I’m not native english speaker, it is a bit difficult to speak word correctly.
And I find this Text to speech site is rather useful.
It is AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech Demo Site.
Just types in your word, it returns wav and say in beautiful voice. It has more than ten voice for you and my favorite is Cystal (ths first one).
really amazing working… 1:1 scale gundam in standing position.
after using Canon G10 for few months, it is really great camera.
Pro:
Cons:
Just purchased Canon G10. It is nice (but not little) DC.
It is bigger and heavier than normal DC, but with more switches, you can change options without go via the menu.
And the picture quality is quite good, especially the warm nature color in compare with other companies.
But the downside is (same as other small DC), the noise level is higher when using high-iso.
Sample photos
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
Ubuntu 8.10 – has a feature call “Create USB Startup Disk”. It creates bootable USB drive for install.
But the best part of it is, it has an addition feature named “reserved extra space”. It allows user to save set file, document, perference or even application, just like you’re working on normal harddisk.
It is amazing, for example, I can install application (let say the gnome-do) on the desktop computer. Plug the USB drive into my notebook and write blog about it.
Of course, it has a downside, since it consider you’re running as livecd. It takes rather long time to startup. In my notebook, it take ~3-4 mins.
From ubuntu forum, someone mentioned that he tried to do the full installation on a USB drive and it only take ~30 secs to startup. I will give it a try if I can find an extra USB drive.
I am a great fan on Launchy, a smart launcher on MS window. It is lightweight and very smart. Launchy can guess the file/application while you’re typing the filename or command. Also, it is highly customizable. You can include or exclude certain directory or file type.
It is really a MUST HAVE tool for MS window.
In linux, the similar tool is called “Gnome Do”. By press <win>+<space>, new window is popup and you can type the file/application name at once. just like launchy. Highly recommend for any linux user.
About the installation, it is rather simple in ubuntu 8.10. Just type following command
$ sudo aptitude install gnome-do
Links:
Gnome Do Home – http://do.davebsd.com/
Ubuntu’s Gnome Do Wiki – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo
I need to run VMware on my notebook (which is installed with Vista).
I installed VMWare Server 1.0.6 (which is running perfectly on my desktop – window XP). The installation on vista is OK but Once start it, it turns out blue screen. It is really get me mad.
After some “googlging”, the answer is the avasts – a virus scan software (Arr…??).
Seems It has some conflict with the vmware,(but I don’t observed in my PC which is XP??)
The solution is unstall it. OK…..
And then, vmware can start. But everytime it startup, the vista is hang up from 30 sec to 2 mins. It is really troublesome. Especially, I’m frequently need to up and down vm for different testing.
And the vista getting longer to startup (seems it is vm authroizatoin module doing some
stupid thing at startup)
After another “goolging”, people said version 2.0 better support on vista. But interesting, it never mentioned in their website.
So, I unstall the 1.0.6 and reinstall 2.0. This time, it run better.
But I really don’t like the new web interface in vmware 2.0
the new web interface requires install a plugin to start the vmware console but it is not support my favourte browser – firefox 3.0. No solution, only thing I can do is giveup and using IE.
finally, I can get my vmware working.
Papervision 2 is the best tutorial site on papervision 3d.
http://papervision2.com/tutorial-list/
Tutorial is straight forward and easy to follow. Especially it helps you to setup development environment using open-source ide flashdevelop, which is a great tool if you don’t want to pay any money to adobe.
I am trying to learn 3d effect on Flash/Flex. I find following links is useful for beginner link me.
InsideRIA – lot latest news on RIA( include Flash/Flex)
http://www.insideria.com/
Great blog, especially the Papervision Turial Part I to III
http://fhvisual.wordpress.com/
Video on lot of flash/flex tutorials
http://gotoandlearn.com/
Five3D is a interesting Vector base 3d toolkit, recently port to AS3.0
http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/
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