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How-To: Reflective surfaces

Reflective surfaces are tricky, to say the least. What makes them so tricky is, unless you are looking at a truly reflective surface or a truly matte surface with no specularity, all surfaces change reflectivity based on the angle you are viewing them at. If you don’t believe me, go find a puddle and start [...]

How-To: Playlist exporting from iTunes

I recently(well a few months ago) bought a Motorola Droid as an upgrade to my old phone. I must say I love it, and the fact it came with a 16gb SD card means I can replace my iPod. After starting the transition I realized it cannot read the playlist file type that iTunes uses(though [...]

How-To: Environment Variables in Windows

This is a rather basic yet important tutorial dealing with Environment Variables and setting them up. An example of this would be if you had an execution script such as this: “java -classpath .;cutter.jar Cutter” Those of you at SCAD who have had Prof Kesson should recognize this script. When you try to execute this [...]