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The most comprehensive electronic guide ever made (?)
I’m a fan of electronic music and many of its sub-genres, but it’s always been sort of hard trying to explain others the differences between each genre, its influences and origins, how they are associated and how they sound. Now imagine how can I show these sort of things to someone not familiarized with electronic music at all.
While I was surfing for something totally unrelated to it, I found a nice guide in Flash that explains it all, has music samples and maps of major genres showing its derivatives. This is the Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music. It even has an introduction tutorial explaining many of the basics.
It may not be perfect, but the sole fact that it “illustrates” you is enough for me. If you want to know even more about an specific sub-genre, Wikipedia is your friend.
Save by buying clothes on sale in the opposite hemisphere of the world
The title sounds kind of strange, but what I’m going to tell is pretty simple.
Here in Chile we are in winter right now, and recently most of the stores had all their winter season clothing on sale with discounts up to 80%. It started a few weeks ago and it’s still going on.
While I was looking for a coat I remembered that people living in the northern hemisphere of the world were in summer, which led me to the conclusion that if you do a trip to this hemisphere and buy stuff right on time, then when you bring it back home you should be ready for the coming winter season and also saved a ton of cash. The same logic could be applied vice-versa.
At least here in Chile when it comes to sales of these kind of stuff, they are done by the end of July until there’s nothing left.
Of course it isn’t worth it if you come just for that, but it might be an interesting thing to do if you happen to be here on time.
Retro-gaming: DOS Games
This weekend I was feeling extremely bored, there was nothing to do outside in the boring and small city where I live, no pool to swim, my friends were out, and I didn’t want to pass the time doing nothing… the solution?
Well, I spent this entire sunday playing old videogames, the ones I used to play when I was 4 -10 years old, back then when I had my trusty IBM 486SX PC.
If you want to play DOS games on a modern computer, you’ll need a DOS Emulator like Dosbox, since most of your devices won’t be compatible with the old technologies used back then. Soundblaster anyone?
Among everything I played there were many great games, but I’d like to put here some of favorites:
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Make My Logo Bigger
Some minutes ago I was looking for some resources to learn about logo design, but another cool website showed up in Google, Make My Logo Bigger.
The website features a fake video infomercial (which I embedded a Youtube copy here) selling products to make websites and advertisements both print and online really stand out, and one of them is a cream to make the company’s logo bigger. Seriously, watch the video… if you are a designer you may remember something that all your clients say to you, simply because they have no idea about design.
How-to Video Sites: Learn something new everyday
When text just doesn’t cut it and still pictures aren’t enough, video is the answer when it comes to demonstrations and instruction. That’s the concept under the new How-to Video Sites which have been appearing in the last 2 years, taking advantage of this technology in a truly Web 2.0 fashion.
Here’s a little review of my favorite ones:
Videojug: This is the first one I came across. It’s a UK based website with a large collection of quality videos, most of them professionally made by themselves. In case of more personal subjects like dating or lifestyles, many of the videos are acted by people in an often funny way while the explanations are narrated (they are also available in text).
When it comes to more specific things, sometimes they interview experts in the subject. There is content in many categories, and users can also upload their own as well.
Viewdo: This is one of the first, if not the first one that started with this new concept. At first it was like Videojug, with professionally produced content, but then they allowed users to upload their own. It has plenty of user-created videos, and a good variety of well categorized content.
5min: Got five minutes? 5min the Life Videopedia is a great offer too. It features a unique player called the “Smart Player” which allows you to do extra stuff like zooming in or putting the film in slow motion.
Some examples: