Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Monday, July 24th, 2006 |
The “Crappiest Corporate Site of the Week” Award goes to Dell Japan for not being able to have a Shop website that runs on current Browsers! When I try to get onto their XPS 700 Customization page I get a simple Access Denied, telling me that I need to use Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.6! The site doesn’t work on FireFox and not on MSIE 6 and neither on Netscape 8! Congratulations Dell! You suck immensely!
I’m actually wondering how do you sell your PCs in Japan!
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Monday, July 24th, 2006 |
In my book “How to become a Flash Game Developer of World Class” I surely will not forget to mention this useful tool … FreeMind, a Mind Mapping tool that is not only free but also very intuitive! It is written in Java and therefore available for all common Platforms. Where other Mind Mapping tools or even MS Visio fails with being intuitive, FreeMind comes to the rescue!
You can lay out all imaginal hierarchical structures, be it your shopping list, you time plan or the story concept for your next game. After creating a new document with FreeMind, it has one root node. From now on you can add child nodes with the Insert Key, add sibling nodes below with the Enter key or above with Shift+Enter. This way it becomes a breeze to create a large tree structure of your project.
You can assign different color and font styles to your nodes. Another useful feature is the ability to link two nodes together with a bezier line. The tool has a MinMap and a Browse Mode and you can even browse your harddisks file structure with it if you want. You can also link files to nodes.
This is the number one tool I would recommend for brainstorming but it is very useful to lay out projects in more detail as well. There is also a FreeMind Document Reader that has been written with Flash, though I’m not sure if it can be downloaded and used offline.
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Friday, July 21st, 2006 |
Found these today on my daily dose of Stumble Upon random links … Proggy Programming Fonts! Still coding with Courier? Maybe it’s time for a change?!
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Friday, July 7th, 2006 |
A Developer’s Guide to Surviving Meetings … an invaluable guide for those long and boring meetings! Be sure to also read the comments as there are some nice tips as well! 
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006 |
I’m chased by bad luck since a while when it comes to getting this blog onto the Macromedia XML News Aggregator! First when I used Nucleus CMS it stopped fetching my feeds automatically after a while. Nobody, not me and not the admin at MXNA had any clue what was the cause. Now I’ve switched to Word Press in the hope that this would change but it now seems that I’m stuck forever with this problem. The feed URL for Word Press is very different and there seems to be no working redirection plugin for Word Press 2+. Also I cannot re-subscribe at MXNA with the same domain and any mail to the admin so far stood unanswered. Only workaround would be to change to another sub domain but I don’t want to go that far!
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 |
Finally I got myself up to completely overhaul this blog and after a long time of resisting I finally decided to switch to Word Press! Nucleus was a great system but the mysterious problems recently that kept my blog from appearing on newsfeed fetching sites forced me to go the radical way. After all a blog without any visiting readers is a net corpse!
There are still a couple of things I’m missing from Nucleus but Word Press seems to already have a decent palette of plug-ins and themes and I’m in love with the built-in WYSIWYG-Editor! Publishing a new items seems to be a bit slow however!
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006 |
Wookiepedia, a Wiki solely dedicated to the Star Wars universe! How nice to see that some people have already been very busy filling the database with tons and tons of background info on Star Wars related things. Ever wanted to know how Bossk’s ship looks, why Yuuzahn Vong are such a fearsome species or what the name of the asteroid is where Luke and Leia were born? It’s all in there! They even have listed many of the source books of the Star Wars D6 and D20 Pen & Paper Roleplaying games. With all those loads of information it becomes clear that the movies are only a small fragment of what makes the Star Wars Universe so intricate and vast!
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Friday, August 5th, 2005 |
The coolest commercial I’ve seen since a long time …. http://www.bigad.com.au/! No, it won’t hurt your system, despite the security warning that shows up eventually, but this is so freakin cool!
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005 |
Cats are just cool! They are most independent from us humans but sometimes they let us get closer to them. If that is happening, it is also sometimes possible to use them as a storage space for all kinds of things from pizza boxes to babies! Yes, cats are actually more trustworthy than one might think! Here is the witness: stuffonmycat.com! It’s even better than the Infinity Cat Project, an endless loop of cats sitting in front of computer screens and seeing the photo of other owners cats who are sitting in front of the screen. It makes me want to have a cat again because cats simply rock!
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 |
Found this classified a while ago in a BBS signature …
… And damn I thought that’s the guy I saw last month when I traveled back into 1629 by modifying my microwave oven into a time machine! You can never say that there are too many boring people in the world!
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