Some friends of mine have done a 2min cg-short movie. Have a look, i laughed a lot as i watched it the first time.
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We are currently working on a bigger project with Flash CS3 and when it comes to performance/size-issues, there are many solutions, but one very simple is to reduce file-size of bitmaps and set some properties like smoothing enabled/disabled in the library.
This works great for us, but i do not understand why there is no availability for disabling/enabling same properties for a bunch of selected bitmaps. I have written some JSFL-Code to do this and made an extension of it so it is easy to install and work with (It’s a panel inside Flash CS3 with some buttons and a textfield).
How to do
- Download the extension.
- Select the bitmaps you want to edit (STRG + LMB, or LMB + Drag Over Bitmaps)
- Press one of the 4 Buttons (enter quality first for JPEG compressed bitmaps)
I hope you like it.
Im Zuge der Berichterstattung zur Fußball-Europameisterschaft in den großen deutschen Tageszeitungen(allen voran FAZ und Süddeutsche) durfte man als “Ösi” (ja, ich bin einer) diverse Feststellungen über die grauslige Leistung österreichischer Fußballer, den nicht zu verstehenden Sprachschatz usw. lesen. Naja, wir sind es ja gwohnt, dass man ein bißchen auf das kleine Nachbarland hinabsieht, ein kleines Problem gibt es aber, nämlich wenn bei den ganzen aufgesetzten Beiträgen und Kommentaten, die augenscheinlich die Hass-Liebe zwischen uns und unseren Lieblingsnachbarn festigen soll, einfach Fehler passieren,
Betrifft mich eigentlich insofern nicht, aber nachdem ich jetzt schon den 3. fehlerhaften Beitrag der deutschen Presse innerhalb kürzester Zeit zu lesen bekommen habe, sehe ich mich berufen hier etwas klarzustellen.
- Wir Österreicher finden “Ösi” weder charmant, noch witzig, sondern einfach anmaßend und falsch. Es heißt und man spricht “Österreich” und “Österreicher” (irgendein deutscher Kollege hat ein Ö-Problem und murmelt immer etwas von Estareicher).
- “Wienerisch” oder der in der Bundeshauptstadt gesprochene Wiener Dialekt gilt nicht für Gesamt-Österreich. Grandioses Ergebnis eines Österreichers beim “Ösi-Quizl” in der Online-Ausgabe der FAZ, gerade mal 8 von 16 Antworten richtig, 80% Alt-Wiener-Wörter, bzw. Wörter die es gar nicht gibt.
- Dialektvielfalt widerspricht nicht dem Fakt, dass auch wir uns im so genannten Hoch-Deutschen artikulieren können, sprachlich und schriftlich. Ganz nebenbei, eine konservative Deutsch-Ausbildung ist anscheinend auch kein Garant für gute PISA-Resultate…
- I-Tüpferl-Reiten (dass war jetzt wohl gerade “österreichisch”, Übersetzung: pingelig) ist weiters kein Garant für Erfolg und ein richtiges Komma macht noch keinen Satz.
- Ich wünsche mir eine sinnvolle Berichterstattung, ansonsten seh ich mich gezwungen die deutschen Online-Medien als homogenes Eins zu verstehen, in der Reihenfolge Bild, FAZ, Süddeutsche.
Danke und Pfiat Eich,
Today is an info-event for a new course at the university of applied siences Salzburg. Starting at 6 p.m. i would do a short keynote about game-programing, would be nice to see some of you there.

Bernhard is a collegue and friend of mine and he is currently looking for an internship in an animation/motion-picture studio. Click on the link above to goto his showreel and portfolio.

Since i have a XBox 360 entertainment system i am fascinated about one thing in games. The coop-mode. I could not understand why there are still customers out there which compare Xbox, PS3 and Wii. Every one of this next-gen consoles have their advantages, but only one of them offers such a great online experience. The XBox 360 and the associated online-service XBox Live are very great.
For 60$ a year you get access to a service that simply works. Switch on your system and start playing with thousands of other players immediately. Greatest thing of most new multiplayer-game-titles on XBox 360 is the so called coop-mode and the best example is the completely new game Army of Two. It’s designed to play together, it’s funny and the look is very great. Me and a friend are playing Halo 3, Fifa 08 and other multiplayer games for a while, but the greatest experience we ever had was with Army of Two this week. It’s not the story or great graphic, it’s simply the nice irony and the little jokes threw the complete game and for sure the well designed coop-features.
If you own a XBox system, go and buy this game. If you not have this console, this week Microsoft offers the system from a starting price of 199€ in most europe countries and 269€ for the version with a 20GB HDD inside. It’s time to buy one.
If you wanna play, “eliias” is my gamertag, it would be nice if there are some gamers out there, willing to play with me.
Ps.: I have real friends too ![]()
This portfolios are made by 3 friends of mine. I like their work very much and want to feature it. They are also bookable for freelance work.
Carmen Treichl, Camera, Motion Design & Print

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I haver never done some Mac OS X programing, but i am impressed by the XCode environment. I never thought that apple provides a great IDE. I normaly work with VisualStudio or Eclipse, but i think my iPhone SDK experiments will go on. I hope their will be a way to distribute some applications over iTunes without being an Apple partner. I want to have some litte applications on my iPod Touch which i program for daily workflow improvement. The only thing, that doubts me a bit is that the program language is a bit to difficult for spontaneous actions like “I am going to write a litte application in one hour”.
Once more, i have to say, Adobe AIR would have been a great opportunity for the iPhone or iPod Touch. For this technique there is a lot of community base out there and it’s easy to work with for every scripter and programer.
Update 3
Bought Leopard today, installation took some time, but no problems occured, great. I like the way of network shares are presented, very cool. Time for testing the iPhone SDK now.
Update 2
Ok, there is a second login button you have to click when you already logged in… äh… ok, but it works now
Update
Seems, that i also have to upgrade my Tiger to Leopard.
I think it would be great if i could download and use it. Is there an alternative link?

I like the movie(who not?) and i always hate the “Godfather” commercials because of their uninspirated kind of copy. But i laughed a lot as i first see this Pepsi commercial. I think it’s an older one but i have never seen it in TV.
It’s well done, capiche ![]()
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I think the bartender is the same actor who played Luca Brasi in the movie.


