NZ_Matt

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Lawyered up New Zealand media companies seek to strengthen geo-blocking(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by NZ_Matt 12y ago|0 comments
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by NZ_Matt 12y ago
Facebook has a simple but clever way of tracking who is engaged with their video advertisements. Video ads auto play in the background without audio, the user has to click on the video to get audio. Presumably they're then able to tr
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
I've think they've updated it since then. You can now go through and manually select the photos and statuses that you want to include in the video.
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
The statement that Christchurch, New Zealand is leveraging 12 percent of the $30 billion reconstruction fund for this type of project is wildly inaccurate. The article referenced only discusses a potential $5m project.
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
I can see a lot of potential in this if the platform were to be opened up and customised blades could be manufactured cheaply. I'd love to see Microsoft license the technology to third parties and possibly have an open SDK. This coll
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Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft(betanews.com)
130 points by NZ_Matt 13y ago|107 comments
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The Augmented Reality America’s Cup(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by NZ_Matt 13y ago|0 comments
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
People spend hundreds of dollars on DVDs and Books that they only use one time, apps probably fall in a similar category for a lot of consumers.
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
There's an argument that Nokia wouldn't have been stable now if Elop never took the job. It would have failed in Finland instead of now potentially failing in Redmond.
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
Ha! I read the first few paragraphs and then scrolled down until I got to the P.S. Brilliant!
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How Larry Ellison Is Destroying the America’s Cup(bloomberg.com)
1 points by NZ_Matt 13y ago|0 comments
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
The digital sharing would've only allowed for one user to play at a time.
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
The problem with convert to cloud is that it would require every Xbox to go online in order to check with the mothership before running the game, even from a disk. Otherwise you'd be able to share the disk with offline users who could
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
New Zealands largest ISP uses Yahoo as their email provider and there were reports of this happening as early as February. They've been down playing it but I'm pretty sure that it much more wide spread than they're willing to
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
>They're not going to be putting them in separate folders by year or subject? Even Google Drive lets you organize files in folders. I think the point is that this will be taken care of automatically based on the metadata. A lot of p
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution? The longer lifespans of PCs and laptops combined with the popularity of smartphones and iPads is a more likely reason for the drop off in sa
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
picnichouse https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=picnichouse
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
Imagine if 50% of the crowd was wearing google glass
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by NZ_Matt 13y ago
My take on that article was to find some middle ground. It makes sense to at least be informed of the latest news but there's no need to keep compulsively checking news websites while they are in full "Death Toll" mode. It's probably best t
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
My Mum had me help her set up an Android phone recently, one of the first steps after on turning it on was a request to sign up to google+. Spamming it on every google service is a good way to inflate their numbers, but it's a horrible way
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
It'd be neat if there was a way for people to highlight their 'finds'. You could then have a randomizer option similar to www.mapcrunch.com
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Cool app, but I can see why it didn't grab peoples attention. It's not very clear what to do when you land on the page and there's nothing to explain what it does. I wasn't sure what I had to put in for the start and end location. Is just
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Ah that'll be the problem I was having, some areas don't have a high enough frequency of images available to make a good hyperlapse.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Also the very professional looking video. I'm all for getting 9 year olds into coding but I would've liked to have seen any funds raised above the target go towards paying for other kids to attend the camp.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
NZ post also has parcel forwarding service from the United States. It's pretty great being able to order anything from US online stores. http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-services/online-shopping/yo...
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
It's a shame that Twitter themselves don't seem to be doing anything to clean up the spam. I use to enjoy following twitter during sporting events but these days every trending topic is immediately swamped by automated spammers.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
This isn't surprising, when G+ launched all the comments were about how remarkably similar it looked to Facebook.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Doesn't online banking already solve this problem? and without the %5 cut that the credit card apps take for each transaction.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Trying to keep ordered notes via Evernote is definitely more difficult that one would expect. My current solution is OneNote for skydrive.com + Microsoft's OneNote Android app which performs pretty well.
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by NZ_Matt 14y ago
Andrew Warner of Mixergy interviewed Andrew Mason in 2010 while Groupon was at its peak. I haven't had a chance to re-watch it yet but I imagine it'll be a very interesting watch given recent events. Here's the video: http://blip.tv/mixer

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