An archive of our old posts.
we make money not art: Interview of UnitedVisualArtists: “UnitedVisualArtists's work integrates art direction, production design and software engineering. A look at their portfolio is an eye-popping experience”
(Via we make money not art.)
8-p.info - Creammonkey: “Creammonkey is a Safari input manager extension which lets you to add user scripts to any web page to change its behavior.”
It shows the location of the Soul Cellar, where the show / party / club night is happening on the 29th March.
Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking: Search and Find Web Sites & Build Community Online.: "Find and save your favorite website bookmarks with Ma.gnolia.com so you can get them from any computer, any time. And that's only the start.
In Ma.gnolia you‘ll join a welcoming community of people and interest groups, all of them showing you what they’ve found on the web. If you‘ve never tried social bookmarking before, you’re at the the right place to start.
Joining Ma.gnolia is free, and so quick you'll see what all the hype is about in just moments. Still not sure? Read on to learn more."
What do I like about Ma.gnolia (and will I make the switch from del.icio.us)? Well, I like the contacts and groups stuff - it puts me in mind of Flickr, and I really like that. I love the fact that it has the star rating system built in. I like the fact it caches the page and finally it does look really good, (oh and the URL is easier!). Anything I don‘t like? I don’t know whether it has the the suggested and popular tags - I like those, and the auto-complete is pretty slow. Will I switch? Too early to tell, but it is definitely a serious contender.
[kub/design/mybook](http://kub.fr/design/design_mybook.htm) (tags: [design](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/design) [inspiration](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/inspiration) [mac](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/mac) ) [16-264: Computer Vision with Optical Mouse Chips](http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ttrutna/16-264/Vision_Project/) (tags: [diy](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/diy) [electronics](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/electronics) [optical](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/optical) [projects](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/projects) [vision](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/vision) ) [howto: getting started with microcontroller programming - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _](http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000487032939/) (tags: [basic](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/basic) [development](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/development) [electronics](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/electronics) [hack](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/hack) [hardware](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/hardware) [howto](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/howto) [programming](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/programming) [robotics](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/robotics) [robots](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/robots) [tutorial](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/tutorial) ) [Nam June Paik Studios](http://www.paikstudios.com/index.html) (tags: [art](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/art) [artist](http://del.icio.us/steamshift/artist) )Tag your Mac OS X Address Book entries: “Use the Mac OS X Address book to tag your friends. Create a custom relationship field of ‘tag’, and then fill in whatever tags you want to use to describe them. This is simpler in many ways than creating a sea of categories to put people into, especially when you really just need something ad hoc for the duration of a project. You'll be able to launch Spotlight searches from the tag, and of course Spotlight will pick up entries with that tag when you search.”
I'm beginning to wonder whether the answer to my earlier rant lies in a paradigm shift in the way that interact with the Finder. Hmmm. Interesting.
So then, here's a thing:- iTunes can handle videos (badly), PDFs (mmm, well …) and obviously music. iPhoto can handle images and videos. My questions:
Is it possible, using the current OS, to find a super fast, super efficient answer to these questions? Any thoughts?
SteamSHIFT out.
ElephantStaircase: "What is Elephant Staircase?
Elephant Staircase is a wiki made up of pages detailing ridiculously sweet projects. These projects range from do-it-yourself projects, to hacking/modding (legally of course), to cool ideas for random stuff, to random cool things to do with your time and money. Basically a cookbook for the technically inclined, scientifically fascinated, geeks, nerds, mechancially curious, l33t, or just anyone who cares."
For example:
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Ryan Brooks's Nixie Clock: "So, I wanted a Nixie clock and I really wanted to design the hardware and program it myself. Most of the kits out there are based around a PIC or some other new, easy to use microcontroller. I thought it would be much more interesting to make a clock powered by an old school computer."
It's funny how some technologies come back around - not because they are inherently better at doing what they are designed to do (for example a £2 quartz watch is more accurate than most mechanical watches costing many hundreds of times as much), but because they have some intrinsic quality that we are drawn to. This for example is just beautiful to me; primarily because of the feel of the Nixie tubes. I want it!
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Welcome to ESI: “The Miditerminal M8U is a 8-In, 8-Out, 128 channel USB to MIDI Interface for PC and MAC. Now supports for Windows®XP, 2000, ME, 2003 and MAC OS X.”
With the various MIDI feeds I'm using (and intending to use and build) to control quartz composer, I was running out of MIDI-in ports. Not any more! And the best thing? £100 + VAT NEW. Bargain! (maybe … we'll see how well it works)
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