More art in Portfolio!

I’ve added more of my past work to the portfolio section of the blog, please have a look, make some comments.

Hitachi’s Gesture Interface

I love these things, personal computing is changing so rapidly. Makes me wish I was here a 100 years from now to see what it looks like then.

Awesome HTML5 Active Art

HTML is apparently the big Adobe Flash killer looming just behind Adobe’s shoulder, and people are starting to embrace it in rather amazing ways, case and point:

Awesome HTML5 Art

Seeing as I have no idea how to embed something like this into a post yet, or if there is even a way, I just had to give you an URL link. Oo

P.S. If you can’t view the animated art, it’s probably because you have a terrible/old browser, I suggest you read one blog post down to remedy that situation. hehe

SWG UI Mod

I’ve resubscribed to Star Wars Galaxies some time ago to have a look around in a game I used to play a long time ago. I could not help myself but play around with modifying the Interface textures for the game.

If you’re interested read more… (Picture Included)

Chrome, Google’s Wonderful Browser.

Hey there avid readers, any? oO
1st program I want to share with you is one that I use very frequently, it’s Google’s very own browser:

Google Chrome

A beta browser that’s similar to Mozilla Firefox but takes a different, more crash proof approach to web browsing, plus it’s very customizable.

Minimalistic Design, Maximum Usability

One of the fastest browsers out there, I know the tests are funny, and even funnier, the parody, but it is true, due in part to being built around the WebKit engine, most progressive & up to date browser engine out there developed under GNU Public License, thus not one company has control over it’s development allowing it to be frequently updated with latest trends.

The opened platform also means anyone can develop for it taking the usability of this web browser years beyond of what Microsoft is able to do with Internet Explorer. Think of it as a continent full of people developing for the browser pushing it’s usability and extensibility, where as a browser like Internet Explorer is limited to what a room full of people can accomplish at Microsoft, not forgetting they have to keep to schedules, release dates, corporate maneuvers, and development cycles.

This brings up the usability, with extensions you can pretty much make this browser do anything you want, from controlling your music player, keeping track of your ebay bids, page editing, to even forcing pages to open up in internal Internet Explorer views, I mean, the possibilities are vast here.

The extension options are almost endless.

One of my all time favorite extensions for this browser is AdBlock (carried over from Mozilla’s Firefox) which checks a “blacklist” prior to it rendering your page and removes any reference to advertisement, this allows you to browse whatever page you may wish and never see any annoying flash/static advertisement ever again, just clean, pure pages with the much sought after information that we desire.

Not to mention the ability to change the type of blacklist per country, so if you’re in England for example, tracking cookies will display ads on your browsers from their local servers in england, a tailored Ad experience they call it. Someone once wrote, Ad’s were so yesterday, and if you’re one of those people that still uses a browser that displays Ad’s, you can’t imagine how good it is to never see Ad’s again.

Another fantastic feature of this browser is that it is designed around the familiar Windows© idea of Task Management.

If you ever used Microsoft Windows© you might be familiar with the Task Manager, a tool that keeps a track of all your running processes (programs), showing you how much memory/CPU time a program is using, allowing you to adjust it, or even close them if they act up.

The same idea is applied to Google Chrome, every tab, extensions, page you have loaded is a separate running process that does not impede on the rest, what this means for you is that its hard to get the browser to crash, I will illustrate why. Say you have your web-mail open and you’re composing a letter to someone, you need to check something on another page thus you open a new tab, now if you were using Internet Explorer, if that second page/tab had some type of a bad implementation of a flash ad on it, this could cause your entire browser to crash making you loose all the progress you’ve made on the email, or all the progress you’ve made while writing a blog post such as this one. By separating each one of these elements of the daily browser use into different process’ the browser safeguards you from loosing valuable time.

Another favorite feature of mine is the ease of search using this browser, instead of going to www.google.com you can simply put your search query into the address bar and hit enter, it will automatically use the search engine you set as your preferred one, and do a web search on it. Or this great extension called FastestChrome which will pop up a bubble with search options for selected text withing a webpage as showned below.

You can’t get usability like this in Internet Explorer, it’s just too restrictive of a browser, don’t forget this is just scatching the surface, I will update this post soon to show you more. (AKA this post will not expire, I will strive to keep it up to date as new features are introduces, or as I gain the desire to add them).

P.S. If anyone reads this and is interested in the know how, or wants some help, please feel free to get in touch with me and it will be my pleasure to help.

Reading Gandhi

I started reading “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi” today, it’s a collection of quotes and thoughts organized in easy to understand chapters and layout.

If you ever wanted to get a fantastic perspective on the world you’re surrounded by I highly recommend picking this up, it’s only $10

Come on, you got no excuse to not read this!
>,<

New Blog Entries, Software Category

Starting a new category on the blog, it’s all about software, not just any software, but software that I believe is better then any out there, programs that I currently use and think are better at doing their job then anything else out there.

It is worth mentioning that I am not getting payed to do this, nor am I getting any bonuses or prizes for doing this. I am doing this because I want to share with you that there are good programs out there that people need to start using.

That’s it for now I guess.

DreamingInc.com Work in Progress

I’ve once again done some redesign on DreamingInc, the future design that I want to center around this blog/portfolio site. It’s still a concept, a lot of it could change drastically, we’ll see where this takes me.

First zBrush Model

So I spent a couple hours learning zBrush today, I think it’s pretty good for a 1st timer, I know the proportions are still off and the eyes are weird, but it’s a work in progress. The program is really really fun, I love the thing.

Palm Pre+ 50+ Apps at once

Above, we compare the multitasking prowess of the new Palm Pre Plus on Verizon to the original Palm Pre on Sprint. How much of a difference does that extra RAM make? Preliminary results are in and the difference is: a lot.

from PreCentral