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Archive for July 2009

Why nobody reads blog posts

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Mass-amateurisation of the Internet

I cannot pretend it isn’t a commonly known fact that the Internet (and technology in general) has led to the mass-amateurisation of many professions – journalism has become blogging, we see photography websites, animation portals due to the advent of Flash, writers, graphic and sound artists, and of course 10 year old programmers. I recently [...]

The Road to KDE Devland (Moult Edition) #0

Well then. I’ve been motivated by Hans Chen who originally decided to walk the path to a KDE developer and to do my own. For the technophobes, KDE is an actively developed desktop interface (for want of a better description) which is pushing ahead what the desktop is capable. It is also a community for [...]

Tech tip #3: Rip audio from an .FLV file.

Well folks, here’s another quick tech tip that I use once in a while. How do you rip only the audio from an .FLV file? .FLV files, or Flash Video files are the format used in browser-embedded videos, common on video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo (and Eadrax!) For whatever reason if you have [...]

Tech tip #2: MPlayer play music recursively in a directory.

I have always wondered how to do this. It’s quite often I have directories full of media files (specifically music) and subdirectories within them also with music files, and though the manual for MPlayer is thicker than the Chinese phonebook I have not been able to find any option for it. I did however find [...]

Blog redesign.

I’ll be honest – I do not get the craze behind social networking. Why somebody would want to tell me their feelings throughout the day is beyond my understanding. Today I have stripped my blog of all the crap that was floating around (I ripped off some free template previously) including but not limited to [...]

What’s new 18th July 09

Right, for lack of time to write a fully fledged post, I bring you in bullet point form what is going on. That should be bliss to your “lacking” attention spans. I am working at a fine architecture company called Hamiltons International I am building my portfolio for my university application I just finished my [...]

The zen of PIM

PIM is the acronym for Personal Information Management: todo lists, email, rss, calendar, contacts, journals, blogs, etc. Recently I have been poking around trying to achieve the “zen” of PIM, where my PIM data is accessible from anywhere, and from any medium – from the internet, from my Windows Mobile 6 powered phone, and from [...]

Perspective July 2009 Released

As many people know, I am the layout editor of my school’s “Perspective” magazine. It is a student run organisation and this will be the last issue I design before I hand over my role to the year below (it’s a yearly thing). I am happy and proud to announce what I believe is the [...]

Chrome in the Clouds: The Google OS

If you read my initial post about Google Chrome (the OS, not the Brow- wait a minute, is there even a clear distinction anymore?) you would have realised that I didn’t really give opinions on what I felt about it but instead  how I visualised it to be. I believe in designating some mull-over time [...]

The Google Operating System – Chrome.

Read Google’s original blog post about it. That’s right, my conspiracy theory about Google (orignally posted a good month back) has come true, and it’s going to be out there around late 2010. Brief summary: Google is making an operating system (Linux-based too) with help from the open-source community that focuses on getting the user [...]

A little math probablility problem.

I was originally planning tomorrow to post the new Perspective Magazine for you to ogle at (distribution on Friday!) but I shall delay that and you shall be rewarded for waiting with a PDF you can download of the magazine. Ooh. Instead tonight I had some free time (because tomorrow I shall be skiving school [...]

Back from the Jungle

I actually arrived back on Friday and was going to post this earlier, but the development on Blender 2.5 caught my eye, so here is the delayed post. Last week almost nothing happened due to me spending Monday through Friday deep in the jungles of Taman Negara. This is part of a little something called [...]

Blender 2.5 Features Video

Hello everybody, I’m back from my 5 day jungle trek and I’m just catching up on what I’ve missed throughout the week. I was initially going to award you all with a post about the trek itself, but it turns out Jonathan Williamson from Montage Studio (the very same who does the Blender screencasts and [...]