The MPC Feed @ Washington College

Check out this cool visualization tool that uses Google the Maps and Google Earth API to see the latest Flickr posts in real time, and where in the world they are being posted. Very slick

Links: 

3D Google Earth + Flickr

2D Google Maps + Flickr

Tags: API, Earth, Flickr, Google, Maps, photos, realtime

Cssbasics.com has clear and easy to follow examples and tutorials to learn CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). A must know skill for today’s web developer.  Check it out here.

Tags: CSS, Tutorials, Web Design

Follow along with this step by step tutorial to produce this cool effect.

Light Streaks Tutorial

Tags: Composite, Photoshop

Here’s a bunch of good looking Wordpress themes. Enjoy!

Wordpress Themes

Tags: blog, theme, wordpress

Gotoandlearn.com has a ton of very well produced Flash video tutorials. Definitely worth checking out, and the price is right (free)

http://www.gotoandlearn.com

Tags: Adobe, Flash, interface design, Tutorials, Video

A free Photoshop action that softens skin tones while retaining important skin details.

Instructions to install and use found here.

Tags: Action, Photography, Photoshop, portraits, retouching

Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

Tags: Hacks, open source, Video, Wii

Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote by Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The grid software is a custom program written using a C# wiimote library and DirectX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU

Tags: , 3D, Hacks, Video, Virtual Reality, VR, Wii

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. Check out this video, created by Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Tags: , 3D, Hacks, Video, Virtual Reality, VR, Wii

MooTools is a compact, modular, object-oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer.  It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with it’s elegant, well documented, and coherent API.  Oh yeah, and it’s open source!

http://www.MooTools.net 

Tags: code, Free, javascript, open source, programming, Web Development