Thursday, September 25, 2008

Operate your computer with wii controller

Lifehacker is running an article on how one can operate the computer with a wii controller.  This technique exploits the bluetooth capabilties of the wii controller (including the balance board of wii fit). Once you have a wii console, all you need is a PC/laptop with a bluetooth capability. If you do not have on in-built you can purchase an external bluetooh adapter/dongle for almost nothing. 

Pairing up of the wii controller with the computer is more or less like pairing any other bluetooth device(Read the lifehacker article for detailed info). Once the device is paired up, you need to use a software named "GlovePIE". This software is used to map the signals given by the wii controller into computer movements like mouse buttons and arrow keys.

What else ? Sit back and control you pc with your wii controller. 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Wall-E iphone ringtone

I became a big fan of Wall-E movie. I was scouting for a Wall-E ringtone for my iphone. Though I got a few ringtones from a blog, I was looking for something more. I wanted a ringtone which has Wall-E name and some music associated with it. When I searched more I found an MP3 file which has it. I converted it to iphone ringtone. I want to share it for the sake of other fans.

You can download it from here.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

HTC Diamond: Rotate the phone to lock and unlock

HTC Diamond is one the new mobile handsets from HTC. Few people are aware the HTC is the actual manufracturer behind popular brands like O2, Imate, Dopod etc. Now HTC has entered the market directly. It is brining out interesting models with innovative new features. The cube technology in the HTC touch is a challenger for iphone. Though I personally am not impressed with the cube feature, its pretty good. It does not have multi touch capability. May be I am biased because I am an iphone user. 

Anyway, coming to the main point, the new model of HTC touch which is named "Diamond", has a host of interesting features. Its fast. Its supports touch gestures (but still single touch). One of the features that I feel stands out of the lot is the way the screen can be locked and unlocked. You just rotate the phone to lock the screen. You rotate the phone on the other direction to unlock the screen. May be time taking but vey different. See this video for a demonstration