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| Google Personalized Homepage 27.07.2005 |
| http://www.google.com/ig After adding the custom RSSfeed feature, this is just what I was looking for. Perfect! Thanks google! How long will take to MSN to copy that? :D |
| posted by mr.doob at 13:58 |
1 comment| Yahoo bought Konfabulator 27.07.2005 |
| And now is free!! o/ I don't know if that one was the first widget thing, but at least was one of the first I've seen. I'm these days testing it and seeing how useful it is.. You can have the same like on mac, that pressing f8 appears all those widgets, or you can change the preferences of each one and have them floating the desktop. By now, looks like a clean, cute way to have your todo list in the screen. I'll look for rss stuff now.. :) |
| posted by mr.doob at 10:41 |
| ok, now makes sense.. 26.07.2005 |
| Everyone was blabling about the power of the bloggers, but.. all those people writing in those phpscripts with those basic design templates around the world.. What's the point of it? Do you have to subscribe to 1000 different RSS?, do you have to browse all of them eveyday?.. Doesn't makes sense.. Some days ago, sole show me technorati. Technorati is just THE IDEA, there is no a lot of work behind, but the value of it is mainly the idea. Technorati depends of all the bloggers, but as they were (if not the first) the cleverer/commercial of the firsts they got the power now. They got the power of all the blogger community. Nice movement!! To make it short, when somebody, using blogger or so, updates his blog, it probably will send a fast notifiction to technorati about it. And technorati will update in realtime. So, for example, if the day of the bombs in London, there was no enough info on the newspapers yet, you could search on technorati and you would find a lot of bloggers writing about it, and if there are a lot of bloggers, perhaps you could find a guy that was inside one of those trains. Can the newspapers/TV compete with that? Now the fight will be probably about that, Google, and MSN doing their own technologies for that. But that would be interesting.. Looking forward to see how all that moves. |
| posted by mr.doob at 13:33 |
| Big Portfolio Update! 20.07.2005 |
| You would probably wondering, uh!? The porfolio is not moving, that guy is being lazy.. or perhaps.. that's what happens when someone gets a girl. Hehehe, just kidding.. Actually I did quite enough work this year but I had no time to update the porfolio. I should automatize it a little bit. So, here are the projects added: + blue tuesday demo + robbiek experimental website + cic website + ifparty05 website + rsscan website + anniversary wines website + phodoob flash gallery + itlab.com + corpora software website And I stil have more stuff to add, let's see if I find some more time for that. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 01:41 |
| Independent Game Developers 19.07.2005 |
Long time ago I was little bit addicted to uplink, a hacker simulator. Somehow it explains the basic things of hacking and also is very entertaining. This week, i don't remember why, I installed it again, but this time I played to it more seriously. The problem of it is that when you're caught (usually by pasive traces) the game ends, and is quite frustrating. And I was caught again. But I'll probably play once again more seriously cleaning logs from everywhere! muhahaha!
So, checking their website, I realized that the same people developed a new game this year. I was wondering if there had the same level of the other one and decided to download it and try it.
Darwinia is something like Diablo but in a tron-rex(3d-flat-electro-game) look. It is addictive as well, it's weird, with weird render on it. But I never liked that kind of game. Anyway, check out the demo of it, it's very interesting.
So, after spending part of my weekend with these games, today, reading the Hi-Res! feed found another weird independent game.
-709685.jpg) Golf? It takes a little time to understand the controls, but hey! looks very cool :D |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 00:47 |
| Black Ship 18.07.2005 |
| Looks like my alter-ego r0828 ;) is releasing today a new music. Once again, does have a weird style hard to define. But somehow could work very well to some lineal narrative speedy attack with a big explosion on the second part ;) Stole my music! Click here to download robbie k - black ship!. |
| posted by r08028 at 03:19 |
| Flash 8 hacks! 17.07.2005 |
| This week Macromedia released the beta of flash8 player for browsers. It will have a lot of great new features. ClearType rendering, dynamic loading of png and gif with alpha channels, dynamic shadows, blur, rendering blendings.. And as I was able to experiment very early, it is really faster. So, looks like finally the people of the player is not doing just bad fixes to the player anymore, they are improving it a lot. And here is the funny thing. The people is hacking somehow the new features of the player, coding in flashmx and modifying the .swf to make it work with flash8 player. Check out the early experiments the people are doing with the new features. No idea of when they are going to release the editor tho. Enjoy!! |
| posted by mr.doob at 03:53 |
| get a bike! - part 2 12.07.2005 |
| Looks like, luckily, none of my friends / coworkers / family had troubles with the bombs. But as in Spring we are now reconstructing our building and improving everything of it, we are now working at I.T. Lab offices. And these offices are really in the center of London. So, because that, I had to get the tube to go work, and wooah.. probably you were wondering about how the people here is going with that.. I was the first one to be scared to be in the train. Everyone that was entering into the carriage was doing the same I did: check out all the handbags that the people were wearing. That was veeery scary. Then, after arrive to Holborn, everyone was going very slow (as there was a lot of people) to the exit. Actually, the last fact is normal one, everyday is the same, there is a lot of people on the tube first thing on the morning. And I really hate to have to walk within all the people like sheeps or so.. Because that I decided to go work with bike as well, thought this time the journey is veeeery long. I didn't have time to buy a helmet today so I will have to go trough Hyde Park tomorrow I think as it looks like the safest way. :S!! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 00:33 |
| the day when UK was Spain and Spain was UK 12.07.2005 |
| We had planned to do our holidays the last week since long time ago. As I already said, the idea was to go to some "lost" town in the north os spain, with beach. Relax, sun, beach, tapas, sangria, poor quality TV and everything very cheap. But far from what we were looking for everything started to turn to other way. On wednesday the day was starting to be darker, some rain on there.. and a lot of wind on the beach. Also I was working for the gig I had to do at mmt festival and that was stealing some of these relax time. And as the last main bit, I had to reconstruct my broken tooth so I had to go to barcelona some days. The holidays went mad. Veery mad. On thurday meanwhile we were waiting for the doctor and a friend of us phoned asking if we were in London, we said "no.." and he said "shit!".. He was actually looking for his brother that was on London at this moment. Then he told us about the bombs. After that I wanted to reconstruct the tooth asap and go home to check the news on internet. 7 bombs in the tube and 1 in a bus they said (you know, the beginnings are always confusing). Then we decided to don't lose more time watching the tv as UK is not like Spain on that, they are not going to say any new, as they don't want to the attackers to know what they know. So we went to walk and get some "bravas" at bar tomas ;) Meanwhile they were opening the Bar it started to rain. So we finished like being in London. Raining outside and with bombs in our other country. I want to thank to all those people that called / sent emails / ask on forums about sole and me. We were actually very away and we didn't read the email until the day after. Also, once again, we was going back to barcelona from montcada, with a hard rain after a great gig at mmt festival. Is it going to rain the next year again? :P The rest of the days we were enjoying again Cunit and their celebrations, as they were doing a lot of special parties. So, as you can see, the holidays were mad. If you want to check the photos of all this adventure, click here :D |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 00:21 |
| mmt festival 2005 04.07.2005 |
| Finally the website for this year mmt festival edition is ready. http://www.imirweb.org/ 8 - 9 July (Montcada - Barcelona) As I did last year, I'm going to visualize all the audio in the place, I wanted to join this year with the guys of threepixels. But they doesn't have the new version of their tool ready and I'll have to hold both days of the event. So being right now as holidays, I'll have to merge the beach, bike, sangria, chiringuitos on the beach with this warm weather, 3D Studio and photoshop hardwork. Sounds great, uh? ;) See you the next friday and the next saturday in montcada! :D |
| posted by trace at 12:48 |
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