Photoshop Tutorial

A nice little tutorial on photoshop touch-ups. Haven't tried it myself, but their results look convincing!

Infected Mushroom

IM were, well, fantastic. A nice way to recover from a disapointing (despite low expectations..) Two Tribes. I had an argument with a friend last year as to whether they were the best live act I'd ever seen. Contenders were Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Binary Finary and Basement Jaxx (because the shows are kinda kool, and they are really nice and friendly people).

I'm afraid I have to declare IM the winners. Although Chemical Brothers are a very close second. IM just have got everything right - the guitar work is awesome, and its just an amazing event. I don't know how to describe it really I guess.

This year they did an extended-extended-extended version of 'Cities of the Future' and it was nothing less than absolutely fantastic. My only complaint was when they would 'swap' off the stage - sure, its a two and a half hour act, but you really noticed when someone left. It shouldn't be too hard for them to 'remix' theyre old stuff so it sounds a little more consistant. Then again, I'm sure there are fans that prefer the 'old' sound..

There was also a local group that came on before them - 'Somovaw' (NOT a catchy name!) but a great live act with a fantastic singer (female) and a great drummer. A nice touch with a violin player and obviously a couple of people behind them doing the wonders with the synths. They were a bit rough and needed some work - both on their live act and their tunes (some of the drum machine loops really stood out as needing some work at parts), but they got a good reaction from the crowd so I would expect them to put in the effort to scratch up - the next releases from these guys would be worth keeping an eye on.

The drummer I've seen around in other local acts and really pulled the live performance through - I hope the rest of the members of the group are buying him beer for being the 'public face'- the rest need to work on the shyness - especially the girl (because she's going to be a center of attention, so she needs to get used to it!).

Future prohpecies were also great, but no longer being a real d'n'b fan, I don't have much to say about them other than - I enjoyed it, and they had a pretty flawless performance. Nicely built up set, good stuff.

Two Tribes

I got suckered into going to Two Tribes - and it was pretty average.

Technasia and Dylan Rhymes were great, but unfortunately they were on from 2:30 to 4:00 ish. Personally disapointed by James Lavelle, but fans of Unkle assured me he was great. I heard no stuff ups, and some decent mixing, so hats of for that technically good performance I guess?

AVB was disapointing at best - the room was hot, and his set was,.. not. Kai tracid did a nice oldskool set, which I enjoyed, but his mixing effort was pretty poor. Perhaps he was disapointed at the crowd leaving after AVB to go see Erick Morillo.

Steve Angello played some great tunes but couldn't mix them together or build a set, so it was just like listening to an unordered playlist. Disapointing. Lee Coombs was pretty decent and DJ Die sounded alright.

Big Day Out

Oh yeah, we did Big Day Out again this year. Last minute notification that we were doing visuals. They had a big LED screen this year, and we got a visit from rachel, who does the vision stuff over east. BDO was definately the worst its ever been this year, and it was reflected by the crowd - I was stunned to see the venue so empty.

We did get free food for the first time this year though. Yay??

nullarbor

So I haven't posted in a while, so I should mention nullarbor. I organized a demoparty along with Martin Masek, and it went rather well. I have no idea on numbers, all I know is there were over 100 people at the first screening and 68 at the second.

We got 7 demo entries and 8 games - not a bad show for the first year.

Big ups to all the sponsors for the support, and yes, I still need to do the feedback forms and tie up loose ends.

More on this later.

VS 2005 - Platform SDK

quote:
Update the the Visual C++ Directories in the Projects and Solutions section in the Options dialog box.
In that section, you'll want to add the paths to the appropriate subsection:

Executable files - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin
Include files - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\include
Library files - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\lib

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Update the corewin_express.vsprops file.
You just need to take one more step to make the Win32 template work in express. You need to edit the corewin_express.vsprops file (found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCProjectDefaults) and change the string that reads:

AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib"

to

AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib"

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In Beta 2, the Win32 Windows Application type is disabled in the Win32 Application Wizard. To enable that type, you need to edit the file AppSettings.htm file located in the folder “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCWizards\AppWiz\Generic\Application\html\1033\".

In a text editor comment out lines 441 - 444 by putting a // in front of them as shown here:

// WIN_APP.disabled = true;
// WIN_APP_LABEL.disabled = true;
// DLL_APP.disabled = true;
// DLL_APP_LABEL.disabled = true;
Save and close the file and open Visual C++ Express.

From the File menu, click New Project. In the New Project dialog box, expand the Visual C++ node in the Product Types tree and then click Win32. Click on the Win32 Console Application template and then give your project a name and click OK. In the Win32 Application Wizard dialog box, make sure that Windows application is selected as the Application type and the ATL is not selected. Click the Finish button to generate the project.

Random computer links

Fix LCD Monitor pixels, and Get XP Pro.

Been busy otherwise coding the MGF.. might even release it, except I'm a little ashamed of the code..