Motion sensor apps in your Mac

Posted January 1st, 2009. Filed under Mac

Want to browse your pictures just by moving your head? your head!!! yups, unbelievable right… thanks to Julius who’s made this. The software itself named Face Recognition by him. Although it just looks like a demo software but it still amaze me, you only need to moved your head right, left or up and down to do this. It recognized your head movement by using isight.

There is a lot of good stuff also in Julius’s site, he posted some applications based on motion sensor. Want to play game like nintendo wii? He created game named wally bally. You just need to move physically your mac left and right to play this game, quite amazing.

Also there is a software to use LED or other light sources to make it act as your mouse. You just need to point your light sources device to isight and it will recognized it as a mouse and you can move the cursor based on your light sources.

So, don’t forget head to www.julius-eckert.com directly to try some motion sensor apps on your mac :)

Another stunning development on Mac I think, never see it before.

First kernel panic

Posted December 20th, 2008. Filed under Mac

I’ve experienced Mac kernel panic for the first time this morning. Remember BSOD (blue screen of the death)? A very famous error message screen on windows OS. Kernel panic is windows BOSD similar on Mac.

I’m not sure why this happen, but since I tried to test my MacBook with a lot of benchmark tools, installing many apps and configure almost all of the preference I came with one reasonable explain. Mac also still a program right, I believed every programs which ever made must have even a bug. Nothing’s perfect bro’

Here is Mac official explanation about kernel panic :

"UNIX-style operating systems (such as Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, AIX, and A/UX) may experience a type of error called a "kernel panic," which may provide information useful for software developers.

A kernel panic is a type of error that occurs when the core (kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly. A kernel panic may also follow when the operating system is not able to recover from a different type of error. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware."

When you experienced this usually you get an error prompt in a box in the middle of your screen with several languages that told you need to do a force system reboot by hold down the power button.

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