10 Apr 2009
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Graphics, Visuals and Texts
I’ve always been wondering about shopping on the Internet. And I’ve never been entirely satisfied. What’s the added value over “real-life” shopping? There’s a certain ease of use, you can just shop from your living room. And most online shops have a much larger inventory. But in return you’re giving up the experience of browsing through a shop. Randomly picking up stuff and sampling it. Grab a book and read a few pages, pre-listen a CD to see if you might like it, etc.
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07 Apr 2009
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Graphics, Visuals and Texts
I can’t get enough of the IRender plugin for SketchUp. If that wasn’t yet clear to you, it’s about time you became a subscriber to this blog. In this post I’ll show you a few simple techniques that can really spice up your SketchUp renders. The most important technique you’ll need to really bring those scenes to life it creating, editing and tuning textures.
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03 Apr 2009
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Games and Oldskool Fun
Quite some years ago, we discovered a little game called Grand Theft Auto (I think it was GTA 2). It involved a top-down view with tiny cars, lots of violence and large explosions. We used to play the multiplayer game religiously, trying to create the largest explosion.
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31 Mar 2009
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Java and JavaScript
Have you ever been working on something, you’ve made great plans, you put the foundation in place, you’re already halfway and you will be finished well before the deadlines. But then, suddenly, it appears the ground you build on is quicksand and half of your building is tumbling down.
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27 Mar 2009
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New Media and the World
Any news site or blog needs at least some readers. If not, it wouldn’t be very interesting for the author. To improve your blog and increase your reader count, there’s one golden rule: Know your visitors. Know what makes them tick, what they like to read, to what they react. This post describes a few ways to obtain this knowledge, focusing on PostRank, a great tool for this kind of research.
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