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Sliderocket, the online presentation tool, has today come out of private beta and is now public, open to all.  If you did not get in to the private round, you’ve got to check this out now.  Sliderocket is one of the most fantastic web apps out there.  It has features that help you create stunning presentations very easily, and is organized in a collaborative way that would work really well for a small business, or perhaps for a department that relies on frequently creating presentations with shared assets (images, templates, videos…) such as a sales or marketing department. With the opening to the public, comes a new release with some interesting new collaboration features.  Still sorely missing is a feature to export files to common presentation formats such as .odf or .ppt.

If you still haven’t tried Sliderocket, now is the time to give it a go, this is definetly one of the new web tools worth trying.

My buddy Garrido at http://www.dailyiteration.com/sliderocket-goes-public-and-yes-it-rocks/ Keep them coming.

So it was been a while since i posted anything. Well, Now I have a girlfriend, a phone and a new job. whooHoo.. haha…ok so I go the g1 the day it came out and now I would like to share with you how to get you laptop connected to you g1. I used this tutorial: http://graha.ms/androidproxy/ by the way I am posting this from my phone, you will get speed of about 380 up and the same for down. Now here is the trick. You need to use fire fox and FoxyProxy from mozilla page..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=foxyproxy&cat=all

Open the FoxyProxy options

Click on Proxies —–>Add New Proxy ——>General (Check enable,Proxy Name: Tetherbot, Leave blank Proxy Notes, Select Animation icon & Include this proxy) ———->Proxy Details (Select Manual Proxy Configuration, Host name: localhost Port: 1080, Select Socks proxy?-Socks v5) ———->

Click ok and a warning message should appear saying “You didn’t enter and enable any white…..” Hit yes

Tool——> FoxyProxy>Use Proxy “Tetherbot for all URLs
Make sure you to Check “Use SOCKS proxy for DNS lookups” Is Under Global Settings.

Thanks http://forums.tmonews.com/

By the way… I am note sure why google hates my page. I doesnt even show up when I type masters3d.com maybe if I mention masters3d like masters3d bunch of time it will work. masters3d

I think that is bound to happen as a necessity to be able to manage so much code. I feel that Modo needs to get in touch with side effect to form a revolution or get a hold of the NewTech and offer some kind of partnership and combine their efforts if they want to stay a float. 401 is key for luxology, it is now a never.

this one is more sad than funny

With the fall of my favorite bank ( WaMu ) and the difficult times that banks face internationaly, I cant help but to think on what will happen to our economy. I am talking about US, or Global economy; I am talking about indivial economy.

Check your credit online for free

with freecreditreport.com and get a free credit report but of course you have seen the funny commercials. Also you can go to annualcreditreport.com but for some reason at the time of this writing the site is down,( everything with the US is down)

Keep track of your spending online.

I use Mint.com While quicken seem to work ok too and it has a now free online service I started using Mint and so far I like it a lot. It lets me know how much I owe and my total worth, haha, which by now with all my student loans added it about -50,000 dollars and guess what? I just moved and I am looking for a job.

Random stuff:

Unless you want to wait in a line, never go to a bank after a holy day or on Mondays because more that likely its going to be full and you are going to waste your time. haha, funny my mom said the same thing about going for a check up, she said that Mondays is packed cause all the people that get sick during the weekend come on mondays.

Commercials Money Tree Videos

Lots of companies invest ton on money on ads, just yesterday I was helping out with an ads campaign for money tree which was pretty funny. The above is one of their adds but its not the one I was working on.

cheers.

Save up for hard times, and dont use money tree often.

What would it take for me to get one?

I bought my mac book pro since April 17, 2007 and as of today it has been about a year an a half since I had my laptop. Today’s refresh of the notebook line is impressive yet I knew that at some time my laptop was going to get old and I set some guide lines until I upgrade.

• 1 gig of video card memory.
• 3.00+ Dual core Processor or quad mobile processor
• Be able to go more than 4 gig of ram
• OS 10.6 stable.
• Fire wire 1600 and or eSATA

So I am predicting that all of these features will start to show up some time in the summer of 09 and maybe by christmas 09 / new years 2010 I will see myselfe getting a new laptop and that will be just in time since my insurance is up April 2010. I better start saving up then. How about you? Maybe by that times windows 7 is up and running may give us a surprise. Who knows? =) cheers

January 24, 2009      Seattle, WA      Paramount Theatre      8 PM      ON SALE 10/10  TODAY!!

If you don’t what games live is go check out their website. Its basically a concert of classical music of your favorite games. I am going this year to the  showing in Seattle.  You can also check out many videos on their website or youtube.

Cheers

We need help developing an online course for teens to learn Blender.

I think that using blender to introduce teens into learning 3D is not such a great choice because I believe using blender would scare kids away from 3d.

Yes blender is free but that doesn’t mean its easy to use. Like Maya, Blender has a confusing menu system and it has a steep learning curb that would more than likely misguide kids and discourage them. I would recommend teaching them on a program like modo (luxology.com) since the program makes it so easy to learn 3d plus it is used by many production houses to produce assets while still using other programs like maya or blender for animation or effects. modo has a really nice educational program I would recomend you would check it out. ( And not I am not getting kick backs)

I started editing video with final cut since version 5. I was lucky enough to go to a college that had a mac computer lab and I was able to edit most of my church project on the mac. Prior to using the FCP (Final Cut Pro) I used Sony Vegas. Vegas was a joy when I started to edit video. I remember the countless hours that I would work on my computer editing .avi video and all the frustration times that I found myself in when windows will crash or when the render time will take hours and hours and I was an a reliability fast computer at the time in fact no much faster than what I am using now, the only difference is that with vegas I was using a desktop and Now I use my laptop. Anyways, Switching from Vegas to Final Cut was not so easy, With Vegas I had no limits on what I could use yet I had more problems With Final cut I had more restriction as far as what kind of quicktime fine I could use and audio compression etc. But now I realize that those restrictions were in place to make my life easier in the long run also it allowed me to understand the workings of files.

Recently our lab was upgraded to final cut 6.0.4

and while I was been using final cut studio 2 four about a year the little 6.0.x are not backward compatible meaning that anything created with final cut 6.0.3 was not compatible and other computers was is odd but thats the way it is with final cut.  Little advice. DONT EVER UPGRADE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROJECT!!! NEVER!! You are not a beta tester and unless your program is not working the way it is suppose to, Don’t ! ! it will be pain. Well I upgraded and BOOM my file that I had been working for the past year ( its a comp that I am always updating) stopped trying to render!!! what that heck? It would not render. There was  a “general Error’ well it would have been fine but I had a dead line at 9am the next day and it was already 10pm. I googled my fingers away trying to find an option. See it is fine if you are going to start a new file but the old files don’t transfer that well most of the time. I searched and searched and it was about 6 in the morning when I found the error. What was the error? I had downloaded some pictures off my email and had included them in the composition. All I had to do was to  open up those pictures and save them again. And presto! my file rendered and I had lost a night of sleepy time and I was tired but I met the dead line and that is what is more important.

I love working with final cut in dual screen mode because I have a laptop and the screen gets to small when working on a long project but there is a glitch in final cut 6 under tiger and I don’t even know if it is resolved in Leo 10.5 but after a while the screen flickers the video and I have to restart final cut.  At any rate the advantage of having an extra screen to have your time line is so great because it allows you to work faster.
large-preview-with-dual-screen-track My screen setting for final cut 6 that you can load by going to windows, arrange, Load.

Cheers