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Millions of Stars Under the Namibian Sky

Tinytec — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:13:58 +0000

A nice video with nice movements showing the beauty of the universe

Bye Bye

Tinytec

Is this the Music Newcomer of the Year 2012 ?

Tinytec — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:26:27 +0000

Only time will tell

/poke

Tinytec

Customizing Things You Might Look at for Many Hours a Day (Windows Desktops)

Tinytec — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:30:09 +0000

Old-school Style:

A cool freeware program to customize Microsoft Windows [XP,Vista,Win7] is CustoPack Tools which allows you to easily change the Window theme. It features complete themes including wallpapers, sounds and icons. It’s pretty good, free and so far stable and reliable. You can find the customization software here. Funny thing is: It’s programmed by Mac users ^.^

It may look like this:

Video Tutorial about how to set it up:

New-school Style:

Another nice freeware prog is Omnimo for Rainmeter. Omnimo is kinda a plug-in for Rainmeter. Both are freeware customization programs. They enable you to turn your windows desktop into a modern tablet-like looking desktop. You can already download the Windows 8 theme.

Example:

Setup Tutorial for Windows Phone UI with Omnimo:

You can get Rainmeter & Omnimo here & here !

Have Fun

Tinytec

Take a Seat Please

Tinytec — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:06:42 +0000

Right there please ^.^

Don’t be afraid, it’s stable

“The Cut Chair provides a stable place to sit, but creates an optical illusion that tells you otherwise”

as noted by Peter Bristol, the designer of this nice chair. You can finde his homepage with other projects here.

Stay safe

Tinytec

Hijab Styles & Yasmin Mohsen

Tinytec — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:53:44 +0000

Hijabs are not always just plain

Famous Egyptian fashion model Yasmin Mohsen. Please note, the hijab is not just a fashion accessoire to her but also an expression of her religios belief.

/freehug

Tinytec

A Game of Skill

Tinytec — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:24:10 +0000

Cuddly game of skill or disgusting theme to cause hpye by a company?

Well, I have to categorize this blog-entry into Virtual World AND Real World for sure.

Bye

Tinytec

Black Hole in the Water

Tinytec — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:22:39 +0000

On first sight it looks like a cheap video editing trick…

… but it’s a nice installation by Shiro Matsui. I like the the scene with fascinated child

/poke

Tinytec

Wanna Sue James Cameron? Let’s Join the Club!

Tinytec — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:18:03 +0000

Avatar. Super Blockbuster. Millions of happy viewers. Blam! James Cameron did it again.

Amongst the viewers however, were some people who are not happy with the movie. Not because of the cheesy mainstream aesthetics of this flick but because James Cameron stole work from them (or others), used for the story of Avatar, so they claim.

I stumbled upon one case randomly via chinadaily.com. When I wanted to find out more about this case, I found other cases as well. Here and here and here. And I assume I could find even more people claiming the same thing. Seems like they are coming out of their holes like mice, trying to get something of the (cheesy) cheese.

But even if they are right… I am wondering, if the authors, who’s books were linked to Avatar, maybe ripped off each other as well, as some ideas are so similar? And isn’t a (good) finished product more than the sum of it’s single parts?

/poke

Tinytec

Love – The MMO by Eskil Steenberg

Tinytec — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:59:04 +0000

Finally some love, hugs and punches again for our Love, Hugs & Punches blog! There is probably no other MMO thats fits more perfectly to our blog than the MMO called Love, which I want to show here. (Because it also contains hugs and punches hihi).

What’s basically happening in this computer game is this: Players are on a strange planet and try to settle on it. So does the AI (Artificial Intelligence). Sadly, the AI is not cuddly and does not want to hug the players. Instead they want to defeat them (not just with punches but with guns and stuff). However, players can and have to stick together. They need to explore the planet,build cities and technologies. They can even change the planets surface, dig holes etc.

If you only know the usual big$ MMO’s of the mainstream corporations and gave up hope regarding different and intelligent MMO’s look no further. Check out Love. You can also read a little review here.

/wave

Tinytec

The Man-Machine 2010 – Transform Yourself Into a Controller

Tinytec — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:30:59 +0000

Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission is presentet in this Video. I actually listened to Kraftwerk – The Man Machine (on Vinyl ^.^) today and thought the topic would fit quite well. So check out this video

Cu guys

Tinytec

More Freedom For Housewives (and Men) !!1

Tinytec — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:55:01 +0000

Hello, my name is Tinytec and I found this nice tiny thing (would be fun to sit on top of it and drive with it). Housewife revolution!

p.s. I am not related to the company (quickly hides a few 100 Dollar notes behind her back)

/poke

Tinytec

How Often Do You Reuse Your Towel?

Tinytec — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:51:05 +0000

Yesterday I took a long bath and afterwards phoned with a friend. We talked about reusing towels after bathing. Every time she uses a towel after a bath, she throws it into the hamper. I said it’s wrong because a towel can be reused after drying a cleaned body! Just make sure that the towel can dry quickly after use. I think reusing it a couple of times is perfectly safe and safes some energy.

Yes, I know. We (Polignostix) are just roughly 1 inch tall and washing our tiny towels does not use a lot of energy. But I suggest this to all my fellow “gnomes” but especially to taller humans! It safes energy and does not degrade life quality at all.

/poke

Tinytec

Check This Out: Uppsala Analogue Synthesizer Symphonic Orchestra

Tinytec — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:57:59 +0000

Abbreviated as UASSO, this unique orchestra emerged sometime during winter/spring 2009. The idea was to gather analogue syntheseizer enthusiasts under the same roof, to practice for a live performance as the opening act of the new and exciting electronic music festival VOLT (www.voltfestivalen.se)

Not the best composition I heard but amusing and entertaining. /respect

Have Fun

Tinytec

Fake Realities: Is There Anything Not Photoshopped Anymore?

Tinytec — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:50:27 +0000

I found an interesting website that indirectly indicates, in an entertaining way, how much fake is going on with photos in magazines. It shows photo manipulation of commercial pictures that went wrong. Like this:

Photo Manipulation Adobe Photoshop (Source: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/)

But actually, faking is much worse than a lot of people might imagine and than this site demonstrates. Of course every somewhat sophisticated mind knows that there is a lot of photo manipulation going on. But it seems like most people think of it as re-touche of model pictures, fashion related photographs, commercials etc..

But I do know, that actually “innocent” pictures in news magazines are sometimes enhanced as well, in order to underline, what the author or photographer wants to say. For example, if a newspaper makes a small, not so important article about person xy being sad, they might even enhance that photo, to make the person look even sadder than he was. Another example could be an article about a live concert at a beach at sunset, and they manipulate the sunset picture, to exaggerate how great the sunset was. Not to speak of heavily manipulated pictures to make up completely fake stories.

Also, photo manipulation is not as old (new) as Adobe Photoshop. Photo manipulation is as old as photography. Not the oldest but a famous example can be seen here:

Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov (Source: Wikipedia.com)

Stalin without Nikolai Yezhov (Source: Wikipedia.com)

The aforementioned website, that shows funny photo manipulation, that went wrong, can be found here.

Have Fun

Tinytec