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Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 19, 2007, 12:22 AM »

Graphics sure are purdy but the sound effects make my ears bleed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Customized Google search for DC?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 11:41 PM »

Whatever happened to that FireFox extension that App made to put a DC search up there in the built-in search box?

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Living Room / Re: poll: how old are you?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 11:24 PM »

speaking of which, has no one clicked anything yet.. i can't see a 'view results' button..

-lanux128 (January 18, 2007, 09:52 PM)

That's so your vote won't be affected by what is most popular. 

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Living Room / Re: Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance - Brilliant!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 10:05 PM »

I decided to experiment and draw someone upside down and then flip the bounding boxes upside down. Well his legs and arms are kind of funky because I needed to rotate the bounding boxes instead of just flipping over the horizontal axis, but I'm pleased that he works other than that.

I present, Drawkab

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Living Room / Re: wanted: quiet external HD (case)

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 04:53 PM »

I'd buy an IDE/SATA enclosure that plugs in via USB. That will allow you to use any drive as "hot-swappable."

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Living Room / Re: Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance - Brilliant!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 06:11 AM »

Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance

This is so cool and fun. You draw a little character and then watch it dance around surrounded by it's clones, in a semi 3d world.
If you have a young kid, you need to bring them to this site for some laughs.

-mouser (January 11, 2007, 05:09 AM)

Haha look what I made. I was going for small. So I made Midgee:

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a170357

Then I thought, "SMALLER!" Thus TinyTim was born:

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a170386

EDIT: TinyTim fit inside here:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Random walk over desktop image

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 05:50 AM »

Flash could do that.

-Deozaan (January 18, 2007, 02:38 AM)

Then, maybe it could be used combined with active desktop, to fufill the original request. You think it's possible, deozaan? (and it wouldn't take too much memory while at it?)

-jgpaiva (January 18, 2007, 04:51 AM)

I know that swf files can be made into screensavers. Maybe make an option where you can put your own images into a certain directory and it will load the images from that directory and randomly zoom in/walk around, etc. Maybe even put a little stick-man animated running around. Or Cody flying around.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: First Valid Signature of Life Satisfaction

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 04:28 AM »

I agree with Anderson.
Is your VaSiLiSa thingy even an SMF Mod? It all looks like pseudo-code to me.
It's beyond my comprehension. . .

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Living Room / Re: poll: how old are you?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 02:45 AM »

That's called aging and is nothing to get overly anxious about.

-brotherS (January 18, 2007, 02:42 AM)

Oh! Phew! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Random walk over desktop image

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 02:38 AM »

i like the idea of not animated but a screensaver that could take a huge image like that recent super giga boston image, and every hour or so zoom in on a random part of it and set it as wallpaper.

-mouser (January 16, 2007, 04:40 AM)

Flash could do that.

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Living Room / Re: Geni: Build Your Family Tree

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 02:36 AM »

Looks like this would be very nifty indeed!

If only it would send me my temporary password. . .

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Living Room / Re: poll: how old are you?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2007, 02:19 AM »

I'm only in my age bracket for the next couple of months. 

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Living Room / Re: A mathematical formula for procrastination

« Last post by Deozaan on January 17, 2007, 02:59 AM »

Nor does it explain why procrastination seems to be on the rise--afflicting as many as 95 percent of students and at least 15 percent of adults, according to two recent surveys.

Only 15% of adults? I must only know people in that 15% category.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a very simple group brainstorming site

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 06:05 PM »

Also, a wiki would seem to be a good fit, but I've tried before, and the housekeeping for messy edits becomes a hassle, and everything breaks down.  Also, each person formats their entries slightly differently, which makes it hard to scan.

-gsull (January 10, 2007, 05:56 PM)

Did you look at Minki? It's unlike any other Wiki I've used in terms of simplicity and minimalistic functionality.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a very simple group brainstorming site

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 05:16 PM »

Another thing:

Besigner.com looks like a regular blog with multiple people being able to access it. Why not sign up for a Blogger account and set permissions for your friends to all be able to post to it? Again this doesn't include threading, but it will give you pretty much everything you see as Besign.com

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Living Room / Re: My Amazing Secret for How to Get Great Publicity and Get Rich in the Web2 Wo

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 05:08 PM »

I'll contact you in PM and we can work out the details. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a very simple group brainstorming site

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 05:01 PM »

similar to http://www.besigner.com .

I want to work on some art projects with friends as ideas occur to us, and we need a forum or something with instant access to posting, and a decent way of organizing it.  Also, it shouldn't need a lot of permissions to post, as little a threshold to get to writing our thoughts down as possible.  Any ideas?  I'd use the besigner engine, but the author seems very hard to reach (no replies to my emails)

-gsull (January 09, 2007, 07:52 PM)

I wrote some very simple PHP discussion boards I'd be willing to give you the source to. Alternately, you can use a very simple wiki-like interface known as Minki that was made by fellow DC Member Allen. I'll send you a link to my little PHP discussion boards in a private message as the only working example I have for it has information that wasn't intended for public viewing.

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Living Room / Re: My Amazing Secret for How to Get Great Publicity and Get Rich in the Web2 Wo

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 04:54 PM »

I paid the $999 and I need to tell everyone THIS PRICE IS A SCAM! I have the third step which I'm willing to reveal to anyone with a small donation of $300.


 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software tutorials based on pictures

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2007, 12:00 AM »

Why are the screenshots in grayscale? It's not like they have to save ink from the printers. . .

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 09, 2007, 11:58 PM »

It's obsessive, as if I'm thinking, "Well someday when I'm in a nursing home, I'll have something to do and lots of stuff to review and finally get around to reading."

-zridling (January 09, 2007, 11:54 PM)

I tend to be that way about downloads. I have a downloads directory that I've tried to organize everything I've downloaded and don't often delete anything from it. As if the programs I save won't be outdated in a couple of months. . . I was even saving each version of Firefox (back to when it was still called Firebird).

Silly me.

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Living Room / Favorites Fun!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 11:30 PM »

Here's a fun bit of code that will liven up any website, so long as the page you're viewing has graphics.

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',50); void(0);

Try it out by going to the smilies page and pasting the above code into your address bar and press enter! Whee!

Here's another neat trick! Add that code to one of your favorites and you can click on the favorite and it will activate the code on any page you're viewing! Double Whee!

Here's another trick! Enter in the code more than once (by clicking that favorite multiple times) and it will do even crazier things! Triple Whee!

Before:


After:

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: Entry for switch game category: 'Branston and the Lost Machine'

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 10:51 PM »

Wow. Quite a robust game! I have to admit that the graphics led me to believe this wouldn't be a good game, but that just reinforces the idea that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Nor a game by its graphics!

I was really surprised at how you handled one button to make Branston move and interact with items. It's really quite clever!

I noticed a little bug: In the desert town with the gambling place, there is a building next to it with a big blue "i" which I presume stands for information. When I go in that building it takes me into the casino!

Very nice beginnings of a game!

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Living Room / Re: How to think, act and live better - great books and other material!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 07:26 PM »

Along those lines, I'd have to say that The Real America by Glenn Beck changed my life.

Book Description
There are some things people think but don't say....

"Political correctness is the classic Great Idea Gone Wrong. All it's done is shut us up. It hasn't changed anybody's mind. It hasn't changed our hearts. It's changed our faces. It's taken every opinion we have, it's taken every joke we have, and it's forced us to conceal it and hide it and bury it. It's made us superficial."

"Terrorism isn't caused by poverty, poverty is caused by terrorism. Terror is a tool used by those seeking power to keep the masses in need of an answer."

"Too many people blame everything on everybody else, and because they do, they will expect too little from themselves and too little from their children."

Glenn Beck says all that, and more.

The way he opens the book (if my memory serves me) is how it is hard to find people that are real. How we've all become superficial. His great example is the contrast in how many people behaved on September 10th, 2001 to how people behaved on September 12th, 2001. On the 12th people really wanted to know when they asked someone how they were doing. They really wanted to find a way to help and be the real people they are inside--caring human beings--instead of having a 3-foot thick pane of plexi-glass between themselves and the next person.

It's changed my life in learning how to really be honest with others and myself. It's changed my life in not buying into what Hollywood and the Media and what Politics tell me life is like. It's changed me from trying to fit in with the crowd into being happy as someone who is unlike the majority of others trying to fit the image the world makes up for them.

I'd recommend this book to anyone.

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 07:00 PM »

Gaming, programming, DonationCoder and the DC IRC channel, occasional blogging, other miscellaneous things. And I listen to music while I'm at it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: XNA Magic

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 06:03 PM »

This looks cool! Keep us up to date.