Why Apple's iPad/iPhone/iPod does not have zoom function on video record?

I recently used a new iPad for my Kinect Demo recording, and the new iPad's video quality is quite good. However, the pain part is for video recording, there is no zoom function.

I checked iPhone4 and iPod4, they are in the same pool. My htc android phone does have this function, I don't think it is hard for Apple put it on, but why not?

 Anyway, I sent a email to Mr. Tim cook as follows:


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Hi Mr. Cook,

 Recently I used a new iPad for a video presentation recording, I even bought a iPad tripod mount for it. But I was astonished to find there is no video zoom function for the new iPad or iPad 2. Why????

Does Apple have any plan to add this function in the future?

 best regs,

 Henry

 Sent from my iPad


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So far no reply!

Tearing down the Dell latitude D410 and D430 (If you don't know, don't do it)

To de-assemble a laptop is used to be my hobby. I had torn down thinkpad ,dell latitude and Compaq laptop long time ago. Here are photos showing how to tear down a Dell latitude D430.


1. Taking off the battery (this is D410 model)

2. Taking off harddriver (this is D410 model)

3. Momory (this is D410 modle)

4. Front cover (this is D410 model)

5.Palm  Part (this D410 model)

6. Front of palm part

7. back of Palm part

8. Front of Base

9. Finish one

10. all the small parts (WLAN, Memory, Bluttooth, harddrive etc...)

Dell latitude model is quite good design and quality, my D430 is almost 5 years and still works fine. I update the OS to Win8 developer preview, it recognized almost all the hardware expect  the finger scan and bluetooth were not function. I noticed it more hotter than running Win7, however it depends its metal case, it  works well.

The laptop were dropped to floor several time, so fat it is fine.

The big disadvantages are the max memory is 2Gb and very slowly hard disk 4200 rpm and 1.8", which is very hard to find replacement.

More information for D430

Dead Kindle (frozen screen) and Fix method

Recently my kindle was dead, it stayed on a frozen screen and refuse to re-startup. Even you hold the power button to left for 20,30 seconds or 2 minutes.


Dead body of Kindle

If you plug it your computer, you will find a new unknown device if you use Windows starup- "Devices and Printer" like following

Basically your kindle's SD memory is broken. There is no easy way to fix this problem. If you really want to fix it by yourself, you can refer following video

Or you can just CALL AMAZON for new replacement.

html 5 Speech Input -very funny and easy function

Very funny , click the Micro button, say something.

Update: It looks like you need Google chrome to explore this page, the IE 9 and Firefox 11 can't see the microphone icon. It is weird, those explorer should support html5. I have no idea! 

My idea of 'Voice to text" phone for hearing problem person

The purpose of this idea is to help hearing problem people(even for deaf person but can speak) to understand the telephone conversation. So they can have normal communication as everybody.

This service will have to use Google voice or Apple Siri as the speech recognition engine, and to use voice over IP for transmission. The voice packet will be sent to Google (Apple) speech recognition engine (cloud severs) and transfer to text (Voice to Text ), then will be deliver to receiver with voice input in the same time.

The key point is the receiver will have visual and audio inputs in the same time. This will help them to understand the conversation and respond normally.

Right now, I think only Google or Apple have the ability to do it, because it asks both inputs have to arrive in same time-no delay; the other reason is you have use the cloud severs as the engine to improve the accuracy rate of speech recognition.

I already submit a suggestion to Google voice, hope hear some positive message.

My recent work for Kinect sensor-2

Using Kinect skeleton tracking to simulate mouse cursor movement and click action (left click only), you can switch both of your hands to control mouse cursor movement, and use the opposite hand to simulate click action.

This video shows how to control Google chrome.

Yemen cafe

If you want to try some veritable north Africa food, it is a nice place to go.
http://www.google.com/m/place?cid=534793482453049472&q=yemen+cafe+brooklyn&fb=1&gl=us&hq=yemen+cafe&hnear=0x89c24416947c2109:0x82765c7404007886,Brooklyn,+NY

My recent work for Kinect sensor-1

Using Kinect skeleton tracking to implement the hand gesture recognition is quite popular right now, but we still need speech recognition help one the mouse-enabled graphical user interface,such as the Win 7 starup interface.

Following video show how to combine hand gesture recognition with speech recognition to control Windows Media Center.

Basically I think hand gesture recognition mainly simulates the keyboard function. And on next post I will show how to use skeleton tracking to implement mouse control.

This is my first post.

Hello Virtual World, I am coming!