"I Like This!" is a simple music recommendation plugin for the
musikCube audio player. With this
plugin musikCube users can recommend their favorite songs and net radio
stations while they are playing in musikCube; all recommendations are
then listed on this site.
I's an easy way to share your musical taste with others, and to give others new ideas on what kind of music there is.
It is also a proof-of-concept: an attempt to show how easy it is to develop a musikCube-plugin that uses xml-rpc to communicate with a remote computer. This opens up a whole space of new functionality: playlist sharing, all kinds of website integration, review and cover image searches, ... for some more ideas look at the list of public xml-rpc services at
xmlrpc.com.
Get the plugin and the php-based xml-rpc server at http://dekstop.de/ilike/.
Designed as a replacement for the Windows text editor Notepad, Florian Balmer's Notepad2 is a small, fast, simple and beautiful open source application. Along with an impressive set of basic text editing features it provides several useful tools and lots of neat little helpers that will improve virtually all text editing experiences, both for the programmer and the occasional user.
 Florian Balmer's Notepad2. This screenshot shows a modified version, which was my attempt to clean up the messy menu structure of an otherwise excellent program (see text for details). |
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origrama .2 cdr compilation from 2004. ths.thesibution to thse-party at the geburttty recording, but great perfoe tracks are my contrrmance at the pastaginal, dirty, e membesclub in berre are some nice contrilin in october ere was a releagreat drums. the making of you are second place; shirty. thanks to <a href="http://www.podsdarapomuk.de/">daniel</a> for organizing all of thi2004. thebutions on that album, but of course my tracks are the best.
get the mp3s at http://dekstop.de/mp3/d03_2ps/.
multipan is an autopan plugin for VST hosts. it uses three LFOs to create a quasi-chaotic panning movement.
why I did this? I like to chain autopan plugins that are set to different frequencies in order to produce chaotic panning movements. and after doing this manually once too often I thought I could just as well make a plugin out of it.
download at http://dekstop.de/multipan/
I've just spent several hours looking for a free or open source hex editor, and it is surprising how many editors there are, and how few are worth checking out. I didn't think I would ask for much: a simple standard interface and the ability to open large files. I must have looked at more than 50 websites and installed nearly 20 applications, until I found HexEdit from Catch22 Productions.
 Catch22 HexEdit, with the toolbar turned off. Note the lack of annoying multicolored images, strange font settings and other obvious usability flaws. |
Read on for my review.
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get the mp3s at http://dekstop.de/mp3/d02_qt/.
Alex Moffat has created a wonderful little tool to rapidly create UML sequence diagrams. The GPL licensed Java application, appropriately named "Sequence", creates diagrams from short sequence descriptions and allows you to export them to a PNG file. Sequence can't replace more sophisticated applications like TogetherJ or Visio, lacking e.g. support for asynchronous messages, but serves well as a small tool for quick sketches. You can literally design your first diagram seconds after downloading the Jar file.
 Example of a small sequence diagram: Loading a media file via the user interface. The MediaPlayer class notifies its caller of the properties of the loaded file, which results in an updated user interface. |
The image above was created from this code:
GUI.handleUserAction {
MediaManager.load(filename) {
MediaPlayer.load(datastream) {
MediaManager.updateMediaProperties() {
GUI.updateDisplay()
}
}
}
}
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 Thomas Meinecke - Tomboy.
Pages 128/129 of 251. |
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As far as I can remember I first heard of this novel while driving, listening to the radio. I was on my way to Stuttgart or Karlsruhe, and they broadcasted a review of Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy, along with a general insight into the term "tomboy" and other gender-related subject matter. I later read a positive review in a German magazine and went out to buy the book. It lay on my shelf for a while, and I remember taking it with me on a canoe trip north of Berlin, in the hope of finishing it in a couple of days (which I didn't).
Read on for my review.
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Finally there is a trailer for Vincent Gallo's new movie
"The Brown Bunny", and
it looks interesting. A contrasting split-screen: on the left closeups of a party
of twentysomethings in a bedroom, then a girl (Chloe Sevigny); possibly memories of
the protagonist's past. On the right the camera drives on a deserted highway,
towards dusk. Filmed in a typically vintage Gallo aesthetic, which in its
reminiscent emotional appeal matches the music playing in the background. There is no
voiceover or dialogue, only music. To quote an IMDB comment:
"If you don't let yourself rock by the melancholic tone that Gallo
sets from the beginning of the movie, it will be hard to enjoy it. There are very
few narrative elements to hold on to - this is a film of pure mood, of absolute
emotion, and that's what makes both its frailty and its genius."
The "genius" attribute seems a bit out of place here, but it appears nevertheless
that the movie, as well as Gallo's previous output, seeks to find a very personal,
intimate and original way of telling a story, which promises to become interesting.
After the controversial reception of the movie's screening in Cannes it's still
not clear whether The Brown Bunny will be distributed in Germany; apparently it
will be showing in Japan and Portugal from January 2004. The trailer was released
for the Japanese market.
Side note: Jacques Peretti has produced a short documentary on Vincent Gallo for
The Art Show series on British Channel 4; during the production process he repeatedly
sought contact with Gallo and some of his aquaintances. He wrote an article on the
experience, in which he makes an effort to explain Gallo's contradictory appearance
and eccentric habits.
 Don DeLillo - Underworld.
Pages 222/223 of 827. |
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Don DeLillo's Underworld is often described as the essential contemporary American novel, the Moby Dick of our time. A critic's evaluation is quoted on the back cover of the book: "Underworld is a rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department -- dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity ['truthfulness'] and the rest".
Read on for my review.
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