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Google's New Project Is So Insanely Advanced It Will Blow You Away

If Google has its way, our future will be nothing less than a sci-fi movie. After creeping us out with a robotic cheetah and the Google ‘Glass’, Google is all set to bring forth something really amazing. Google’s Project Soli has invented a new interaction sensor using radar technology that can capture motions of your fingers at up to 10,000 frames per second. And that is something that has never ever been done before. Simply put, this technology is so bafflingly accurate that you could operate any device (fitted with this) without having to even touch it. Approximately the size of a small computer chip, this technology can transform your hand into a virtual dial machine to control something as mundane as volume on a speaker, or into a virtual touchpad to a smartwatch or a smartphone screen. Check out the GIF below to get a better idea of how this works. This chip is actually a miniature gesture radar that captures even the most complex hand movements at...

How to Access Mobile Websites Using Your Desktop Browser

Many websites offer specific interfaces for smartphones, iPads, and other mobile devices. Whether you need to test mobile websites or you’re just curious to see what they look like, you can access them in your desktop browser. You can do this by changing your browser’s user agent — we’ve previously explained what a browser user agent is . Accessing a website with an iPad user agent may also force it to serve you HTML5 video, which is nice if you’re trying to avoid Flash. User Agent Switcher Extensions We have covered how to change your browser’s user agent without installing any other software . However, for ease-of-use, you will probably want to install a browser extension that lets you quickly and easily change your browser’s user agent. You will want to install either User-Agent Switcher for Chrome or User Agent Switcher for Firefox , depending on which browser you use. For Internet Explorer, you may want to try the UAPick User-Agent Switcher add-on. Settin...

8 solid reasons to have CyanogenMod on your Android device

CyanogenMod is the most popular custom ROM for Android devices. While it’s an unofficial build of Android, it probably provides an experience closer to Google’s original vision than the software on your current Android phone or tablet does! We used CyanogenMod 11 for this article. If it supports your device, it’s easier than ever to install thanks to the CyanogenMod installer app. Up-to-Date, Stock Android CyanogenMod provides you with an up-to-date version of Android. It’s also a pure, stock Android experience. Yes, CyanogenMod adds lots of their own tweaks and a handful of apps. However, they respect Google’s interface. The tweaks CyanogenMod adds don’t feel out of place — many of them are just added to the Settings screen as new options. Because it dispenses with the additional bloat a lot of manufacturers and carriers add, it’s also very fast. This is the biggest reason to install CyanogenMod. If it supports your device, it will provide you with a pure, up-to-date An...

Eclipse plug-ins every Developer should use

Eclipse Marketplace continues to be the place to discover interesting and relevant Eclipse plugins. There are over 100,000 successful installs/month of Eclipse-based products via the Eclipse Marketplace client. We have a list of the most popular plugins over the last 30 days and all time. I thought it would be interesting to look at what are the most popular new plugins in the last 12 months. 1.  Maven Integration for Eclipse WTP   – Maven integration with WTP. Also #4 on the most popular chart 2.  JSDT jQuery – jQuery autocompletion support for Eclipse JSDT 3.  Groovy-Eclipse   – Groovy IDE 4.  ZK Studio   – Eclipse plugin for ZK framework 5.  Run-Jetty-Run   – Running a web application in Eclipse should be as simple as ‘clicking run’. 6.  ObjectAid UML Explorer   – UML class and sequence diagram editor 7.  P4Eclipse   – Eclipse plugin for Perforce code management 8.  Bracketeer f...