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Living Room / How Microsoft Chooses New Sounds

« on: November 11, 2006, 03:50 AM »

Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.

Of course, this isn't just any four-second clip. It's the sound — a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out — that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

http://www.showbuzz....ic/main2172953.shtml

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Developer's Corner / Gamefest 2006 slides and audio recording available

« on: November 11, 2006, 03:37 AM »

Covers such things as XNA, game middlewares, graphic programming and other game development areas.

http://msdn.microsof...rectx/presentations/

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Developer's Corner / 72 Hour Game Dev Competition

« on: November 11, 2006, 03:30 AM »

It's time for the 8th 72 Hour Game Development Competition! The general premise is this: At the start of the 72 hour period, a pre-determined theme is revealed. Teams collaborate to make the best game they can following that theme with only 72 hours to release something.

http://www.72hourgdc.com

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Developer's Corner / New Game Industry Scholarship for Women

« on: November 11, 2006, 03:25 AM »

Research Triangle Park, NC - WomenGamers.Com is happy to announce that for the 2007-2008 school year, we are co-sponsoring the DigiPen Institute of Technology Women's Scholarship, a new scholarship for women interested in a career in the gaming industry. DigiPen Institute of Technology is offering five $2000.00 scholarships to five qualifying female students who obtain all of the following qualifications...

http://www.gamedev.n....asp?topic_id=423163

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Developer's Corner / Mobile Media Developer podcast series

« on: November 11, 2006, 03:20 AM »

The Khronos Group has launched the first in their Mobile Media Developer podcast series. In this new series, the developers behind the industry standards for 3D, 2D, video and audio for mobile devices describe how the new technologies work and how they can be used by developers, carriers and manufacturers to create applications for mobile phone, handhelds and game consoles.

http://www.gamedev.n....asp?topic_id=422971

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General Software Discussion / New Mozilla CERT Security Alert

« on: November 08, 2006, 11:59 PM »

Systems Affected:
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Netscape web browser

Overview:
The Mozilla web browser and derived products contain several vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system

More info: http://www.us-cert.g...lerts/TA06-312A.html

To sign up for CERT notifications visit: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html

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Living Room / 1 Sheet of Paper

« on: November 08, 2006, 11:53 AM »

It is absolutely amazing what some people can do with a sheet of paper.

http://www.oncotton....x/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm

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Developer's Corner / What programming language is paying your rent this month?

« on: November 04, 2006, 02:34 AM »

Interesting survey over on The Code Project.

If you want to participate, scroll down to the bottom of the page and pick your choices. Note that you can select more than one language.

Results are here: http://www.codeproje...etail.asp?survey=613

I found it very interesting that C# 2.0 and Delphi were the top 2 in the results.

I didn't think Delphi was as popular as that. I mean I have always loved Delphi, but my experiences in the programming communities that I am a part of, were that most people in the groups were coding in C/C++....with C# coming in second.

With me being the Delphi programmer of the bunch, usually made me feel like the 'white elephant' because nobody else was using it...or even worse, hated it and classed me as some lower lifeform for not only using it, but liking it.

I am glad to see that it's much more popular than I thought. I was beginning to feel like I made a mistake with choosing it as my first language to learn in depth.

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Living Room / 12,003+ Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

« on: October 30, 2006, 12:55 AM »

More Adobe Photoshop tutorials than you can shake a stick at and a new one added every hour!

http://www.good-tutorials.com

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Living Room / GIGOIT! Keep unwanted things out of landfills

« on: October 26, 2006, 11:56 AM »

Individuals and organizations are regularly faced with the problem of deciding what to do with items that still may be useful but that they no longer want. They can also find themselves suddenly in need of an item without being financially capable of purchasing it. Gigoit, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in Saint Louis, Missouri. We are currently developing a free public web space for individuals and corporations to donate and receive unwanted items within their neighborhoods. This keeps useful products out of landfills and fosters community involvement.

GIGO is an acronym that stands for "garbage in- garbage out." Since many useful items may be on their way in to the local landfill to become garbage, we provide a method to distribute these items out to the local community. If you have an item that you no longer want we certainly hope that you Gigo-it!

We follow one simple rule: Everything is free!

All items posted on our site are free to pick up, and of course free to list. It’s free to register and you can use your account to check any zip code in the USA. We'll keep track of all your items and handle all your transactions. Our site will help you pick who is right for your item by providing a member profile complete with ratings and number of items they have given and received. You don't even need to use your personal email account unless you choose to. We handle everything.

Donate an item to your community. Simply enter your a title, description and up to three images and your done.

Receive an item from your community. Choose your zip code and how far you are willing to travel and we will show you what people have to offer.

Login and help keep useful products out of landfills and foster community involvement

http://www.gigoit.org

direct link to beta site: http://beta.gigoit.org

Right now it seems to be filled with silly prank items (maybe for testing purposes?). I am not sure if they are taking real items yet or not.

Use 63118 as the zipcode to see all items.

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Living Room / StumbleUpon: Real or Fake?

« on: October 26, 2006, 04:14 AM »

Is it possible that that we are stumbling upon paid placements?

http://chris.pirillo...leupon-real-or-fake/

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Living Room / Is your favorite site missing an RSS feed?

« on: October 22, 2006, 09:51 PM »

Now you can create one.

Ponyfish is a FREE web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.

All you have to do is simply point Ponyfish to the web page you want to create a feed from, then follow a few steps to setup which types of links you want to include in the feed.

http://www.ponyfish.com

Here is the feed I created for the DC Best of Blog:
http://www.ponyfish....m/feeds/8678evDyoDwh

You don't get summaries of the posts, but you do get the titles and links to them, which is better than nothing at all.

Tip: When creating a custom feed, when it asks you to select links on the page, select the ones that lead to the posts, with the titles of the posts.

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Developer's Corner / Introducing Vista Icons

« on: October 22, 2006, 08:53 PM »

This article explains what's different about the new Vista icons, and possible issues developers may have.

Some of the information is specific to Axialis Icon Workshop, but there is some valuable information of use to those that don't use that product.

http://www.axialis.c...cing_Vista_Icons.htm

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Goal Enforcer: great time management software find!

« on: October 22, 2006, 11:37 AM »

Goal Enforcer 1.6: Project/Goal planning made simple.

Price: $29.95
URL: http://www.goalenforcer.com

GoalEnforcer is based on the principles of human "Working Memory" and "Short Term Memory" in order to maximize the the efficiency of the user's thinking process. It has been known from extensive research that human "Working Memory/Short Term Memory" are optimal to hold around 7 items at a time. GoalEnforcer provides a graphical programming environment through the use of a designer window and a complete set of visual editing tools that can help you show tasks in groups not bigger than 7 at a time (on screen).

GoalEnforcer can be used by:

Project managers, to design and monitor projects and tasks.
Professors, to schedule teaching plans for students.
Students, to help on planning for executing assignments, study plans.
Doctors, to set up plans for patient treatment.
Contract Workers, to schedule work schedules and report progress to customers
Personal Use, to make strategies and planning for personal projects such as
studying, house remodeling, garden projects, financial management, weight loss, exercising, improving organization skills

This is one very well thought out program.

I downloaded the demo and took it for a quick test drive.

It starts with an interactive tutorial that takes you step by step through using the programs features & controls. It's even motivational!

The included sample projects seem quite useful.

Samples:

GTD
Making a pizza
Reading a book
Building a house
Losing weight (makes weight loss look so easy)
Writing a report

The color bubbles make it very easy to break things down into simpler parts. It makes bigger tasks look a lot less intimidating. The numbers are easy to follow so you know what order things must be done. And each bubble can become a mini project within your main project, and they can be broken down smaller as well.

click for a walkthrough explanation:

Each task can have a starting date and a deadline, and you can add notes, and rate your progress percentage.

You can generate reports.

These reports can be exported as .html or even emailed from within the program.

The color dots serve as a progress indicator:

And there is hotkeys with a nice cheatsheet included, for all you keyboard freaks.

There is even a blog that was recently started to go along with this application and the author encourages you to submit suggestions and articles.

The only bad thing I can see so far is that it's a demo, which has some features disabled, like printing and saving.

I haven't been this excited over a program in a long time. And as broke as I usually am, I usually can't consider software that isn't freeware. This one is an exception. I am that impressed with it. I have to have the full version. I am in awe...and eager to be using this. I'm buying it.

If you give this one a try, please consider giving it a rating and a small review here:
http://goalenforcer....oftonic.com/ie/52584

edit: price changed

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Getting Software Done: GTD for Programmers

« on: October 19, 2006, 11:03 AM »

A 2 part article by Robert Peake, on 43folders:

http://www.43folders...bert-peake-part-one/
http://www.43folders...bert-peake-part-two/

Getting Software Done
by Robert Peake, David Allen Company

Since launching GTD Connect, we have gotten a lot of great feedback not only on the content, but on the technical underpinnings of the system we built to deliver the audio, video, forums, podcasts, and other goodies on the site. What a lot of people may not realize is that, to my mind, a lot of the elegance expressed in the technology that drives Connect stems from the fact that we implement and use the GTD methodology in our software development process. We really do “eat our own dog food” at DavidCo, and I’m convinced that necessarily translates to a more positive user experience overall in every product we produce, and especially software. A lot of people also don’t realize how highly relevant GTD is to the software development industry specifically, and how many interesting parallels there are between software best practices and workflow best practices (i.e. GTD).

So, I’d like to run through some of the relationships between GTD and developing software well, using the past eighteen months or so of building up GTD Connect from concept to reality. I’ll use our experience building Connect as a kind of case study to ground some of the concepts and ideas with practical examples. Having seen a range of tactics deployed in software development by other companies, I can definitely say that our outcome-oriented, GTD-inspired approach to building out the web applications that make GTD Connect work has been far and away the most functional and positive approach I’ve encountered so far. So, if any of these tips and tactics strike a chord with you, I encourage you to consider looking at how you might fold these concepts into your own project management — whether or not the project is software.

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Living Room / Ms Dewey: the search engine with a face & personality

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:22 AM »

This is a unique approach to presenting a search engine.

Meet Ms. Dewey.

http://www.msdewey.com

My search for 'cool flash games' returned as the #1 result a site I have been trying to find in my huge list of bookmarks for quite some time:

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ (the games are very sweet and pretty)

I am not quite ready to give up Google just yet, but it was amusing...especially if you don't type anything and she gets impatient.

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Living Room / Domino Pressure: Flash Game of the Day

« on: October 19, 2006, 12:24 AM »

Click a domino to knock down the stack and crush the tomato.

Seconds are taken off the next round for any remaining dominoes.

Seconds are added if you knock them all down, quickly.

Game ends if you run out of time.

Click a tomato on the lower right to pass.

http://www.gamedesig...h/domino/domino.html

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General Software Discussion / Media file tools: need info

« on: October 08, 2006, 11:10 PM »

My dad would like some info.

What converter program will use CUE files to split APE and FLAC files into individual tracks and what program will actually work to convert RM files?

It's not hard to convert flac-fairstars does that, but you just get one big MP3 file and then you have to use Goldwave or something to split it up and that takes a lot of time.

I get guite a lot of flac, ape and rm files and they just sit there and rot because I don't have time to convert them. Supposedly the cue files have the details needed to split them programatically but I don't know a program that does that.
-app's dad

Anybody happen to know what he needs?

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PopUp Wisdom / Error: Cannot make a visible window modal

« on: October 08, 2006, 10:13 AM »

If you have the preferences window open, and the wisdom window pops up, when you click OK it minimizes both and you can't get the preferences window to show again.

Shows this error:
popup wisdom error.png

If you leave it alone after that, the next wisdom window will also show the preferences window again. You can click OK on the preferences window before clicking OK on the wisdom window, at that time, to fix it and it will work fine again.

Or you have to force it to show another wisdom window so you can get the preferences window back and click OK on it.

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Site/Forum Features / DonationCoder forum search plugin

« on: October 05, 2006, 03:04 AM »

At mouser's request, I have made a Mozilla-Search plugin for the forums.

This will work with Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape 7.1+

Info page and install link can be found here:

https://www.donation...m/Software/Other/ff/

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Living Room / Just a touch of Cody fan art

« on: September 30, 2006, 07:56 AM »

For those with the darker looking desktops, I figured I'd contribute a little fan art of a different style.

I'll be doing a screensaver that will go with this one & nudone's wallpapers, providing someone can get a few coins away from Cody and pass them my way in the form of a .psp, .tub, or .tif (with black background)

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Living Room / WikiHow: The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit

« on: September 30, 2006, 12:59 AM »

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 12,111 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join us by writing a new page, or editing a page that someone else has started.