links for 2008-02-16
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Holy freaking crap. This is the best screen capture program I've ever seen! I wish I had a use for it!
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February 15, 2008
Spongebob Classics
If you’re a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants, like me, you’ll love these dubs made by the voice talent from the show.
Kid Zeppelin
I, I don’t know how someone so young could do this.
February 12, 2008
Recent .Mac Enhancements
I’m not sure if I blogged about this before, but when iLife ‘08 came out I found it very annoying that you could not password protect movies that you upload to your .Mac Photo Gallery. This worked for photos, just not movies.
I knew this was simply an oversight so I have been checking the feature out every time I receive an iMovie update. About two or three weeks ago, I noticed the password-protection worked.
This was doubly confirmed today when I got an e-mail from the .Mac Team describing all of the new features added to .Mac.
I’m not a user of Aperture, but they do have a new version out. Since my camera records RAW files, I might be able to get some benefit out of it. That said, I think I heard rumors that Picasa is coming to the Mac. If Picasa works like it did on the PC and integrates well into the iPhoto/.Mac/AppleTV world, I might switch. Picasa is free, after all.Apple TV viewing. Web Gallery is now integrated with Apple TV so you can view any .Mac member’s public photos and movies right on your widescreen television. Just choose .Mac in the Photos menu and enter a .Mac member name.
Full-size JPEG downloads. Using iPhoto ’08 7.1.2, you can now choose to let visitors download your full-size JPEGs (highest resolution), or images optimized for 16-by-20-inch prints (smaller file size).
Standalone photo albums. Also using iPhoto ’08 7.1.2, you can publish standalone albums that do not appear on your Web Gallery home page. These are ideal for sharing photos intended for a select audience.
Password-protected movies. Using iMovie ’08 7.1.1, you can now require visitors to enter a password to view or download specific movies from your Web Gallery.
Web Gallery subscriptions. Visitors can now subscribe to your entire Web Gallery with a single RSS feed. The feed is updated any time new photos or movies are added, so subscribers can stay up to date automatically.
Aperture support. Aperture 2.0 users can now publish directly to .Mac Web Gallery. You get all the publishing features of iPhoto ’08, plus an option to allow visitors to download your original RAW files.
If you own a Mac, I recommend trying .Mac out. Apple offers a 60-day free trial. .Mac has tons of cool features.
- Web Gallery
- Website Hosting
- IMAP Mail
- Sync
- iDisk (though I use Jungle Disk, too)
- Groups (Think of it as a project site, with email distribution)
- Back to My Mac (remote desktop, essentially)
Check it out.
links for 2008-02-13
Filler: a game
SimianLogic brings us this amazingly addictive flash game, called Filler:
The strategy is to trap the stinging balls. I got to level 8…
Drums at Every Age
Check out this fun little video showing various people ages 1 to 100 banging on a drum. A truly amazing experiment and quite worth the time. I saw this when I woke up this morning on haha.nu, but I remember seeing it a few weeks ago somewhere else. I hope this isn’t a repost.
People in Order’s Age is part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1.
Enjoy!
Thanks haha.nu
February 10, 2008
Hitler loves the Cowboys
Watch when you have the time…
Thanks Assface.
February 6, 2008
PicLens - Say goodbye to life as you knew it
PicLens is hands down the best way to view image content on the web. The Firefox plugin integrates nicely with flickr, google image search, photobucket, smugmug, etc.
PicLens uses crisp, high-framerate 3D to present a virtual photo wall that you can scan, scroll, and zoom in and out of. You can double-click on photos to see them up close, present them as a slideshow using a crisp crossfade or zoom back out again to scan through hundreds, nay, thousands of photos.
PicLens takes just seconds to install. Do it, you’ll be glad you did!
I hope PicLens supports the .mac photo gallery. It would be awesome if they moved into video as well as it would be the way to browse YouTube content.
February 2, 2008
The Slime Monster
Ok, so yesterday I said I learned how to create Rheopectic slime. Well I guess it was inevitable that Slimy would appear in a YouTube video!
Beware the Slime Monster!
Frozen Grand Central
Pretty cool…
February 1, 2008
Slime
For last year’s science fair, Giovanni and I got a hold of five square flat Neodymium magnets (those suckers are STRONG) from United Nuclear and created an electric current by spinning the magnet within a wire coil.
This year Giovanni and Antonio had to come up with projects so we chose slime. Not just any slime, like corn-starch oobleck, but high quality Rheopectic slime that you find in toy stores.
I finally got the final ingredient tonight so I was ready to make the slime. I wanted to wait until the kids went to bed before making the first few batches so I’ll look like a pro tomorrow.
I must say the whole process is pretty fascinating, and simple.
You take one glass and pour in this glue-like crap called mucilage and mix in distilled water to make a 50% solution. Then, you take another glass and mix just enough borax powder into a quantity of distilled water so it’s all dissolved.
The next step is to add just a few teaspoons of the borax solution to the mucilage solution and mix. Instant slime.
The slime has the interesting property in that it’s viscosity increases with increased shear. Meaning, it will flow like a liquid if you let it sit and harden up if you mush it around.
The article I read talks about the science of it and tells you how to color it using water paints or food coloring. You can also adjust the sliminess by adjusting the amount of borax solution you add to the mucilage solution.
Here are the basic ingredients
Way to go Google for finding the link to the instructables site that had all of the directions I needed.