Author: Switchbox

Prepping a new computer with a fresh load of Windows is often a pretty tedious task – critical apps that take significant amounts of time to install (Visual Studio, SQL Server, Management Studio, etc.) mixed together with hundreds of updates and service packs with your odd mix of browsers, media, chat, and other random apps takes hours at least, if not days.

Thankfully, a solution exists that consolidates a selection of the most common applications into a single, standalone installer: Ninite.

Simply custom build your app package via checkbox selections, and let the installer do all of the work!

There are lots of great options for web developers including all the major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox), popular chat clients (Skype, Google Talk, etc.), application runtimes (.NET, Flash, Java) and tools (JDK, Eclipse, Notepad++, Filezilla).

Definitely worth a look if you prepping (yet another) machine for web or client development.

After doing some digging, I’ve finally found a decent Javascript Library for Augmented Reality. It uses Flash to receive data from your web cam. From there, it looks for a marker in the video feed. From there, it can tell where the corners are. I took it a little further and threw our logo on top. I also made it scale to the size of the box, so it has some depth.

Original Code:  http://code.google.com/p/js-aruco/

Our Application: http://switchboxinc.com/ar/

Evan just got us so great giveaways for our .Net Developer Lunch for this week.  Telerik donated 2 “mystery” items for us to give to the people with the best submittions for newest ideas on jQuery which is our theme for this week.  Good job Evan and thanks to Telerik.

Sound like you? Go to http://switchboxinc.com/jobs/