Microsoft LightSpace brings Surface (plus shadows) to any table (video)

Microsoft LightSpace brings Surface (plus shadows) to any table (video)

It’s hard not to love the crazy stuff happening at Microsoft Research, but it’s also hard to imagine when any of it is going to actually start changing the way we interact with our PCs. Surface was bested by SecondLight as the coolest tech we can’t buy, and now here comes another successor: LightSpace. This gets rid of the expensive table in favor of a (surely not cheap) series of projectors hanging from the ceiling paired to a 3D camera. The camera detects the relative position of things and instructs a projector to apply a Surface-like interface onto any flat surface. From there a user can literally grab any file they like and carry it over to another surface, where it will be displayed. It’s all demonstrated quite handily in the video below, and while the system does look a wee bit rough at the moment, the potential is surely there. Just like it was with SecondLight, and Surface, and Courier…

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How to Crack Your Windows Password: The Video Guide

We’ve already shown you how to crack your forgotten Windows password with the Ophcrack live CD, but for those that want to really understand the process, we’ve put together a video guide that will help you visually see how it all works.

In the above video we are able to boot into the live CD, crack our password, and log into Windows in under eight minutes. If you want a more in depth overview on how Ophcrack works make sure you check out the original article here:

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Facebook Users Can Now Upload High-Res Photos, Bulk Tag Friends

Facebook High Res Facebook users everywhere will soon be able to upload photos in higher resolution, tag their friends with greater efficiency and browse through their friends’ albums with more grace, thanks to a new set of features that will begin rolling out this month.

The social networking site’s new photo features will allow users to upload photos in a 2048-pixel resolution, instead of the traditional 720-pixel resolution. “It’s enough pixels to print out a 5×7 print at 300 DPI,” says Facebook Photos product manager Sam Odio. In addition, Facebook members will no longer have to load a separate Web page to view each photo in a friend’s album, thanks to a streamlined viewing function that automatically displays images, comments and tags directly on top of an already opened page. “It’s essentially going to happen very quickly, right when you click on the thumbnail,” Odio says. “If you click on a photo and an album from a news feed, you can still page through the entire album.”

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Google Celebrates ‘Flintstones’ 50th Anniversary With Yet Another Doodle

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Today, in case you didn’t know, marks the 50th anniversary of ‘The Flinstones’ franchise. Whereas most of us will probably celebrate the occasion by running around barefoot and breaking things with wooden clubs, Google decided to mark the occasion the only way it knows how — with a commemorative doodle on its homepage. Each time we visit Google today, the whole Flintstones gang will be there to greet us with broad smiles, reminding the world of the halcyon days of our primordial yesteryear. And if that doesn’t make your Bed Rock with excitement, we don’t know what will.

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Big Announcement on the Existence of Aliens! (Maybe)

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Following rumors that the United Nations tapped astrophysicist Mazlan Othman to be the official Ambassador of Earth should we come in contact with intelligent extraterrestrials, the web went into speculation overdrive pondering just what international powers-that-be might know. (Ms. Othman has denied the space promotion.)

The diplomat-to-the-stars story broke at the same time that a group of retired US airmen held a press conference to announce that they all had experiences with giant flying “cigar-shaped” objects that would regularly hover over military bases to observe and mess with US nuke silos.

Following these extraordinary announcements, the human species took a moment to meditate on its place in the vast cosmos. But that was boring so then we went back to what we do best: makin’ movies about internet billionaires, gossipin’ about Lindsay’s latest stab at staying off the sauce, and placin’ bets. Crazy bets! British odds-makers are taking bets that there will be an official announcement from either Barack Obama or David Cameron on the existence of extraterrestrial life within the next year–100-to-1 odds. Bookmaker William Hills has announced he has taken “multiple bets” that mankind will come into contact with real-life E.T.s and K-Paxes.

The odds were even better back in August (80-to-1) when it was revealed that Winston
Churchill covered
up a run-in a RAF aircraft had with a UFO
during WWII fearing that the
incident might cause a national panic.

So, do the bookies and UN know something we don’t? Or are they just greedy and an unwieldy bureaucracy respectively? I hope for the former, but I’m betting on the latter.

Microsoft set to release Windows Live Essentials 2011 later today

Microsoft is set to release the final version of Windows Live Essentials later today, Neowin has learnt.

The complete package comes just over a month after a beta refresh was issued on August 17. Microsoft originally released a Windows Live Essentials beta on June 24. Essentials includes the popular programs Windows…

Introducing the Google Phone Gallery

Here at Google, we’re thrilled with the global adoption of Android and with the high quality of devices that are coming to market around the world. Since there are so many great phones, we wanted to make the selection process a little easier for people who are in the market for a new one. Today we’re rolling out the Google Phone Gallery — a showcase of Android-powered devices that deliver the best Google experience today. Check it out at http://www.google.com/phone.

All the phones in the gallery include Android Market, Google Search, and other Google Mobile services such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. There are tools that make it easy to compare phones side by side: you can filter phones by country, manufacturer, and carrier; view and compare technical specifications and features; and find where each phone is available for sale.



We’ll continue adding phones and countries over time, both to round out the gallery and as new phones come to market.

Posted by Ben Serridge, Product Manager, Android