Archive for September, 2007

MicroNet G-Force MegaDisk NAS Review

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

If you have been following my Twitter feed, you know that I just ordered a 1TB NAS last week for the office network here. I wanted some no-fuss storage sitting on the network so I could backup my data and store some archive information there instead of burning everything to DVD. (In reality, [...]

Software Announcements

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Some very cool apps were released/upgraded recently. Just wanted to send out some props here.
First, Daniel Jalkut has been working on MarsEdit 2.0 for quite some time, and I have to say the results are spectacular. The blog post window has been much improved, and now includes the ability to add new blog [...]

Using Compressed Textures in OpenGL

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but for some reason OpenGL coding involves a lot of trial and error before getting a feature such as lighting, blending, or texture mapping to work correctly. The past few days I have been working on adding texture compression to my OpenGL map test project. Ultimately, [...]