This is how! A wonderful program by doubleTwist called, surprisingly enough, doubleTwist desktop. It synchronises with iTunes or Windows Media Player, getting around their copy protection by converting the DRM files to MP3s in real-time while you listen to them. This means no copyright laws are ‘technically’ being broken. It’s just like recording from the… Read more →
As I so often like to blog about Apple’s cool new feature that they have patented I thought I would do the honours with a new offering from the company. This article shows a new ‘customisable’ user touch interface, allowing for gestures using your whole hand to be allocated to different tasks. Original Article Here
I just read this article which says that ISPs have shot down the governement’s plans to have them block or rigorously monitor a subscriber’s data. “surveillance and privacy laws explicitly forbid ISPs to inspect the contents of data…” “P2P technology is legally utilised in a number of commercial services including [the] BBC…” I am very… Read more →
I found this very interesting article about a hydrogen fuel cell powered phone! Of all things! This is the first live piece of technology I have seen to be powered by such technology other than cars. This leads to the interesting question about what else could be powered by such fuel cells – Laptops? Cameras?… Read more →
I came across this piece of eBay GOLD. It’s a seemingly normal listing until you get down to the item description…
I just came across a website created entirely in flash and has some amazing transitions. Take a look here
I was reading this article and was amazed to see the progress of solid state drives (SSD). It wasn’t that long ago when it was expensive enough to buy a 64MB pen drive and now a company is preparing to ship “in volume” a 1.6TB drive for use in computing. This really is moving on… Read more →
I have just finished messing around in 3DS Max for the day. It’s very early in the morning but it seems to be when I do my best work. I created some illuminating shapes using V-Ray and then managed to create chrome and glass materials and apply them to some objects. What I can’t figure… Read more →
Thanks to a tutorial from Russell Smith here I have finally been able to create a very nice reflective effect in 3DS Max. Now I’m just messing about with materials, colours and looking at V-Ray which I have just installed. Sooo many options! Here’s what I’ve done so far, the third one using V-Ray and… Read more →
Hello World! This is a very apt phrase at the moment as I have been learning php and the first thing it was used for is to echo “Hello World!”. It is also appropriate as I have managed (after much tweaking) to use WordPress and my own domain to host my own blog… so to… Read more →