My girlfriend discovered a real party gem: Soul Explosion

That's dancing to nice groovy, funky soul music … Think of James Brown and you'll know the style. You can listen to some samples on their site if you go to the Top 5 section and click on the typo beside each disc image.

We've been there last night and it was great! Great music = *can't stop, must dance*. Unfortunately, later the volume went too much up and reached a level where you need to protect your ears.

We will certainly try to go to the next ones, too. In meanwhile I need to train some moves like this.

Based on a personal need for beeing able to switch camera quickly within Dev 4.0, I finally compiled my interface plugin for it. It needed some file upgrades in regards to the Font management. I haven't tested it at all, so be careful with that and let me know how it works.

Download the zip with DLLs for 3.5 and 4.0

Maybe you want to know how I quickly switch cameras using that plugin? Ok download it, put the DLL in the interface subfolder of your Dev installation. Put the HTML file in the root folder of your Dev installation. Now start Dev and choose "HTML View" from the "Dom's" menu in the main menu bar. Checkout these images with notes in the titles that explain how to go on:

For those that don't know about it: HTMLView embedds a webbrowser (IE) into DEV. It's extended by a new protocol that is intercepted when clicking on links. The protocol includes commands to load or merge CMOs, to activate cams, select nodes by name and some more. The link command to automatically create a webpage with buttons for each camera is CreateHTMLView using the parameter ListCams.

This plugin started as an interface experiment (HTML front ends to authoring apps) and actually became useful for me. Please be careful and don't browse the web with it unless you trust the sites. You use it at your own risk! 

While some users wait since early summer for the announced announcement about Dev's roadmap, the PSP support has been improved. Virtools rewrote the PSP Virtools player and added a new content/assets pipeline via a new interface plugin. The PSP library comes in two flavors: without source-code for prototyping (which reminds of the former Virtools 'Creation' product) and with source-codes for 'real' productions. So you can optimize and enhance … 

Here's the press release and there's also flash video on the Virtools homepage about it. 

Well,

at home I am mostly offline right now as my precious computer won't start … or to be more precise the OS fails to boot. It's been 3,5 years of the same win2k installation, so that's ok. All my attempts to repair it, failed so far … I have a backups but they are not entirely up-to date. So doing the backup of the remaining GBs under Dos using SATA drives is not something that works quickly and without babysitting. If you have a tip for this, let me know.

The positive aspect of the story is that it's a good moment to update to winXP … I don't like that XP doesn't offer the ability to interrupt the OS scheduler like in win2k when some program just grabbed all the system resources so even the task manager won't show up. On the other hand, most of the modern games refuse to work on win2k … so it will be XP … I guess that's still better than Vista?

Although I recently read from a guy that turned off most of the 'new' stuff and seemed finally to be happy with it.
I meanwhile, if you send me an eMail it might not get answered so soon.