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Bulk 3D glasses, the old-fashioned paper red/blue kind.
iMovie HD 6, for folks unhappy with newer versions of the excellent beginner’s video editing app.
Video production tutorials by Jeanne Stern.
Experimental Windows versions of DosBox, a DOS emulator. The standard version’s great for running ordinary DOS programs, but these can help you play archivist and get old weird hardware-dependent stuff to run again. Visit the user forums for help.
Reproduce the signature effect of the PXL2000 audio-cassette-based camera. The instructions are intended for After Effects, but many similar programs should work equally well. You can also download a “precooked” After Effects 6.5 project file.
How fast is…? compares various flavors of USB, Firewire, Ethernet, ATA, SCSI, and ethernet.
Joshua Davis’ code samples for generative graphics in ActionScript.
Processing reference book recommendations from Robert Hodgin.
Basic graphics commands in ActionScript and Processing, from the Processing folks. Many more handy reference links, too.
Lumenlab makes a 1000-lumen US$500 video projector with $30 replacement bulbs. Here’s a review.
MIDI Yoke is the Windows answer to the IAC Driver on a Mac.
MacRumors Buyer’s Guide is much more useful than the name might suggest–it warns you when Apple’s about to release a new model in a given product line, which typically drives down the price of the stuff you’re looking at right now.
IK Is Not Always OK, a Spline Doctors post with some good reasons not to use inverse kinematics (puppet-style controls for 3D animated characters).
RAM Upgrade Guide from crucial.com. Comprehensive list of what type of RAM goes with what model computer–you can often find better bargains elsewhere, but this should always be your first stop when shopping for the stuff.
Installing OS X on older Macs, a list of what will work and what won’t.
Processing tutorials by Daniel Shiffman. A special focus on simulating natural forces, which nicely highlights the program’s strengths.
Video camera overview for 2007 by the Manchester Guardian (surprisingly tech-literate for a general-interest newspaper).
Quicktime version history, a breakdown of what formats are supported in each release.
Supercollider tutorials, by Celeste Hutchins. (Scroll down to “Abandoned Tutorials.”)
U.S. salary database: Find the local median salary for what you do.
No Spec discusses a common scam that unscrupulous clients will use to extract unpaid work from freelance artists.
Backup options: Nice overview of current choices available for backing up your new-media work.
Dreamhost: Hosts this site. 500GB of space for about $100/year.
PD Installers (Linux / Mac / Win), by Hans-Cristophe Steiner. Easy-to-use installers for Miller Puckette’s PD make this powerful, free graphical programming environment much more accessible.
Bang, a book on Miller Puckette and PD, is now available as a free PDF download.
PD tutorial, by Gary Scavone. Look around the rest of his site too; this is one of several.
DIY Infrared Camera: How to turn any cheap webcam into an IR camera–great for motion tracking in an installation or performance.
Vloblive, by Dave Chalmers. Great theatrical video blog; read through the archives for some excellent practical tips.
Animation in Painter: Drawing with a Wacom tablet is one of the quickest and easiest ways to do animation, once you get the hang of it.
PC Cables: Cables and adapters, all kinds, cheap.
MIT Video Guide, by Tom Buehler. Excellent reference, especially the breakdown on codecs. For more codec info, you can also check out the U.S. Library of Congress.
The Pattern on the Stone, by Daniel Hillis. This book explains how a computer works–what the actual mechanical parts do inside–in less than 200 pages.
Video Distributors: Five possible places to send your video work.
Bootable Floppy Video (DOS): This odd little utility makes a bootable floppy that plays a very short video loop on any PC with 2MB memory.
Mac Tools and Win Tools: Useful stuff when you’re working on someone else’s computer–telnet, ftp, and a couple other useful widgets.
Dynebolic ( Linux / Win ): This is a CD image you can download and burn. It boots up on any 21st-century PC and runs a full suite of free audio and video editing tools.
Audacity ( Linux / Mac / Win ): This is a free multitrack sound editor. It’s brilliant.
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