dempa.init5.net » Computing http://dempa.init5.net Audiovisual Experiments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:14:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 iPhone background: Foggy http://dempa.init5.net/2011/04/09/iphone-background-foggy/ http://dempa.init5.net/2011/04/09/iphone-background-foggy/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:43:05 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/?p=162 A couple of days ago I happened to take a close up photo of my pants. It looked kinda cool so I imported it into Photoshop Express for iPhone and did some tinting and stuff. Turned out to work really well as a iPhone home screen background.

http://dempa.deviantart.com/#/d3dhco3

 

]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2011/04/09/iphone-background-foggy/feed/ 0 Trying out blip.fm http://dempa.init5.net/2009/04/08/trying-out-blipfm/ http://dempa.init5.net/2009/04/08/trying-out-blipfm/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:10:23 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/?p=120 blip.fmMusic, music, music. Spotify has basically taken over as my main source of music. It’s a fantastic service and I hope it will remain this good. However, it’s always fun to try out new services, and today I started to use blip.fm. It’s like Twitter + Music in a way. Users are called DJs. They post a song (found in the blip.fm database) along with a short message. You can follow people, give them “props” for being a good DJ or whatever  and so on.

The music that are played comes from all over the net. For example, someone has sent them links to three of my songs. Or maybe some sort of web spider has crawled them, I dunno. When you play a song it streams directly from the original URL.

My blip.fm page: blip.fm/lakebranch

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I posted my first little “update” on Twitter today. If you want to follow me, head over to twitter.com/lakebranch and click “Follow”.

]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2009/03/06/twitter/feed/ 0 Blue Nightmare wallpaper http://dempa.init5.net/2009/01/03/blue-nightmare-wallpaper/ http://dempa.init5.net/2009/01/03/blue-nightmare-wallpaper/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:39:22 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/?p=87 Did a new wallpaper tonight. You can see/download it at deviantART (click pic). It’s 2560×1600 (16:10).

Blue Nightmare Wallpaper

This wallpaper came to life after I browsed through some Photoshop tutorials. I’m trying to be creative in any way I can – hoping that it will stimulate me enough to start making music again.

]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2009/01/03/blue-nightmare-wallpaper/feed/ 0 GTA IV http://dempa.init5.net/2008/12/12/gta-iv/ http://dempa.init5.net/2008/12/12/gta-iv/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:55:06 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/?p=69 So… I played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City a lot back in the day. Really got in to it. I tried San Andreas but it never really clicked for me. This week I bought GTA IV (over Steam). It’s good. I’m not totally hooked on it yet, but I hope I’ll get there. It definitely shows more promise (for me personally) than San Andreas did.

So, playing games instead of making music? I’m afraid so. Sigh.

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I started to reinstall sound card drivers left and right. I must have spent an hour trying to figure this thing out. Then I remembered! I had to pull my son (soon two years old and always up to no good) out from behind my desk. Did he accidentally pull the cables out? Naaah… or? Yes, of course!

D’oh!

]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2007/02/20/doh/feed/ 5 Krugle – Search engine for developers http://dempa.init5.net/2006/06/15/krugle-search-engine-for-developers/ http://dempa.init5.net/2006/06/15/krugle-search-engine-for-developers/#comments Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:05:22 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/2006/06/15/krugle-search-engine-for-developers/ I’ve been beta testing Krugle for some time, and Yesterday they went live. It has already saved me quite some time when coding on different projects.

Krugle is a search engine specifically targeted at developers. It indexes source code, technical information and information on projects and lets you search it using a very nice web interface (very Web 2.0).

Try it!

]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2006/06/15/krugle-search-engine-for-developers/feed/ 0 A bit fed up with Web 2.0 http://dempa.init5.net/2006/05/20/a-bit-fed-up-with-web-20/ http://dempa.init5.net/2006/05/20/a-bit-fed-up-with-web-20/#comments Sat, 20 May 2006 19:03:00 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/2006/05/20/a-bit-fed-up-with-web-20/ wwwroad.jpgRecently I’ve been feeling a bit fed up with the whole Web 2.0 thing. I develop software, including web applications, for a living, so of course I appreciate the “new” possibilities that have emerged from XMLHttpRequest etc, but sometimes it just seems… a bit much. There’s also the Ruby on Rails movement. I’ve tried Ruby (the language) but there’s going to take a lot to drag me away from Perl, I’ll tell you that.

Recently I’ve been unsubscribing a lot of my Web 2.0 related feeds on Bloglines, and it actually feels good. I need a break. I’m also doing a lot of regular native client programming (C# in .NET) at work right now, which also feels good.

Maybe I’m just cranky ‘coz I can’t keep up with all the cool javascript libraries being released every other day. :)

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]]> http://dempa.init5.net/2006/01/19/firebug/feed/ 1 Google Reader http://dempa.init5.net/2005/10/08/google-reader/ http://dempa.init5.net/2005/10/08/google-reader/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:26:25 +0000 dempa http://dempa.init5.net/?p=32 I’m sure a gazillion people have blogged this already but I just found out. Googles new toy is a news feed reader called “Google Reader“. I’ve been using Bloglines for a while now. It’s going to be interesting to see if Google succeeds in this area as well. They sure seem to be heading straight for world domination.

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