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TrekStor WinPhone 5.0 at Indiegogo

Especialy fans of Windows 10 (mobile) and Continuum should have a look at a recently opened CrowdFunding Campaign. It offers a especially for the price nicely equipped, mid-class smartphone by TrekStor (German company), which can handle Continuum and has one of the nicest designs of all the Windows smartphones. Especially interesting is, that the smartphone is quite compact (5" screens are rare to find), it gives you access to Continuum, it ...

MyWay – New UWP-App in the Microsoft Store

Did you ever try to bring a sandwich for someone from Subway? That can be quite hard. Which bread is there? Which sauce, vegetables and meat types are there? Should it be a menu? Which one? Which drink would you like, which cookies or chips and which size? All that can be quite hard to remmeber and that is still only possible if you know what choice you have. In this case you need MyWay. It is a Universal Platform-App for Windows 10 / 10(m) ...

AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 3/3)

Have you been eagerly waiting? Here after a "long" wait I present the fresh benchmarks of my AMD Ryzen 1700 and A:M. And because of this, I have even created a new benchmark test for Hash Animation:Master, which should test a lot of newer features too. It is called "A:M Bench 2017" and it will utize among other things: Ambient Occlusion (CPU based) SubSurfaceScattering (SSS) Particle (Hair) Displacement Maps Bump Maps Raytraced Shadows ...

AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 2/3)

A I already told you about 1. part, I've got a new PC. In this part I will show you the configuration of the new PC I am using. Type Item CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (overclocked to 3.9 GHz with Dark Rock 3) RAM Corsair DIMM 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit (slightly underclocked at 2.9 GHz, 3.2 GHz does not run stable at the moment) GPU SAPPHIRE ...

AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 1/3)

Last week I bought a new PC which should replace my AMD Phenom II x6 1090T-based mahine as my main pc. My x6 has been a reliable computer for many years (over 7 years) but nowadays it is getting more frequent, that even the minimal requirements of PC games are not matched anymore. If you think about how old that machine really is, it is more than astonishing how long that has taken to be the case. To be honest, that machine is a grandpa today. ...

Hash Animation:Master Image Contest: Prize for 1th place

It took a little but yesterday I received a package with my win of the Hash Animation:Master Image Contest (Topic: Insects). I want to thank everybody involved for this very nice looking and very well crafted medal. Additional to that I received a jacket of Siggraph 2000, which was the first year (version 8) I've got involved with Hash Animation:Master. The medal has been created using powder 3d printing and I find it astonishing well made and ...