>nVidia has finally gotten around to upgrading their cards with PhysX. They bought Agea a while ago, and it’s been a long time coming. Any nVidia card that is an 8 series or above is able to be upgraded, which means no separate PhysX process is required, the firmware update uses the GPU to do all the cachunking of the (previously) dedicated physics chip. This means towers that can be taken down, realistic wall destroying, and many other items only possible with a physics engine. Just like GPUs advanced the graphics, Physics processing will advance the gameplay and realworld feeling…
>Photoshop & Video (Back to You – and ALF!)
>I submitted a photoshop to’day. It’s only using paint… so I guess it’s a paint-shop. In any case check out the submission. I’ve also got the original. Only 3 more days to watch “Back to You” on Hulu! I found I really liked it once I checked it out – turns out it’s because it comes from the creators of Frasier and Just Shoot Me, working together. Don’t get too attached to Gracie… I still say they’re mad for changing (ie: “…going in a different direction.”) Oh yeah… catch up on your ALF!
>First Look at FarCry2
>If you thought Crysis was cool:Video: First look at FarCry2 They did it even better with FarCry 2, without aliens. Top 100 Best Tech Products – top 10 are right on… minus a few (like Facebook, XP?!!). I had never heard of the SD card that turns your camera into a wifi device.
>Playing with VISTA dictation
>Some random stuff for today. I was trying to use the VISTA dictation but it’s very difficult. It types when you want to select something on the screen and it selects something on the screen when you want to type. It always seems to assume the opposite of what I actually want to do. A creepy message to Scientology ~ where do I sign up?Newsweek article about it.
>Video: Ferguson From "Clarissa Explains It All"
>I got Clarissa Explains It All S1D1 in the main today from Netflix and we were wondering what happened to Jason Zimbler… after finding nothing I discovered the following cameo in a recent music video: Video: The XYZ Affair – All My Friends …look for all your favorite red-headed actors such as the guys from “Pete & Pete”, “Salute Your Shorts”, and “Clarissa Explains it All”. Check out the Clarissa Explains It All Drinking Game we made up.
>Why aren’t you developing in paralell?!!
>All these mulititudes of core… no code to back them… what a shame.Step up and code in paralell! Oh, and here’s a fun little Red Sox vs Yankees tit-bit.
>Always Sunny In Philadelphia
>I love this show… season 3 premiers tomorrow night, so set your DVRs to FX =) Watch a “My Space Exclusive” Episode of Always Sunny In Philadelphia(now with myspace goodness removed): [ Part 1 ][ Part 2 ][ Part 3 ][ Part 4 ][ ~extras ]
>Greatest Video EVAR!
>I’m not sure if you might find this little number on YOUTUBE, but I found it on MEGAVIDEO by accident… how do you say? I was looking for updates for the DM2, it’s not installed on my desktop, and my laptop just shit. Here’s the funnest video evar.
Make DVDs from a ragtag bunch of AVIs
I remember hearing someone who wanted this – you often have AVIs or other bits of movies scattered about your HD that you may want to preserve for posterity or give to your grandma for her new DVD player. That said – this allows you to create a DVD without any of those expensive “DVD Authoring” programs. Choose the AVIs you want to have on the DVD, and blam, it creates the necessary folders to burn direct to DVD. I haven’t played with it yet but wanted to include the link:Make DVDs from AVIs – FAVC 1.04 (Auto Menu Generation)
>-| Sharp Swords Settle Scores |-
>You Tube: Sharp Swords Settle Scores!~ there’s a story about this.
Video: Lilly Allen
New Lilly Allen Video: Alfiewith pesky little brother played by a puppet…