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| m$ boom! 19.09.2005 |
| I don't know if you already seen anything, but looks like microsoft are spreading a lot of "previews" of all the software they are working on. Probably because there were feeling the people was starting to don't trust them. Those previews are actually 1gigabyte WMV videos recorded with a DVcam, usually there is a developer/architect/whatever explaining how the software works, and the cameraman is asking some good/bad questions. Regarding the videos... 1gigabyte.. wow! couldn't they just compress them a little bit? Even using a 8mb connection they still too big. The quality of the video, the style, the feeling.. well, it just looks like an amateur porn movie. Regarding what the preview itself... as usual, microsoft does have a lot of power, but they don't know how to show it. For example, whatever mac does, windows can do that as well, but looks like nobody in microsoft works to see how to impress the people, with shadows, distorstions.. blabla.. if you have to do a demo of a product, you have to know how to sell it showing cool things.. not just ugly things.. Regarding what they want to show... If you just concentrate and think all what you could do with the technology they are showing.. well, honestly, lookg like FINALLY they are doing good stuff, Office12 looks very cool, also Sparkle, aka Macromedia Flash killer, is very, very cool. It's the killer of Macromedia Flash but just for the cases where Macromedia Flash is used in Windows apps, not for web stuff. If you have a really good connection and you want to see more previews, check that site out. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 09:53 |
2 comments| we.. are... back! unxh tixh.. 19.09.2005 |
| Yeeh! scenesp.org had a big problem the last week and some of your favourite websites were offline. Finally we are back, but sole/xplsv/mrdoob are now moving to a new hosting (textdrive). Looks like is a pay-only-once deal offer. The only you have to do is pray for the company to stay atleast one year.. We'll do. There is a lot of stuff to talk about, Windows Visa Toaster Edition fact, phodoob updated, flash8, thisisnotaneditor progress. I think I'll start talking about these projects a little bit, problems I find, and fixes.. I was suposed to go to sundown2005 the last weekend but we finally had to move offices at Spring. The new offices look greaaat! One year ago we were like 3 guys on these building, doing our best, and now we are 20+ people and we are almost filling the whole building. We got a nice balcony now as well, were we did a bbq last monday with a veeery bad ending ;) Anyway was very funny. Check out some pictures of the bbq here! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 06:10 |
| PSP: backup files 06.09.2005 |
| Shit! The UMD of WipeOut pure that I bought with my PSP just broke! Thanks good I found a page where you can download backup files. Looks like you need this program to be able to execute them. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 14:11 |
| playboymansion and stuff 03.09.2005 |
| So, as probably you know, last weekend I had the oportunity to attend a very cool & posh party. The journey was shorter than expected, as soon as we arrived to there shine was already doing the hardtechno djset that I sent him some tunes for. I wanted to do the visuals for that set but was just at midday and if the sun is out there is not too much to do. So first thing was go to the pool, say hi to everyone, foreigners and spanish, and then relax, relax, relax.. There was really good vibes in the party. I had to do extra effects for the live so I had to work on the grass meanwhile the rest was just relaxing, but I had to say that I enjoyed that :D So, the first night I wasn't suposed to perfom, but the orgos just asked me to perfom that night with some guy. So I did some layers to announce the name of the dj on the visuals and It looked good enough that I reused them the next day :) Regarding the actual gig, there was a bit of delay between the dj and the projector, so effects using the linein to modify objects were not working very well. Also, on I didn't have monitor so I was looking the projection directly, and there was a lot of smoke (artificial) and also flashes on the ambient, and that was giving me nuts. Sometimes the visuals were very dark, and I was looking on the tool what layer was doing that, and that was actually the smoke on the ambient. Also, we got a key on the tool to stop the flash each beat thing, and when I was watching the flash on the screen (was an external flash) that was confusing me a lot as well. Anyway, the gigs were as usual, trying to do like a musicvideo in realtime and well synced with the music. I still have to do more effects and also try the shader stuff as we only have diffuse/enviroment materials now.. But I was able to experiment with some new features of the tool. On the second night, I had the idea to create as image a greetings so the visuals would look like a demo. The funny thing that was I did it in hurry and I forgot some people, and I had to apologize meanwhile i was doing the gig :P So as party, was probably best party ever, for first time the spanish scene was being innovative in something doing a party in a mansion, and taking advantage of the weather we got. You can see some pictures that I took here, and more and more pictures here. As soon as we were back in London, we just went to sleep and after some hours we wake up with a lot of noise on the street as we had the neighbourhood carnival (notting hill). It was very nice to see all those streets full of people (as usually there is no people in the neighbourhood). At some poing of the day there was too many people and we had It was quite annoying. Anyway, was a great after-party. Some more pictures of the after party (notting hill carnival) here ;) So.. that wasn't not all yet, 3 days later, xplsv.com had to perform in lasal with the guys of roterfleck. I didn't have the tickets for that and also I didn't have the money to do that, so this time shine did the visuals with all my effects resource. As far as I know the gig was great, and the boss of the "chiringuito" was very impressed with the visuals, so probably we will have to perform again next year o/ :) And that was all more or less. Next gig will be in Exeter, UK (first time in UK). Again in a demoscene party, sundown! |
| posted by trace at 23:14 |
| Loading... 03.09.2005 |
| Looks like two sectors are having the same problem. There is a relation between loading times and technology. But as everyone could think, as better the technology is, the loading time ISN'T lower. Websites Flash appeared some years ago, and for a normal user, the first change that he see is a new "loading.." screen that without Flash he didn't have to wait. Is that supose to be an improvement? We really should use flash in a clever way and have something better than not "loading" when you need to load.. (I have to give the credit of that paragraph to Spring's Manager Director, Simon Wittacker, tho ;) Games Now I can compare the newest game technology with the very old one (let's say pcengine for example). As soon as I had the pcengine emulator running on my GP32 I realized about that. You can start playing in less than 10seconds after turning on the handheld. Like, Turn on, select emulator, select game, start, start, start.. and that's it, you're serving a ball in a very cool tennis game.. But now, with PSP, you have to wait all the time for loading the disk (UMD). I was playing Wipeout, and that was like Playstation.. Loading loading loading.. now play.. then, loading loading loading.. They/We are just missing the point!!! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 21:04 |
| PSP scene 03.09.2005 |
Ok, for all those people that didn't get it on my last post I bought a PSP as soon as was released on UK. First impressions.. nice, took me some hours to realize that it had wifi (i didn't know :D) and then browse some websites. I had to upgrade the firmware to 2.0, though I know that doing that I wouldn't be able to test all those homebrew stuff the people were doing (dosbox, uae, mame, blablabla..) but.. well.. I'm sure that somebody will crack the firmware 2.0 soon (or atleast a downgrader).
So now I'll save some of your time, If you got a PSP and you want to be up to date of the latest hacks and software the scene is doing, add the RSS of pspupdates.com to your reader (a lot of news per hour). Also, for some extra information and forums check out pspcomplete.com.
Regarding the future of the console hacks and cracks.. looks like MemorySticks of 10gb will be on the streets quite soon. So, if you think a little bit, as soon as they hack the handheld and you can just download from internet/emule the games (the UMD can store up to 1.8gb), copy them to the memorystick, and play. Sounds easy.
Some alpha version of a sintethizer was already released, also a total commander like app. And as last bit, here is a screenshot of a OS in development.
:)~~
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| posted by ricardo cabello at 19:25 |
| the geekest! 01.09.2005 |
| Yesterday I had to leave a little bit late from work and of course I couldn't go home with the bike when is that late. So I had to take the bus once again. When I was already in the bus I pass through a Virgin and there I seen lot of people waiting in the door, doing a queue. Then I realized that the next day (today) was the release of the PSP in Europe (and UK). Then I pass through a GAME and Dixons and there was the same scene. How can the people wait 10+h just to buy a handheld? It's one of those things that you hear, or you see on the TV but you never see in the real life. So, just after arrive home, I had the idea to go work the next day by bus again. It is a longer journey than with the tube (metro) but then I would be able to see all those long queues of uber-dirty-geeks. Then I realized that I was being more geeks than they as I was to be a bit late at work just to see geeks doing queue. Anyway, that's what I did. I catched the number 7 this morning and I was going to get the camera with me but it wasn't charged. When I arrived to Oxford Street, the queues wasn't as long as expected, there was people waiting, and some shops were already opened. Booooohhhhh! However, when I arrived to Tottenham Court Road (where I'm working nowadays) I found Virgin opened. So my thought at this point was, If there was not too many people, and they are already open probably will be some spare ones. So, you can guess the rest :D Now, the first thing I'll do is check all those hacks that the people did for it. I just did a fast search about it this morning and I found things like MAME, DOSBOX, NES & SNES EMULATORS, BROWSERS, MSN.. sounds very funny! :)~ |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 11:45 |
| gpx2! 31.08.2005 |
It's coming! The next generation of that open-source handheld is about to be released! I can't wait!
:*) |
| posted by trace at 16:20 |
| playboymansionparty 23.08.2005 |
| Less than 5 days and I'll be there on a proper party in Spain. Without nerds in front of the computer 48h+, without totally drunk people, with a clever orgo, good vibes.. and all that. That sounds like ifparty. But this time there is a pool, and 3 projectors and a big meadow to do some great BBQ meanwhile watching some VJstuff and good DJsets. http://www.playboymansionparty.com/ xplsv was invited to attend and perform on it, should be a good oportunity to test the new features added to our vjtool neon :D Kudos Shine! So, as usual, what I have to do now is produce more effects! ;) See you all there! |
| posted by trace at 00:40 |
| Google Sidebar vs MSN Sidebar, winner: Konfabulator 22.08.2005 |
| Today google is releasing the v2 of his desktop search. It's not really the v2. It's his desktop search AND a the new product Google Sidebar (All that is starting to be a bit confusing). As any other geek I just tried asap, and learnt how was working everything, just checking how google managed to do the sidebar. And I have to say that some bits were very clever. Some others simply weren't (no changing the colour of the rss entries read, no adding the favicon for each rss entry..) I also installed some extra plugins for it, and also checked the activeX things.. I learnt everything about it and just realized that was conflicting with my konfabulator things.. there was a weather on it, there was a todo list as well.. So I just closed Konfabulator and was using the sidebar for a bit. But 30min later I was closing the sidebar and using just the deskbar. And starting Konfabulator again. It was veeery confusing and veeery distracting.. There was a lot of information on it. Simply as that. I tried MSN sidebar before as well, and was the same shit. Konfabulator forever! But hey.. somebody should do a selection of the best widgets! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 21:00 |
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