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Best 12 minutes you’ll spend in January……
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Check out Alex Roman’s “The Third & The Seventh” video. Absolutely amazing and right up there with some of the best produced pieces of art I’ve seen on the net. The amazing part is that except some small compositing elements, the rest of the movie…
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Homebrew Digital 3D Movies
Great article over at Make Magazine online, all about homebrew digital 3D movies. It’s a reprint of an older article (from Make Vol. 14) by Eric Kurland, where he explains in quite a bit of detail how he accomplished this setup.
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View all computers/shares and printers on your windows network….
NetResView is a great little utility from NirSoft. It displays the list of all network resources (computers, disk shares, and printer shares) on your LAN. As opposed to “My Network Places” module of Windows, NetResView display all network resources from all domains/workgroups in one screen, and including admin/hidden shares. Very useful utility for the Admin/Advanced…
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WineBottler makes running Windows Applications in OSX simpler……
Let’s be clear on this, Wine, which is what WineBottler uses, lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows without the need for a emulator or virtual machine. Not every program works yet, however there are already several million…
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Vintage Ad Browser…..
If you have sometime and like the look of those old ads from days gone by, check out Vintage Ad Browser. They provide a great interface to browser through all sorts of Ad categories and further break them down by decades.
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DIY Smartboard….
Johnny Lee strikes again. The Wiimote Guru has a new project. Build your own expensive looking smartboard using a projector, laptop and a Wiimote. Excellent little project to kick off the new year. Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip.…
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Cheating Death……
Andy Wilsheer is one lucky photographer (and he’s got coconut sized pure brass family jewels). Check out the series of images he shot as a runaway dragster flies by his lens. Absolutely incredible.
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Prague in all her glory……
Well, if you like the city of Prague like I do (by far my favourite city to visit in Europe), you’ll get a kick out of this 18 GigaPixel gigantic panorama photograph (Credit: Jeff Martin) shot from the TV tower. This image is the largest spherical panorama in the world as of Dec. 2009. Follow…
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It’s been a little while since I’ve posted any pics. I’ve been transfering my workspace from my old Macbook Pro to the new 27″ iMac, so things have backed up a bit. Here are the pictures from a recent trip to Portland Oregon to attend the Super Computing Conference. As usual the complete set can…
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Black Screen (of Death) solution for Windows (XP, Vista, 7, NT, 2K, 2K3, 2K8)
It looks like in trying to make the OS more secure, the latest MS updates (KB915597 and KB976098) “could” actually break the windows login process. From what I understand the access permissions on the winlogon shell entry for explorer.exe are invalidated after this update and hence the OS will not load explorer.exe (and you end…