Gaming, techy stuff, everything else, by Chris Till
If you don’t have a last.fm account, get one. I started messing with the site last night and its got some nice features. The ability to share your played music in itunes or other music players and listen to radio customised to your taste in music is fun.
Of course it would be more fun if my sound was working on this pc but so like a music site dispite that setback must mean its worth being a part of.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Glastonbury aims to return bigger
Cool! Even better bands this year too? That MUSE set from last year will take some beating though.
This is cool. Daz have aquired the Eovia corporation, makers of the 3d software Carrara and Hexagon. They have just released Hexagon (the 3d modelling tool) on the daz store for the amazing price of $1.99 for platinum club members as opposed to the normal price which is $269.
You would think a lot of people are going to become platinum club members for just one month and still get a massive discount over the full price. Thats $29.95 + the 1.99 for the actual program. $31.94 is still amazing for the brand new hexagon 2 app.
The one problem I can see is, its so popular and so many people have ordered it already, thats its slowed down the download server massively. The fact that its a 350mb file doesn’t help either but I’ll just wait and download it later.
I’m really looking forward to seing what I can do with this program. I can’t wait.
Here’s a few screens of the app. Its pretty impressive and amazing value for money.
The latest version from the Flock Testing Downloads page seems to be bug free. I’ve tested pretty much everything and its working great.
I really like the way they’ve updated the photo uploader. It’s much easier and more fun to use and makes me want to upload photos non-stop.
The problem is I don’t have any right now but I’m working on it.
Anyway go and get this latest version or if you want to be official, wait a few more days for the official release of version 1.0 (cardinal). They may release even more features that havn’t been in the 0.7 releases.
Theres bound to be loads of hype and excitement surrounding the fist public beta of Flock and I’m looking forward to it a lot.
Why can’t these cars be cheaper?
” “A company may soon offer American motorists a new option to save on high gas prices — vehicles powered by lithium batteries. From the article: ‘Just plug in these cars for about five hours or so and you’ll get about 300 miles on a single charge.’ The vehicles cost about $35,000 or about double what buyers would pay for a gas-powered model.” Relatedly acidrain writes to tell us The BBC is reporting that a prototype of the new “Clever car” (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) is starting to make the rounds on European test tracks. The car is one meter wide and less polluting than normal vehicles. It has a top speed of 100 km/h (60mph) and uses a novel tilting chassis to make it safe and maneuverable. “
Slashdot | Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity
It looks so nice. I’m short of words so just check it out here
What do I do with it?
I really want to use it to create something cool, but I need a reason to do something. Not only that, but I only have one database to use and although I can add it into the single one with two php forums and this blog, I don’t want to lose the stuff I have. I think I’ll wait until I need to do a redesign of 3DG before I use it, or maybe some other project comes along.
Even so, the point is drupal is an amazing open source content managment system with virutally limitless potential.
Check it out at drupal.org
I’m just working on my Google resume. Thats using my ClaimID and meta data as much as possible to bump my name and my site to the top of the google rankings.
I guess with this sort of thing its about luck as well as perserverance but hopefully I can get it done soon.
This new bar looks cool. Check it out by getting the latest Flock release at the continuous testing downloads page.
The blog editor is now set to always appear on top too which makes it much easier to drag photos into the it from the photo bar. Before you had to drag the photo down to the task bar to open up the editor before you could drag it in.
The new Y! Maps Beta looks much cooler than the old one. The new mini-map in the corner is useful and helps you to keep track of where you are and give an easy way to zoom in and out.
The one problem I have with it is its not as detailed in some things as google maps / earth is. This is as far as you can zoom in to worthing without getting the error message. Thats ok because in google it just goes blurry and distorts that pic, not going any further in. With google though it still shows all roads, Y! doesn’t show any roads.
Its cool but stick with google.