Last.FM + Twitter = Warbler

by Devon O.· March 08, 2009· in AIR, Flash, Life· 32 comments
Well, since all my friends did it, I finally jumped off the bridge and started using Twitter. Still not entirely sure what the real point is. Seems it has some good intentions – 0-day news, updates, notifications, etc. But mainly it seems a way of finding out when complete strangers are stuck in traffic, taking a piss, or going to bed. That said, if you’d like to find out when I’m stuck in traffic, taking a piss, or going to bed, you can follow me on Twitter here. Of course every time I try some new web app, I have to play around with the api. Inspired by a talk by Matthew Ogle of Last.FM at the Dublin Future of Web Applications conference (which I won a free ticket to, incidentally – Woohoo!), I decided to tie in Last.FM to Twitter and so Warbler was born (get it? music, tweeting, songbird, warbler… whatever). Warbler is an AIR application that will display the last 10 recent tracks posted to your Last.FM account and let you “tweet” them with the click of button, thereby sharing your wonderful taste in music with the whole (Twitter) world. Below are a couple screenshots to get a […]
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Motion Detection Navigation Idea (The Beginning)

by Devon O.· March 01, 2009· in Flash· 4 comments
So, my wife is working on an installation piece for a local gallery and got me digging into the concept of Flash web cam motion detection. I really liked the looks of the motion detection script posted over at the Soulwire blog and started tinkering with it. The early results are posted below. Of course it requires web cam access. After allowing it, slowly wave your hand left and right in front of the camera. The bad thing about web cam motion detection is it really varies wildly according to ambient settings (lighting, background commotion, etc). So if you’re getting bad results, you can use the sliders in the bottom left to try fine tuning the detector’s sensitivity (the top slider adjusts brightness, while the bottom adjusts the minimum area of detection).   Don’t know how useful it might be, but it’s fun to muck around with. And, of course, this nav experiment has nothing to do with the wife’s project, but that’ll come in due time…
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