Monthly Archive for April, 2008

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I hate April Fools

Published on April 2, 2008. 0 Comments

Perhaps it’s because posting something to the internet these days is so easy, or perhaps it’s because I spend more time on the internet these days than I do in front of the TV, but either way the number of crappy April Fools posts to the net is really getting annoying.

It’s even worse for us Aussies, as we have to put up with two days of these posts as we’re as good as a whole day ahead of most of the Northern Hemisphere.

I quite like an ingenious April Fools no matter what the medium, but poorly thought out and hastily implemented internet posts are just getting to be too much of a drag.

hobnox Audiotool

Published on April 1, 2008. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Jean from work passed me this link for an audio mixing tool today, http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html. Be warned that the app tries to access your machine (I assume to get ahold of the audio files).

I’ve only really had time to play with the interface, and not really the actual audio side of it, but I must say as rich clients go this is impressive. It’s the kind of flash app that tries to bring across the UI metaphors from the physical world that it’s modeling literally into the application. Not sure if I agree with this approach of modeling the real world in software, but can see how in the audio tooling world the familiarity can be a bonus, and this approach has actually been executed quite cleanly here.

I believe it has a combination of java and flash client side smarts, and is quite a heavy app to start with.