Since this seems to be the topic of the week, I might as well create a new post and share some news with you. A whole bunch of you have been asking for the soundtracks for a couple of Vantage demos. And it seems like some of you are not much for waiting. 😀 Anyway, I just captured the soundtracks for “A Simple Way” and “3 Cows Ahead” [click to download]. As for how I did it, well “3 Cows Ahead” is an avi so it’s a simple matter of an audio extraction. However, I tried a whole bunch of extractors and played around with whatever options available, but the result is never perfect for some reason. Specially the beginning of this one sounds far from what you hear on the avi. Keep in mind the fact that I’m no audio expert anyway. :”> So if you know of an extractor which could do a better job, please let me know. “A Simple Way” was of course a different story. I came across this demo capturing software called “kkapture 0.01” a while ago (on pouet.net BBS). It’s an easy to use application which does a pretty darn impressive job capturing both the audio and the video. So I used this to capture an avi of the demo, and then did the same mp3 extraction. The resulting audio quality is rather good. So…enjoy, and I’d certainly appreciate any bits of technical info that you might wanna throw at me. :>
Update: Wheee! Amoivikos [amv] of ASD has just posted a comment containing some very interesting information regarding a number of great scene tracks. Check it out! Always the best info, does this guy rule or what? 🙂
Update: Sorry guys, there is no full version of the “3 Cows Ahead” soundtrack. It was never finished. 
I just found this article on “digg”. Been looking for something like this forever!!
“Tunatic is a software that listen to it and get you the artist’s name and the song’s title within seconds.”
Here u can read more about this software or dig this story.
I’ve been looking for a “good” feed aggregator [aka feed reader] software for quite a while. There are a lot of online aggregatorz and some of them seem to do a good job, but somehow I feel more comfortable with the onez that I can have on my desktop. It’z probably because there’z more u can do with desktop aggregatorz than online onez, plus they’re simply faster and easier to use. However, obviously not all the available desktop aggregators are so great! I’ve used THIS RssReader for quite a while but I’ve never really been happy with it.
– It’z not compatible with all versionz of RSS/Atom
– For some reason it finds errors in feed formats that really contain no errors (!!)
– It exports the feeds in an XML file that’s not compatible with any other aggregators [seemz to contain errorz!] and no OPML outputs whatsoever [so what’z the point of having an export feature like this anywayz??]
– Worst of all, somehow it managez to jump up to about 106MB mem usage in no more than 2 secondz after it’z run!
And these are only a few of it’z problems, but since I couldn’t’ find any better desktop aggregators I kept using it until today….yes… today I finally found THIS. It’z called RSS Bandit and so far it seemz to be the best one I’ve seen. It’z:
– Light
– Fast
– Easy to use
– Compatible with all sortz of feed formatz
– Low in mem usage
– Got OPML import & export
And so many other kool features. Plus, I gotta admit, the little bandit smiley face tray icon is cute! So if u’re looking for a good feed aggregator too, make sure to give this one a shot.
