Today I was added to a new group of Facebook. Back in the early ’90s, before the internet was all graphical and the world wide web was thought to be some kind of spider, were the days of the humble Bulletin board systems (BBS) one such BBS that i was addicted to dialling up was called “Active entertainment BBS”. Active Entertainment BBS These days, Active is no more than a simple web page as the old telnet system was taken offline....
The iPad was originally designed to be a consumption device, i.e. for reading, viewing and listening. It wasn’t designed to be a content creation device. Over time though, some of the apps have become more sophisticated. Since getting my iPad from my lovely wife, I have been using it on my daily commute into work (an hour bus ride) to read the news, Facebook, read a magazine. Lately however I have been ‘creating’ on the iPad rather than being just a consumer....
I’ve just compiled and uploaded the alpha22 release of pioneer for Mac OS X. The team have been working hard adding heaps of fixes. The Pioneer development team are pleased to announce the release of Pioneer Alpha 22. Its been a month for gameplay and engine tweaks, with improvements to system generation, mining, hyperspace and the usual slew of fixes. Full changelog and builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available from the download page....
As some of you may or may not know, I dabble a little bit with an awesome 3D software package called blender. I had been following some tutorials over at blenderguru.com and in particular the camera tracking tutorial. So for a little bit of practice, I created a sinkhole in my backyard. I’m not a very artistic person, I mainly follow along guides and tutorials, but below is my attempt of this tutorial that I did out the backyard a few weeks ago....
Where have all the blog posts gone? Philbywhizz has had a reboot. I decided it was time to have a clean slate. I hadn’t updated the old blog for quite some time, and I wanted to try something a little different (like start a fresh and blog a little more often). What better way to start anew by having a slate clean?? I will be posting up some old project pages over the coming weeks, so that there is some more content and it isn’t just a simple blog with a handful of empty posts… promise!...