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Newsletter For August 28th, 2008 - Codename "Dizzying Discounts" Darwin here, warming the captain's chair for mouser. August has been a busy month on every level - personal, local, national, and international (heck, it was even a busy month cosmologically - the Perseids were active from July 17 to August 24). But thankfully this newsletter is coming out on time finally so we only have to look back at the last two weeks. As August grinds to a close, let's all take a look back at what's new on the Donationcoder boards since the last newsletter.
Official Announcements As August ends, so does the huge 40% discount on the newly released Beyond Compare version 3. This program is a favorite of many forum members including mouser -- who even wrote a giant review of version 2 and its competition way back in 2005. |
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The NVScene 2008 Demo Competition Entrants - Beautiful Graphics In Tiny ExesThe demo scene is all about making beautiful graphics (and often music) in a very small executable, using clever tricks to generate graphics programmatically on the fly. The point is, with the correct flow, you can make almost anything from scratch. But another timely question nowadays is... why, and who will care? Isn't the final product the equivalent of putting a model ship in a bottle - a big 'how did they do that' impressed moment, but no real takeaway? Read the article for links to the individual entries, but you can also jump right in to view video of:
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Flash Game of the Week - Shadez: The Black OperationsThis one was mentioned on JayIsGames.com today, but i think it deserves a bigger write up. It's a beautifully animated military game that borrows elements from Tower Defense games and RPG games. Your units do battles mostly on their own but you have to make careful decisions about what weapons and units to use and when. Clever idea and beautifully done. http://www.crazymonk...ames.com/Shadez.html |
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What's the time? Ask WorldClockNice free program that lets you configure different entries for different people so you can keep track of their local time: http://www.wimsprogr...ograms.html#wclock30 |
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refresher GOE post, sort of
nothing particularly new here but a good summary of  with good observations about over/under-estimating time required to get things done.A sort of a refresher essay, so ... any comments about where you are now re "all this kind of thing" ? |
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Interesting Article on CAPTCHA and OCR An interesting essay from those that broke the Yahoo CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA - «Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart» [1]. Any problem that can be easily solved by a human, but cannot be solved by a computer (or which requires excessive computation), can be used as a Turing test. To protect against auto registration, mass mailing in forums and guestbooks, a text-based CAPTCHA was chosen (we will reference it as text-CAPTCHA below). Initially text-CAPTCHA was used in 1997 by AltaVista search system to protect against automated URLs (Uniformed Resource Locator) submitting. An example of a such CAPTCHA is shown on Figure 1. Since then, this type of protection was adopted by other resources: free mail services, blogs, social networks, etc. Full Story |
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