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About a month ago Johnny Chung Lee posted a video on YouTube that showed how he could interact with his computer using the Nintendo Wii remote to track his fingers. The infrared camera in the remote can track movements by adding a led array around the Wii remote and some reflective tape on his fingers. You can check out Johnny’s Nintendo Wii project website here.

Now a company called Cynergy Labs has built a system based on Johnny Chung Lee’s project that uses the Wii remote to track your fingers.

More info can be found on www.hackawii.com.

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Adobe is moving their applications online. It doesn’t sound like the full applications will be online for about a decade, but they are working on a program called Photoshop Express for making basic edits to photos. You can find out more about Photoshop Express here. They also have an online video program called Premeire Express that you can check out here.

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Well the X-Wing project launched the other day. That is about all though. It was a little disappointing. It did go boom, though, which is always fun! If they try again maybe they will consider building it out of some kind of lite metal. You can check out a couple of launch videos here.

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A group of rocketeers have built a 21′ long rocket powered X-Wing fighter. It will be powered by a set of four rockets attached to the wings. They even built the wings to move from the landing position to the attack “X” position. The ship is built from wood so it will be interesting to see how it holds up during the flight. Hopefully they won’t loose R2! Launch date is set for 10/06/2007. Check out thier website here.

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This site has an amazing list of free software for Macs. Here are the categories that you will find there:

Productivity Tools; Internet and Communication Tools; Utilities and System Tools; Art, Pictures and Graphics; Music and Sound Creation; Movie, Film and Video; Business Applications; Content Management Systems; Student Information Systems; Programming; Mathematics and Science; Humanities and Sports; Languages; General Education Tools; and Games and Recreation.

I hope you find this website useful. If anyone knows of any other site that has useful or enjoyable applications like this let me know and I will post them up.

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…well kind of.  Some Russian artists have built a pair of goggles that lets you view reality with some filters (invert, color, & saturation) similar to those found in Adobe Photoshop, and it also has ASCII mode.  The ASCII mode looks similar to the way that Neo can see the Matrx as green characters.  The goggles have 6 different modes and connects to a small processor/battery pack.  Check out the video of it in action here.

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Neo Office 2.2.1 was released today. It is a free open source Office Suite for Mac OS X. The software bundle comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs, and is based on the OpenOffice code. I haven’t had a lot of time to try it out but I tried a Microsoft Office 2003, Office:Mac X, and a Power Point document with no problems. It took a while to load the files, but that could be because I am using a 2001 iBook. I will have to try it out on a more powerful computer and dig into the programs a little more later to check out the support for Mac OS X spell checker and Address Book.

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I ran across this site and had to give it a try. It emulates Mac OS 7.0.1, so now I don’t have to dig out my old Macintosh SE to get my nostalgic Mac fix. Just for fun I painted the thumb drive and gave it some new decals to give it the “Mac look.” I know it doesn’t have the old rainbow Apple logo, but I wanted it to match my iBook. Here is a screen shot of my Apple on a stick.

I think I’m going to play some Tetris!

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This is a nice little way to keep your email on a usb drive and take it with you no matter where you go or what operating system (windows or mac) is on the computer that you happen to be using. The Cross-Platform Thunderbird uses the Portable Thunderbird application and a script written by Sam Krupa to make it compatible with Mac’s. It can really be handy for freelancers that have a day job but still want to be able to respond to emails during their breaks. There is also a Cross-Platform FireFox web browser.

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Welcome to Thaw.  Thaw is a division of Frozen Canvas Studios, but will focus more on different technology, electronics, mods, and other projects and ideas that we find around the internet.  We hope you find the content entertaining and informative.  Enjoy!

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