DataMike

The tool that I’ve worked with lately is the Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It’s a Linux boot disk ISO that you can download.  (You’ll need an ISO burning program like CDBurnerXP or BurnCDCC , I guess the option to burn ISO’s is built into Win 7 now) It seems to be updated about every six [...]

This is an old video from the late 90’s,and is basically a collection of test video animations (with paths and particles)  I made with TrueSpace.  It’s low rezzy, and very basic, but I thought I’d throw it out there.  (it’s fascinating what you can find on old hard drives, this was an old  MPEG2 video [...]

These are some (very) basic tutorials involving curve modeling in Blender 3d. They assume you’re comfortable mousing around the blender environment and changing 3d views. In these you learn to make curves (and paths), control the curves with the bezier handles, and the bevel and taper options. Ultimately, I do the obligatory [...]

Blender is a free open-source 3d modeling program available from blender.org.
There’s no shortage of tutorials regarding modeling, texturing, animation and other subjects for blender, but basic info on the user interface is tough to come by. Surprising, considering that 90 percent of understanding blender comes from wrapping your head around the interface. Once [...]

In these four videos, I show how I use my Garmin Etrex handheld GPS  with Google Earth and Google Maps, transferring data to and from.

About 6 months ago, I did a series on tutorials on the free VMWare VMServer product that ran and administered virtual machines through a web interface.  I got a letter from a gentleman asking how to move his laptop windows XP image to a virtual environment.  He was making a Driveimage XML(as a BartPE plug-in) [...]

Most  cameras come with a free photostitcher, but I use a commercial one called PTGui.  Originally built around “panorama tools” (a free suite of programs and libraries), but has since relied on it’s own engines.  It can stitch photo’s  taken in a typical horizontal fashion, but also in a matrix (both horizontal and vertical).  It [...]