Friday, December 26, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Beautiful video perfect for showing your kids at #Christmas. Hand making Candy Canes. #yum
I love Christmas Candy Canes. I don’t eat them so much anymore, but they once were so much a part of my Christmas that it still wouldn’t feel like Christmas with out at least a few. What would I love more than a candy cane right now? A chance to try and make one for myself after watching this video!
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
A name to learn Peter Vácz (@vaczpeter) start by checking out this great #animation #shortfilm
I have always loved animation. 2D or 3D, it doesn't matter. In my early twenties I left my hometown in search of a carreer path whcih would allow me to be a computer animator, but alas, I had bills to pay and in the end I took a different path. If I had been an animator, I'd love to think I was creative enough to make something like the stunning "Rabbit and Deer" which is fantastic on so many levels. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Rabbit and Deer / Nyuszi és Őz – TRAILER from Péter Vácz on Vimeo.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
#timelapse of the stripping down of a Triumph Herald engine #motor #triumphherald #oldskool
Great video! A time lapse of the stripping down of a Triumph Herald engine. At least I'm pretty sure it must be a Triumph Herald, I mean, I had at one time about four of them. I recognise the engine (which I also stripped and rebuilt just not with out help and not to this detail). The other tell-tail detail that it must be a Triumph Herald is that the bonnet which opens forward (and can be easily removed).
Anyway this brought back fond memories. I even painted my Herald engine in white and that exact same shade of blue. It was like I was looking back in time..
I also loved that fact that on the Triumph Herald you could easily remove the hard top with just a few bolts. many is the time we drove hurriedly home when it started to rain because I have removed the roof earlier that morning. Fun times.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, November 21, 2014
How to delete email addresses that appear when you start typing in the Apple Mial App
So you’ve just realized that every time you try to send someone an email, the mail app present you with an old address instead of their new one. It autocompletes the mail recipient with an email that may not even work anymore even though you know the new email. Or it may just be that you have spelled an email incorrectly in Apple Mail App and although it bounced back, it also keeps appearing in the mail apps autocomplete function. Whatever the reason, you need to delete an email that’s old or incorrect to stop it from autofilling.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Great animated short where quality triumphs beautiful @robert_grieves
This is the type of art I really love. Animation used to bring a story to life in all the right ways. I especially like that in the end... well... watch it yourself.
SAUSAGE - animated short film from robert grieves on Vimeo.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, November 15, 2014
My latest web design for @cabucoffee
Ok. So here is my latest web design (here):
This site took quite a while because of constant internal (client) changes. It showcases all my own work (apart form the CMS and template on which it was built). The 3D capsules and art (most photos are stock, but some are mine) as well as the SEO were all done by yours truly. I'm quietly happy with the result.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Why is Facebook App suddenly not playing sound on my Iphone or iPad and how do I get sound back?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Why is Facebook App suddenly not playing sound on my Iphone or iPad and how do I get sound back?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, September 22, 2014
How to change the store icon on the map view of stores/shops in #Prestashop 1.6
It seams simple to want to change the size or style of the store icons shown on the “Our Stores page of Prestashop 1.6 and changing them is indeed easy, but only when you know where - and finding where can be time consuming.
Here’s the place to change the store icons:
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, September 20, 2014
How to delete items from the QuickConnect button list in FileZilla
OK. So you got Filezilla and you use quick connect. All good. One day you add a new server and you make a mistake, or maybe you just moved servers, or the details of your current version changed. Now you've got more entries in Filezillas quick connect than you wanted. So you want to delete some right? Ok here's how to do it.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, September 19, 2014
THAT video of the poor #Australian who dropped his #Apple #iPhone6 - I almost cried #truestory
Gidday Jack, please be care with your iPhone6 mate, there's a good bloke...
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, August 28, 2014
#Hiperlapse and #Instagram how does it work? A simplified answer.
#Hiperlapse and the #Instagram Hiperlapse app. How does it work? A simplified answer.
Instagram just released a free app (here) on the App Store to create Hiperlapse but how does its work?
This is an explanation for those who don't like the technobabble or don't have the time to understand it thoroughly, it's an over simplification of how Hiperlapse works.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, August 24, 2014
A new world creating video game tool which reminds me very much of #Minecraft and #Sauerbraten
I love video games and video game technology.
Behind the scenes of video games, is an ever changing world of 3D tools. These software programs which artists uses to create the 3D worlds of video games are constantly evolving and new tools are always emerging. Today I found out about a fun looking 3D editor which will allow realtime 3D world building a-la Minecraft or Sauerbraten at a higher res.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, August 23, 2014
My sons first video on youtube! Please share it with your #Minecraft lovin friends
Super proud. Here is my sons first Minecraft video on you tube. He love minecraft sooo much and has just discovoured Minecraft MODs, so wanted to share with people one of his favourites, the Animated player MOD.
Please feel free to give him a like and subscribe to his channel.
again,… super proud :)
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
My sons virst video on youtube! Please share it with your #Mincraft lovin friends
Super proud. Here is my sons first Minecraft video on you tube. He love minecraft sooo much and has just discovoured Minecraft MODs, so wanted to share with people one of his favourites, the Animated player MOD.
Please feel free to give him a like and subscribe to his channel.
again,… super proud :)
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, August 8, 2014
I can only Rasterise Illustrator objects as CMYK how do I rasterize them as RGB?
CMYK are the primary colours of pigment (well, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are - the black is a key colour, hence the “K”). But you may find yourself editing some artwork in Illustrator and you need to rasterize some vectors and/or images and the only option Illustrator gives to you is CMYK. This is fine if you are going to print the artwork because you will need the image in the primary colours of pigment in order to print them, but if you only want to view the artwork on screen or make a PDF for on screen viewing or if you are creating a web image, then you will want to rasterize as RGB.
How DO you rasterise images or objects in Illustrator as RGB if there is no option to do so?
Actually there IS a rasterise as RGB option in illustrator and it’s easy to find.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
#Photoshop just got #pwned. 2D photo objects turned to photo-realistic 3D ready for animation.
Wholly (i.e. not partially) mother of a daughter (or son). This is Epic. Photoshop just got owned in a big way and I love it.
I've been 3D modelling and photo editing for the better part of twenty full years professionally and today I got exited out my pants.
Check out this program which will allow you to replace a 2D objects in a photo with a 3D ones. It uses the information within the photo to create the lighting and material maps with some user assistance of course. Once the object is 3D, full animation and photo manipulation on a new level is possible.
Brain exploded.
Take a look at the vid and get ready to never ever believe anything you see ever again.
Oh, and you can actually download this freak'in shizzle and try it fo yo'self. Get busy!
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
#Phtosop just got #pwned. 2D photo objects turned to photo-realistic 3D ready for animation.
Wholly (i.e. not partially) mother of a daughter (or son). This is Epic. Photoshop just got owned in a big way and I love it.
I've been 3D modelling and photo editing for the better part of twenty full years professionally and today I got exited out my pants.
Check out this program which will allow you to replace a 2d object in a photo with a 3D one. It take the information to create the lighten and material maps from information in the scene and user assistance and once the object is 3D full animation and photo manipulation on a new level is possible.
Brain exploded.
Take a look at the vid and get ready to never ever believe anything you see ever again.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, July 28, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
How do I remove the #Prestashop advertising photo on the bottom of the left column on the Category page of Prestahop?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Old #Apple manufacturing video shows amazing build tech and even more amazing #mullets
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Brazilian Goalkeepers be like... #fifa #worldcup
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, July 7, 2014
What is a Toxic Backlink, how does it affect my Google rank and what should I do about it?
This is a quick overview of Toxic backlinks:
In general, a Toxic back link is any link that intends to manipulate the PageRank, or the search engine results.
It can be a link to your site or an outgoing link from your site, it will be considered a toxic if Google decides it wasn’t natural and is seen as an artificial attempt to boost rankings. Toxic links are also called “unnatural links” and can be considered a violation of the Google Guidelines.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, July 4, 2014
Free shipping if price is above #Prestashop 1.6
Took me longer than it should have to understand the way Prestashop handles free shipping when the order is above a certain amount. The biggest problem is that I was looking in the wrong place. So that you don waste as much time as I did here’s how to configure the Prestashop 1.6 options to offer free shipping with purchases above a set price.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Joomla 3.x Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /PATH-TO-YOUR-SITE/plugins/system/remember/remember.php on line 94 - Solution
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, June 27, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Who is Rik Mayall? See for your self.
Not many people my age don't know about the comic genius of Rik Mayall. But youger people who hear about him in the news now that he has passed away might wonder who he was. So rather than jump right to a wiki, why not learn about him firsthand:
Rik Mayall: The Funniest Moments
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
You shouldn't NEED to see this, but if you drive, you should watch it.
I love it when advertising goes viral because of it's great community message. It seems like a good compromise.
But you don't need to see this right? You never do this right?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, June 9, 2014
Why is #Apple stock down so much? An image that would terrify the $aapl investor
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, June 6, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
How Siri is helping me to quit snacking #iphone
I'm trying to cut down the food that I eat. I believe we (people in general) eat too much food. Studies of lab rats have shown that they live longer if they eat less. The biggest culprit is not actually food of any nutritional value, it's snacks that I eat just after a meal. So I came up with a way to try and stop snacking after meals, I enlisted the help of Siri on my iPhone. Now after I finish my meal and my body is still telling me I'm hungry, instead of reaching for something to eat, I hold down the button on my iPhone and ask Siri to set my timer for 10 minutes. When I say set the time "for ten minues" and Siri often sets it to fourteen minutes, no matter. A few minutes later when the timer goes off I allow myself to eat any snack I'm still hungry for... Funny thing is, ten+ minutes later I'm no longer hungry!
So far, it's working like a charm.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, May 29, 2014
How coffee should be #Espresso
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
#Amazing new @Nissan Engine 400 Horsepower in a 40kg engine you could put in your hand luggage
Nissan is bringing an amazing new engine to Le Mans this year. It weighs only 40kg but produces an astonishing 400 horsepower. This is the "Range extender" engine every electric car needs. I don't believe in range anxiety, but hey, if you could pop one of these baby's into an electric car (just in case) wouldn't that be the shizzle?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
How to delete statistics/dummy data from Prestashop 1.6
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
How to customise the frontpage menu in Prestashop 1.6
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, May 26, 2014
Familiar sounds made into dance tracks #iPhone ringtones and #breakingbad kudos @ItsMetroGnome
First the iPhone dance track:
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Nutters remove 2 Car wheels while in the car is driving #youtube
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Is limitless free Energy really here? Maybe the @mythbusters can tell us.
Holy mother of fud. If this is true, it's the best thing to happen to humanity in years. I'm talking about free energy. Limitless free energy.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, May 2, 2014
Google wins, a tragedy for #competition and the consumer
A sad day for competition today. I just received an email from CONTAXE a German contextual web advertising company which competes against Google's dominant advertising service. I myself have used this service and am currently using Google. I think the service was great and admit to only be using Google because I real have no other choice. There were simply are not enough advertisers CONTAXES to make the contextual system work well and ads serve were not relevant enough to be successful. Of course without publisher support like mine it must have been hard to attract advertisers a catch 22 situation for which advertisers and consumer will ultimately pay.
I encourage anyone reading this to talk about other alternative in the comments so that we can help keep competition alive.
Here is the translated email for you:
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Why does it take so long for attitudes towards Cannabis to change?
Cannabis is a plant that can be used to get high. Sure, there's that, but it can do much more as you will see in the video below. Most adults (I know) have at tried it and therefore are aware that it's no big deal. I am never afraid to admit to the fact that I have smoked Marijuana in the past. I was young, it was fun. I grew out of it. Some of my friends also grew out of it and some still partake. So what? I have seen many more harmful effects from abuse of alcohol than from "weed". I, as a non smoker don't wish to impose my will on these who enjoy it and I see more danger to my children by keeping it underground.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
#Fomula1 new technologies, rules and power units explained in 3 great videos
Here are three great videos which show how the rules for furmula 1 cars have changed for the 2014 season. They give you a look inside the cars with some great 3D views which show how the new power units (motors) in furmula one cars now work.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, April 24, 2014
iPhone 5s video quality vs Cannon EOS 550D
What happens when you give a Canon 550D and and iPhone 5S to two inexperienced camera operators?
Here is a short video comparison between the Canon 550D video capture and the iPhone 5S video capture. I love the iPhone 5S and wanted to see if I could do away with the Canon 550D altogether and rely entirely on my iPhone 5S for quality video.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
#Funny #Comment of the day made in smart cars flipping article
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Free CMYK colour swatch printing chart download
If you're looking for a CMYK colour swatch to print so that you can control which colours are output on your printer, feel free to download this CMYK colour swatch chart.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Friday, March 21, 2014
Boom. A modern Total Annihilation style #RTS insipres me to battle @UberEnt
Let put this out there. I love RTS's. Love em. Lately I haven't really found a good AAA RTS to play. Admittedly I don't have a lot of time and so I am trending toward top class iPad tower defines games because I can pick them up and put them down again. But on my computer I haven't really been playing RTS for a while. That may soon change.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
#Superman puts on a Gopro, result: first person superhero
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Two beautiful videos about the birth of modern computers that #Mac users will love.
Xerox invented some of the most significant innovations in commuter history like the mouse and the GUI. Apple Computer (as it used to be called) then fine tuned these technologies with a flair for creating user friendly productivity orientated computers and came up with something truly revolutionary; the Mac. Released in 1984 the Apple Mac really did establish a new path for computers which every piece of technology since has followed.
Here are a couple of great videos about the early days of the Mac that graphic designers around at the time will particularly enjoy.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Just #stupid. #SoloClimbing that high with no ropes #deathwish @AlexHonnold
I'm not the only one to see this and be a little angry. The climber in this video (Alex Honnold) will eventually die an unnatural death if he carries on climbing the way he does. There will come a day when a gust of wind, the naturaly aging of his body or some other element will cause him to slip and fall to his death. This video should have been more responsible. It should have warnings, a simple "do not try this at home" would be a start. Instead it paints Alex Honnold as someone to be revered for his skill. People seeing this video might be inpsired to emulate him and not everyone has his skill. But more fundimentally, why is this considered an accomplishment? Climbing with ropes (free climbing, which I used to do) is the same exact thing only safer. We wouldn't exalt a race car driver who doesn't use seat belts and a helmet in the same way, would we? Climbing like this is just wrong. It helps that Alex Honnold doesn't seam to have too many people in his life or I would go as far as to call him and asshole (yea, I said it) for what he would eventually put them through. I feel really sorry for his mother. There is no doubt Alex Honnold has amazing climbing ability, that is without question, and it will be a great sporting loss when he dies in a fall the way many others already have. Solo climbing is not smart. It is not an schievement. It's a failure in every sense I can imagine.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
#Glados explains the difference between Fusion Fission. Best #kids #science ever.
What's better than finally learning the difference between Fusion Fission? Having GlaDOS teach you! She didn't explain how portals work though, I guess I'll have to put my portal gun making plans on hold. Bonus: How to make a potato battery.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Holy shizzle. #Webdesign take note; A most inspiring web dev program indeed! Good job @macawco
This has to be the best web development tool ever. I must admit, I don't build websites this way, instead of html and CSS I use a CMS which takes care all of that for me. One of the reasons I do it that way is that there is no way to "deisgn" a web site like using illustrator or coreldraw. Or should I say there WAS no way previously. Many have tried to make a "wysiwyg" HTML/CSS editor but up until now they ALL had the wrong goals. They all tried to force the user to work within the confines HTML/CSS. Macaw seems to be built to allow the web designer to construct websites in the way they would with a graphic design program. Then Macaw builds the best code it can from that. Brilliant, well done!
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
More than 20 years before #Gravity this was mind blowing, made on a home computer
It's really hard to put describe how impressive this little video my friend and I made well over 20 years ago was at the time. It's not going to win Oscars like the film Gravity, but it was fun to make!
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, March 2, 2014
#Graviy making of videos. A great look behind the scenes of 3D computer generated imaging.
Take a behind the scenes look at the making of Gravity. 3D editing has come a long way, these making of videos might help you to appreciate the human and computer work involved in creating such a visual masterpiece.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Thursday, February 27, 2014
#Pepsi's new #viral video. If I was the victim, someone would get punched in the face. With a brick.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Seamless relationship outsourcing. Get the #BroApp #thatsjuststupid
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, February 22, 2014
God versus Science
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
How to fix and turn off the toner light on a brother HL-2240D if you know the cartridge is new.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Amazing 3D printing/ Air Hockey hack proves robots might one day take over.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Just a little meme about a co-worker
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Amazing collection of Free Sci-Fi stories
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Behind the scenese of Apples new made on iPhone video
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Monday, February 3, 2014
Apple celebratory video shot entirely on iPhone
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, February 2, 2014
A Doom-like game Developed by the Makers of HALO play it free
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Here’s how to Contour path a text or Object on Illustrator.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
How to remove space around a Gavick Pro Joomla template module position
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Funny Pic "Why OS X is better than windows"
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
9 gagger quote of the day goes to anhonestopinion
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Where did the “Mainmenu” module position go, Gavick Pro Joomla template?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Saturday, January 25, 2014
What are eye floaters? Am I going blind?
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Video teardown shows the guts of a PS4 and interesting facts.
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Apples video celebrating 30 years of the Macintosh
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Steve Jobs documentary
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Steve Jobs documentary
from Andrew Brett Watson.com
