TECHNOLOGY Archive

When I was taking a look at THEFWA.com, I found such a great website with a very novel idea.

BooneOakley.com

This website has been made of only those functions of Youtube.
Right now, we think it's just a website made of Youtube, but you know, unbelievably tons of people is watching Youtube everyday, but no one could make this idea before them. It looks very easy and simple, but I can tell that the team which built this has a very flexibly point of view.
Of course, I guess that someone already conceived an quite similar idea, but there is a huge difference between just "planning" and "execution", in fact.
Also I really like this atmosphere of the art direction. I know this kinda "low fidelity style" is a very big movement recently in a design industries (especially internet) in '00s.
Anyways, I'm gonna do my best to have new ideas like this!

This is the top page of this website. You can navigate to everywhere from here.

Not only this technical idea, but they also have an absolutely great creativity.

Of course every contents were made by movie, so if you won't touch them, it's gonna be changed and finished automatically.

We can send the Youtube message to them.

They're having big clients!

WTF!?

BooneOakley.com

Recently, I've just realised that some softwares based on Adobe AIR (this was known as "Adobe APOLLO") are really awesome, at last. Especially this "Adobe Media Player" has really nice interface, beautiful effects, nice contents and so on. I really recommend this!
But we can't watch those MTV videos because of the region cord in Japan! I really wanna watch The CRIBS and The MTV Raps!!! ;(
Whatever, the Japanese version is gonna be launched around this summer.

Adobe AIR
Adobe Media Player
Google Analytics AIR beta
FinetuneDesktop

This is a really nice idea. I didn't notice that there is such a good synergy between Beatport and Youtube. So far, the matching is not so correct because of beta version. However, I expect to this a lot!

Beatporttube

Offf; Presentation of Joshua Davis in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday 8th May 2008

He is kinda very funny guy. lol
I haven't gave any shit about Hotels' carpet never. But yeah, you're right. It's very kitsch and interesting man! LMAO
Well, I made a link list of those "Purists & Hybrid" persons who were listed on his presentation.

"Computational Design... Purists vs. Hybrid"

Purists, using code to create the visuals.
Ben Fry | Golan Levin / Flong | Casey Reas | Robert Hodgin / Flight404 | John Maeda | Toxi | Marius Watz / unlekker | Amit Pitaru | Jonathan Harris / 27 | Martin Wattenberg | Jared Tarbell / Levitated | Josh Nimoy | Mark Napier / potatoland | Manny Tan / uncontrol | Ed Burton / Soda | lennyjpg | Simon Geilfus / Kinesis | eskimoblood | Lia

Hy brid, mapping artwork to coded systems.
James Patterson | Joshua Davis | Erik Natzke | Geoff Lillemon / Oculart | Niko Stumpo

And this below is a conversation with Joshua and Tali Krakowsky (imaginary forces) at FITC Canada.
"Everything in One Night"
Cool dude! ;)

Joshua Davis | Studios

Offf
FITC Canada
imaginary forces
Kyle Cooper

By the way, do you know the photo retouch software called Adobe Lightroom?
My friends who is a professional photographer taught me about this. I tried and thought it's really great! Try it.

Flash Player 10 Beta : Downloads
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®

QuickTime VR is not modern technology at all, but it seems very fresh to me every moment. And it's still much lighter than Flash version so far.
Visit this website below. There are a lot of brand-new VR photos.
I love the "All Saints Day in Krakow" one, especially. So beautiful, innit?

DRAG IMAGE - ZOOM=SHIFT/CTRL

Panoramas.dk

At last we can see the sky without any softwares! Good job Mr. Google!
And also can put the constellation's pictures upon the sky map, like below. Then you can control the transparency level by the "Historical" slider on right-top.
I think we can use this for some romantic things.
...Oh No, this is not a romantic idea at all. Too geeky. lol

Google Sky

I've switched this blog's CMS to MovableType again.
I was using MovableType before, but I switched it to WordPress because of just my interest.
Actually, I've realized that MovableType is much easier to use than WordPress. This is my opinion. I know it depends on the way to use the blog for, but I can say that especially for designers, MovableType's construction is very sophisticated and easy.
I hate that I have to republish every fxxxing time but that's very small thing. I don't mind.
Anyway MovableType4 is totally different with the older version ones. The biggest reason is MovableType had changed to open source, I guess. This was a very great decision.
But there are some problems at the importing entries from WordPress to MovableType. Every line breaks had gone away!! I have to fix one by one... ;-(

Real, man!!! And the color is amazing too.
Computer-generated waves crash against lighthouse

It was completely not easy to me though! :S
The order to boot, sensitive settings, strength of the wave... I had to care and notice about a lot of things, actually.
Of course one of the reasons is I'm using a Mac. (But you know how we do, Mac users are tough. Because we've already gave up especially about network settings. lol)
Anyway, I at last could become a Fonera!
Can you find the name "siddallsuda" on the map above? That's my spot. ;)

And I've finished connecting to the Fon networks by my iPod Touch too. I've not checked on the street yet, but must be okay, I guess. I hope.
Well, thank you so much for your kind comment, Mr. Martin Varsavsky!
Your Japanese staff was amazing. Very helpful and kind. Thank you again!
And I found this video on his blog. You know, this is his son! Sooo cute.
He must be one of the important person in the network industries when he grow up. ;-)
¡Bueno adiós!

Beatport has started to support some other languages, recently. Includes French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
And just lately, Native Instruments has released a free DJ mixing software.
Let me say once more again, this software is FREE! Can you believe it?
Supported audio formats:
MP3, MP4, WAV, AIFF, Audio-CD, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, non-DRM WMA and AAC
System requirements:
Mac OS 10.4™/10.5™, G4 1 GHz or Intel Dual Core™ processor, 512 MB RAM
Windows XP™/Vista™ (32 Bit), Pentium™/Centrino™/Athlon™ 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM

Beatport SYNC lets you instantly mix tracks by drag and drop. Simply load your tracks into the playback decks and use the crossfader to mix between them. Advanced functions like beat detection, auto sync, and loudness optimization let you create professional-sounding mixes immediately. With Beatport SYNC, anyone can be a DJ.
I've not tried yet but must be so nice, innit? What is the most different part of Beatport Sync and Traktor?
Anyway, Native Instruments is one of the most important companies around the digital music industries.

I got a FON's "La Fonera+" WiFi spot, at last!
I really interested in this project for long time, but it wasn't necessary at all because my PowerBook was too heavy to bring out.
But recently, I got an iPod Touch and this funky toy made me decide to join FON networks!
I'd really expected the brand-new-happy life with this WiFi networks... buT! bUT! BUT! I couldn't complete to connect it to my Yahoo rooter!! Bullshit!
The manual says like "Connect the cable and the power plug, and just wait for a couple of minutes. Sooner or later, the orange power lamp is gonna be green."
Am I color blind? I'd waited for a couple of DAYS, but I could see only the color ORANGE!! I was really disappointed... WiFi NOWHERE... ;-(
Well, now I'm asking to FON about this condition by email.
Someone said that to be used by FON network is not accepted by Yahoo, formally. I don't know the problem depends on that or not. But if it's so, I'm really sad...
Look at this map! We can say that many persons feel sympathy for this project, obviously.
Listen to us, Mr. Yahoo, We don't need no more monopolization!
But I still don't know the cause of the problem. If it's just my mistake for example connecting to wrong port or something like that, I know that I really have to apologize to Yahoo... lol
Anyway it's true that Yahoo hasn't recognized FON, though.
Whatever, cross your fingers for my brilliant-cyber life, please! :-)

FON
FON Maps

Recently, a couple of new functions were added to YouTube embed player.
One of those functions is the showing some related videos' list when the end of movies, or by clicking a button.
And the other one is the customising of the colors and the border of a player.

Related Videos' List
You can control about including this list or not by the parameter "rel".
"rel=0" = Don't include related videos
"rel=1" = Include related videos

Customise Color and Border
Use those parameters "color1", "color2" and "border".
Of course "border" is for the border.
"border=0" = Hide border
"border=1" = Show border
And the color customising is just a little bit complicated.
The parameter "color1" is for the base color of a player and border. But the base color is shown on the very thin top area only (when "border=0").
The parameter "color2" is for the over color. And this color is gonna be 80% transparented on the control area (Actually this color's shown on a part of the border, when "border=1", anyway).

So, as a result, the mixed color of "color1" and 80% "color2" will be the main color of a player.
I've changed some players on this page, so check'em out.

Japanese leading Web Art / Ad squad called tha* ltd. has released a brand-new-very-interesting screen saver. Everyone knows that this company has established by Yugo Nakamura who is the most respectable and famous Japanese web-technological artist.
I had had a only single opportunity to do a job with him, when that time, I totally understood why everyone call him as A genius.

Programming: Keita Kitamura
Design: Taro Hanamura

Idea: Erica Sakai
Direction: Yugo Nakamura

tha* ltd
SCR

Lough out loud!!! This reminds me the famous joke below,
"NASA spent millions of dollars on developing a pen that would write in outer space, while the Russian Cosmonauts simply used pencils."
Microsoft rules!!!!! LMAO

NEW YORK -- Armed with a soldering iron and a large supply of energy drinks, a slight, curly haired teenager has developed a way to make the iPhone, arguably the gadget of the year, available to a much wider audience.
George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J., spent his last summer before college figuring out how to "unlock" the iPhone, freeing it from being restricted to a single carrier, AT&T.

DO IT YOURSELF: George Hotz tells you how to unlock the iPhone
From USA TODAY

These days when I was a teenager, I was just wasting my time with skating, playing Mahjong with my friends, or considering about girls' enigma.

At last, YouTube Japanese version has dropped.

YouTube Remixer (Beta)

"Use YouTube's Video Remixer to "remix" your videos with text, audio, graphics, overlays, effects, and transitions."
This service has launched just recently, is a Flash based video editing application on the net.

And we can try the new version of the main watching page.
Push the button next to a movie area, then you can see the new version called "Watch 3.0" which has a little bigger movie screen and redesigned interfaces.

jp.YouTube.com
YouTube Remix

Oh my way!!!! This bland-new Google Maps' function is fxxxxn' awesome!!!!

Google Maps; Street View