Toy Story 3
Toy Story was Pixar's first full-length film, and the first 100% computer-animated feature film. It was released in 1995. It was reportedly completed on a bu...
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Falling into Maths
The video below is a 10 minute trip, zooming into a Mandlebrot fractal to a zoom level of around 10e214 Regarding the zoom level achieved, if 1px in the fina...
Read post →Flash & Core Animation
Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X is looking like it will suck less than it has in the past. Adobe appear to be making the considerable effort to leverage Core Animatio...
Read post →Aperture 3
Damn you Apple! It is now quite literally one week after I gave up on Aperture ever receiving any more loving and updates and I have begun the long and arduo...
Read post →Interview with Bill Watterson, of 'Calvin and Hobbes' fame.
I vote for "Calvin and Hobbes, Eighth Wonder of the World." via Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets...
Read post →RAID5 + Hotspare on the Promise DS4600 RAID Unit
I've recently had the opportunity to set up a Promise DS4600 connected to a Mac mini Server . Using the supplied admin utility, it's not immediately obvious...
Read post →John Nack on Adobe: Sympathy for the Devil
John Nack, at Adobe, posts a very well written and argued article on why flash isn't the best solution in the world, why open standards are a good thing, why...
Read post →On the PlayStation 3: Here's your silver platter
Some dude, geohot , has put in a LOT of work to get hypervisor level access to the PS3 hardware. He's been working on it for quite some time - Sony have put...
Read post →Mail.app and it's Offline Cache
I had an issue recently where I started to send an email with a HUGE attachment, before realising I didn't really need to send that file, so I tried to cance...
Read post →YouTube using open standard
Youtube are now running a public beta for HTML5 open standards based video. Only works with Google Chrome, Safari and Chrome Frame in MSIE. Giddy-up! YouTube...
Read post →Apple was granted a patent for eSATA Target Disk mode
This is a really good thing. One, it means that eSATA will be coming sooner rather than later to Macs. Apple even sell a RAID unit, the Promise SmartStor DS4...
Read post →Boot Camp Software Update 3.1 for Windows - 32 & 64 bit
OK, it's taken some time, but it's here. Apple have updated their Boot Camp drivers to support both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Downloads available...
Read post →Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent listening
The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high...
Read post →Playback of Matroska MKV Files on PS3 with no transcoding.
A previous post mentions some difficulties I've experienced trying to remux a Matroska MKV file to something that the PS3 can handle natively. I assumed that...
Read post →OiNK founder free after two-plus years of legal troubles
OiNK founder free after two-plus years of legal troubles A UK jury has found OiNK admin Alan Ellis not guilty of conspiracy to defraud copyright owners more...
Read post →Avatar's Designers Speak: Floating Mountains, AMP Suits And The Dragon - Avatar - io9
You may think you've been living inside Pandora, James Cameron's imaginary world, for a while after seeing Avatar. But just think what it's like for the desi...
Read post →Gallery of Light calligraphy
Beautiful Arabic calligraphy, painted with light in long-exposure photographs... Gallery of Light calligraphy - No Photoshop :: Typography Served .
Read post →Robotagger: GML + ABB4400 on Vimeo
And I, for one, welcome our new Giant Robotic Graffiti-writing Overlords... via Robotagger: GML + ABB4400 on Vimeo .
Read post →The Ad Contrarian: 10 for '10
The 10 Commandments of Advertising. Tell your clients the truth. Speak in plain English. Put your clients’ interests ahead of your own. Be guided by principl...
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