technology

GMail needs "not spam" filter rules

I was setting up my SIGPWNED emails to forward to my GMail accounts. I thought I had the forwards configured properly, but my test emails never came through, so I thought that GMail might be flagging my SIGPWNED messages as spam. To rule out that possibility, I thought I’d install a “not spam” filter to make sure the emails got through the spam filter and into my inbox. Imagine my surprise when I found that GMail defines no such filter type:

Cam-Trax: Use Any Object as a PC Game Controller

Cam-Trax is program that claims to offer Wii-like controls to any PC game. Cam-Trax uses a webcam to interpolate the motion of your chosen control object — morocca, sprite bottle, whatever — in 3 dimensions and presumably acts as a USB HID to generate the appropriate application-level input events for that user input.