I want this…

Posted by jepoyzter under Random Post

Gee…. I hink I can sit on this all day long starring at my laptop. Portable and shick… I want one.

MIX’08 in Taipei

Posted by jepoyzter under Applications

I get the chance to join an event hosted and by Microsoft held at the Hyatt Hotel last Tuesday. It is called MIX 08: The Next Web Now.

The primary focus of this event is to promote Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Which is currently competeting with Adobe’s Flash and JavaFX.

Now the question is will Silverlight be able to beat and replace Flash? Will Silverlight be the standard in creating RIA (Rich Internet Application) or how Microsoft calls it as RIA (Rich Interactive Application).

Microsoft is really doing lots of marketing stuff for Silverlight and is really raising the bars of beating the current competitors. In perspective Silverlight is still far far away from beating Flash. Looking through some demos sites during the event. I am sure Flash is also capable of doing the same stuff they shown us and I think Flash can do way more better.

The one and only thing that impresses me a lot during the event is Silverlight DeepZoom, which is a technology first implemented by SeaDragon which is bought Microsoft for Silverlight Applications. DeepZoom allows users to pan around and zoom in a large, high resolution image or a large collection of images. It reduces the time required for initial load by downloading only the region being viewed and/or only at the resolution it is displayed at. An example of this can be viewed at Hard Rock’s Memorabilia Website
(Note that you must download Silverlight to run the application). It feels like zoom on a picture at an instant without downloading the image. Cool huh?

Also during the event  a demo was presented on how to create a simple video player using Microsft Expression Studio 2 which is a tool for creating and developing Silverlight applications. The guy doing the demo is surely someone who is not yet familiar with the tool and surely knows more on how to develop in Flash. The guy keeps on saying keyframe which is really a Flash term. And then, during the last few minutes of the demo. The guy tell something about the next version of the tool. He really dont know what he’s saying. He went blank and says “actually I don’t know what the next tool is gonna be”, and everybody laughs.

After the event, I still cant find myself using Microsoft’s Silverlight in a distant future. I’ll stay with Flash, till Microsoft shows more useful and innovative way to improve user experience.

Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers

Posted by jepoyzter under Uncategorized

I stumble upon this article by Mark W. Lewis at Painter Creativity. And I say I must have heard all these things before. Fellow designers like someone says “Dont walk…. RUN… away from them.”

1. “Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.”
2. “We never pay a cent until we see the final product.”
3. “Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!”
4. On looking at sketches or concepts: “Well, we aren’t sure if we want to use you yet, but leave your material here so I can talk to my partner/investor/wife/clergy.”
5. “Well, the job isn’t CANCELLED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two.”
6. “Contract? We don’t need no stinking contact! Aren’t we friends?”
7. “Send me a bill after the work goes to press.”
8. “The last guy did it for XXX dollars.”
9. “Our budget is XXX dollars, firm.”
10. “We are having financial problems. Give us the work, we’ll make some money and we’ll pay you. Simple.”

Read more by visiting the original source.

Monkey Majic

Posted by jepoyzter under Music

At last I found it! I’ve been looking for this song for a very long time. Its a Japanese song. As far as I can remember. I first heard of the song in a TV commercial I dont know when and where. Then all of a sudden like a month ago, it was played on the radio. It took me like an hour to figure it out where did I first heard of it and I remember that its a song from a car commercial. Now the problem which car? Definitely its a Japanese brand since the song is in Japanese. I tried looking on YouTube but no luck. Then I forgot about it and all of a sudden I found myself humming to the tune of the song. LSS… and today I fuond it. Took me like the whole afternoon searching all over the internet. Now I wanna share it with you guys.

Monkey Majik

It’s from a Japanese band called “Monkey Majic”, according to WIKI:

MONKEY MAJIK is a Japanese rock band. The band consists of guitarists/vocalists Maynard and Blaise Plant, brothers who sing in Japanese and English; drummer Takuya “tax” Kikuchi (菊池拓哉, Kikuchi Takuya?); and bassist DICK. The Plant brothers originally hail from Canada. Though most famous Japanese singers and bands live in Tokyo, they still live in Sendai which is about 350km away from Tokyo.

I kinda like their style, mixed culture and mixed music. More like alternative than pop.

And the song that never left my head for weeks now is called “光朝”. Enjoy the tune.

I’m still here…

Posted by jepoyzter under Random Post

Haven’t post for a while now. Busy with work and other extra activity. Anyways just an update…

1. Too busy with work. Doing some UI stuff for our company’s cool product.

2. Busy with hunting for mouse on Facebook, and its a game called Mousehunt. I am a real fan of this cool app. Now they are giving away cool prizes, thats why am monitoring my facebook account every 15 minutes, as long as I can. Hahahaha..

3. Administrating Kiaotiongster.org which is a forum site I made for PCHS alumn.

Thats all for now…. sleepy.. have work today… yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn