2 posts tagged “hacks”
Not content with previous hacks using the Wii remote - such as a multi-touch display and a cheapo interactive whiteboard - the rampant coolness that is Johnny Chung Lee has just posted a video which demonstrates head tracking using the Wii controller.
The money shot is 2:45 in - I'm not ashamed to say that it made me a little aroused.
It's the first sunny weekend we've had in ages. In fact it's the first weekend we've had for a while in which ones mind hasn't immediately turned to Revelations 12:15 or wondered if perhaps the marketing push for Evan Almighty might not have gone a leeeetle too far.
And yet I'm inside, hacking. Partly because last night ate at a restaurant that serves burritos the size of your head so I'm feeling kind of sluggish this morning but mostly because I'm stupid.
Anyway, I wrote a tool to back up your Vox last week but, it occurred to me that not everyone has the will or way to download a bunch of Perl modules, install them and then run the script.
So I've been nice and written VoxSlurp which is neither Web2.0 -ey or Ajaxy but should make it easy for you to download all your public posts as an Mbox file (which most mail readers will understand - under Outlook do 'File -> Import -> Internet Mail and Addresses -> Eudora and then navigate to the mbox file you've just downloaded).
Ain't I nice.
