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WIP I have finished the 2nd layer on the body. All I need to do now is the detail embellishes. I both love and hate this bird. The beak has stood out to me since I put the first layer. It’s now an eye sore. I am still unsure of my next step will be with it. I just don’t know what I will do for the next layer. And I really want to put the details into it and not leave it as it is. I do have an idea for the next step/ fine detail for the feathers on the body. The beak/bill just stands out so much now and I am unsure how I can get it to blend or not stick out to me compared how the rest of the body is looking style wise. #wip #multimedia #gouache #watercolor # bird #birdart
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NewPipe 0.28.0 released with Android Auto support, option to add feed groups as tabs on main screen, Trending page now includes live streams, YouTube playback issues fixed, new YouTube temporary playlist export option, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/

Shotcut 25.07 released with STT model downloader, new System Fusion theme, Outline video filter, ability to drag the waveform peak line to adjust audio gain, Adjust Clip Gain/Volume setting under Settings > Timeline, edit/trim option for Timeline, Soft Focus filter set, option to set Audio/Video duration in the Slideshow Generator dialog, etc.:
9to5linux.com/shotcut-25-07-vi

Audacious 4.5 released with new Playback History plugin for the Qt build, Winamp 2.9 skin, support for the Album Artist tag in the APE header, support for outdated ReplayGain tags in Opus files, support for fetching lyrics from lrclib.net, support for reading color schemes from the settings portal, etc.:
9to5linux.com/audacious-4-5-op

CDE (Common Desktop Environment) is ported to OpenBSD:
ostechnix.com/cde-openbsd-clas
(As noted in the article, CDE isn't really secure to use anymore as a daily driver due to lack of development, but it's good for some nostalgia purposes)

sadly lost to a domain squatter a decade ago, Smackerel interactive was a canadian multimedia design duo (dave groff and kevin steele). mac users might remember them as the creators of the Mackerel Stack - a goofy hypercard stack that equal parts interactive toy and business card

after the company closed, dave and kevin went on to write some online retrospectives about art & design during the peak 1990s multimedia era. their mini-essays are succinct, thoughtful, and inspiring. i posted the first essay about hypercard a few months ago here: dialup.cafe/@vga256/1118969455

this is the second of those essays, recovered from the wbm... Learning From Limitations: When Bevelled Edges Were Cool.
web.archive.org/web/2010012713

kevin's a super nice guy. wish he had joined mastodon.

#DOS #MP3 player UI shootout! An AMD Am5x86 at 120MHz with a Gravis Ultrasound PnP playing back a VBR (~254Kbps) 44.1KHz MP3 file at full quality.

The contenders: QuickView Pro version (dvpro), Digital Sound System 3.1 (dss) and MPXPlay 1.67 (mpx). The file: Astral Projection's "Bizarre Contact" from the album "Ten".

Enjoy these clips :D

#Retrocomputing #VacationInMyHead #Multimedia