My laptop screen is a bit dodgy lately – so I hooked it up to my TV screen via S-Video and phono, and I’ve been controlling it with VNC; it works pretty well! I figured Win7 Play-To would be pretty interesting to play with, but I thought it’d be pretty difficult to set up – I was totally wrong. It’s easy… enable it on both computers, choose who can control what, job done. So now I just drag-drop stuff onto my “Play To” playlist and it shows up on the big screen!
Furthermore – we’re supposedly getting a new TV soon, so if we get a cheapo nettop with decent graphics, I can hook it up with Win7, and the family can use media center on it. Then, when they want a movie or something? *Play To*!
Awesome.
And it’s going to be epic. Wasted Weekend are playing before I hook up my laptop and fire up this playlist:
http://lloydhumphreys.com/partyplaylist/
WOOP!
Omnomnomnomnom. This is one tasty client.
http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/
Looking really sexy!
So I’m going to use this for a couple of days and see whether I like it or not. I’d like some FB chat integration, and for them to fix the About dialog box – beautiful dark UI with a cool, custom scroll-bar.. and then you get slapped with this:
Bullet points that are from MS Word? A standard scroll-bar? Ewwwwwwww!
Download and Install Silverlight 4 if you don’t have it, then restart your browser and install the Facebook for Windows app. For Windows and Mac OSX/Intel.
http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/
For getting your point across online 
So, the Welsh equivalent of Valentines Day is coming up tomorrow (25th Jan) so I made this 
Now, I know it’s the wrong way round.. but Dewi the dragon looks a bit weird the other way 
Oh, and I made a brush out of his head! (I know it works with CS3/CS4, might work with others).
http://lloydhumphreys.com/graphics/Welsh%20Dragon%20Head.abr
Been a long time since I did a tutorial of any kind, so here’s one!
I’m going to teach you to make a kick-ass origami CD case (like that one).
You’ll need a compass, pencil, ruler, rubber, a CD, and a few sheets of A3 paper (you will f-muck it up a couple of times).
Anyways, find the PDF here and the resource files+PDF here. Only difference is the latter includes a vector of the drawing, a hexagonal template for any artwork you want to print off and stick, and the PDF too.
DIGG ME!
PirateZoom
So, for my school graphics GCSE project, I need to create graphic products to promote The Pirate Party/The Pirate Bay. I wanted to do something cutting edge, something different from the business card-letterhead fever that seems to grip the classroom. So I want to make a DeepZoom app! I got 44 images from people in school, and getting any more is going to be difficult. I used these 44 to make a DZ model, but it didn’t turn out too amazingly – which is where I want you to help me out.
I need pictures. Lots of them. Basically what I need is an image of you, you and some friends, your dog, your cat, whatever, holding up a picture of the Pirate Bay/Pirate Party logo, or holding up a piece of paper with “I’m a pirate!” or “I pirate X” on it. I don’t mind. Get creative.
So, help a brother out! I’ll end up putting the whole project on the web eventually for you to play around with – maybe you can try and find your picture! Email your images to lloyd.humph at gmail dot com. Keep them under 1mb! Ideally I need over 500 images, but if I can get more I can make a bigger PirateZoom!
Heres the demo one I did – it doesn’t work very well since you can see many of the images many times. http://www.lloydhumphreys.com/content/piratezoom/
Thanks!
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