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Movie Times
Yahoo is a great resource for many things include local movie times.
Yahoo! movies
Mountain Community Television Channel 15 Serves the communities of Weed and Mount Shasta through the cablecasting of local produced television shows. MCTV15 provides training, studio space and equipment to help local producers make their shows. website
GotWiki is the home of the best Internet application ever invented. The world has changed forever. website
ShastaShooters is a website for the newly formed photographic enthusiasts. The group is located in Mt. Shasta and is planning to meet monthly to share the world of photography. website
Google The very best search engine on this planet. Who knows what else it out there. website
WikiWikiWeb Ward Cunningham had the very first wiki website that started to change the world of online collaboration. website
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February2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
Why Pay for Clipart?
Check out one of the best clipart sites on the Internet. Clipart.com is recommended by PC World as one of the best.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Redding at the Hammond's
Friday, February 11, 2005
WordPress
WordPress is a personal publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, web standards, and usablity. It's open source and thr winner of Ars Technica's 'Web Application of the Year' award.
wysiwygPro
wysiwygPro is another HTML editor that works in the the latest Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla or Firefox. It is a commerical product and is available under a number of licenses.
BrowserCam
One problem many web designers have is how to test their web page designs on many different browsers and on different platforms. One solution is to make use of the services of BrowserCam. They have two services available, both allow designers to test their creations on a wide selection of computer configurations via a web/Internet based interface.
Learn CSS and Web Standards
WestCiv is the place to learn CSS according to Dave Shea, of CSS Zen Garden.
CSS Directory
Roderick Howard has collected a large number of useful links to sites containing information about CSS. His directory is broken down by topic
Cinema Treasures
Cinema Treasures uses the pMachine software to maintian a website devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness.
pMachine
pMachine develops and markets the ExpressionEngine, a full-featured content management system.
Dunsmuir California Theatre
The American Institute for Arts & Communities is now localed in the historic California Theatre in Dunsmuir. They have exciting plans to restore the old theatre and help bring life back into the community.
DebugMode
Satish Kumar is a talented programmer that does some interesting work with graphics and makes it available for free at his DebugMode website. He has several software applications for Windows:
- WinMorph Morphing Editor
- Wink Tutorial/Presentation Creator
- Wax Video Editing & Special Effects Software
SimpleViewer
Air Tight Interactive have a interesting flash/XML based slideshow program call SimpleViewer. There is a couple of development tools to make using the tool much easier. One tool will create all the thumbnails and the XML automatically. Another tool allows for the creation of multiple galleries and includes full online administration.
Flash Slideroll
Slideroll is a flash based photo slideshow maker and player. It has a very cool interface for creating the slideshows. The have a free online version.
TextPattern
TextPattern A flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs. It comes with online tools for editing a templates with CSS.
PunBB
PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board that is released use the GNU Public License. It looks to be easy to integrate into a website. Check it out at http://www.punbb.org. A free hosting service for PunBB can be found at http://www.mypunbb.com
Sunday, February 6, 2005
Alpha Filter
AlphaFilter consists of a collection of web design elements. The design of this site includes a very cool right click menu.
Whats Your IP Address?
That question can easily be answered with a quick trip to http://checkip.dyndns.org/
Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
VNC software makes it possible to view and fully-interact with one computer from any other computer or mobile device anywhere on the Internet. VNC software is cross-platform, allowing remote control between different types of computer. I have been using VNC for some time, but ran into a nasty problem a few weeks ago. I needed to VNC to a computer that had multiple montiors attached. It was very important to be able to interact with both screens. Most VNC servers were not able to perform this task. Then I discovered the latest release of RealVNC. It does not have all the features I wanted but it does work without a problem with multiple monitors on the server.
Multiple Screens A New
MaxVista has created a virtual display driver that allows a desktop to be shared across multiple computers. The software intergrates with windows at the driver level and is controlled via the standard display properties.
Goove Networks Still Grooving
After this many years I thought Groove Networks would have folded like many other .dot companies of the last nighties. They are still around and have changed the business model. They are now the virtual office company of 'choice'.
Speed Read
I was watching an infomerical a few weeks ago about improving your brain by activting it via speed reading. The product was an interactive program you use on your computer and cost alot of money. While on the web I ran into this SpeedRead program that claims to do much the same for free.
Kirupa
Kirupa is the web site for more Flash, XML and PHP interaction. Lots of tutorials, examples and fun.
Flash Remoting or Not!
AMFPHP is an open-source alternative for Flash Remoting. Flash remoting for PHP enables objects in PHP to become objects in actionscript, almost magically! AMFPHP takes care of all the data-type conversions, serialization, and other client-server details. This provides a great way of connecting rich media clients with data and logic living on the server. While at the same time allowing designers to design and programmers to program.
Documentation
Natural Docs is an open-source, extensible, multi-language documentation generator. The engine is written in Perl.
Flash King!
Sephiroth has an extensive collection of flash based appiclations and experiments available for download and use. The site offers news, info, tutorial, resource from the Flash and PHP world. Some truly inspiring work.
Flash Vista
Flash Vista is mix between a search engine for best flash web sites and a flash links directory. There are some interesting tutorials for Flash MX at this site.
XML to Flash
ActiveSWF has a product that can generate a Flash SWF file fom a XML file. Their software works with ASP, PHP and a couple of other environments. There is a free version available together with some examples.
Text Editing Again and Again
Yet another text editor came across my path. The Crimson Editor is for Windows it supports many of the modern methods you would expect from a text/program editor. It's available free of charge from the Crimson Editor website.
Janet Biondi on MCTV15
I was watching MCTV15 in Mt. Shasta last week when I saw an interesting interview with Janet Biondi on Real TV. Janet is a very talented local artist. She specialises in nature and animals and uses some interesting techniques. Check out her website.
Flash Lives
Hatching Computational Creatures explores the creation of artificial life programming techniques in Macromedia Flash MX. Lots of fun and very interesting.
Talk Sex
Sue Johanson is Canada's foremost sexual educator and counsellor, recipient of the distinguished Order of Canada. She now hosts her own television show 'Talk Sex with Sue Johanson' on the Oxygen channel. Just about every topic is discussed in a matter of fact manner.
Friday, February 4, 2005
TCP/IP Ports
There are over 65,000 ports on each IP address. Commonly used services such as web, ftp and email have default port numbers. It's a good idea to limit the open ports on a computer that are connected to the Internet. Windows XP has a built-in firewall utility to limit port traffic. Another popular 'free' utlity that allows move control is ZoneAlarm. Common port numbers include 7 (Echo), 21 (FTP), 23 (TELNET), 25 (SMTP), 53 (DNS), 79 (finger), 80 (HTTP), 110 (POP3), 119 (NNTP), 161 (SNMP), 162 (SNMP Trap). Other port numbers and there use can be found at Iana.
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Dreamweaver Fails
I tried editing one the the great design from cssZenGarden in the latest version of Macromedia's Dreamweaver. I am very disappointed, it's almost useless for editing CSS2. I was expecting much more.
Amazing CSS
I have been using CSS to style my font, color and size for a couple of years. For layout I have stuck with 'new' old tables. After seeing the amazing design work on display at
cssZenGarden, I think it's time to rethink my attachment to tables.
Text Editing Again
In my travels around the web, I found PSPad. PSPad is a very capable text/program editor with some outstanding features. It understands many languages including PHP and is able to do local function and variable completion as well as a full feature code explorer built into a side panel. The software can manage projects, FTP, do DIFFS, Spell check, record macros, do cleanup on HTML, CSS and XML. All this for free, it's well worth a look.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Natural Voices
It's seems to have been forever since I have been impressed by software that converts standard text into a spoken voice. NextUp has some of the best conversions I have heard thus far. SAPI4/5 are standard interfaces for text to voice.
Wacom or Not!
If you don't use one, your missing the best way to get input into a computer. Tablets have long been the input of choice for graphics artists. There cost has kept them out of reach of most computer users. The market leader Wacom introduced their Graphite tablet a few years ago that changed everything. For $130 you get a 4x5" tablet, pen and mouse. Now Wacom is on the third edition of this product and priced at only $100. The next size up 6x8" will cost you $200.
The new comer Aiptek with their HyperPen Tablet are out to challenge Wacom. They have a 4x5" tablet on their website for only $30 and a smart looking 8x6" can be had for half the price of Wacom. There is a few difference, the HyperPen's require a AAA battery in both the pen and the mouse. Wacom does not need batteries. The Wacom pens have an eraser and can be fun.
Vue 5 Infinite
The always impressive e-on software company have not disappointed again wih their latest offering. Vue is designed to make virtual environments for rendered worlds. The new Ecosystems feature is very impressive. Check it out ... Vue 5 Infinite
Vegas Party In Vegas
The National Association of Broadcasters have there annual conference and exhibition every year in sunny Las Vegas. This year marks their 51st year and it will be my second visit. The Southern California Vegas Users Group will be hosting the ultimate Vegas party on Tuesday the 9th of April. It's looking like the event for me. :) A friend and I will be making a road trip of the adventure. We will be visiting Death Valley of the way back for some awesome springtime footage. I hope to do a couple of magic hours.
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