Nightwish, once again!

Really great concert yesterday at the Mazda Palace in Milan!

I was surprised… I couldn’t believe so many people know them here in Italy 🙂

Master! Apprentice! Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior! Disciple! In me the Wishmaster…
A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller’s mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
“I’ll be with you soon, my Shalafi”
Grey Havens my destiny…

flash player 8 demo in tokyo

via Moock.
I just read on moock’s blog that kevin lynch, macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrated the next generation version of the flash player at the macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan.
only a few features were shown, but it seems they are great, expecially, as we were already heard few time ago, for the graphics.
There is a video available, taken from te conference, in which these features are shown:

  • a new type-rendering engine
  • performance improvements
  • bitmap effects (blur, dropshadow, colour matrix etc)
  • realtime video alpha channel

video is avail at different locations:
Carl-Alexandre Malartre from ScoLab
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (14.5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)

Ultrashock
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)
Link: http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000146.html

FlashComm Server and AMFPHP

FlashComm 1.5Today I was trying to do some stuff with Flash communication server mx, since it was very long time since i’ve played with it..
nothing really particulary complicated.
I wanted to create some sort of video conference , with a list of available recorded conferences..
In order to get the list of previously recorded video, their date and so on, I wished to use amfphp in order to use php filesystem functions.. and I was happily surprised for the fact i was immediately able to use AMFPHP into the application asc server file at the first attempt 🙂
FlashComm: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/

Do you know Google Desktop?

Today I’ve installed Google Desktop Search, a desktop search application that provides full text search over mails, local files, and the web pages viewed.
Once launched the installer, it will create a service which will indexes all your computer (it will took hours the first time), then search can be activated from the taskbar icon. It’s integrated in the browser, in fact it’s the same as using google, but results are files on the computer!
Another cool feature is that When you view a web page in the browser, Google Desktop “caches” the content so that it can be viewed later, the same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you’re offline.
Google Desktop Search organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.
and basically it doesn’t affect the computer performance because it works only when computer is idle.. great
It’s really useful and funny 🙂
Link: http://desktop.google.com/about.html