Category: Art & Culture

  • Install Canon camera software without CD (Windows)

    Install Canon camera software without CD (Windows)

    Whenever I’m traveling with my old Canon 350D and my likewise old Windows XP laptop, I face the same problem: I don’t have the Canon software installed on my laptop, and of course I don’t have the CD with me either. Who carries such things around with them all the time? “Well, that shouldn’t be a…

  • Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI

    Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI

    Still many readers are coming here because of my posts about MIDI. Most visitors are especially interested in improving their MIDI sound windows-wide, so it won’t sound like a cheap Chinese toy anymore. ;) I described one way to achieve this goal in a previous post. However, this information is more than two years old…

  • (Deutsch) Schick mich in den Kongo!

    Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

  • OmmWriter alternatives for Windows

    OmmWriter alternatives for Windows

    It’s been almost exactly one year since I first read about OmmWriter, a so-called “distraction-free writing environment”. The point of such a program is to cover the entire screen, so you will no longer be seduced by flashing icons, pop-up messages or other enticements in your task bar, but instead devote your undivided attention to…

  • “The Name of the Rose” and the cheap porn synchro

    Today’s post will once again belong to the category of “knowledge which the world doesn’t really need, but that must be spread anyway”! ;) The day before yesterday I watched again the wonderful movie “The Name of the Rose”. At one scene, I was a little confused, because the narrator voice of old Adso of…

  • “Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7

    We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…