Pronounced like “chimera”, and modeled after said word… Kimera GPS (“glyph pack system”) is the codename for a process I created wherein “font-packs” are compiled on-demand by the server and fed to dynamic display ads in the wild.
[bk note: the following post was written in November of 2011. As technology continuously evolves, the solution below may very well have changed/become obsolete.] I thought I’d share this little nugget, since it’s not very well covered within the tomes of the intertubes. I was using PhoneGap and SenchaTouch to create a native iOS app. […]
So… My wife & I took a (belated honeymoon) trip to Japan this December. We bought several gifts, but only one for ourselves… a set of sushi plates, saucers & bowls. Things were not intact when we arrived back in Omaha. What follows below is my formal complaint to American Airlines (via their form, which […]
Combine Adobe AIR with Bluetooth with BlueCove (a lightweight server capable of relaying said Bluetooth data) and you get the, (maybe) cleverly-named “Hello There”. When running, it constantly scaned for Bluetooth devices in-range & made note of their device ID.
Found myself tasked with reverse-engineering the Duo Pop appcessory this week. In case you’re wondering, base-station to iPad communication is handled via ultrasonic sound. EOM. b.
Take a dozen Playstation gamers, fly them to the Naval base in San Diego. Film them going through Navy SEAL training Hell Week. Make a site about the experience.
A microsite where visitors could record video of themselves (via their computer’s onboard camera) singing along with the AskDeals jingle track and share the resulting video. The home/landing page of the microsite played an seamless & endless loop of all submitted tracks.
This bug may very well have been around for a while, but it seems that the Google Voice plugin for browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) is very possessive of its webcam. If you have the Google Voice plugin installed on your machine and you attempt to go to a site with Flash that wants/needs to have […]
Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.
Hypothetical scenario: You’re about to take a one-way roadtrip from San Francisco to Omaha… Your girlfriend expresses concern… worried about you driving too much, worried about possible road conditions… Possible solution? My Roadtrip Dashboard!