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About Blender Fox

Recreational road-runner, blender/CG rookie, linux user (LE-1, LPIC-1, SUSE CLA 11, SUSE 11 Tech Spec), programmer, avid tinkerer (I'm always breaking things), self-confessed anime & manga otaku & japanophile

My, my, my, it’s been such a long time since I did anything on Blender, and it’s been a long time since I was reading off my Kindle app. Well, I’m going to pick up again, and although the books I have are primarily based on Blender 2.4x, at least I can use them to learn the basics.

I have a lot of material to cover either way…

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Google Movies

Knowing that DRM works fine on Debian means I can happily rent and purchase movies off Google Play. My first rental was Dante’s Inferno and animated retelling of the game of the same name, which itself is a retelling of the poem. Different animation studios animated different chapters of the story which both added to and hindered the story. For example, Virgil was ghostly in one chapter, but appear almost human in another.

The second purchase was an actual purchase (not rental), but only because Play did not offer a rental for this title. The movie is Legend of the Millenium Dragon – one of the few anime titles on Play that is in Japanese and not dubbed. This one was an interesting watch, touching on topics related to war, prejudice and magic.

Google Music & GmusicFS

The latest update to Google Play Music has really annoyed me. Nothing due to the interface (I’m fine with that), but it Force Closes every few minutes, and I keep getting the message ever y 5-10 minutes as it tries to sync so I’ve uninstalled it. But obviously this means I no longer have access to my Google Music library.

Not exactly true.

Using a tool released on XDA Developers, called GMusicFS (Google Music Filesystem), you can actually use any other player (WinAMP, PowerAMP, Rocket Player) to play your Google Music, because GMusicFS turns a directory on your SD Card into a pseudo-library, which is actually the Google Music library.

It seems to work, but does require a rooted device.

Here’s the link if you want to try it out yourself:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169761