Today there was a workshop on the Jitter and MasMSP combination allowing viewing of video and changing of colours. Learning more about Max and the fact that it can handle graphics in an external window (which can be placed on an external screen / projector. A comment from Christian had indicated that Processing may be [...]

I was browsing around my RSS feeds tonight after having substantially hacking my wordpress theme (comments welcome) and I game across some Gears of War 2 info. So I started looking at YouTube and found the video below. Gears of War 2 will be using the updated Unreal 3 engine and the following video shows [...]

I have just got back to my parent’s house and found a bird had made a nest… in a parasol on the patio. Couldn’t resist in taking a few photos. I did scare the bird away, and it hasn’t come back yet… ooops. Click the image to view the full set in Flickr.

I am now using Lightview to test it compared to Lightbox 2. On the plus side it looks a lot prettier (if that were possible) and its transitions are sleeker. It has two key features that Lighbox does not… It has the ability to have a slideshow in the same screen with the click of [...]

My flatmate Jeff came running into my room last night shouting about fire breathing. I thought he was joking but he actually was fire breathing. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to take some photos and learn about quickly capturing great pictures in uncontrollable lighting. It proved very fun but there is some work [...]

Today the subdomain http://shoutbox.craigmdennis.com/blog was setup and a fresh install of WordPress was thrown in there. Now each member of the group their own login details and shows as posting separate entries. This is a great way to show some sort of gauge of what people have contributed. This remains a personal blog detailing the [...]

Whilst searching the interweb last night trying desperately to find a way to block google’s ‘sponsored links’ within its gmail system, I came across a brilliant little add-on for firefox that does that plus much more! It’s so simple too. Its called ‘stylish’ and essentially overwrites the existing css of the page by using !important. [...]

Both of the concepts but forward were selected to be produced but an executive creative decision was taken and the concept being built is ‘shoutbox’. There is a problem with the concepts selected for the fete in that they have all been developed by the ‘regular’ people that attend lectures and seminars. This means that [...]

Here are the slides for the concepts chosen to put forward in tomorrow’s presentation. There are a few videos that can be shown along side these and links can be found at the bottom. Further research links will be added as research is conducted.

The next project has started and it looks to be a very interesting one, with the emphasis on a village fete style environment with many ‘booths’ (or interactive experiences in this case) that will bring the community together to raise money for the proverbial church roof. Currently the mindmapping (formerly brainstorming) is in progress and [...]

The BBC reported the successful flight of a manned hydrogen fuelled plane developed by those boffins over at Boeing. They say it is paving the way for a new generation of ‘greener’ planes as the only by-product is heat and water vapour. I am sceptical of such lofty claims by developers of such technologies however [...]

Today I got a message from Danille Leben from Rave On Air askin me if I had received the email about the new branding. I hadn’t but I had. It was in my spam folder. Anyway the new ‘branded’ site is online but I’m not convinced by it. There were a few ‘must-have’ things they [...]

Microsoft are denying rumours they have done a 180 and are discussing the possibility of Taiwanese manufacturer Lite-On, makers of optical drives, possibly making a Blu-Ray player for the Xbox 360. The rumours suggested initially an external add-on for the console (like that of the now defunct HD-DVD drive) but it now appears to be [...]

According to an article on The Register, someone has developed a proof-of-concept for a ‘bio-logger’. You’ve heard of key-loggers for keyboards right? That log keystrokes made on a target keyboard and send the retrieved data to a USB key or via the internet to anyone. Well this new ‘gadget’ does the same thing but captures [...]