Experiment With Lumia, The Cheap and Easy Way

Light is a wonderful medium for art, and there’s all manner of ways to approach it. We’ve always been huge fans of all that blinks and glows, but there’s a whole wide world of other methods and techniques in the lighting arena. Lumia is one that does not always get a lot of mainstream attention, and so [Adam Raugh] has created this video, sharing both the history of the effect, and various ways to create it yourself. 

Lumia was once used to refer to a broad swathe of artistic lighting, but these days, more commonly refers to effects that create …read more

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Pre-Touch Sensing Wouldn’t Have Saved Windows Phone

Pre-Touch Sensing Won't Save Windows Phone Either

If history is written by the winners, then alternate history is written by the losers. And no audience has more versions of what-could-have-been than Windows phone users. Well, you can add “pre-touch sensing” to the list of features that never would have saved Windows phone.

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Windows 10 Mobile is Coming to the Lumia Icon … But Only via Preview Builds

Windows 10 Mobile is Coming to the Lumia Icon ... But Only via Preview Builds

Good news, Lumia Icon users: Microsoft revealed this week that it will indeed support the Windows 10 Mobile upgrade on your favorite smart phone. However, that support is only for Insider Preview versions of the OS.

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Windows Phone is Irrelevant Today, But It Still Has a Future

I spend an inordinate amount of time fretting about Windows phone. But I’m increasingly convinced that the future of this platform is tied to the success of Windows 10, and that these “phones,” as we now call them, simply become very small Windows 10 M… Continue reading Windows Phone is Irrelevant Today, But It Still Has a Future