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• The Chemistry of Fireworks [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Fireworks are the dazzling and loud end result of complex chemical process. Watch this video to see the chemistry behind a fireworks display explained by none other than the father of modern pyrotechnics, John Conkling. Courtesy of Bytesize Science: From the sizzle of the fuse to the boom and burst of colors, this video brings you all of the exciting sights and sounds of Fourth of July fireworks, plus a little chemical knowhow. The video features John A. Conkling, Ph.D., who literally wrote the book on fireworks — he is the author of The Chemistry of Pyrotechnics, Basic Principles and Theory. Conkling shows how the familiar rockets and other neat products that light up the night sky all represent chemistry in action. [via Geeks Are Sexy] How to Use an Xbox 360 Controller On Your Windows PC Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 How to Banish Duplicate Photos with VisiPic

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• Is it possible to design a multiplayer game which can be played from different devices?

  - by user9820

  I want to design a online multiplayer game for all gaming devices e.g. Desktop PC, internet browser, android phones, android tablets, iphone, ipad, XBOX 360 etc. Now my main requirement is that, I want all devices can be used to play the game in multiplayer mode toghether i.e. One player can be connected using PC another using android phone and other may be with iphone or ipad. My doubts are - How to make all devices to connect to common game server? What will be the logic for graphics and texture because all devices screen will be of different aspect ratio?

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• Unknown error XNA cannot detect importer for "program.cs"

  - by Evan Kohilas

  I am not too sure what I have done to cause this, but even after undoing all my edits, this error still appears Error 1 Cannot autodetect which importer to use for "Program.cs". There are no importers which handle this file type. Specify the importer that handles this file type in your project. (filepath)\Advanced Pong\AdvancedPongContent\Program.cs Advanced Pong After receiving this error, everything between #if and #endif in the program.cs fades grey using System; namespace Advanced_Pong { #if WINDOWS || XBOX static class Program { /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> static void Main(string[] args) { using (Game1 game = new Game1()) { game.Run(); } } } #endif } I have searched this and could not find a solution anywhere. Any help is appreciated.

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• Obama se désole de la "génération iPad" et qualifie l'appareil de "jouet" servant à divertir plutôt

  Obama se désole de la "génération iPad" et qualifie l'appareil de "jouet" servant à divertir plutôt qu'à éduquer Barack Obama avait fait le déplacement à l'Université de Hampton (Virginie) pour assister à la traditionnelle cérémonie de remise des diplômes. Il y a fermement critiqué la "génération iPad" et les nouveaux médias. «Vous entrez dans la vie adulte dans un monde où nous sommes bombardés d'informations en continu sur toutes sortes de sujets et qui nous exposent à toutes sortes d'argumentaires dont la véracité de certains est pour le moins douteuse», a-t-il déclaré. «Avec les iPod, les iPad, les Xbox et PlayStation, - dont j'ignore comment chacun d'eux fonctionne- l'information d...

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• Mercury and Sound Waves [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  In this video a tone generator is used to shoot specific frequencies through a large drop of mercury which results in a wide array of unique shapes and patterns created by standing waves–but really, you need to see it to appreciate it. The experiment, put together by Nick Moore, combines a glass dish, a drop of mercury, and a old tone generator to demonstrate standing waves in 3D. Check out the video above to see the experiment in full speed or hit up his YouTube channel to see a remix with music (and other cool science experiment videos). Mercury Hz [via Mental_Floss] How to Use an Xbox 360 Controller On Your Windows PC Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 How to Banish Duplicate Photos with VisiPic

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• How to Turn a Match into a Miniature Rocket [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you’re looking for a novel little stunt to impress your friends this Fourth of July, these tiny matchstick rockets are a cheap and easy trick to pull out of your sleeve. Courtesy of Grathio Labs, all you’ll need is a book of matches, a pin, a paper clip, and some aluminum foil. Watch the video to see how it all comes together: As always, play safely with the fun-but-potentially-dangerous projects we share. [via Make] How to Use an Xbox 360 Controller On Your Windows PC Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 How to Banish Duplicate Photos with VisiPic

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• What is an acceptable GC frequency for a SlimDX/Windows/.NET game?

  - by Rei Miyasaka

  I understand that the Windows GC is much better than the Xbox/WP7 GC, being that it's generational and multithreaded -- so I don't need to worry quite as much about avoiding memory allocation. SlimDX even has some unavoidable functions that generate some amount of garbage (specifically, MapSubresource creates DataBoxes), yet people don't seem to be too upset about it. I'd like to use some functional paradigms to write my code too, which also means creating objects like closures and monads. I know premature optimization isn't a good thing, but are there rules of thumb or metrics that I can follow to know whether I need to cut down on allocations? Is, say, one gen 0 GC per frame too much? One thing that has me stumped is object promotions. Gen 0 GCs will supposedly finish within a millisecond or two, but if I'm understanding correctly, it's the gen 1 and 2 promotions that start to hurt. I'm not too sure how I can predict/prevent these.

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• Is it possible to create a virtual drive and share via USB?

  - by Matthew

  My question is kind of hard to follow, but I'm asking if it's possible to make a virtual flash drive and sync it to another device with a USB to USB cable? To make things more clear, think of a typical flash drive. You connect it to a laptop and it shows up as a removable disk. Is it possible to make a computer a host of a "Virtual Drive" that would be connected to a USB cord on one end, and the other end connecting to another device such as a Xbox 360, or another computer.

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• Why do consoles have so little memory compared to classic computers?

  - by jokoon

  I remember the Playstation having 2MB ram and 1MB graphic memory. The Playstation 3 now has only 256MB ram and 256MB graphic memory, and I'm sure that the day the console was released, even laptop's "standard" capacity was at least 1GB. So why do they put so little memory in their machines, while developers would benefit a lot by having more ? Or is the memory that much faster than desktops and thus more expensive ? Or is it not that much worth it for developers ? What are the Sony/XBox/Nintendo engineers thinking that seems to be the same reason ?

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• Has an open console any chance to give more strength to the indie game world ?

  - by jokoon

  I have heard about the GPX, but i don't really think the embedded market is mature enough in terms of performance, but what about the home console market ? I'm not talking about last-generation graphics, because that would be economically impossible, but what about an hardware as fast as a playstation 2/Xbox 1/Gamecube ? For games, the trick would be to ask some editors to recompile their best sellers for the new machine: those games being from the PSX age or even older console generations, I think this would have a very low cost job and they could still make some good profit, but I need to know if this is doable technically, considering the architecture which can be quite exotic. Do you think it would be a viable project to talk about to investors ?

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• Book Giveaway: 7 Free Copies of Network Your Computers for Our Readers

  - by The Geek

  Our friends over at 7 Tutorials have organized a giveaway exclusively for How-To Geek readers, and you can enter to get your own copy of their book Step by Step: Network Your Computers and Devices, published by Microsoft Press. All you have to do is subscribe to their newsletter and fill out a short form. They’ve got daily or weekly newsletters full of excellent tutorials covering Windows 7 and other topics, so it’s all good stuff. Celebrating 3 Years of 7 Tutorials with How-To Geek Readers How to Use an Xbox 360 Controller On Your Windows PC Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 How to Banish Duplicate Photos with VisiPic

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• What are the Crappy Code Games - What are the prizes?

  - by simonsabin

  This is part of a series on the Crappy Code Games The background Who can enter? What are the challenges? What are the prizes? Why should I attend? Tips on how to win What are the prizes? There are loads of them at both the heats and the final. At the heats the top three coders at each event >will take home Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, along with some great prizes such as Steve Wozniak signed ipods, developer laptops, Win-Mo phones, Xbox 360 S consoles, t-shirts and more. And then in the final...(read more)

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• La beta du SDK de Kinect pour Windows est disponible gratuitement pour un usage non commercial

  La beta du SDK de Kinect pour Windows est disponible gratuitement Pour un usage non commercial Mise à jour du 17/06/11, par Hinault Romaric Comme l'avait annoncé Microsoft lors de la conférence MiX 11 de la Las Vegas en avril (lire ci-avant), le SDK de Kinect pour Windows est disponible aujourd'hui en version Beta. Ce SDK permettra aux développeurs de créer des applications pour PC exploitant son capteur de mouvements, de porter les jeux initialement conçus pour la Xbox 360 vers le PC ou appliquer la technologie à d'autres usages. Pour Microsoft, Kinect est en effet « plus qu'une simple plateforme pour les jeux et le ...

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• viewing fbx files in windows via xna 4.0

  - by user17753

  I've made some models in Blender and exported them in Autodesk fbx format. I'm trying to view them using XNA 4.0 Refresh. Loading them isn't much an issue, but I'm not familiar enough with XNA 4.0 to, well basically I want to load in the model at say the origin (0,0,0) world coordinates, and then rotate and/or zoom the camera about the world coordinates origin as well so that I can test the model. Typically the mouse, and maybe some arrow keys for zooming/rotating the camera. Anyways, this seems like a simple task and I shouldn't have to re-invent this, isn't there a skeleton code somewhere for this kind of thing for XNA 4.0? I couldn't find a solid example for this on the web. I found a couple that seemed like they might work for xbox, but I'm trying to do this on windows only. Anyways, just looking to be pointed in the right direction on this one, thanks.

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• Assigning a different texture based on picking(XNA)

  - by Thomas Carmichael

  I'm making a game using XNA. I have some simple objects like cube and sphere, and I would like to change the texture of one face of these objects based on picking. That is, when the cursor is over one face, it turns red. The only way I've seen to do this is to overload the content processor as here: http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/picking_triangle but it seems like it shouldn't be this complicated. I'm using .x models, and would like to be able to implement this for more complex models in the future beyond cubes/spheres/etc. Is this the best/only way to go about it? I'll figure that out if that's what is necessary, but it seems that there would be a simpler solution to load a different texture to a face than I've seen, I just don't know what it is.

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• Natal ne servira pas qu'à jouer, le système de reconnaissance de mouvements de Microsoft aura des ap

  Mise à jour du 26/04/10 Le projet Natal ne servira pas qu'à jouer Le système de reconnaissance de mouvements de Microsoft pourrait avoir des applications plus "intrusives", voire publicitaires Le projet Natal ne servira pas qu'à jouer. C'est ce que vient de laisser entendre Marc Whitten, general manager de la Xbox 360. La technologie de reconnaissance de mouvements développée par Microsoft pourraient également avoir des applications plus... intrusives. « Imaginez un événement sportif. Natal pourrait savoir pour quelle équipe vous êtes, parce qu'il voit votre maillot ou qu'il repèrera quand [...] vous...

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• Best way to create neon glow line effect in AS3?

  - by Phil

  What's the best way to create a neon glow line effect in Flash AS3? Say similar to what's going on in the game gravitron360 on the xbox 360? Would it be a good idea to create movieclips with plain lines drawn in them and then apply a glow filter to them? or perhaps just apply the glow filter to the entire movieclip layer the movieclips are on? or just draw them manually and create a glow effect by converting the lines to fills and then softening edges? (wouldn't blend as well but would be the fastest CPU wise?) Thanks for any help

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• I need advice on creating animal 3D walk cycles in XNA

  - by Zetar

  I want to purchase a number of 3D models from TurboSquid and animate them in an XNA game. I wrote a lot of games from 1985-1999 and have recently become involved with XNA. Now I would like to port one of my old games to the XBOX. I do have a background in 3D animation; but that was years ago. What is the current method for animating a walk cycle with a 3D model and using it inside XNA? Is there a book, software or a tutorial that you can recommend? Thanks in advance and sorry for such a broad and currently naive question.

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• Shifting from XNA/C# to C++?

  - by Fat_Scout

  For a while now, I've been working with XNA for game design and development (although only for personal use ATM.) Overall, I'm a major fan of XNA itself, and it's overall "feel." However, due to the fact that: XNA seems to have a lack of support (no Metro support, no updates since 2010, etc.) I plan to try and get a job in the game development industry, and due to C++'s dominance, being more familiar with it would be very useful XNA only supports Windows (non-Metro) and Xbox 360, while I am interested in Mac and (to a lesser extent) Linux support. I've been trying to shift over to C++ as my main language. However, I do not want to focus on learning raw DirectX/C++ at this time, so I've been looking for a higher level C++ API (something about the same level as XNA, although something a bit more low-level would be fine) with a feel similar to XNA. So, for someone switching from C#/XNA to C++, what would my best choice(s) be for API's similar to XNA, although unmanaged and running on C++?

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• Kinect pour PC bientôt disponible ? Microsoft prépare une variante de son capteur pour ordinateur

  Kinect pour PC bientôt disponible ? Microsoft prépare une variante de son capteur pour ordinateur Microsoft va développer une variante de son capteur de mouvement Kinect, spécifiquement pour les PC. Cette version s'appuie sur le dispositif Kinect pour la Xbox 360 avec des optimisations de certains composants matériels, et des ajustements du firmware pour une prise en charge des PC. Le dispositif offrira les caractéristiques et fonctionnalités sur Windows du capteur dont les développeurs et les consommateurs ont besoin. La caméra de profondeur sera capable de voir des objets d'aussi près de 50 centimètres sans perte de précision, et soutiendra un mode « proche » pour les applicatio...

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• Microsoft XNA code sample wont work with blender model

  - by FreakinaBox

  I downloaded this code sample and integrated it into my game http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/mesh_instancing It works with the model that they supplied, but throws and exception whenever I use one of my models. The current vertex declaration does not include all the elements required by the current vertex shader. TextureCoordinate0 is missing. I tried pluging my model into their original source code and same thing. My model is an fbx from blender and has a texture. This is the function that throws the error GraphicsDevice.DrawInstancedPrimitives( PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, meshPart.NumVertices, meshPart.StartIndex, meshPart.PrimitiveCount, instances.Length );

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• Unity sera compatible avec Windows 8 et Windows Phone 8, les applications utilisant le moteur de jeux 3D pourront être portées sur l'OS

  Unity sera compatible avec Windows 8 et Windows Phone 8 les applications utilisant le moteur de jeux 3D pourront être portées sur l'OS mobile Bonne nouvelle pour les gamers et les développeurs de jeux utilisant la plateforme Unity. David Helgason, le PDG de Unity Technologies a annoncé que l'outil sera bientôt compatible avec Windows Phone 8 et Windows 8. Unity est une boite à outils regroupant un logiciel 3D temps réel et multimédia, ainsi qu'un moteur 3D utilisé pour la création des jeux en réseaux, d'animation en temps réel et de contenu interactif. La plateforme permet de construire des jeux multiplateformes pouvant fonctionner sur Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Wii, etc.

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• Microsoft Secret Event: New Tablet Unveiling?

  If you read the headline, you know what everyone thinks it will be: a new tablet computer, that Microsoft will manufacture from beginning to end. Apparently, the company believes it will be better able to compete against Apple if it controls both the hardware and the software. But why choose this location for the announcement? Wired thinks it makes sense if the tablet features Xbox live streaming. That would turn the humble device into something of a media machine. Speaking of the device itself, what kind of specs will this hypothetical tablet have? It's hard to say. Microsoft boasts software...

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• Kinect s'est vendu à plus de 8 millions d'exemplaires en 2 mois, un triomphe pour Microsoft qui promet des nouveautés

  Kinect s'est vendu à plus de 8 millions d'exemplaires en 2 mois, un triomphe pour Microsoft qui promet des nouveautés Mise à jour du 06.01.2011 par Katleen Les ventes du Kinect ont connu une énorme croissance. Si la technologie s'était vendue à environ 3 millions d'exemplaires après un mois d'exploitation commerciale, des chiffres annoncés aujourd'hui font état de 8 millions de ventes totales, sur une période de deux mois ! Un succès resplendissant pour Microsoft. Steve Ballmer a raison d'afficher un si grand sourire en annonçant ces chiffres, lui qui pensait n'en vendre "que" 5 millions sur la même durée. Et il sait également rester humble : « Depuis six mois, la XBox 360 est chaque mois l...

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• Microsoft brevète la technologie de ses Microsoft Glass, les lunettes prochain objet grand public révolutionné par l'informatique ?

  Microsoft brevète des technologies pour des Microsoft Glass Les lunettes prochain objet grand public révolutionné par l'informatique ? Les Google Glass suscitent beaucoup d'intérêt de la part de la concurrence. Après Apple, c'est au tour de Microsoft de se lancer dans ce genre de projet. L'éditeur qui avait promis qu'il sortirait d'autres appareils que la Surface (et la Xbox 360) sous sa marque propre pourrait bien tenir parole avec des lunettes. C'est en tout cas ce que laisse entrevoir un brevet qu'il a déposé ce 22 novembre. [IMG]http://ftp-developpez.com/gordon-fowler/Microsoft%20Glass.jpg[/IMG] Microsoft Glasses te...

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