Archive for September, 2007
going underground
links for 2007-09-28
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Stamp for the 21st century.
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the actionscript facebook API on google code.
links for 2007-09-27
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Text editor that can be plugged into mediawiki and other wikis
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installing fckeditor into mediawiki
links for 2007-09-26
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app to convert video to different formats.
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Site full of internet hoaxes and urban legends.
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The contents page for the mediawiki php code documentation.
links for 2007-09-24
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Nice depth of field experiments using papervision 3d
links for 2007-09-21
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Windows based VJ toolkit
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Interesting looking yahoo thing for mashing different feeds together
links for 2007-09-20
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Application to allow syncing between different machines (so long as they are running iTunes)
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Another actionscript 2.0 class that can deal with zip files, by the maker of alivePDF.
links for 2007-09-19
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Nicely animated flash viral
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Another nice viral, this time for the movie “Shoot ‘em up”
Future predictions
I’ve been thinking about video over the internet recently, especially with the growth of bit torrent and new software such as Joost and BBC’s iPlayer (which seems to have been getting less than favourable coverage on the blogsphere). I’ve been thinking about what the idea situation would be and have come to the following conclusion, which would be such a paradigm shift as to be impossible. I think all videos, tv programmes and music should be free and exist in a cloud, so that everything is available at all times. There would be many interfaces to the cloud and this is where people could make money (if they wanted). I’m thinking these interfaces could include magazines that don’t just talk about films or music, but provide the media with it and even tv channels where editors have preselected videos and the user just surfs between channels, even physical devices (similar to phones) could be interfaces to this cloud. The content is free, but the selection and editorship is paid for. Also, in a world where all music is available forever there would be no need to hoard large collections of media as it would be there on demand.
links for 2007-09-05
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Google Earth contains a flight simulator easter egg – just press Command+Option+A on a Mac (note it must be capital A) or Ctrl+Alt+A if you’re using Windows.
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Veronique Brossier’s site with some really useful stuff for Flash to help choose colours.