Way back in the day, when I was a kid, I read about this technique somewhere, and trained myself to do it. And promptly forgot about it until I read this article on Bit Rebels

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3D has come back and you have read some of the posted articles here on 3D and the many ways you can enjoy the viewing treat.  But did you know that there is another way for you to experience 3D without using any specially gadgets at all?  Saw an article written by a photographer Niel Creek, he specializes in the field.

Why Cross Eyes? According to Niel Creek

When overlapping stereo pairs without special glasses, you can get the 3D effect by crossing your eyes or diverging your eyes. I prefer the crossed eye method. I find it easier to control, and it is possible to view larger 3D images than with the diverging technique.

How is it done? The technique is called Stereo Pairs -

To see a 3D image, each eye needs to see a different view. There are ways to take photos like this,  When the two slightly different images are processed, they are placed side-by-side so that the viewer can use a special “crossed-eye” technique to overlap them, and see both views together in 3D.

The example given here , is an animation that simulates what it looks like when you view these images in 3D. The instructions follow.

Click through to read the whole article on Bit Rebels.

TechCrunch is reporting that Songbird has a hardware deal with Philips - Bundled With Millions Of Portable MP3 Players

Don’t count Songbird out yet. The open source media player that’s increasingly positioning itself as an alternative to Apple’s iTunes has forged a deal with global electronics maker Philips. Under the agreement, which will be announced later today at CES, Songbird’s software will come bundled with the Philips line of GoGear portable music players, available worldwide.

Nice to see Songbird continue to grow...hey, where'd that cloud behind the bird's butt go?

According to this article on MarketingDaily, I'm a Techfluential...though I could be a bit 'old' :)

Technology and electronics marketers may want to begin 2010 targeting a small but influential group of consumers who have some undue weight when it comes to influencing the purchases of others.

According to David Krajicek, managing director of technology with GfK Custom Research North America, this group of "techfluentials" is made up of highly connected individuals (indexing mostly under 30) who like to share their opinions about products that make their lives easier.

Or am I just an opinionated guy that likes to talk tech?

I managed to capture this shot in Emily Murphy park, on my way to work. I do like shooting the Moon when it nears the horizion.

Just a clip of the amazing bullet-dodge rooftop scene, but extremely well done.

 

 

This made the rounds yesterday, but I thought it was just too good to pass up and not link-to here. Enjoy

You really gotta love the Muppets. In HD no less!

It seems today my online path was crossed with many cool posters - like Dug from Pixar's UP.

We went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller over the Thanksgiving weekend. I managed to grab this snap before running away in fright from the scary beastie.

Some days I miss my Apple Newton Message Pad. It was bulky and clunky, ran on a whole swack of AA batteries, hummed at a high frequency that only my dogs really appreciated, but it was cool. It was portable, and it worked. Apparently it also had an operating system that even the current iPhone can't beat when it comes to Garbage Collection.

For an Apple Tablet to be a hit, it will have to be more than a big-screen iPhone. And the difference between a lithe, touch-based Mac and a giant, lame iPhone comes down to one crucial nerd-factor: memory management.

Memory management is boring to talk about. It's also boring to do. You're probably half-asleep just reading this sentence, but that's sort of the point; developers hate memory management. When they build iPhone apps, they have to control the iPhone's memory: what goes in, what gets stored, what comes out. When your program closes, your app is supposed to give back all that memory to the OS, so that it your computer can use it for other apps. If your program doesn't give back memory to the system, it's called a "leak." Leaky programs are bad; they make things crash. But it wasn't always this way.