On the Go: Josh’s SXSW Blog, Part 1
by Josh Knowles
Couldn’t make it to Austin, Texas? Get a firsthand account of the mobile events happening this week at the SXSW Interactive Festival.
I’ve been at the SXSW Interactive conference for a couple of days now. They’ve had several good panels, already, about various issues relating to mobile technology. Not just business stuff either, but panels [...] On the Go: GDC 2008
by Josh Knowles
Game Developers Conference 2008 took place February 18 - 22 in San Francisco. Catch up with some highlights from the GDC Mobile panels.
While I was unable to attend GDC 2008 in person, I have been keeping up via the myriad blog posts, reports, videos and podcasts that have been created around it. One very cool [...] Apps & Services: Q&A with Mitosis creator Jesse Boyes
by Naveen Selvadurai
Get inside the mind of Jesse Boyes, creator of the mobile puzzle game Mitosis, for his perspectives on mobile game design and development.
Can you give us a little background info on yourself?
I’ve been programming since I was 8, then got into development at government labs for a while, then to a bit of the dot-com [...] How to do more with your N95/N82 accelerometer
by Naveen Selvadurai
From Light Sabre 1.4 to Accelerinvaders v0.4, here are some of the top tips, tricks and hacks for the accelerometer on the N95 and N82.
If you’ve used the camera on your N95 or N82, you’ve seen the built-in tri-axis accelerometer at work: anytime you rotate the camera, it senses the movement and determines whether to [...] Inside Nseries: Trend forecasts from around the world
by Nseries Workshop
Take a look at these interesting global highlights from The Future Laboratory’s latest research report on the future of entertainment.
Nokia and trend forecasters The Future Laboratory just released a new study predicting a great uptick in consumption of user-generated and shared digital content. According to the survey, “Up to a quarter of the entertainment consumed [...] How to use your N95 to control an RC car
by Nseries Workshop
A tilt of the N95 moves this car 30 kilometres an hour. Watch two developers put their idea into action.
Get more details and video of the modded car at software developer Andreas Jakl’s blog here. Andreas and hardware developer Stephan Selinger posted their ShakerRacer project here, but have not yet published the application. In the [...] On the Go: “Can You See Me Now?” at Come Out & Play 2007
by Josh Knowles
Blast Theory demoed their award-winning game “Can You See Me Now?” at the Come Out & Play 2007 festival in Amsterdam.
CYSMN is a game of tag like most of us played in elementary school, except in CYSMN, the hunters run around in the city itself, while their targets are virtual avatars in a virtual [...] Apps & Services: Mini Friday
by Evan Cordes
Check out Mini Friday, a real-time virtual world that has evolved steadily over the past year to include over 100,000 characters.
After you customize your avatar, you enter a world laid out on a 3D grid where you can move around and interact with different people.
The software is currently available on Symbian Series 60 phones as [...] Welcome to the Nokia Nseries Workshop
by Nseries Workshop Mobile computing knows no limits. Get ready to expand your boundaries like never before.
We are excited to announce the launch of the Nokia Nseries Workshop. Writers, thinkers, artists, coders and creators from across the spectrum will share their perspectives on the mobile landscape. And you’re invited to join the discussion! Each article [...] |