Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category

Lightwave

is on this week at the Science Gallery… will report back when I have seen the light and checked it out.. amazing programme of events though.

Laika Zune

I meant to put this up before but it got lost in my stumbles!

This video features the track “I Am The Unknown” by Scottish band The Aliens in a video directed by Rohitash Rao. This is a great animated video based on the russian cosmodog, Laika on featured on the Microsoft zune-arts site. The site seems to be offline at present but I’m sure it’s just a temporary glitch. This is a very nicely put together website with a great use of Flash, made to promote the potable media player offering from Microsoft, the Zune.
So ok, technically this is an advertisement then, but a damn good one at that!

Djay

djay grab

Djay is a very nice little application available on the Mac platform. It is packed with some very cool features well worth it’s reasonable price. I first had this on my computer with version 1 and messed around with it a bit. It was free back then but it was also lacking and not everything worked. Now it is in version 2 and it is fully fledged. There are a few things I would like it to do which it doesn’t do, such as not being able to capture it’s audio output along with other applications in the system audio stream. However this is not a normal need and I was really looking to do this initially so I could enclose a screen capture movie to show you the application in action. But never mind because it allows you to record your mixes with the application itself and that is the main thing.

So lets have a look at what this does then. Read more