Daily Archive for March 28th, 2006

Cool Expirimenal Game of Evolution : Flow

Published on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in Design and Experimental. 0 Comments

Take a look at this experimental game from Jenova Chen that was done for thesis work and is a very interesting piece of work (In My Humble Opinion) :
Flow In Games

Once you have read how to play click on Play “flOw”

Bravo on the design and the concept !

The Draggable News Feed Boxes Demo

Published on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in Code and Design. 0 Comments

This is a demo of how you can create boxes, in this case news feeds, and let the user define where the boxes are placed on the screen. i really like the way the boxes have highlighted areas that you can move them to. Letting users place them anywhere at all just seems a bit silly but this way you can give them a heads up on where they can be placed :
Draggable Boxes Demo

It is furthermore explained here in detail :
How To Do It Details

Create your own Vlog (Video Log)

Published on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in Tech. 0 Comments

Just had a peak at the software on offer from SeriousMagic that enables you to start you own Video Log. On your way to stardom with your own broadcasting channel straight from your own PC :)

The video presentation sure makes it look easy :
Vlog It Presentation

Go take a look !

A swiss knife type audio-media transcoder

Published on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in Tech. 0 Comments

I you often get media files in formats that you can read but that it would be easier to transfer them into another format for your non-techy friends then this ‘little’ tool may be pretty useful to you :
MediaCoder – The universal audio/video transcoder

It boasts the following :
Supported Inputs:
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, WMA Lossless, WAV
H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, 3ivx, RealVideo, Windows Media Video 7/8/9, DV
AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime MOV, OGM
CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheets

Supported Outputs:
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, WMA Lossless, WAV
H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, etc.
AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP (PSP Media Player?Format)

So for people like me it is pretty close to being the universal remote transcoder ;)