WebRTC RTCPeerConnection interoperability between Firefox and Chrome

RTCPeerConnection (also known simply as PeerConnection or PC) interoperability means that developers can now create Firefox WebRTC applications that make direct audio/video calls to Chrome WebRTC applications without having to install a third-party plugin. Because the functionality is now baked into the browser, users can avoid problems with first-time installs and buggy plugins, and developers …

Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please don’t help my kids

They’re not here to be at the top of the ladder; they are here to learn to climb. If they can’t do it on their own, they will survive the disappointment. What’s more, they will have a goal and the incentive to work to achieve it. It is not my job — and it is …

Bang With Friends

Sometime last week BangWithFriends started going round. The app lets you (anonymously) mark Facebook friends you are sexually interested in. If the interest is mutual, you’ll both be notified. Brilliant app I must say (it makes our promiscue youth even more introvert)! It gets really interesting when combined with Graph Search: Looks like I don’t …

GravitySpace

GravitySpace is a new approach to tracking people and objects indoors. Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor is limited to sensing objects in direct contact with the ground, GravitySpace reconstructs contents above the ground by first identifying objects based on their texture and then …

Modern.IE — Updated Internet Explorer VM’s

Microsoft released Modern.IE, a set of tools to help you support modern and older versions of Internet Explorer. Along with that, they’ve also released updated Internet Explorer Virtual Machines. Avaiable are VM’s with IE7 (Vista), IE8 (Win7), IE9 (Win7) and IE10 (Win8). An IE6 (XP) is coming soon. Modern.IE → Modern.IE Virtualization Tools (VMs) →

How to find your stolen car

If your car is ever stolen, your first calls should be to every cab company in the city. You offer a $50 reward to the driver who finds it AND a $50 reward to the dispatcher on duty when the car is found. The latter is to encourage dispatchers on shift to continually remind drivers …