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I don’t know about you, but I have no creativity. Ask my friends and family. Well this program is pretty exciting because its so easy to use. I’ve often thought about mocking up something in 3D. Say a home improvement project or something. I’ve used several 3D design tools and they are all complicated to use. The easiest to use was one of the most aggrevating to use (Punch Software Home Architect series). The pro tools are very difficult for an amateur to pick up. Anyway, this is neat stuff. Check out the castle I made (about 80% done in about maybe 1 hour).

The official blurb:

Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

(flash demo from Google)

Other stuff to check out:

* Anim8or - I haven’t looked at this one–just now found it in Google. Lemme know if its any good.
* Blender - This is the most popular OSS 3d tool out there. Its as complicated as the rest IMO but a very successful project so I hear.

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I thought I’d make a quick post on how to use Psi’s new Execute Command feature. This is an implementation of JEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients, which is a document which describes a profile of Ad-Hoc Commands.

First, you have to be logged in twice. It could be two logins from the same computer, but that’s not very useful now is it? In this example I’m going to remotely control my home instance of Psi from my work laptop.

So, find yourself in your roster. Your “self-contact” will be at the top, right under the account name. Note that unlike previous versions of Psi, this self-contact will appear automatically whenever it detects multiple resources logged in. (It goes away if you are only logged in from one client.) Right click on that bad boy and you’ll see the options below:

Choose your other resource, and you’ll see a window like this one below. In 0.11-beta2 there is only the one command available, although the development branch and subsequent releases will have several other features.

Here is what the Set Status command looks like. I think the usage is pretty self-explanatory.

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Summary of changes:

* Privacy Lists (Required for XMPP / aka RFC 3921)
* Ad-Hoc Commands (JEP-0050)
* Remote Control (JEP-0145)
* PEP (JEP-0163)

Go grab it!

Thanks a bunch to Kev, Remko, Mblsha and Justin for working so hard on this.

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Now these guys are true nerds. It’s actually quite well done.

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As mentioned by Remko and St. Pete, we’ve made some changes to the Psi Roadmap. I’m really excited that we’re going to get XMPP compliance soon! Some of you will know that Justin Karneges was the original author of Psi but he stepped down as an active project member some time ago. What you may not know is that his day job allows for him to continue work on jabber related stuff. He’s still working on Iris, the QT Jabber (or we can soon say XMPP) library that we use for Psi. So the backend work is still done by Justin, and then the frontend more “visible” client stuff is what Remko, Mblsha, Kev and our other volunteers work on.

So Psi 0.11 is really going to be cool, can’t wait.

Remko’s Post

Road Map - PsiWiki

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Now tell me if this isn’t cool. I dare ya.

gotAPI.com :: API lookup service

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Grotesque, but you can’t stop looking. This is a museum exhibit here in Atlanta. Friend of mine took the photos t’other day.

bodies exhibit - a photoset on Flickr

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Nevermind. Inside joke.

Anyway, check out Lucas N’s updated stats for clients that connect to his Jabber server:

Clients :

* Psi: 28% (28%)
* Gaim: 25% (25%)
* iChatAgent: 13% (18%)
* Kopete: 7% (7%)
* Gajim: 5% (3%)
* Pandion: 4% (2%)
* libgaim: 4% (3%)
* Miranda: 2% (1%)
* neos: 2% (1%)
* BitlBee: 1% (0%)
* Exodus: 1% (1%)
* Trillian: 1% (2%)
* Unknown: 0% (none)
* JBother: 0% (none)
* JAJC: 0% (0%)

Oh yeah, #1!

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more info

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