Whenever I see any Apple Macs advertised in a store, I must admit I always envy the luscious screensavers they have on. Well it looks like I’m not alone for today I stumbled across the brilliant MotionPicture ScreenSaver. It looks fantastic and does exactly the same stuff as the Mac OSX Slideshow screensaver. It can also play MP3s, and can hook into your (spit) iTunes collection if you so desire.
Update: If you’re interested in trying to make your XP desktop look like a mac, you could do worse than visit this resources site.
Posted in Apple.
By steve
– May 10, 2006
Check out these hilarious small ads at horsman.co.nz.
Posted in Funny, Links.
By steve
– May 10, 2006
Armed with nothing more than his rusty but trusty Timex Sinclair 2048 (A Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone) and it’s 1-bit, single channel buzzer, Mister Beep makes some astounding chiptune music.
Actually the TS2048’s might 3.5Mhz Z80 processor lets you do some pretty funky tricks to simulate up to 8 (count ‘em!) channels of sound. It’s still in mono though, and it still sounds like a speed-driven maniac on a kazoo.
My favourites have to be Evil Laugh (with a 1-bit sample at the start and some great drums), CPU’s Explosion (with 8 channel sound, something I didn’t expect to see on a speccy clone!), Play Beeper Play (and Part II) and the cover of the Hang On theme (at least I think it is, it was a long time ago..)
Check out how this guy does it and get some more tunes here
Posted in Arts, Links, Retro.
By steve
– May 9, 2006
Parkour, or Free Running is a form of movement that looks like it should be done with wires, in fact it looks like it is done with wires, but isn’t. This stuff is amazing to watch. Check out these Russian free runners (or traceurs) going at it with some gusto (Thanks Ollie).
There’s also some great Parkour videos at Urban Freeflow that are definately worth checking out (warning: NSFW).
Posted in Arts, Links.
By steve
– May 9, 2006
SGI have filed for Chapter 11. It’s a sad day for anyone whoever used an Indy, an Nvidia card (much of the earlier Nvidia technology was built by ex-SGI employees) or the fortunate few who’ve used one of SGI’s NUMA systems. The people who brought us XFS, OpenGL and the luscious 1600SW widescreen LCD monitor are no more. You will be sorely missed. There’s a great writeup on the history of SGI at wikipedia. As an ex-Indy (and IRIX 5.3) user today is a sad day for me but it’s definitely been a long time coming.
Posted in Business, Events, Links, News.
By steve
– May 8, 2006
