A few weeks ago I heard about Udacity; a new website with extensive online classes, dedicated to learning you interesting new stuff. The classes are all about programming, but they’re really educational and well explained.
I have been playing around with the Acapela Group’s Box tool for creating realistic speech for some time, but today I found something interesting. One of the voices is in my opinion particularly suitable for speaking rap lyrics from any kind of classic rap song e.g. “Changes” by 2Pac or “Real slim shady” by Eminem. So I have created a small tutorial on how to realistically recreate these famous rap songs only using your browser. Have fun!
Everyone wants to make apps these days, but what is the best platform to do this? With all these smart people around, why would we still need to program all these complicated byte buffers and texture memory if all we want to do is make an interesting game? Well, search no more, NME is your answer.
I was planning on posting about Dealextreme for a while; well, here it is! For those who don’t know what I am talking about: DealExtreme is a candystore for tinkerers and tiny gadget lovers. DX offers thousands of products for ridiculously low prices and no shipping costs. Next to this, it can also turn out to be hell for people wanting to purchase quality products. Because of this split personality, I want to focus on the positive experiences I have had with DealExtreme, in order to prevent any negative experiences from happening.
2012 will be a great year! For the last few years big Hollywood producers started realizing that simply ripping off movies and spending millions of dollars on special FX might not be the best formula to produce a good film. In times of crisis, even Hollywood writers reinvent film to see if movies can be produced less expensive with more added value for the customer. Not all movies I discuss here are innovating in that sense; other movies I discuss are highly anticipated movies, and therefore carry extra responsibility to prove themselves on the big screen.
Quite some time ago, some companies announced that gaming in the cloud would be the next best thing; people didn’t need expensive consoles, the only thing they needed was a fast internet connection and a screen. Well today some of these services have been matured, and therefore you are able to experience cloud gaming for yourself.
Hi all, Today I would like to share a useful tip with you to easily get 5 Gigabytes of extra free space on your Dropbox account! If you start out with 2Gb, you can end up having 7Gb. But if you already have more, earned by the various other assignments you can do to get more free space.
The first month of 2012 is almost over, which means it’s time to look forward to what the rest of the year will brings us, based on what I have seen so far. Frankly, the forecasts (music-wise) are actually pretty good.NY-Based The Knocks has made an awesome new track I highly recommend and next to this, some other artists have released some great new songs on the internet in the last couple of days.
Anyone who follows the developments around Processing, knows about the infamous toxiclibs. These are libraries for adding more and far more powerful functionalities to processing than ever before! The Toxiclibs website contains a bunch of these examples, which all demonstrate a particular part of the libraries. As the name suggests, the toxiclibs aren’t just one, but are a bunch of different libraries, most of them in the area of mesh generation.
Sketching the Basics is the second book by Roselien Steur and Koos Eissen about design sketching. However, this book aims to be the first book people should buy when starting out with sketching. The First book this duo wrote (Sketching) was mainly a big survey of design sketching techniques in practice illustrated by various design studios. This book was such a success, that readers started asking questions like: how can we achieve this? How can we achieve this? At least, that’s how I think it happened, since I was wondering the exact same thing when reading this book!