AJA Video - Serial Digital Video Interface and Conversion
Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in hardware, enabling true 10-bit editing on an Apple laptop.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The 2008 TIA Toy Fair | Popular Science
The 2008 TIA Toy Fair | Popular Science
Toys! I want the microscope to go and the bug vacuum and the dinosaur and the....
Toys! I want the microscope to go and the bug vacuum and the dinosaur and the....
Monday, February 25, 2008
iTunes 7.6.1: a surprisingly problematic update - MacFixIt
iTunes 7.6.1: a surprisingly problematic update - MacFixIt
Problems... so be wary of updating just yet.
Problems... so be wary of updating just yet.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
Freebie sound fx? Audio editors may find this of interest. Check out the free online library of audio and sound effects at www.soundsnap.com . It is community powered, similar to Youtube for audio. News article at: http://www.dv.com/news/news_item.php?articleId=196603761
Freebie sound fx? Audio editors may find this of interest. Check out the free online library of audio and sound effects at www.soundsnap.com . It is community powered, similar to Youtube for audio. News article at: http://www.dv.com/news/news_item.php?articleId=196603761
How WiiWare Changed Square Enix | Game | Life from Wired.com
How WiiWare Changed Square Enix | Game | Life from Wired.com:
I wish I could have been there to ask a few questions on their development process. I wanted to learn more about below...
I wish I could have been there to ask a few questions on their development process. I wanted to learn more about below...
"Another thing they did differently was to use a script language called Squirrel, and a middleware library from Nintendo called NintendoWare. 'At Square Enix, we don't... use other people's code, but since we were aiming for a Summer 2007 launch, I had to streamline the development process,' said Shiraishi.
NintendoWare, he said, was 'awesome' -- they had the basic game elements on screen in three months with only one programmer -- Shiraishi himself."
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Associated Press: Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software
The Associated Press: Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software
I'm a student! Not a huge Microsoft fan though. I would still like to look at the tools they have.
I'm a student! Not a huge Microsoft fan though. I would still like to look at the tools they have.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Director 11 Announced
Finally, Director 11 has been announced.
Unfortunately, the new version does not include an update to the 3D engine's capabilities (we all kinda figured that, from statements made earlier), but it does include a new physics engine from Ageia, which is good news since the Havok physics engine wasn't being supported.
Unfortunately, the new version does not include an update to the 3D engine's capabilities (we all kinda figured that, from statements made earlier), but it does include a new physics engine from Ageia, which is good news since the Havok physics engine wasn't being supported.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Ning Social Network
Ning
Create your own social network it can be public or private. This has been around for awhile, but sounds as though it's picking up speed.
They were discussions of it in my class and it came through on the serious games listserve as well. What I think is cool about Ning is that you can house more that one type of collaboration tool under one roof
• the network (similar to Facebook)
• Blogs
• Forums
• Videos and Podcasts
• RSS Feeds
Again, haven't used it but I will be joining the Serious Games group on there to check it out.
Create your own social network it can be public or private. This has been around for awhile, but sounds as though it's picking up speed.
They were discussions of it in my class and it came through on the serious games listserve as well. What I think is cool about Ning is that you can house more that one type of collaboration tool under one roof
• the network (similar to Facebook)
• Blogs
• Forums
• Videos and Podcasts
• RSS Feeds
Again, haven't used it but I will be joining the Serious Games group on there to check it out.
Jing Project
This is kind of a neat tool. You can screen capture on your computer (movie) and then share it via Screencast.com or your own server. It a free little app I haven't tried it but how many times have we needed screen capturing software at the last minute and didn't know what to use.
We do have SnapZpro it the studio, but this is free and from the demos looks pretty nice. Nice tool for school or maybe profs and Extension.
Visit Jing
We do have SnapZpro it the studio, but this is free and from the demos looks pretty nice. Nice tool for school or maybe profs and Extension.
Visit Jing
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Flash on iPhone is just around the corner | Gear Live
Flash on iPhone is just around the corner | Gear Live
Could it be? It was just a matter of time but they sure are taking their time.
Could it be? It was just a matter of time but they sure are taking their time.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Level Up : Exclusive: Level Up Gets the Jump On Masaya Matsuura's Majestic Message For the 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit
Level Up : Exclusive: Level Up Gets the Jump On Masaya Matsuura's Majestic Message For the 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit
Good interview with Matsuura with some interesting talk about Major Minor's Majestic March, Wii Music, and his thoughts on Guitar Hero.
Good interview with Matsuura with some interesting talk about Major Minor's Majestic March, Wii Music, and his thoughts on Guitar Hero.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Apple - Pro - Tips - Get Instant Maps
Apple - Pro - Tips - Get Instant Maps
Great new feature in Leopard... also, don't forget to check the Pro tips on Apple's Site.
Great new feature in Leopard... also, don't forget to check the Pro tips on Apple's Site.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Text to Speech
iSpeak It (Download here) $19.95 USD
Taken directly from the read me file (for educational purpose only):
It's a common problem, you have so much to read but not enough time to read it all. Well, now you don't have to. With iSpeak It you can take any document and convert it into an AAC/MP3 in iTunes using your Mac's built-in text-to-speech capabilities. From there you can listen to it at your leisure or, better yet, transfer it to your iPod and listen to it on the go!
iSpeak It is a file-to-audio converter that serves as a perfect companion to the iPod or iPhone. iSpeak It loads Word, PDF, Pages, RTF, AppleWorks, text and HTML documents. It downloads news, weather forecasts, driving directions, and arbitrary web pages as well as RSS feeds. iSpeak It then uses the Mac's text-to-speech engine and iTunes to convert the text into an MP3/AAC track. And if that wasn't enough you can always select any text from web pages, your e-mail messages, etc and load them into iSpeak It using it's Services menu item.
PDF processing requires pdftotext — a free download
I only used the trial version because I wasn't sure if I could handle the computer voice. With the new Tiger OS for Mac there is supposed to be a more natural sounding voice I believe it is Alex so it may be tolerable. I will try it again soon.
Taken directly from the read me file (for educational purpose only):
It's a common problem, you have so much to read but not enough time to read it all. Well, now you don't have to. With iSpeak It you can take any document and convert it into an AAC/MP3 in iTunes using your Mac's built-in text-to-speech capabilities. From there you can listen to it at your leisure or, better yet, transfer it to your iPod and listen to it on the go!
iSpeak It is a file-to-audio converter that serves as a perfect companion to the iPod or iPhone. iSpeak It loads Word, PDF, Pages, RTF, AppleWorks, text and HTML documents. It downloads news, weather forecasts, driving directions, and arbitrary web pages as well as RSS feeds. iSpeak It then uses the Mac's text-to-speech engine and iTunes to convert the text into an MP3/AAC track. And if that wasn't enough you can always select any text from web pages, your e-mail messages, etc and load them into iSpeak It using it's Services menu item.
PDF processing requires pdftotext — a free download
I only used the trial version because I wasn't sure if I could handle the computer voice. With the new Tiger OS for Mac there is supposed to be a more natural sounding voice I believe it is Alex so it may be tolerable. I will try it again soon.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
CiteUlike
We have been exploring tools for assembling a lit review for exercise games. Recently we set up and played with CiteUlike. I was looking at sciencemag.org and i noticed they had it built right into the navigation. Here is a pic.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Game Development - Mac
Browsing Demos :. GarageGames
GarageGames has released version 1.7 of their Torque Game Builder, which allows programmers to create games for almost any platform from within an OS X interface. This latest release improves the editors for link points and collision polygons, as well as a new editor for vector objects and new t2dSceneObject methods. If you know what all that means, then you could probably program a better game than I could.
But the good news here is the one of the cheapest and best tools for game developers is now better than ever. Demos and trials of the tool are available on GarageGames' site, and licenses are as cheap as $100 for independent game developers.
GarageGames has released version 1.7 of their Torque Game Builder, which allows programmers to create games for almost any platform from within an OS X interface. This latest release improves the editors for link points and collision polygons, as well as a new editor for vector objects and new t2dSceneObject methods. If you know what all that means, then you could probably program a better game than I could.
But the good news here is the one of the cheapest and best tools for game developers is now better than ever. Demos and trials of the tool are available on GarageGames' site, and licenses are as cheap as $100 for independent game developers.
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