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Google Chrome

So Google have released their own browser, called “Chrome” – am I the only one who thinks it’s logo looks like a Pokeball (from Pokemon)?

You can download it from here: http://www.google.com/chrome

Quest for Glory 2 Remake: Blue Frog and items

I found a few extra items in the Quest for Glory 2 remake, including the elusive Blue Frog (which allowed you to cheat, in the original – “suck blue frog” anyone?)… Apparently you get it using the bellows with the air elemental in, and use it by pressing F10, or something like that?

Lamborghini Countach, on my way home from work

I saw this on my way home from work – it’s a Lamborghini Countach. I want one. When I was younger a had toy of one next to my bed, it was my dream to own one (but white).

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach :)

Writing DVDs (spring cleaning?)

I spent the morning sorting out all the stuff on my computer – I wrote close 20 DVDs, and now have 43 GB more disk space free, but what a mission.

I’m in the process of ripping all of the DVDs I own to “.avi” so I can just watch them off my hard drive, but it turns out I own 30 DVDs… I thought it was closer to 10 – who knew I was that rich. Anyway, I’m having second thoughts about ripping them because of the disk space, and time, it would take. On the other hand, it saves having to look for the DVD I want to watch (and frees up my DVD drive, if I need to use DVDs/CDs while watching).

I haven’t ripped the last few music CDs I’ve bought to MP3 either, so I spent some time doing that – I own something like 40 CDs… which is quite frightening. Once they’re ripped I normalize them – so it’s a fairly lengthy process in all. What’s ironic is that I’m going to be backing up all my MP3s to DVD (despite having the original CDs), so that I wont need to rip them all again should anything happen to my hard drive – so I guess I’m really just backing up the time it took to rip them.

I still have another 10 DVDs or so to write, possible more – not to mention the DVDs I need to write for other people. I’m considering hiring a DVD-writing-slave to do all this, and all my backing up, for me.

Stupid computers, life would be so much simpler without them. So much to listen to, so much to watch, so much to read, so much to backup.

Okay, that’s the end of my rant. At least I’m (mostly) harddrive-crash-safe, and have more disk space. The weather outside is awesome, I should’ve spent the day at the beach.

Incredible Video Editting!

I didn’t think much of these videos by their titles, but they’re insane.

The first shows they’re able to easily cut objects out of a video – as if they were filmed on a blue/green screen – without having to cut out the object in every frame. It’s called the “Interactive Video Cutout“.

The second shows how videos can be enhanced by using photos. Basically photos are higher quality, and thus more detailed, than video footage. By combining the two, they’re able to “upgrade” the video quality. This is the really insane one, personally it seems too amazing to be true, but anyway: “Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene” (more info here).

Now if only that software was available for download… I would spend hours playing with it.

Nintendo Wall Graphics

Ooh… I want Nintendo Wall Graphics!

MenuetOS

Back when I was in college (2001-2002), a friend of mine showed me an operating system that boots off a stiffy disk. Now I know you get single-stiffy-disk sized linux distros, but this isn’t a command-line operating system… it has a full colour interface, with transparency, can run multiple applications, etc.

Anyway, at the time it was rather impressive. So I decided to Google it the other day, and found that the project’s still going (and it’s still only 1 stiffy disk big), and has had lots of extra functionality added. It may not have much practical use, but it’s worth checking out.

(from the site) “MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.”

Link: MenuetOS

Getting lots of spam

My little domain (hypn.za.net) receives about 250-500 spam e-mails per hour.

That’s ridiculous… to say the least. Oh well, luckily I have Gmail to protect me.

So, spammers, I laugh at you – ha, haha, hahahahaHA!

:)

New desktop: SharpE

I watched “Iron Man” last night, it was a really good movie but after seeing how cool all of his computer screens looked, I decided a change was in order… so I present to you the result (thanks to SharpE):

Now tell me that’s not cool? Until now I’ve only used the built-in “Windows Classic” theme, but I think that’s a thing of the past now ;)

an MD5 ;)

For those of you looking for this MD5…

508a9a6311571234e612a2182ef48a17 = r1v3s7

(for those of you who don’t know what this is all about, it’s okay, just ignore it)