Thursday, November 01, 2001

Geek Cruising - Doc Searls... "After the third free Bloody Mary, it doesn't matter what the hell Richard Stallman says. Well, actually it does. The man's uncompromising certitude fronts a set of ethical and technical convictions (not to mention achievements) that have so arguably shaped the world we'll never stop arguing about them. But arguing was not the first order of our week at sea on a Geek Cruise around the Eastern Caribbean. Schmoozing was. Also eating, drinking, dancing and hanging out on various decks and lounges between lectures by V.I.G.s and forays to ports of call."

Monday, October 29, 2001

FMOD Audio Media Player... (via Lockergnome) Running Windows Media Player, are you? I guess that's okay, but there's so many other media players you could be using - and lots of them are free. Like, oh... I don't know. This one? Being just a little over 100k, you know it's not going to hog up lots of system space. This magical media player will play mp2, mp3, mod, s3m, xm, it, ogg, wma, and asf files to boot. A spectrum analyzer and some hella-cool DSP effects are wrapped up in it as well. "FMOD is the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use sound system on Windows and Linux and WinCE there is." It requires LESS system resources than most other players.
Flag3D Screen Saver... Flag3D Screen Saver uses accurate physical modelling techniques to simulate the movement of flags with amazing realism. Your own images and pictures can be used to make your own custom flags. Flag3D does not use up all your available processing power, allowing background tasks to continue.

Flag3D Screen Saver was designed to be fast and impressive - you can display stunning dynamic animated flags without needing a high-performance PC or 3D card.

The MTV Chronicles... From 1987 to 1995 Adam Curry was an MTV VJ. In The MTV Chronicles he talks about his previous life at MTV and has begun documenting many interviews he had with performers and bands from the '80s.
Weblogs.com Turns the Corner (ResearchBuzz)... Weblogs.com used to automatically check Web logs and list those most recently changed.

Due to the heavy load of changed Web logs, they have changed the way they pick up changes. Now, Web logs (or their owner/sysops) must notify Weblogs.com that the Weblog has changed. There is a fairly simple manual process as well as more technical "automatic" processes which can be used to notify Weblogs.com of changed pages.