hacking

Chelfyn has some great tips to improve productivity when doing repetitive tasks in front of your computer. He has found some nifty ways to employ gear that is traditionally used in a musical context to take care of those computer keyboard “shortcuts”.

Listen to Chelfyn on the Radio Wammo breakfast show on Kiwi FM

Chelfyn shows you how to Hack a VJ show for your next house party using a Camera phone, Winamp and some geekery.

Links from this pod:

• Winamp

• Daandirk's list of AVS resources

• VFX AVI Player

• AVS Slideshow

• The VISBOT mega AVS preset megapack

More pods at: nz.youtube.com/theg33kshow

This vintage post titled the Hacker's Manifesto is from wayback in January 1986. It shows inside the mind of a young Hacker called The Mentor, written just after their arrest.  (Pic: Thiravudh Khoman)

"Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world...

Kiwi FM's Wammo and I had a great chat this morning about the world of games modding. It's something we've both dabbled in, and it was where I learned to apply all the broadcast graphics skills I had learned (texture painting and 3d modelling)  in a game environment. As well as being supremely satisfying, it is an excellent route into the games industry. It gives you the opportunity to learn and demonstrate a lot of key skills, mostly creative, though there are still plenty of programming tweaks you can do if you want. You can learn a lot about good level design, character creation and animation, lighting, texturing, sound & music, and all of this can be done with free tools.