Design, Photography and Video
Click here to download GTA4 ringtone “I Want You”.
(Right click the link and choose Save Link As…)
After 6 months of waiting, finally, I got the GTA4 special edition game last night.
The game play is awesome as always. A lot of more in-game interactivities. Multi-player mode is also new to GTA series. Anyway, I have made a ring tone out of one of the songs that I like in this game. It is called ” I want you” by C.J.
Thanks again to Rockstar Games for bringing us another awesome title
We’re not sure why they did it, but LM3Labs have a developed an interactive, gesture-controlled hologram technology called AirStrike. Presumably, the technology can be applied to advertising or as an event novelty. We imagine this is about as close to a God Complex as any of us non-surgeons will ever get. See what we mean in the video after the break.
My friend Ben and Kitty got married last Sunday, they used me as their professional wedding photographer. Here are some good shots from their location shoot out. If you are interested in my photography service, please visit: www.bordenli.co.nz for more details.
I spent this afternoon watching the whole Apple keynote movie for iphone SKD launch. Apple has made a very smart move about allowing 3rd party software developers to develop cool native applications on iPhone and iPod. And the distribution is through Apple’s Application Store which will be available on the next iPhone software upgrade. Revenue wise, Apple takes 30% of each sale, the developer gets 70%, and if you are giving your apps away for free, Apple will cut their fees to NOTHING as well, very very smart.
On top of that, iPhone has also got a VC company to fund this movement, how often do you see VC firms puring 100millon dollars into a platform?
iFund™
KPCB’s iFund™ is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform. The iFund™ is agnostic to size and stage of investment and will invest in companies building applications, services and components. Focus areas include location based services, social networking, mCommerce (including advertising and payments), communication, and entertainment. The iFund™ will back innovators pursuing transformative, high-impact ideas with an eye towards building independent durable companies atop the iPhone / iPod touch platform.
This SKD release opens a LOT of opportunities, I was already convinced that I am going to develop something cool for iPhone and iPod in the near future.
Winter is just around the corner. We have lovely hot air balloons all over the place.
Life is good.
Wow, my first entry of this brand new blog.
After almost two years of mocking around on other design stuff, I decided to pick up Flash once again. But this time, I have to upgrade my knowledge from AS2 to AS3.
The first flash project is to display HD video in flash. It was not possible until the recent upgrade was available for flash player 9. Thanks for the wonderful work of Adobe Flash Development Team.
I just read an article on www.kaourantin.net – What just happened to video on the web?, the news was released last year but still, I am absolutely amazed how easy it is for people to insert HD videos in the future through Flash.
Some highlights are:
You can load and play .mp4,.m4v,.m4a,.mov and .3gp files using the same NetStream API you use to load FLV files now. We did not add any sort of new API in the Flash Player. All your existing video playback front ends will work as they are.
Video needs to be in H.264 format only.
Support all audio sampling rates from 8Khz to 96Khz.
Audio can be either AAC Main, AAC LC or SBR, corresponding to audio object types 0, 1 and 2. We also support the ‘.mp3′ sample type meaning tracks with mp3 audio.
Yes, yes and yes!!! I can add H.264 Quicktime files straight into Flash Player 9, and the sound quality can be awesome as well. This make my life a hell lot of easier. The only downside is the latest Flash Player is not spread well enough to cover the majority market, many need to download the latest flash player before they can see anything, a lot of people can not be asked to do that.
Anyway, here are my experiments of AS3 full browser flash H.264 Video Quality test:
I found the H.264 SD quality and even Low-Res H.264 looks good enough for a background video. Flv file with On2 VP6 encoding is not that great.
Once again, I am stoked.