Category Archives: Hobbies and Other Interests
Holographic images are already in use
Will the holographic images change our way of living? Check out the videos below to get an idea… Holographic images in big scale: Celine Dion Holograms Caesar’s Palace 3D Holographic Fashion Show in Hamburg Burberry’s Beijing Digital Fashion Show Adidas … Continue reading
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self-balancing U3-X electric unicycle, by Honda
Honda has developed a self-balancing one-wheeled electric vehicle called U3-X. Top speed 6 km/h Weight: 10 kg Autonomy: 1 hour Examples of a two-wheeled vehicles are from Segway and Toyota: Video Check out the video to get an … Continue reading
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Gramps, Tool for creating and maintaining family trees
Gramps is a great free tool for Family Trees About: Gramps (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) is a personal genealogy program. One of the common views is the Pedigree view. The Ancestory Graph view might be valuable as … Continue reading
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XMedia Recode, Tool for converting audio and video files
XMedia Recode is good alternative for converting audio/video file into another format so that it can be played in another device. Below is an example, where video from camera will be converted for phone format (mp4). The tool contains … Continue reading
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Piano basics, parts, how it works, how to find middle C and frequencies of the notes
www.teach-me-piano.com has good basic information about pianos. Here below are links to look at. Parts of piano Piano Action How to find middle C Fingering Another site, http://www.ptg.org has good sources as well Great video on how piano keys … Continue reading
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Chords and fingering, and example set
For each chord, there exist alternative ways to play them. In some cases, one can play inversions instead of the normal chord. I use inversions in order to fit my fingers more comfortably on the keyboard. For more about Chords … Continue reading
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Piano Chords and fingering, and video course
One of the first problem, when starting to play piano chords, is where to put the fingers. What is the best way? How the hand should be placed? The following list provides links to information sources. I have collected various … Continue reading
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