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Decypher Watch is Much Easier to Read Than It Looks

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Everyone loves a good puzzle. But if you’re strapped for time and haven’t figured out how to read the time off the Decypher watch, then I don’t think you’ll be very fond of it at all.…

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February 9th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Facebook’s iPad App Hiding Inside iPhone Version

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It’s been a while since the Facebook iPhone app was released, but people have been anxiously awaiting the iPad app, which, thanks to its larger screen, will make using Facebook a lot more fun. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler reports that the iPad app is actually hidden in the iPhone app codebase,…

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July 25th, 2011 by: Range

New Dutch Coins to Get QR Codes

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QR codes are slowly popping up pretty much everywhere, as most people carry a smartphone with a camera in it these days, and they can read these codes. Until now, I hadn’t seen any on money yet, but it looks like the Dutch have decided to put some on their…

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June 20th, 2011 by: Range

Beautiful Bytes: Distellamap Presents Codes of Classic Video Games

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There’s geek art, and then there’s geek art…. Ben Fry’s creations are to programmers what blueprints are to architects. Here’s a sample of his work, which he calls “distellamaps”. It’s a map of the code for the Atari version of Pac-Man:

Ben Fry explains, “Like any other game console,

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March 9th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

IPhone Accelerometer Hacked?

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A hacker claims to have written custom software which directly accesses the accelerometer on Apple’s iPhone. He’s put together a brief video clip which shows off some really fun use of the motion-sensing capabilities.

While I’m a bit skeptical that the video clip could be a fake, developer Erling Ellingsen…

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August 28th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox 360 HD DVD Playback: Over 4.7 Million Lines of Code

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In this post by Shaheen Gandhi, an engineer on the Xbox 360 Platform Team, a massive amount of code went into the HD DVD playback system for the Xbox 360.
As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user…

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November 5th, 2006 by: Technabob

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