Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads)

Can be very handy: Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads). Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, [...]

The First World War in everyday documents

Press Release Overwhelming Public Participation in the Project Berlin, 10 June 2011: Hundreds of participants of all ages have contributed a great variety of personal memorabilia from World War I to the online project www.europeana1914-1918.eu.  Due to the overwhelming success, four additional participation days will take place in Dresden, Erfurt, Kiel and Regensburg in June/July [...]

Want to find out your IPv6 readiness? Use this test

TOMORROW 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and [...]

FUJITSU DESIGN AWARD 2011

A LIFE with Future Computing with the spread of ICT, the ability for people to make diverse connections via networks with other people in all daily life situations have increased, through a variety of devices such as PCs and smart phones. as a provider of ICT products and services, Fujitsu strives to create a new [...]

Physics Resources for Students

Behind practically every natural phenomenon and modern technology, you will find an explanation relating to physics. Whether you are a physics student or just fascinated by this field of science, you will find a helpful resource here. Sites explaining basic concepts as well as project ideas will help educate you. When you need a break, [...]

Visible Evidence, an international conference on documentary film and media

Visible Evidence, an international conference on documentary film and media, now in its 18th year, will convene August 11-14, 2011 in New York City, at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and other locations around the city. Visible Evidence 18 will feature the history, theory, and practice of documentary and non-fiction cinema, television, [...]

MA Dissertation: Augmented Reality for Cultural Institutions

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Foteini Valeonti (www.valeonti.com). My thesis for the MA Interactive Digital Media apart from the deployment of the Augmented Reality Suite presented in the previous post, includes also an in depth research of the augmented reality and the way it has been applied to the cultural heritage sector. The abstract: This is a report [...]

Maori Ceremony in The Netherlands at National Museum of Ethnology Leiden

October 18, 2010, Leiden in The Netherlands: Maori Ceremony for handing over 2 Waka to the National Museum of Ethnology. Filmed with iPhone in very cold windy conditions by Roger Busschots. Sorry for the bad quality. Watch on Youtube 720p for best quality. On this particular day, in the presence of Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven, [...]

American Museum of Natural History – AMNH Explorer App for iPhone & iPod touch

Chart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer—a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour guide for the Museum’s world-famous halls. Providing turn-by-turn directions, AMNH Explorer takes visitors from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose [...]

Internet For Peace – Become part of the movement to nominate the Net for a Nobel Peace Prize

Sign up for the Internet For Peace and become part of the movement to nominate the Net for a Nobel Peace Prize “We have finally realized that the Internet is much more than a network of computers.It is an endless web of people. Men and women from every corner of the globe areconnecting to one [...]