Finally, a Facebook fanpage!

YAY!  I finally made a fanpage.  If you look to your left, you will see a little facebook box.  Click the like button to become a part of the community in there.

7x7x7 parts grid

This is a diagram that I made to aid in reassembling the V-cube 7.  So, here is the diagram:

Call it what you want

Some animated gifs I have made

1x1x1 sticker templates

Sorry it took me so long to get these uploaded but here ya go! Just click it before you download it. And in order to download it just click it first, then right-click, then hit Save.

UPDATE: Sorry it took me so long to get back to you commenter but I hope this fixes your problems.

See if that will work out better for you.

iOS 4.2 new features

I finally got around to updating the marquee at the top of my blog. So if you are interested in the new features iOS 4.2 has to offer, check up there. The text in the marquee was pulled straight from the window that appears when you plug in your iPhone or iPod Touch to update it's firmware.

If you know any features that weren't listed up there, then please post them in a comment below. Here are a few that i noticed and already listed:

Master volume in multitasking bar

Yup, so now you can adjust the master volume (aka the volume used for music, videos, and most games) straight from the multitask bar.

New Voice memos icon:

Nothing too earth shattering here, but it's welcome none the less. I can't tell whether or not I like or hate it. A bit of both really, so therefore I don't mind it.

"+" button in Safari changed to the more traditional iOS arrow icon

Yup, again, nothing too earth shattering here. Again, it is welcome none the less. Again, can't tell whether I like it or hate it. Again, maybe a bit of both. Again, therefore I don't mind it, although I really did like the way the + button looked. So I think I'm not too big a fan of this change.

Gradient effect in scrolling alerts and messages

Well, same as the last two. Nothing earth shattering, welcome anyway, and I actually really like the way this looks compared to earlier version of iOS. Not that it looked bad, but this does look WAY better.

Ability to thumbs up or thumbs down youtube videos directly from the app

Finally Youtube and Apple are in sync. When you go to comment on a youtube video, the stars have been replaced with a thumbs up and a thumbs down. Also when searching for videos each thumbnail shows the percentage of thumbs ups, or thumbs downs, depending on which one is dominant. Very handy!

New dedicated birthday calendar:

There is a new calendar built into iOS 4.2, and that is the birthdays calendar. It shows the birthdays of your contacts from within the calendar app. You can tell it apart from the other calendars due to its off-white color and it is represented by a present icon.

Those are just a few new features in iOS 4.2. If you know of any others, post them in a comment below, and I'll include them in the above marquee if I find them worth sharing.

Here's a video I made yesterday where I actually demonstrate all the features in the marquee (minus the youtube and the birthday calendar):

iOS 4.2 released today

I can't go too in-depth as I'm typing this up in my school's bathroom, but iOS 4.2 was released today. NGO to http://apple.com/startpage for more info on it. Expect a video on it later today.

Sent from my iPod

How to design a monitor in Google Sketchup

It's been a WHILE, literally YEARS ago since my last sketchup video, which almost has hit 500k views. So I figured that's good enought to make another one. Well, actually I just felt like making another sketchup tutorial. regardless of view count :D

Here it is:

Watch on Youtube

So enjoy! If you want the model I created in the tutorial, then click here to get it from the 3D warehouse. Just give me credit if you use the model in your own scenes.

Here's a 360 of the monitor that you'll learn to design in the video: