Alrighty! You should see a new link at the top of the blog for the free service I created, Amazon Price Targets. This is the Amazon.com service I was talking about in an earlier post. I dug into amazon's web service API for a few weeks and hammered out as simple and usable a service as I could without allowing the project to bloat into a mammoth. I'll try to put up a few posts with some useful code related to amazon's web services, so be watching for that. Anyway, here's the gist of the service. You make a wishlist on amazon.com, make it public (they are by default), then you come to the service, enter the e-mail address you use for amazon.com, wait for account activation, then start entering price targets for new and/or used items. A price target is simply... Read More »

Just heard this yesterday in a commercial for the Toyota Venza. It's a pretty cool mix of electronic, latin, and country of all things. The piece is called Thrive and was done by Elias Arts to be used internally by Toyota (as far as I can tell anyway). As such, you can't really buy it anywhere, but luckily Toyota has made it available to download for free. To get it you need to go to the Toyota Venza web page at http://www.toyota.com/venza/. Near the bottom left corner you'll see a "What's New" ticker with an arrow on the right that you can click on to cycle through the tickers. Cycle through until you get to "Download free, full-length Venza music here." and click on it. You'll have to click through an agreement and then you'll be able to download the song in a zip file. No telling how long it'll be there, so get it while you can. It'd be nice if more companies did this for their music, as many pieces like this one are quite good on their own.[via... Read More »

THIS is why the gaming industry now dwarfs Hollywood, video game technology and innovation has grown at nearly the same rate as the people who first seeded the industry are aging. Seemingly every year there's another giant leap in some area. Putting the CryEngine on consoles is something that people said just couldn't be done. Witness CryEngine 3, coming soon to a PS3 and Xbox 360 near you. CEO interviews behind the curtain.

 

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Yeah, it's been a while since the last post, but I can't help myself from getting into new stuff, and I have a limited amount of time to work with, so I end up hopping from working on projects, to doing blog posts, to posting on YouTube, etc., and I typically do each of those in chunks, maybe a week at a time or more. Anyway, I've been digging into the amazon.com web services API recently and decided I would try my hand at offering a service based on that platform. More after the beep. The service will be completely free, and should be able to save people money. I'll also have to post some tutorials and example code to share what I've learned. I've also been digging into neural nets recently, so at some point I hope to have something to show for that. If nothing else, I should be able... Read More »