Batman / Robin Perspective Drawing
batman.jpg (JPEG Image, 300x450 pixels)
Check out the image as a really cool sidewalk drawing in perspective.
October 11, 2006
August 19, 2006
Upgraded to MT 3.3
I've been working on re-structuring the whitesquaresoft website to merge my 'corporate' ish type site that handles my software development and this personal blog.
The root of whitesquaresoft is going to run Wordpress, while this will stay a MovableType site. So getting everything in order required me updating to MT 3.3.
Here it is..
July 9, 2006
Nifty Corners
So that I can remember this site and everyone else can find out about it i’m linking it here http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html
Don’t bother checking it out unless you are a web developer looking for some nice easy CSS stuff to do rounded corners.
June 7, 2006
In honour of the world cup
A cool google video of some “Mad” soccer skills.
June 6, 2006
Funky Flash
Animation vs Animator
August 17, 2005
PodShow Receives $8.85M
PodShow Receives $8.85M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. August 16, 2005 – PodShow, Inc., today announced $8.85M in strategic investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures. PodShow is the breakthrough business that is at the epicenter of the podcasting revolution, providing directories, community, technology and content programming that have helped to make podcasting the most explosive media innovation since the introduction of the web browser.
Wow, it seems that all of this podcasting became a little bit more real today with the announcement from podshow. It looks like Adam Curry really wants to be a power player in this industry and now has some financial backing to ensure that Apple doesn’t capture all of the cookies and keep them for itself.
I’ll be interested in seeing the develpoment of podcasting now. So it really must be time for me to get the first beta of FeedListener into the wide world.. Hmmmm just when to find the time.
August 3, 2005
What is DIGG?
I recently stumbled upon a site called DIGG and have been playing with it. This is a quick review of my initial thoughts on the product.
So what is Digg? In short its a “social news site”. This site allows the anyone, yes you and me, to submit news items to the site. Others then come and browse these items with the ability to mark the items as popular and if they become popular enough the items will appear on the home page.
Digg state that you can: Digg stories that you think are cool. Once a story receives enough diggs from people like you it will be promoted to the front page.
It works by people adding articles to the site, then others browsing this set of articles for things that they “dig”. The user can then “dig” the article by clicking on a link incrementing its value by 1. Once enough people dig the article it gets added to the front page, and from there more people get alerted to it and dug some more. This social system works in much the same way that Slashdot does, but without the editors.
The other cool function is that each of the users have a page that shows what they dug. To see what I have recently dug checkout my digg page and even dig your own. You also have the ability to add friends and see what your friends have dug. All the cool things to come to expect from these new “social website's”.
On a technical note, it seems to use some nice javascript to increment the digg count, notice sometimes when you dig a story it increments by more than one. I assume it submits the dig to the server which returns the new dig amount, if others have dug the story in between viewing the page and clicking the link the value will be higher and so the new value shown.
Tags: digg social networking
July 29, 2005
Pekka Sandborg - Ragdoll
I have stared at this for waaaay too long now.. Remember that you can drag her around the screen too.
This ragdoll-physics experiment is based on Jacobsen article. This is easier to do than it looks.
July 26, 2005
Video of completing Mario 64 in < 20 mins.
Just found this site with an awesome video of a guy finishing Mario 64 in under 20 mins.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=238
(via Digg.com http://digg.com/gaming/The_20_minute_Mario_Bros_64)
Also on the digg site is links to finishing Mario on the NES in < 11 mins.
Now playing: Adam Curry - Daily Source Code for July 25th 2005 #213
July 25, 2005
Keyboard with OLED keys
How cool is this keyboard!!! Each of the keys is an individual OLED display that is configurable to show different images based on different configurations. Check out the site for more images.
http://artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
Now playing: digg.com - Episode #003 Audio
News: Yahoo! acquires Konfabulator
The Konfabulator widgets are something that I’ve played with a while ago, and really looked at building a couple, but got caught with having to pay for the runtime to run them. Now Yahoo! is looking at releasing it for free, it may be a more attractive platform.
Macworld: News: Yahoo! acquires Konfabulator
Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop -- the same model used by Apple for its Dashboard application. Yahoo! company executives said they would also be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product.
Tags: Yahoo Javascript
Crazy Frog
Just like the Hamster dance, or the Subservient Chicken, the crazy frog has crossed the media divide, spanning mobile phones, music, video and now u can see him in all his glory online.
By taking a well known tune like Axel F and adding his own Ding Ding Boom to it, he has created one of the most distinctive and recognisable tunes. That said, it does get very annoying.
http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Crazy-Frog
Tags: Crazy Frog Annoying
July 18, 2005
iTunes 4.9 and Podcasting
I’d assume that everyone who's been listening to podcasts has now heard of the changes in iTunes to support Podcasting. It will also be no surprise to anyone to know some of the limitations that iTunes has in its current implementation.
I’ve read (and heard) some of the criticisms on behalf of the actual podcaster, and as I don’t run one I’ll leave that discussion to them, but what I want to talk about is iTunes 4.9 and the experience as a listener.
Let me get a few things out to start with. I’m a Windows laptop user, who doesn’t own an iPod (but would love one) so I use iTunes not only to manage and download the episodes, but also to listen.
Before iTunes podcasting support, I couldn’t find a podcatcher that suited my needs, I wanted one that did the following:
- Allow simple addition of new podcasts
- Allow me to browse a central repository of podcasts
- Download new casts as they come available
- Automatically remove old casts
- Allow me to play the cast directly
- Manage the number of times played
- Keep a track of if I had completely played a cast
- Allow me to resume listening to a cast from the last place I stopped it
- Allow different podcasts to have different rules for downloading
- Allow me to mark an episode as great so it can be kept
- Allow me to share an episode with other uses of the same product
There are probably a few more, but thats the main thing. Manage the subscriptions and the major bit was to allow me to play the item from within the application. It could then manage what/when I played stuff and not delete items that were not played, or take other actions (like not download new episodes until the last one was listened to).
So what does this have to do with iTunes 4.9? Well it seems that Apple have read my mind and implemented a lot of the features. They already had iTunes, that supported MP3 playback, and with the addition of the podcasting client you can now manage subscriptions and download episodes.
But that seems to be the end of it. There is no way to use the inbuilt sharing in iTunes to share your podcasts. How much better would it be if I could see what others on my network listen to, subscribe from their system and take their copy of the episodes. I’m sure the podcasters would love it.. New subscribers, but not having to spend the bandwidth sending me the file.
The other thing I don’t like, is that when I play one show, it stops at the end of it. I know I can probably add it to my party shuffle, but why can’t it just continue playing like it does in the library??
I assume that they just got it working and out the door, so I’ll hold of ranting much more about this, as apple have been innovative in this field before, but if I can ask for one thing, thats Please don’t forget the people without iPods.. Make iTunes capable of doing all the same stuff that the iPod can so I can use my laptop as my psudo-iPod.
Tags: itunes podcasting podcast podcatcher audio
July 14, 2005
Online newspaper reader (AJAX)
We all know that most newspapers have an online presence, but its limited to what they decide to publish and its not like the real thing.
But now due to the wonders of the internet you can read the paper in its original format, scanned and digitised for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
What's more, is that its a funky site using heaps of AJAX technology and showing us that someone else than Google can really use this technology to make some cool stuff.
Now playing: Green Day - Homecoming