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flutter: Realtime Social Media Mapping

Andy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0000

We are always wary of any description text that states ‘one of the most interesting things you’ll watch all day’ but it is actually a really neat movie and product, so we’ll let the marketing department off this time – flutter:

Written in Adobe Flex, the application mashes up ESRI’s ArcGIS Online mapping services with some of the most popular media feeds available today: Twitter, Flickr, & YouTube. The music leaves us waiting to see ‘Matt’ as it seems to the same track used in http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ which kind of takes the focus away just a little bit.

See http://www.dbmediastudio.com/samples/mashup/ to see it running live, its quite hypnotic to watch.

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YouTube Tutorials – Web 2.0 is Changing How We Learn: 3D Studio Max

Andy — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:57:00 +0000

Its difficult to remember what learning 3D modelling was like before sites such as YouTube came along. Although just over 2 years old it is an invaluable source of information, indeed we rarely look towards textbooks nowadays as its much easier to learn modelling by simply watching.

Yesterday we looked at the book Google SketchUp for Dummies which has integrated 62 YouTube movies into a tutorial set that would of been unfeasible just a few years ago.

Embedded above is Chapter 1 of a series of tutorials on 3D Max hosted on YouTube by a user going by the name of prabinpebam. Prabin has 42 tutorials covering both 3D Studio Max and PhotoShop.

YouTube is becoming an excellent educational resource and we definitely don’t miss those days of learning 3D Max via expensive text books.

You can download a 30 day trial of 3D Max from here.

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Book of the Week – Google Sketchup for Dummies

Andy — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:45:00 +0000

As readers may know we are big fans of SketchUp, firstly for being available in a largely fully functional free version and secondly for being so refreshingly easy to use.

Despite SketchUp’s ease of use it does take a while to fully appreciate its range of toolsets and how best to use them. While we normally shy away from the ‘For Dummies’ books, Google SketchUp for Dummies is generally useful.

Written by Aidan Chopra it fully embraces Web 2.0, intergrating 62 ‘how to’ movies on YouTube.

Embedded below is a sample detailing Googe SketchUp’s photo modelling function. Running at over 6 minutes the tutorial is both effective and informative:

Combining the book with the YouTube movies gives you everything you need to master SketchUp and refine your workflow.

You can buy the book from our Amazon Shop for $14.99 (discounted from $24.99) and the full set of movies are available to watch via Aidans YouTube page. We really cannot recommend this enough, how refreshing is it to see 62 tutorials online free of charge?

For more info see http://www.sketchupfordummies.com

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