BackSpaceStudios Blog

Data Visualization + Radiohead + More

Radiohead’s latest video for “House of Cards” was created using a truly unique technology that interprets information from the atmosphere to generate a stream of data that can then be represented visually using resources like Papervision3D and Processing.

Google Code is hosting the Data Visualization application for you to explore the data through a 3D viewer and use your mouse to further manipulate the data and create your own visualizations.

This interactive piece was made by Aaron Meyers and Aaron Koblin using a modified version of PV3D. For more info check it out over at google code.

Book Release: The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

I am very happy top announce that the Opens Source Flash community has finally decided to put together a book. I know many people find it difficult to learn from examples, tutorials, etc, online. This book will definitely come in handy for rookies and pros alike.

The authors of, “The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development”, include heavy weights such as Chris Allen, John Grden, and Andy Zupko, all of which are first time authors. I guess the three of them now join the prestigious group of authors here such as Keith Peters, Todd Anderson, etc…

Overview:

• Explore the world of open source Flash and discover which tools are available.
• Learn how to identify which tool you need and how to best fit it into your workflow.
• Step-by-step walk-throughs guide you through development with the most popular open source Flash tools.
• Written by the project leads and open source Flash aficionados.

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introducing the World of Open Source Flash
• Chapter 2 Exploring Open Source Flash: What’s Available
• Chapter 3 Preparing an Open Source Workflow
• Chapter 4 Using an Open Source Workflow
• Chapter 5 Testing and Debugging
• Chapter 6 Deploying Your Application
• Chapter 7 Using AMFPHP
• Chapter 8 Working with SWX: The Native Data Format for the Flash Platform
• Chapter 9 Using haXe
• Chapter 10 Fuse and GoASAP: Open Source Animation Tools
• Chapter 11 Using Papervision3D
• Chapter 12 Introducing Red5
• Chapter 13 Building Some Red5 Apps

Buy as an Ebook
Download Sample Chapter

Hobnox Audio Tools

Just when you thought there wasn’t enough social networks online! Check out the Hobnox Beta, a very cool online publishing platform and community.

Hobnox is an online entertainment and publishing platform, a network for creatives and their fans. We unite broadcast-quality web media with cutting edge community-enabling technology. With Hobnox, an international media corporation is born. Created for artist by artists, Hobnox combines the best of current web entertainment with the newest technological possibilities of the internet to create fascinating opportunities for both artists and audiences.

Blog spamming - good or bad?

Anybody who runs a blog with high traffic is used to link spamming, faux registered users, garbage posts, and more…Ever wonder why? You can install as many spam blockers and security features as you want, but the truth you will always get spam!

One of many software packages out there exploiting this new trend:

The Software: XRumer Platinum v4.0
Basically Xrumer finds blogs, forums anything else it can post to, then registers an account and sends your link to those forums. It does this all automatically without you needing to do much of anything. It also solves and enters over 750 different kinds of capcha’s. Capcha’s are those annoying things/pictures you have to put in to register an account. It even solves the math ones now! After it registers the account it will post links that you specify in different formats etc. REALLY fast backlinks TThe software literally works with millions of different forums! Xrumer also supports both SOCKS4/5 proxies along with HTTP types.

Read the full review

RMI WP2.5 Workshop Reference Material

I would like to thank everyone that came out last Saturday to the RMI Wordpress2.5 Workshop!

This is what we covered:
What is wp
What can it be used for?
Blog/portal/site
Different versions…
What will we cover?
Basic Installation and Setup
Basic Configuration
The Dashboard
Settings
Users
Design
Write/Manage
Plugins
WP architecture
Directory breakdown
WP tags vs. php
CSS design
Template files
Customizing/creative coding

Here are the files:
The theme we used DropShadow Theme
Download the wp-templates.pdf

Resources
Development
http://www.phug.ca
http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress#WordPress_Features
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar
http://www.blogohblog.com/whats-new-in-wordpress-25/
http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/03/per-user-custom-stylesheet-in-wordpress-25/
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/
http://www.webdesignerwall.com
Themes/plugins
http://www.wpdesigner.com/
http://wpthemesplugin.com/
http://www.webappers.com/
http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/mostdownloaded/page/17