A Skitch beta tester, Kent Bye, has made an awesome video about the social aspect of the web and more specifically, vidcasting/video blogging. Check it out:

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Kent said by email:

I found that Skitch can be easily used to spice up screencasts to great effect. It allowed me to quickly take a screenshot, and then seamlessly line up the photo over the web browser so that I could record the animated effects of circling, pointing to and highlighting various aspects on the webpage. I could also zoom into certain parts, and edit out the cruft to create slick animated effects. So you’ve saved me hours of animation and keyframe headaches with Skitch!

It’s so great when you create a tool and it gets used to create terrific work – even uses you didn’t even think of. This was also the case for Comic Life and I imagine, any software.

That cute dog you see on plasq.com, the Comic Life box and now, the Skitch icon is my Dog. He is a Harrier Hound named atari. They look like a bigger yet younger looking Beagle.

He turned 8 on March 1st – w00f.

Uploaded with Skitch!

He is cute.

I was at WWDC! .... and still in Australia.

Keith too. Thumbs up from him.

Thanks Matthew Tonkin for hooking us up

Matt held up his Macbook Pro so we could see around.

We waved to people standing in line, and a couple people waved back!... ahhhh, technology!

#2 – Have a getaway work place in short waking distance such as a café, library or park.

Previous to my recent move, I was in a Suburban wasteland, with no alternative places to sit and work. Being stuck at home with little outside contact, sometimes for days, made it very easy to get into mental ruts.

Walking to and working from another location gives you perspective to think more constructively. Not to mention the vicarious emotions you get from sitting in a bustling café

Previous hints:
#1

A new medical paper was released recently:

PLASQ: probe-level allele-specific quantitation

From: http://www.bepress.com/harvardbiostat/paper44/

as Adrian (plasqer in Switzerland) put it, “we finally have a catchy slogan!”

From a brief untrained reading, it seems to be a classification method of cells to aid tracking of mutations which lead to cancer. Or I could be completely wrong.

Heading to sydney for a couple of nights Tomorrow. Friday, 2pm, I’ll be giving a talk about plasq, and how we collaborate globally to create software.

Feature Presentation – Developing on the Mac

Wish me luck

I love cooking, learning about and eating food. I was very happy to discover the new house has a lovely lemon tree and a plant known as Monstera deliciosa. It’s a lovely looking plant that also yields quite an amazing fruit. Wasn’t sure if it was edible at first, as it is quite a strange looking fruit, like a cross between Custard apple, Pineapple and a Mexican cactus. (incidentally, this plant is originally from Mexico). It tastes as such too – minus the cactus bit… never tried that

Check out the entry on Wikipedia.

Discovered a great little grocery store on Brunswick St, about 6 mins walk from my place. Couldn’t see the name of it – from a quick google, maybe ‘The Vegetable Connection’? I’ll try to find out. Edit: Yep, it’s ‘The Vegetable Connection’.

Anyway, their selection is amazing – I’m in heaven. Great selection of raw, organic, crap free foods. w00t.

Here is a recent selection of stuff:

Note the Philipa’s Herbed Spiced Nuts. Mathieu put me onto these at a plasq BBQ earlier this year. Damn addictive. Don’t get them!!

Wow, Flock makes blogging flickr images SO easy. Awesome. Moving on…

Here are photos of dinners I’ve made recently, just for fun.

That last one is a breakfast – eggs, truss tomato, zucchini, avocado, eggplant (with stacks of Olive Oil), vegetarian sausages and fake bacon. I’ve been a Pesco/pollo vegetarian for 3-5 months now (Haven’t really kept count ). It hasn’t been hard as I’ve never been a big meat eater, but early on, had a few dreams about accidentally eating meat. Diet is mostly Vegetarian food, but a few times a week, I have fish.

plasq wise, we are working on a new app. I’m very excited about this one. We have actually had a rough version that we have all been using for the last year or so. Without going into what it is, it is incredibly helpful with our international collaboration

w00t! Yesterday, Girlfriend and I moved to an awesome new house in Carlton. We were rather sick of living in Pascoe Vale. Working from home, you need stuff to do within walking distance. Pascoe Vale is nice and all, but a deadland for cafés to sit and work at for a change of view.

Being within walking distance of Melbourne City, Brunswick street, and Lygon street is gonna rock. Now I just need to get the internet connected there. Might be working out of Joe’s garage for a few days

Comic Life on Flickr

I am really not a very good blogger am I? I have a new site which will become a major project for me and hopefully some of those involved. It was launched over a month ago!

plasq.com

Our first product is musolomo – the brainchild of Keith ‘songcarver’ Lang, brilliantly programmed my Airy André and a somewhat superfluous GUI by me. (why? cause musolomo is designed to not be looked at but learnt and played without looking at the screen at all). A performance orientated sampler instrument.

Check it out, it is free. Windows version pending.

1.1 is already release also which added drag and drop sample adding to musolomo.

plasq is a collective of inventors and programmers – all of them musicians of some calibre. plasq will be branching into non audio software soon also. I promise to blog when that happens

Be sure to check out the instructional videos featuring the instant cult character, ‘plasqy the sock puppet’