Triggertrap Mobile iOS app turns iPhone into DSLR trigger

by Chris Smith

Triggertrap Mobile iOS app

New iOS app triggers your DSLR camera shutter through a host of pre-programmed ways. Triggertrap brings creative time-lapse photography, but can be programmed for facial and sound recognition.

A new app for iOS devices allows you to automatically trigger your DSLR camera through a means of innovative shooting modes.
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The Avengers Success Makes Justice League Film Inevitable?

By Joseph Kratzer

Avengers Vs. Justice League

So with hundreds of reviews for The Avengers (Avengers Assemble in the UK) ranging from awesome to possibly the best comic book movie yet, Marvel Studios and its parent corporation, Disney, have a long, prosperous road ahead of them in terms of blockbuster franchises. That is as long as they continue to hire similarly talented and capable story tellers like Joss Whedon to take the helms.

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MIT students turn whole building into huge game of Tetris

By Paul Ridden

The two-hundred and ninety-five feet (ninety meter) tall Building 54 on MIT’s Cambridge campus has become the canvas for a number of carefully planned and daringly executed visual displays over the years, not strictly allowed by the administration but often looked upon with some appreciation. The building is home to the Institute’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science (EAPS) and has a host of meteorological instruments and radio communications equipment on its roof – but its the grid-like windows to the front that have become the main attraction to hackers, as they are known. The latest hack is the successful realization of a long-standing challenge, a huge playable game of Tetris.

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New Orleans concert marks International Jazz Day

By STACEY PLAISANCE | Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As the morning sun spilled over the New Orleans’ skyline Monday, jazz musicians Herbie Hancock, Ellis Marsalis and others kicked off International Jazz Day with a sunrise concert that included ritual drumming and a string of performances, a day that culminated in the evening with a grand all-star concert at the United Nations.

In the morning, trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Kermit Ruffins, singer Stephanie Jordan and others performed “On the Sunny Side of the Street” and “Afro Blue” as the sun rose on Congo Square, an area near the French Quarter neighborhood where slaves once gathered on Sundays to play music.

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‘The Good Wife’ Leaves for Vacation

By Richard Lawson | The Atlantic Wire

The Good Wife (CBS)

The days grow longer and the weather (for the most part) warmer, and tomorrow is May, which means the sweet, sweet easy times of summer are soon upon us. This is, for the most part, great news. But there is one terrible thing happening as everything else gets good: TV shows are ending. Yes, network seasons are wrapping up, meaning soon there will be so little to watch. For example, The Good Wife, smart sudsy show that it is, ended its third season last night. We’re gonna miss it!

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Three Areas Samsung Will Focus On To Avoid Smartphone Complacency

by Ewan Spence

Congratulations Samsung, you made it. Top of the heap, number one, head honcho, the big man in the room, the all conquering mobile phone manufacturer. The King that was Nokia is no more, Samsung are now the number one mobile phone manufacturer on the planet.

That was the easy bit. Now they need to stay there, which is a different challenge altogether, and one that many companies have had to face up to before. One slip up in strategy and planning can start a chain reaction that could be masked by the market until the cliff face is reached. Just ask Nokia.

Samsung have many things to be careful of over the next few years, but there are three that cover the biggest areas of risk and opportunity.
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Billboard Hot 100 Singles – Week of May 05, 2012

1. Gotye f/ Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”
2. fun. f/ Janelle Monae, “We Are Young”

3. Maroon 5 f/ Wiz Khalifa, “Payphone”
4. Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend”

5. The Wanter, “Glad You Came”

6. Flo Rida f/ Sia, “Wild Ones”
7. Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”

8. One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful”
9. Nicki Minaj, “Starships”

10.Kelly Clarkson, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”

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