Archive for March, 2009

Link is back in a new DS Zelda Game

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I have already been a die-hard Legend of Zelda fan. Well, you can just imagine how ecstatic I was last week when Nintendo announced a new Zelda game for the DS during the GDC conference in San Francisco. Using the graphics engine and [...]

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Smart Bookmarks: Simple yet very useful Firefox plugin

I love using the Firefox Bookmarks toolbar. However, one thing that I found is that it tends to get crowded once you start having a lot of regular sites that you visit on there. A colleague of mine recently showed me a plugin that solves that issue called Smart Bookmarks Bar. What it does is [...]

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Kutiman remixes Youtube

I am not a big fan of YouTube since a lot of the videos that it contains seem pointless to me. However, once in a while, I hear about something great, go see it, and am just amazed at the creativity, time and effort that is put into the videos that are put on there. [...]

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A new project for VAPS Creator

If you’ve known me for some time, you know that I have been working at a company that works in the Aerospace market that is currently called Presagis. Well, before being bought by CAE, Presagis was called Engenuity Technologies and even before that, it was called Virtual Prototypes. The original company was created around a [...]

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Quickly download YouTube videos

I recently wanted to keep a video from Youtube for my personal archives. After a quick Google search, I stumbled upon a simple yet efficient site called KeepVid. By going to this site and pasting the URI of the Youtube video (or a few other services) that you want to keep, you will get a [...]

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Free Live Barenaked Ladies Concert

There’s been a roster change in the Canadian Pop Band Barenaked Ladies’ ranks a few weeks ago when co-lead singer Steven Page left the band to pursue other projects. To follow on this sad news, the four remaining members of the band have decided to make the recording of their first show as a four-piece [...]

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A ‘Google Maps’ for the skies

When I tried to find some interesting map images a few weeks ago online for a demonstration at work, I stumbled upon an amazing site called SkyVector. This site is basically a browsing site similar to Good Maps where you can view civilian flight navigation charts for the entire North American continent, with smooth panning [...]

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