ricardocabellov5.5

http://ochremusic.com/mp3s/ochremusic.com.zip

Or you can listen/download single tracks directly from here:
http://ochremusic.com/music

Btw, it's IDM.

Great!

There are some things that I don't like about Trillian. GoogleTalk doesn't work with the free version, it keeps crashing and sending files sometimes is hard. I'm aware that Cerulean are working on Trillian Astra, but seems like they're just doing too much, too many things that I won't need (I may be wrong tho). So, now that I had to setup this new machine I looked for a Trillian alternative and there wasn't really a lot of options.

I found a program called Pidgin, which I never heard of before. It turns out that Pidgin is in fact GAIM, but as it's clear to see, the guys behind GAIM have been doing a really good job these days. It's quite similar to MacOS's Adium.


So, if you are also looking for a good alternative, don't look further, the answer at the moment is Pidgin!

(No, they're not paying me for doing this :D)

Yesterday I finally received the Windows license for the Intel PC that we were supposed to do the demos in. That means that I can test and work on the demo on the final machine at this point. I couldn't before because we received a Deutsch version of Windows and well, there is no way to change the language on Windows :/
I was testing the machine on a cheap flatscreen I had which had the colours totally broken until now, so, now that I had everything ready I went to the Apple store and I bough a nice 23" screen. It's not the first time that I work in a 1920x1200 environment, in fact, all my Dell laptops used to have that resolution, then, unfortunatelly, I had to move to smallest resolutions with the Macs.

The machine is quite fast, I tried a couple of demos today, rendering at 1920x1200 and they run really well. However, not too many demos allowed that resolution on the config menu and 90% of the demos that allowed that ended up looking quite bad. Demos look cool, well, everything look cool when it's in low resolution. Back in the days of 320x240 it was easy to make something look good (besides the pixelated effect). Nowadays demos look quite ugly because we got used to those small resolutions. In instance, Track one in some scenes look very unpolished at that high resolution.

The only demo I saw that still rocked at 1920x1200 was Debris, mainly because it's all 3D, and ovbiously it's all generated, which means that will look well in any resolution... here you have an snaps... (click on the images)







So, whenever you do another prod, I think you should consider how it will render in super high resolutions in the future. Maybe we should start moving the size limitations for demos a bit, mainly for doing the text/images at 1920 so they don't look bad at that resolution?

So, after being a week away of computers/internet, and having listened the track (which now is finished) a thousand of times and with the pad in front of me. The demo finally has a theme/topic that fits the music and effects available together quite well.

From now one is time to start working. Blackpawn is still working hard setting up the new version of DemoStudio (DemoStudio 2) for this demo. A workmate of Blackpawn is also helping with the 3D modelling for the demo.

We have come up with a couple of never-seen-before (we think) effects that can work really weel.

There is a lot to do and no much time available :S

Some days ago, when I was about to create a new folder (right click) I saw the new briefcase option. It has probably been there for a long time but I never realised. I learnt a bit of what I was and ended up being something that I really needed, a sync tool between folders. However, seems that is a little bit dangerous. You can delete stuff easily from the original source. I googled a bit for other options, and I found SyncToy. Done by Microsoft. It's freeware, looks cool, and its easy to use.

Just as a quick note.. I updated a bit this weekend the extras section... A couple of movies added, and a new subsection with the usual software I install after installing Windows. The list is mainly for myself, so I have somewhere online a list to click through instead of having to remember the links for each app. Feel free to use it tho.

Those ADs are cool, but they really mess the things up when they don't really talk about PC and Macs as a hardware, but about Windows and MacOS.

What happens if I use Windows in a Mac because I don't like MacOS (but I like the hardware)?

Whad I'm I there? a Mac or a PC? As I'm running Windows, I should be a PC... right?

And this is making the people speak wrong. The people ask me, what do you use? Mac or PC? I say Mac. Then they say, can you try this on Safari?

So, please, before you ask, think, don't follow the ADs. The question is, what do you use? MacOS or Windows? or Ubuntu? ;)

Right, a bit of an update... They have updated the site:

http://www.intel-demoscene.de/2007/flash/
'Press' will be always the same. Mistakes here and there, too many people to move the information 'mouth to mouth' I guess... The worst thing is that the video of Tokyo got desyncronised and I think they recompressed the .mpg video version that crest did that doesn't show properly the refractions of the balls.

Well, I'm used to this kind of things already, mistakes like that always happen and based on my experience about this... the best thing to do is ignore them :)

Regarding work done... not too much, at least not from my side tho. I've been testing some tools that blackpawn is developing but I'm not having much luck, they keep crashing for one reason or another. The music is already selected, so neurokin will be on the music side again :) We should start working this weekend a bit more seriously.

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