bunch of weapons that you can make out of ordinary trash. Like the video he did on making weapons out of office supplies, this one will amaze you about how you can prepare yourself for the oncoming apocalypse, whether it's zombies, robots or other such doom and gloom.
15 hours 18 min ago
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Harry Potter fans, rejoice! Your dreams of being able to wave a wand in front of your TV set and Xbox Kinect video game accessory will soon be a reality.
16 hours 10 min ago
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Visual explainer video guy "minutephysics" delves into a bit of math this week, offering up an animated description of how to prove that the area of a circle is Pi times the square of the circle's radius. Check it out:
16 hours 22 min ago
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The wonderful CGPGrey has another explainer video, this time discussing the history of the planets within our solar system, and why certain planets were granted planetary status, and why some were not.
16 hours 46 min ago
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Like Jack12's answer, I'd recommend iMovie as well - it comes free on new versions of Macs, but the price of a Mac is worth it in order to get the iMovie software. I'd say about 95% of your video projects can be completed with iMovie.
4 days 20 hours ago
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It's quite appropriate that on the 35th anniversary of Star Wars, we get another historic moment in the realm of space, but this time in real life.
4 days 20 hours ago
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We got so caught up in all of the May 4th "Star Wars Day" festivities a few weeks ago, that I almost forgot that today is the 35th anniversary of the premiere of Star Wars.
4 days 21 hours ago
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Last month we brought you a "trailer" for the fake movie featuring "Pac-Man" as if it were a live-action film. Today we bring you "Tetris" (hey, since they made a movie out of Battleship, why not see all those other games make it to film?)
5 days 14 hours ago
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I know there are a lot of problems in the world that need solving, but it's still nice to see some of the little ones get solved - like how to get all of the ketchup (or mayonnaise) out of a glass bottle.
5 days 21 hours ago
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The folks at Getty Images have posted a very cool ad for their stock photo image service, telling a story of a boy, a girl and their life through stock images only. Called "From Love to Bingo", the film is fascinating to watch.
5 days 21 hours ago
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Chinese scientists have presented this video in which we meet the Clothbot, a climbing robot that can crop and climb up various types of clothes. CREEPIEST THING EVER!
5 days 22 hours ago
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The latest batch of celebrity ads pitching the Siri voice recognition function features John Malkovich, who has made a career out of playing off-kilter (dare I say creepy?) characters. In these two ads, Malkovich sits in a room alone, talking with Siri about life, and asking Siri to tell him a joke.
5 days 22 hours ago
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In honor of Bob Moog's 78th birthday, Google created a special "Google Doodle" that lets people play and record music on a special synthesizer on its home page.
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Check out this cool video that takes the first level of Super Mario Brothers and converts it to a stop-motion animation. It's so good that at first you don't realize that it's stop-motion. A nice touch is the "fail" at the end of the level, which most of us have experienced when playing this video game.
1 week 22 hours ago
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Video game companies release a lot of gameplay footage of its future games, and for the most part I tend to ignore the footage. But in this case, when you have footage of a Lego game and a Batman game, I can't resist posting them. Here are a bunch of videos of gameplay from Lego Batman 2, coming later this year, courtesy of IGN Entertainment:
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There's a lot of videos out there of yesterday's solar eclipse (sadly, this East Coaster wasn't able to see the eclipse), but this one is the coolest one I've seen so far.
1 week 1 day ago
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The world today was treated to the first trailer for the new James Bond movie, November's "Skyfall", starring Daniel Craig as 007. Take a look at the ominous goings-on with our favorite British secret agent:
1 week 1 day ago
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The amazing part about today's smartphone culture is that more apps keep coming out that make me go, "Wow, I wish I had this when I was a teen-ager".
1 week 1 day ago
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I've always been a fan of classical music, ever since I got hooked (pardon the pun) on "Hooked on Classics". So what a kick it was to see this video, in which the "Can Can" song is performed by the sounds of Super Mario Brothers.
1 week 4 days ago
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Most of my foosball experiences took place in my college dorm basement freshman year (and that short period where Network World had a table in the breakroom), but now it can move to the living room with the upcoming release of a foosball video game for the PlayStation 3.
1 week 4 days ago
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Check out this cool video from Fast Company, in which J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler says that Steve Jobs had envisioned an iCar, among other things, before Jobs died last year.
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Microsoft dropped a nice surprise on Xbox 360 owners yesterday by adding Amazon Streaming to the suite of video apps offered via Xbox Live Gold, thereby ending Sony's (roughly) 7 weeks of Amazon exclusivity on gaming consoles.
16 hours 24 min ago
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At the tail end of last week Sony found itself in the bullseye of gamer nerd rage again, this time because of a patent application uncovered by a forum user at NeoGAF.
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Are you ready for a morning eye-roll? So TechCrunch Disrupt is going on this week. I don't know exactly what TechCrunch Disrupt's elevator pitch is, but I think it's safe to say it's a conference designed around new technology that is potentially disruptive, eh?
6 days 19 hours ago
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I don't often cover Apple rumors these days; there are just so many of them, most of which turn out to be completely wrong. But this week we seem to be seeing some kind of consensus on at least one aspect of the next iPhone: a bigger screen.
1 week 15 hours ago
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Must have been a tough day for Microsoft's Kinect department yesterday.
1 week 1 day ago
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It's hard to believe that E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is just two weeks away. Technically the show starts on June 5th, 2012 but June 4th is the day that Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts are all holding their press conferences.
1 week 2 days ago
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Here's some good news for Sony PS3 owners who enjoy putting those generous hard drives to use by buying their games digitally. Starting with next week's Playstation Move-enabled magic-slinging release Sorcery, gamers will be able to pre-load digital titles ahead of time.
1 week 5 days ago
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Yesterday saw a lot of column inches devoted to NUads, a new advertising technology coming to us from Microsoft this spring. The basic gist of the system is that, by using Microsoft Kinect, advertisers can let viewers interact with TV ads.
1 week 5 days ago
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The cloud-based gaming scene (what I used to awkwardly refer to as streaming-gaming) got a little more interesting yesterday when Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated a new 'virtual GPU' at (where else?) the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA.
1 week 6 days ago
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A few months back, music streaming service Rdio launched a new interface for it's subscribers. As of yesterday evening free users will also have access to the new Rdio.
2 weeks 17 hours ago
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The latest Xbox scuttlebutt coming out of the rumor grindhouse known as The Verge is that the Xbox 360 is getting a version of IE 9 that is (of course) Kinect enabled.
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Almost since the first person shooter debuted, critics have warned it would make players more violent. Game developers have warned for just as long that rampant piracy was costing them billions and would drive them out of business. There is little evidence of any truth to either charge, or was until now.29 weeks 1 day ago
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Rockstar Games has released the first trailer for its Grand Theft Auto V video game, showing some of the scenes from the Los Angeles-based video game where you get to commit crimes, run away from cops and do other assorted bad things. Count me in, of course.
29 weeks 6 days ago
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With all of the controversy surrounding the Blu-Ray DVD release of the Star Wars saga, it was inevitable that the YouTube community would start creating more and more versions beyond just dubbing a Darth Vader "Nooooooooo!" into different scenes.
35 weeks 4 days ago
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pasmith commented on GoDaddy goes from racy ads to the truly offensiveIt'll be interesting to see how GoDaddy chief executive Bob Parsons handles the continued fallout from his recent "vacation" in Zimbabwe. Parsons is taking the kind of heat that in early February forced fashion icon Kenneth Cole to apologize after he lamely tried to use political violence in Egypt to hype his company's "spring collection."1 year 8 weeks ago
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pasmith commented on I'm sad that I'm happy about the WiFi XoomSo now it's official: the WiFi-only Motorola Xoom is launching on March 27th at seven different retailers. The price will be $599, and that price seems to be causing much rejoicing. In fact I was happy to hear it myself. And then I became very sad that the tablet manufacturers have me thinking of $600 as a great price for a tablet.
1 year 10 weeks ago
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Today Amazon launched its "Prime Instant Video" service. This is an additional feature added to Amazon's existing $79/year Prime service that offers free two-day shipping on many products.
1 year 13 weeks ago
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pasmith commented on The Daily pains of a new media format [video]I was as anxious as anyone to download Rupert Murdoch's new media baby, The Daily, when it launched yesterday. What was the 'future of newspapers' on Apple's iPad going to look like? I booted the app wanting to hate it just because of the level of hubris displayed by those hyping the product ahead of launch.
1 year 16 weeks ago
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In a future patch (firmware version 3.6), Sony is going to enable Playstation 3 game saves to be stored in the cloud. This information came to us via Kotaku last Friday.
1 year 17 weeks ago
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pasmith commented on Android is open? Tell that to KongregateThe other day I downloaded a very nifty app for my Motorola Droid: Arcade by Kongregate. The app promised to offer 300 Flash games on my phone. To be clear, these were all games from Kongregate.com, a Flash-game portal of some renown.
1 year 18 weeks ago
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iOS game developers are starting to move to Android, but the platform isn't nearly as homogeneous as iOS is, and Google recently cut the refund window from 24 hours to 15 minutes. That means some gamers are finding themselves with broken apps and no means to get their money back.
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Last winter Android fans were all in a tizzy over the deluge of seemingly high quality Android tablets headed to market. Here we are in the midst of Holiday 2010 and...still there are (almost) no decent Android tablets! Are there any good choices? Will there be?
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Last winter Android fans were all in a tizzy over the deluge of seemingly high quality Android tablets headed to market. Here we are in the midst of Holiday 2010 and...still there are (almost) no decent Android tablets! Are there any good choices? Will there be?
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Random House thinks people who receive an e-reader for Christmas will be unable to find e-books to read on it without their help. I think Random House just sees a great marketing opportunity cloaked in a free e-book.
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Last winter Android fans were all in a tizzy over the deluge of seemingly high quality Android tablets headed to market. Here we are in the midst of Holiday 2010 and...still there are (almost) no decent Android tablets! Are there any good choices? Will there be?
1 year 23 weeks ago
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