May 17, 2008

Gruesome Body Bakery

Categorie: art — Tags: , , — bise, 12:17 am

Still frightened - I don’t give any comment, but you can see more pictures, and discover the mystery behind this by clicking the following hyperlink:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/body_bread_13546

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May 16, 2008

support for old scanners in os x / unix

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , — bise, 1:08 pm

My old scanner isn’t recodnized by os x “out off the box”. So I use the great vuescan, which supports a wide range of scanners and is a solid scanning tool with a lot of parameters to adjust the scanning process and the image quality.
But if you just want to make a quick copy of [...]

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wall painted animations by artist blu

Categorie: art — Tags: , , , , — bise, 11:43 am

Amzaing animations painted directly on walls.
Check also his website with more works: blublu.org/

Here one of his drawings:

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firefox 3 aside firefox 2

Categorie: misc — Tags: , — bise, 1:04 am

Your firefox is slow? Or crashs sometimes? And Safari doesn’t fit for you, maybe because of limited tab-browsing capabilities?
You may have heard of the brand new firefox 3. It is so new, it isn’t even released yet. So there are propably a lot of bugs. But give it a try. It will run faster than [...]

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May 14, 2008

worldwide telescope

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , — bise, 10:01 pm

Microsoft releases http://worldwidetelescope.org/. With this app you can see through a virtual telescope.
I recommend to see the teaser movie on this site: kids react to WWT
A Windows PC and at least 1gb RAM are bringing you the stars to your place. Check it out.

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OS X english-german translation for dictionary.app, edit: windows too

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , — bise, 9:23 pm

Like you might know, there is this great function in os x: check any word in the dictionary by hovering this word with the pointer and pressing ctrl+command+d. Works in every cocoa application.
Philipp ‘Lipflip’ Brauner provides a package that enhances the dictionary.app with the complete english-german vokabulary from dict.cc for offline usage. You can also [...]

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May 12, 2008

1000 ways to open a bottle of beer

Categorie: misc — Tags: — bise, 9:51 pm

one is the ipod way. here are the others: http://stuff.twoday.net/

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processing and javascript

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — bise, 8:07 pm

John Resig ported Processing to JavaScript. Well, not everything thats written with processing will work with his library but it should be interesting for browser only applications which had been running as an applet.
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

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PHP 6

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , — bise, 7:14 pm

upcoming changes and improvements in php 6, like namespaces. removed will be

magic_quotes
register_globals
register_long_arrays
safe_mode

see the announcement here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/?ca=dgr-lnxw01PHP-Future

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May 9, 2008

Java 6 for 32 bit Intel Mac, Power Pc and OS X 10.4

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — bise, 6:06 pm

The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]

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