Archive for December, 2007

Interactive Graffiti

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Interactive Graffiti is a way to do a legal graffiti in a digital media. It was my Ubiquitous Computing Course project at IT University Göteborg. We designed a high fidelity prototype in which a tram / bus commuter can draw graffiti on a tram / bus stop - shelter glass ...

SFD Winner : FOSS Nepal Community

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Lets make it FOSSible!!

How to use MaxMSP patch in Java

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Assumptions: a. windows xp b. eclipse 3.2 IDE c. MaxMSP 4.6 with Jitter Step 1 Open the max.java.config.txt file at the following link : C:\Program Files\Cycling '74\MaxMSP 4.6\Cycling '74\java\max.java.config.txt And add the following line: max.dynamic.class.dir D:\Users\\localsagun.8889W17\\workspace\\Interactive_Graffiti\\bin

Custom Java Swing Components

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

In 2006, I was working in a text free, speech enabled software interface in Java. JFC, Swing does not support Sound and we needed custom Swing components. After exploring the MVC architecture and custom swing "how to"s which were quite incomplete and we decided to write our own tutorial for ...

Sambad , Access to Computers for non-literate people

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Illiteracy still exists in every part of the world no matter where. Reading disabilities also resides in this developed world  in the form of functional illiteracy . There are still some people who can read the text written in the subways, notice boards, television scrolls, magazine, newspaper.. but cannot comprehend ...

How to run native commands in Java

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

[I am referring to Windows] Step 1 Right Click 'My Computer' & Select Properties Go To 'Advanced' & Select 'Environment Variables' Go To 'System Variables' and add the path to your command in 'Path' Step 2 Make a batch file with necessary commands [Say 'time 12:00'] Save it as c:\\test.bat Step 3 : Lets dirty ...

Kuching City

Saturday, December 1st, 2007