I was looking for software to edit a video which had some problems with the sound in it. So I needed a bit more options than those offered in "VideoEditor" (Win10) or "iMovie" (MacOs). After some searching I found this gem: DaVinci Resolve 16. It has so many features it needs you to spend time with the tutorials, but it works and best of all it's free.

Remember when video games were best played on an Arcade machine? I was triggered by a post on Arcade games to check if it was possible to play Ms Pac Man one more time. It turned out to be really easy. After looking at a couple of options, I downloaded MAMEUI64, which is a "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator", meaning that it's software that can play original arcade games from multiple vendors.

I was looking for a text to speech solution for one of my projects to provide narrative to an eductational animation video. The video’s are explaining how to perform certain Scrum sprint events. After trying a lot of sites and software, I ended up with Google.

It's really impressive how the sentences are so close to being natural speech.

In order to give this website some nice backgrounds in the banner session on the homepage, I had to fiddle around with some nice pictures from my photo archive. It had been a while, so I looked for the freeware I knew from years back called "pain.net". It is still there and it has all the features you need for small projects like these.

Have you ever used one of these? It's a 360 cam. I think it's the easiest way to make pictures without having to check your view or angle. The cam is small (fits into your hand) so it's light to carry around on a holiday trip. 

Below you find an example of a 360 picture taken in the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

A year ago I bought a second hand Native Instruments DJ set (Traktor S2 MK2 & F1) and started fiddling around with it. This summer a young friend of the family made a nice “tag” using FL Studio and Google’s text to speech engine. You can listen to "my tag" which is included in this six track practice mix (at 1:08).

Na het doorakkeren van allerlei sites over ZZP, heb ik de volgende mindmap gemaakt om overzicht te creeren over hoe het werkt met belastingen als je ZZP-er wordt.

ZZP en belastingdienst - mindmap (new window)

Een tijd terug heb ik in Excel-VBA een tooltje gemaakt die het DSS resultaat stroom-diagram van de KNLTB volgt mbt rating bij het dubbelspel. Het was een goede oefening om meer gevoel en ervaring met VBA "programmeren" in Excel te krijgen. 

Deze code zorgt ervoor dat je alvast kijken wat de impact is op jouw rating als je wint of verliest in een dubbelspel.