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Alex Jones

I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).

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The Strangerhood

Rooster Teeth, the team that brought us Red vs Blue has just launched their newest machinima series: The Strangerhood. Based on the game engine for The Sims 2, this sitcom should prove quite funny given their outstanding work on Red vs Blue, and the intro video they have posted.

They also have a nice explanation of the word ‘machinima’ for those who are not familiar with the term:
> It’s a quickly growing method of animation where people make short length films and use videogame engines for the animation instead of drawing by hand or using traditional computer animation. For more information, you can visit the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences. They’re way better at explaining this stuff than we are.

Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity – An interesting OS X note taking app. As stated on 43 Folders, “All Notational Velocity does is record little notes, but it does that in a way that is completely elegant, intuitive, and incrementally searchable. It does this by an uncanny dual use of a single text field for both searching and creation of your notes. If you’re just typing in the field, it acts as a full-text, incremental, live search on all of your notes and their contents. If you hit RETURN at any point, you generate a new note with its title set to whatever you just typed.”

No OS X on My Beige G3

Grrrr. Apple decided that they would no longer support older beige G3s when they released OS 10.3. Apparently, if the machine doesn’t have built-in USB capabilities and a PCI video card, it doesn’t qualify. This is rather sad, as the machine in question could easily handle 10.3 otherwise. In fact, from my research, 10.3 actually runs faster than 10.2, which would easily make it worth the upgrade cost. But, Apple has said I cannot use it, so purchasing the upgrade would be a waste of money.

I found a few sites discussing ways to circumvent the issue. Some people have been able to install 10.3 on older machines, using XPostFacto, but frankly, there are too many hoops to jump through, without any guarantee that it will work, or that it will remain stable over the long run. This is not a good thing as I plan to use the machine as a simple file server. Stability is kind of important, right? Right.

I repeat….Grrrr

OS X inventories, tips & hack collections

43 Folders presents OSX inventories, tips & hack collections, a list of great links, containing a wealth of OS X information and application recommendations.

> Secret goal: make this post a one-stop-shopping link for people who want to quickly ramp-up on “what’s out there” in the OSX world that they might not know about, with a focus on how one given person has put it all together.