Lightroom flickr plugin
Enough said, go get it
regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr
Working great for me.
Photographing kids
Photographing kids are interesting and i’m in the midst of learning how to be a better photographer so that i can capture those cute photos of my little boy.
Do check out this link below, shows some very interesting poses, that you can try out yourself.
mcpactions.com/blog/2009/03/16/styles-of-newborns/
Going share some of my photos once i’m done processing it.
This is the only level
An interesting games that has one level design/map, but different gameplay for different stages.
There is a total of 30 stages, and you have to solve the puzzle by reading the small hint on what the level is about.
Interesting and fun. But no replay value. Sorry
armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level
Go try it out. Worth my 10:20 mins.
Graphing
It was the time of the month again. I need to scrape some data off a webpage for my pet project.
With almost 1 year worth of data, it’s time to do some work on it and perhaps give some useful results for people and of course for myself.
I started to search for a library to perform graphing, I initially thought it would be easy to find a decent open source library. To my dismay not much. Maybe i’m using a wrong query. A few queries later, here are some of the better libraries that I manged to find
1. PChart pchart.sourceforge.net/
2. GraPHPite graphpite.sourceforge.net/
3. JPGraph www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/ [Pro Version available] 
Meaning not fully open source
4. Libchart naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/
5. Sparklines www.sparkline.org
Heavier Charts ( Flash Based )
1. Open Flash teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/
Ligher Charts ( Javascript Based )
1. Flot JQuery based code.google.com/p/flot/
2. Sparkline JQuery based omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/
Other Options
1. Google Chart code.google.com/apis/chart/
Basics of GDChart
- http://devzone.zend.com/article/3774-Dynamically-Creating-Graphs-and-Charts-with-PHP-and-GDChart
Great site, as I was searching for these information
Will report back, once I start to do some actual work on these graphers.
Animation Assignment
I have been pretty busy at home with my animation assignment. It was going to be a 20 or more second short animation. Some of the great resources I came across are as follows
- http://www.sharecg.com/index.php
- http://3dcollections.net/
- http://archive3d.net/
- http://www.highend3d.com/
This site gfx-3d-model.blogspot.com/not only have some 3D models, it has great PSD brushes. Worth a check.
What is animation without any audio?
This provides a great list of short sound clips, suitable for characters that require short audio clips.
Resources for learning animation
- http://pushingposes.blogspot.com/2008/03/basic-walk-cycle-part-1.html
- http://cartoonmeltingpot.wordpress.com/
Hope I can get my animation done soon, and move on to many other important things. Although I have always been interested in animation, graphics, drawing, etc. But then again, I’m always interested in so many other things. Sigh. Jack of all trade, master of none.
Disposable email
Not sure how many people are familar with this, so i guess i would just re-iterate.
Hate spam? Don’t want to use your personal email address for signups? How about using disposable/temporary email address?
Check out the following provider
- http://www.guerrillamail.com/
- http://mytrashmail.com/
- http://www.mailinator.com/
- http://www.mailexpire.com/
- http://www.temporaryinbox.com/
- http://www.maileater.com/
- http://www.jetable.org/en/index
- http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
But one of my favourite site before registering any other site
www.bugmenot.com/
Provides and share pre-registered accounts.
TODO List
It has been a rocky year so far, financial is down worldwide, retrenchment is high, sentimentals with people are bad and low.
I myself have been confused with what to do at this junction. I don’t see myself where i would be in 5 years time. I have no plans. I have too many things on hands that I “need” to clear, too many things that i’m interested to learn more. I always have this problem of getting interested in too many things and never master any of these things i’m interested in. I’m a jack of all trade, master of none. How many of you have these problems like i have? Too many interesting things, information overload i say. That’s why i use smplayer to play my videocast, podcast 50% faster, trying to clear these things fasters. But how many of these are useful in my future, and add value to myself? A recent check, i have 32Gb of podcast/videocast to skim through! Ouch. Why bother…. Probably i should just Select All and delete, and i won’t skip a beat.
On conversation witha old friend of mine, have made me more determined to work out what i should be doing and to plan, focus and getting things done! Many of the things we discussed strike a chord with me. We both want to do something in our lifetime.
I have many ideas and things like always. Thus I have been thinking. How can I get more focused and really concentrate on what I want in life. Somethings in my life
1. Family
2. Job related improvement, there is just so much things to learn and explore in game development, it’s scary.
3. Getting to be more financally stable and wise.
4. Technology and innovative ideas. I’m always fascinated by technology and innovative ideas.
5. Photography. I always wanted to take better photos.
6. Several business ideas and web application that i have in my mind
How often do you have a TODO list? I have a TODO list reminding me for bill payment, birthdays, clearing up of house on my WM phone. But it dawn to me, probably i should put my bigger goals under my TODO list? So basically these goals are to be put on the TODO list, to constantly remind myself what are my goals. This hopefully will get me to understand the bigger picture and making me focus on what’s important. There is only 24 hours in a single day after-all! So we need to prioritize what’s important in our life! We have to let go some things in life I suppose.
So, sit down, think about what you want to achieve in life and put it right on time of your TODO list. When thinking about what you should be doing, or should you be doing a specific thing, make sure that it’s part of your big picture TODO list. Good luck everyone, hope things pan out as what you have planned.
CES 2009
Some of the interesting products shown on CES.
1. Audio bone, similar to jabra’s jawbone, but instead it is used for audio playback. Can’t wait for a bluetooth version of this. www.audioboneheadphones.com/
2. Power mat, charging by just placing your device on the mat with an adapter. www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/5025/ces-2009-powermat-wireless-charger.html
3. Vuzix wearable display. Big screen tv on your sunglasses. elitechoice.org/2009/01/10/ces-2009-vuzix-unveils-wearable-3d-glasses/
I’m pretty sure there are many other interesting products at CES.
Do check out Hak5 for some of these products, will give a summary when i have time to read through these exciting products.
Smule’s ocarina
Ocarina is like a musical wind instrument in your pocket. My first paid iphone application 
Really cheap for 99 cents only.
It’s has a really cool and simple iphone application, it reminds me so much of a recorder that i used to play while in primary school.
Ocarina UI
By just blowing into the mic input of the iphone, and covering the 4 holes on the UI, different pitches are generated. I think i might be out of date, as this is such a simple application, but it has such fun! Online scores of popular songs are also available at their websites. Furthermore there are also some sharing of the music that you have played/created, a great social experience and also a graphical feast, as the blobs are floating around the globe. Reminds me much of flOw and flOwer.
Do check out this great app, it’s only 99 cents and have fun!
State of the economy
It stinks.
Everything is down and out.
US banks are low low low, Citigroup is now 3.46, lehman crashed and burn.
www.mysinchew.com/node/20681 ……. 16,000 Singaporeans Lost Jobs Last Year
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aDUTELnSlccU&refer=asia
Quote from bloomberg: About 300,000 jobs may be lost by 2010, two-thirds of which are held by foreigners and permanent residents, economists Cem Karacadag and Kun Lung Wu wrote in a report received today. The number of people on the island nation may fall by about 3.3 percent to 4.68 million by 2010, Credit Suisse said.
So many bad news.
It’s pretty depressing to see so many bad things especially financially, it really hit hard. Hope there can be a recovery in sight, or least hopefully i know what to do to tide this over or even ride on this.
