Well the title might sound a little strange and confusing. Never the less, as most of us know Kyoto is a city in japan should have said a beautiful one at that and Engage is the project which I work these days. Things are really getting heated both with the project and rest of the stuffs that I’m up to these days causing me to go quite for sometime.
Anyhow, one of the things which impressed a lot at the start of this project was Augmented Reality (AR) where virtuality and reality come together. Normally, a virtual object or an animation is augmented on a real video or an image (content) using a marker where the virtual object always shown on top of the real content. But my interest, ever since I first happen to see this was on using it for computer interaction besides there are many possibilities that exists with AR specially when it is combined with holography which can surely bring to light an unseen dimension to our lives and produce great results.
Getting back to the post, this shows an example panorama which can be explored using a marker. It was intentional here to refrain from augmenting specially, to show the possibility of using marker for interaction and even for wearable computing. Enjoy
Few days back while I was checking ma mails, I just clicked on the rss icon that appears on the right corner of the address bar (on firefox) which to me to a page where it was showing few of the most recent mails in the inbox.
I actually knew this quite some time back via a post of a fellow blogger. But Then I dint have much of a time to explore on it neither I was too interested on it by then. Anyway this time around I thought it’s time for me to get some insight of it.
The feed shows few of the most recent mails in your inbox together with few lines of the body of them as well. This becomes really handy if you are in a real hurry or even if you want to check your mails in your mobile because compared to getting there using the traditional login, this seems to be really fast.
It can be used to check whether you have received any new mails after you logged in for the last time and so on. But unfortunately, one will hardly be able read the content of the mail in whole unless the mail is so short that it will not exceed two lines or so. And getting any attachments is almost impossible as it stands now.
Just to exploit on it I have developed a simple page which makes life easier if I’m to access my feeds. The URL is given below. But I really don’t suggest you to go ahead and use it. And if you are using it remember, it’s on your own risk.
The page above utilizes https://username:password@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom mode of accessing Gmail feeds, so there one only requires to give the username and the password and it take care of the rest. Otherwise it could be potentially dangerous to use this method since your password will be revealed (because the address bar will never mask your password) in that case you better stick to the very first URL on this post.
Anyway I think it’s always nice to know few other ways of getting there as it may turn out be useful one day when you are stranded and when you have no other options. Hope you enjoyed it. Cheers.!
