![]() ![]() And although it does work, the workaround is not intuitive.Īlso, since Chromecast comes with the hard-coded DNS server, it’s not easy to bypass geo-restrictions on Chromecast. Yes, you can bypass this restriction by mirroring your smartphone or computer screen instead of casting prime videos. However, my biggest issue with Chromecast is that you can’t stream Amazon Prime videos with it. That way when I’m done, I can just leave the remote for the next person. I often felt the need for a dedicated remote and UI, especially when I share my TV. When it comes streaming though, it’s not the best, I mean, sure, I can stream apps like YouTube and Netflix flawlessly, but since Chromecast use your smartphone as a remote (it doesn’t have a dedicated remote like other streaming apps) it makes it hard to jump 10 secs forward or backward on a video. If you’re looking to cast from 3rd party video apps to your television (like Terrarium TV), or if you want to mirror your smartphone screen to your television, Chromecast does it best. ![]() The biggest selling point though is it’s screen mirroring feature. So even if you turn off the smartphone, Chromecast will automatically fetch the next video. And once the video gets cast, it works directly with the router. You can cast from Netflix, Hulu and YouTube videos from your smartphone to your TV. Chromecast ($35)Ĭhromecast was the first streaming device that I used. So, let’s begin Streaming Devices Compared 1. Though, instead of getting into jargon like specs and pricing, I’ll be talking from my personal experiences with these streaming devices. So, in this article, we’ll be comparing the five most popular streaming devices - Chromecast, Fire Stick, Roku, Android TV, and Apple TV, and help you find the best fit for your living room. However, with so many options to choose from like Chromecast, Fire Stick, Roku, etc, it might get difficult to pick the right one for you. Simply plugged in the in the HDMI dongle to the HDMI port of your television and you are good to go. Depending on where someone's particular needs lie, both of these gadgets are easy to recommend.Streaming devices make it easier to watch your internet TV on your regular TV. For Android folks, the Chromecast with Google TV delivers many of the same streaming features at a much lower price. For iPhone users that want the Apple experience everywhere they go, the Apple TV 4K is worth the increased cost over the Chromecast. That ultimately makes this a matter of ecosystem preference. Its improved performance and storage are things that all users can enjoy, but it isn't worth an extra $130 over the Chromecast with Google TV for those two things alone. It's not a deal-breaker, by any means, but it is noticeably slower compared to Apple's streaming box.įor anyone with an iPhone, the benefits of the Apple TV 4K keep piling on. There's a virtual Apple TV remote in the iPhone's Control Center, the Apple TV acts as a hub for HomeKit smart home devices so they can be controlled from anywhere, it's the only way to access Apple Fitness+ on a television, and the new Color Balance feature uses an iPhone's light sensor to automatically adjust colors for anything playing on the Apple TV.Īs many of these features only matter to iPhone users, however, the Apple TV 4K doesn't make much sense for anyone outside of the Apple ecosystem. ![]() It gets the job done and runs streaming apps just fine, but it's also prone to lagging/stuttering when navigating applications. By comparison, the Chromecast features a quad-core Amlogic processor. From navigating apps, playing games, or streaming 4K video, the Apple TV 4K keeps up with it all. It's powered by Apple's A12 processor (the same one used for the iPhone XS), which translates to extremely fast performance for just about anything. Another perk of the Apple TV 4K is its performance. That should be enough for most people, but for anyone who subscribes to many streaming services, it is possible to fill up that 8 GB rather quickly. Users can choose between 32 or 64GB of space, whereas the Chromecast is limited to just 8GB. For one thing, the Apple TV 4K has considerably more storage than the Chromecast. Having so much in common with the Apple TV 4K is a good look for the Chromecast with Google TV, but that's not to say the two devices are completely equal.
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![]() He’d taunt them with sexist trash talk first. And, towards the end, sour.” He wrestled mostly female volunteers, because he couldn’t wrestle that well, and because he liked wrestling women. “Because he had embraced a world with so much sugar in it,” Lorne Michaels once suggested in a GQ oral history of Kaufman’s life, “his comedy became much more astringent. It was about him feeling hemmed-in by Latka and by the show, which was a good sitcom but also a constrictive space for a restless talent. And in the last few years of his life he poured most of his creative energy into a quixotic second career as a bad-guy pro wrestler. After he was famous, he took a night job as a busboy at the Posh Bagel restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard, just to see what would happen. He had to find new ways to provoke and confuse while incorporating his growing fame into the gag.Īnd he did. Presumably the show’s success made it harder for him to mess with people in public without being recognized. He also stopped walking around with his tape recorder. Kaufman stopped doing Foreign Man once he became Latka. Latka was a version of Foreign Man that NBC ABC owned, and he never turned into Elvis, but sometimes he turned into a smooth-talking ladies’ man named Vic Ferrari. Kaufman’s transformation into Elvis revealed that Foreign Man’s sad, sweaty failure, his abjection, had been just part of the show all along Elvis released the audience from the discomfort Foreign Man had created, because if Elvis was the reality then Foreign Man was just a mask, and this was somehow comforting. Then he would announce that he wanted to im-ee-tehhht de Elvis Presley, and he’d turn around and do a costume change, and when he faced the crowd again, Kaufman would do his extraordinary Elvis impersonation, an Elvis impersonation even Elvis himself was said to have praised, and people who’d never seen the act before felt amazement and relief. Foreign Man, who hailed from an island in the Caspian Sea, spoke with a thick, unplaceable accent and did jokes and impressions so ineptly you began to feel bad for him. Latka was based on “Foreign Man,” a character he’d developed years earlier in his nightclub act. He amassed around 80 hours of taped material, but never got around to doing anything with it.īy the end of the ’70s, he was into his second season playing the immigrant mechanic Latka Gravas on Taxi. When people asked him what he was doing, he told them he was making a record, and that they’d be on it. Sometimes he’d just set the recorder down in a crowded room, on the off chance that it would pick up something interesting, and capture long stretches of wordless ambience instead. ![]() ![]() He’d record himself talking to his grandmother. He’d record phone conversations with women he was seeing, often antagonizing them just to see what they’d say. He’d record the moments of strange, often confrontational improvised street theater into which he liked to draw unsuspecting strangers. ![]() There was this period in the ’70s when the comedian and actor Andy Kaufman always kept a tape recorder close at hand. ![]() By doing this, we slow down the cook in order for the chops to cook more even. Now flip the chops over and move to the indirect side of the grill. Set a timer for 2 minutes then twist the chops 90⁰ and cook an additional 2 minutes. If you’re doing multiple chops work in batches. Lightly spray the GrillGrates with cooking spray and lay each chop on the direct heat side of the grill. Chefs have been using similar grates in steak houses for a long time, and now you can duplicate the same style right at home. These grates are designed to even out heat and produce sear marks without the flare ups. The big secret to these chops is using a set of GrillGrates (check these GrillGates out here >). When the coals are hot, pour them onto one side of the fire grate leaving a void on the opposite side. Fill a charcoal chimney with fresh coal and use a couple wax starter cubes to get it going. Let the chops rest for 30 minutes and fire up the grill.įor this cook I’m using my brand new PK 360 grill (won this beauty last week at an SCA contest!) but any charcoal or gas grill will do the job. Today I’m cutting the loin into extra thick portions then butter-flying each piece into one large, thick-cut Steakhouse Pork Chop.Įach chop is generously seasoned with my Killer Hogs AP Rub (Salt, Black Pepper, and Garlic) then layered with coarse ground Killer Hogs Steak Rub. ![]() ![]() I’m starting with a center cut portion of a pork loin. This week I want to share with you my version of Steakhouse Pork Chops. Chefs are selecting Premium Heritage bred pork for its superior taste and grilling it just like other cuts of beef. These aren’t your ordinary Pork Chops! Besides beef, fine steak houses often offer Steakhouse Pork Chops on the menu. Print Recipe Steakhouse Pork Chops Recipe. But it’s worth double-checking the product description to find out. Usually, this falls somewhere between 12 and 24 hours. Pay attention to how long a concealer is supposed to last before needing to be reapplied. So it pays to snag a concealer that promises long-lasting coverage. Having to reapply makeup frequently can be straight-up frustrating. This variety should make it easier to find a shade that suits you just right. If you already know your exact shade, great! But if you don’t, consider shopping for a concealer that comes in a wide shade range. ![]() Anyone who’s bought concealer before knows this can be surprisingly hard to pull off. ![]() Unless you’re using your concealer as a highlighter or contour product, you probably want your concealer to blend into your skin. “Unless you’re a cosmetic chemist, you can analyze an ingredient list forever but you won’t really know how a concealer really interacts with your skin until you try it.” No type is necessarily better or worse than any other-so experiment with a few, keep track of what you like, and stock up! “Don’t be afraid to play around and experiment!” Fong says. ![]() What to Look For in a Waterproof Concealer StyleĬoncealers are available in many forms, including liquids, creams, sticks, and sometimes, even powders. If you're looking for a budget-friendly pick, you can't go wrong with Maybelline's Super Stay Concealer, which is packed with hydrating ingredients and also has serious staying power. Benefit’s Boi-ing Cakeless Concealer is our favorite waterproof concealer, and it’s not hard to see why: It goes on smoothly and sticks around for up to 24 hours at a time. ![]() “That's the worst feeling." Rae has since denied any claims that she was romantically linked to Harlow. "I think she led me on,” he said during an episode of Sway Life. The news of Rae and Harlow possibly being together seemed to break Hall’s heart. speculation began circulating that Addison Rae was dating Omer Fedi after the pair were seen. But those rumors quickly died when Rae was reportedly spotted with Jack Harlow. Rae previously posted a photo of pink roses to her Instagram story, tagging Fedi in the corner. In April, rumors started surfacing that Rae and Hall might be getting back together when they took a trip to Atlanta for the Triller Fight Club boxing match. “With all that stress, we've mutually decided that it would be best if we parted ways.” “ Both of us are going through a sh*t ton of things right now behind the scenes that we don't necessarily comfortably want to talk about to a camera especially,” he said. However, both Hall and Salvador have denied any cheating claims, and in YouTube video, Hall explained why he and Rae really split. The two social media stars dated on-and-off-again for over a year before they finally ended things for good in March 2021, when Hall was accused of cheating with fellow influencer Samantha Salvador while in Vegas. ![]() Though the two have yet to confirm the romance themselves, chances are Rae’s ex Bryce Hall is feeling a little jealous. By August, fans felt pretty certain Rae and Fedi were an item when they were spotted holding hands on what appeared to be a lunch date in Los Angeles. Included in the story was a video of two shadows kissing. Rae hinted at their connection in a July 2021 Instagram story she posted. During the first few months of 2021, social media began to disseminate allegations that Rae and Fedi were dating. The following month, Rae first teased their romance when she shared a video of herself kissing a mystery man to her Instagram Story, which Fedi later shared to his own Story. In the summer of 2021, Addison Rae began dating Omer Fedi. She thinks he’s so cool and loves his music.” And apparently, Rae and Fedi’s relationship is “getting pretty serious” already.ĭating speculation first began in June, when Rae was reportedly spotted with Fedi an at MGK pop-up concert. (Considering Fedi is Machine Gun Kelly’s guitarist, it’s possible Travis Barker is one of those mutual friends, as Rae is BFFs with Barker’s girlfriend, Kourtney Kardashian.) The insider continued, “She’s very into him. ![]() Though it’s unclear how they first met, the two reportedly have “a lot of mutual friends in common,” per the Us Weekly source. 26, adding that the TikTok star and the musician are “very smitten” with each other. “ Addison and Omar are super into each other,” the insider claimed on Aug. Well, after much speculation, a source for Us Weekly claimed Addison Rae and Omer Fedi are dating, and apparently, they’ve been together for four months already. Are they or aren’t they a couple? I’m pretty sure that question has been on everyone’s minds since Addison Rae and her rumored BF first sparked dating rumors back in June. Unlike DTI, a credit score doesn’t take income into account. Lenders want to see the other pieces of your financial picture. Your DTI is an important part of the equation lenders use to decide if you qualify for a mortgage – but it’s not the only part. If you can demonstrate that you’re a sure bet to repay your loan, lenders will be eager to offer you a competitive interest rate and may be more open to negotiating the terms of your home loan.Įmail Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Twitter What Do Lenders Look at Beyond DTI? In general, the lower your DTI, the likelier it is that lenders will consider giving you a mortgage. And this could mean a less favorable interest rate on the loan. The higher your DTI, the more cautious lenders will be about offering you a mortgage. But to do that, you’ll have to go through a more rigorous underwriting process, which means your lender will need to take a deeper dive into your finances before they can approve you.
![]() NET Framework 4.0, which GIF Screen Recorder will automatically install if it is missing. The resulting image will appear on your desktop as a. + Shift + 4 + press Space to take a quick screenshot of the active window. GIF Screen Recorder will work on Windows XP through Windows 10, but requires. Here's a quick reminder for you with the combinations that capture screen on macOS: + Shift + 3 to take a screenshot of the whole screen. Save as GIF: After stopping the recording, go to the ' File ' menu. Stop recording: To end the recording, either click the stop button in the menu bar or press Command + Control + Esc. To record the entire screen, simply click anywhere on the screen. GIF Screen Recorder lets you record all or part of your screen and then edit the output afterward, so you can make the perfect GIF. Start recording: Click the record button and select the area of the screen you want to capture. After testing quite a few, we think the easiest one to use is GIF Screen Recorder. ![]() This free application allows you to capture any part of your. How to Create a GIF of Your Screen on Windowsįor Windows, you'll find a bevy of free screen-to-GIF programs out there. Learn how to easily record your Mac OS screen and save it as an animated GIF using LICEcap. Next, click on 'Start Capture' and that's it. Click on the Scribe widget in your Chrome toolbar. Once you've installed Scribe, open the screen you want to record and convert into a GIF on your Mac device. Truly, a picture is worth a thousand words. Getting started with Scribe to record GIFs on MacStep 1: Capture your process. One of the more practical uses of animated GIFs is making screen recordings, which can then be inserted into instructional articles and so forth, to better illustrate a point or process. The format itself isn't necessarily the best for sharing moving images, with more efficient formats on the horizon like GIFV, but the renaissance of animated images has led to dozens of GIF sites and a whole crop of specialized apps that let you create and share all sorts of animated GIFs. GIFs go back about as long as the Internet has been popular. ![]() ![]() You spend a lot of time at Ed's home and it's interestingly designed as you'll see it change as you move through time via the retelling of his childhood. Speaking of which, the graphics of Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo may leave a lot to be desired yet there are interesting scenes such as the bridge where the tragedy took place and the Millers' lakeside home complete with tree house, dock, and viewing point. I also found a good chunk of the character lines and gestures to feel forced and combining that with the often ugly character models, I sometimes had to remind myself that it's worth playing for the story and to just be patient. I'm not sure what the developers were intending with these moments but it threw me off. I often found myself watching a character just stare off into space or do an action for a long time thus creating an awkward pause. Unfortunately, the voice acting is quite hit and miss which matches up with the pacing of some scenes. There was one particular scene that really creeped me out when I was walking through an elderly couple's home while looking for them. Interesting speculation, docĪlfred Hitchcock: Vertigo handles atmosphere well via building tension through its superb sound design. For example, I found myself empathising with the psychologist more than Ed whose story also becomes part of the narrative. Thankfully, the overarching story makes up for this and there are other reasons to play through to the end. Near the end, you can see him starting to change but I could understand being put off by his demeanour enough to the point that you may not want to continue playing. However, I must address Ed Miller as a character he's an obnoxious person who is very reluctant to receive help through most of the story. I loved this way of storytelling as I found myself thinking ahead about what might actually be happening when watching Ed's initial rendition of the events and then seeing if it matched up after the hypnosis. ![]() As he digs deeper, you'll uncover what really happened in those moments which usually turns out to be something much more serious and sometimes sinister than initially assumed. ![]() In these sessions, Ed will initially talk through what he remembers as a happy event but when entering hypnosis, you will get to rewind and play the event as you please pausing at the odd point to inspect where Ed will answer probing questions from the psychologist. Whoever decorated this house sure loves garage salesĭuring Ed's sessions with the psychologist, he lies in bed and is sent into a trance in the hopes of helping him remember lost memories of his childhood. There isn't really any kind of puzzle-solving or searching for clues as it's more about going through the motions to get to the next plot point. You actually play through the eyes of a variety of characters and you'll get to explore the different scenes of the story from their perspectives. With that in mind, the gameplay is quite barebones so be prepared to mostly watch scenes unfold with the odd quick-time event that happens just often enough to require you to keep the controller in your hands. If there's one thing that Vertigo does very well, it's crafting a story that's compelling enough to make anyone want to play it through to the end. I rarely saw what was coming and slowly learning about the relationships between the characters was always interesting. When things started to heat up, I found myself wanting to keep playing as if I was compelled to binge-watch a great TV show. The story of Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo is lengthy and complicated but I was impressed by how well the developers told it without losing my attention. Miller works through the events that happened with a psychologist retelling episodes from his childhood that he had blocked from his memory and learning how they're intertwined with recent events. Ever since that day, he's been unable to get out of bed without suffering terrible bouts of vertigo. □ Meetings like this never end wellĮd Miller wakes up at the scene of a car crash dizzy and confused when he notices his father standing on the edge of a bridge about to jump. │ Nothing causes more disappointment than hype so at Video Chums, we avoid hyping games prior to playing them for ourselves. Watch a complex story unravel with many twists and turns in a modern nod to a classic film with Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo. Reviewed by Mary Billington playing an Xbox One on Octo□Īlfred Hitchcock: Vertigo is also available for PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch With a little practice, runes are not difficult for English speakers to read. It is obvious to see how common influence between runes and English letters used today, such as the T, O, F and S seen in the image of the above pendants. While evidence suggests that most Vikings could read the runes on at least a basic level, for them the true study and understanding of these symbols was a pursuit fit for the gods. Rather than being penned on vellum or parchment, runes were usually carved on wood, bone, or stone, hence their angular appearance. Because they had inherent meaning, they could be used as a means of communication between the natural and supernatural, and could thus be used in spells for protection or success.Ĭarved on sticks, bone, shells, or other objects, runes could be cast and deciphered to discern the present or predict the future. They could be carved into runestones to commemorate ancestors and mark the graves of heroes. Instead, runes were originally for inscriptions of great importance. However, they did not use this writing the way we do now, or even the way Mediterranean and other neighboring cultures did then. The Norse and other Germanic peoples wrote with runes since at least the first century. ![]() So, we see from this story how the Vikings thought of runes not merely as letters but as having potent virtues within themselves of a metaphysical or even magical nature. Odin made his sacrifice at great anguish and risk to himself because he knew that the runes conveyed deep meaning, and if he could understand their meaning he would gain profound wisdom and power. In Norse lore, the god, Odin, impaled his heart with his own spear and hung on the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nights all to perceive the meaning of the runes. The runes were symbols that sprang from the Well of Urd – the source of fate. For example, to animate the diffuse material color, set the frame number, point the mouse at the diffuse color in the Material properties panel, and hit the I key. ![]() You can also animate many of the properties in the Properties Editor panel. You will asked to confirm that you want to delete the keyframe. To delete a keyframe from an object, go to the frame from which you want to delete the value, select the object, and hit ALT-I. Then, when you drag the green line in the timeline back and forth, you can see how the object animates. ![]() Note that “LocRot” means to insert values for both Location and Rotation, and “LocRotScale” means to insert values for all three properties.Īfter inserting one key frame, change the current frame number, move or rotate or scale the object to the values that you want for the new keyframe, and use the I key again. A popup menu will allow you to select the property or properties for which you want to insert key values. (The mouse cursor must be in the 3D View for this work.) The value for a property is taken from the value of that property in the current frame. Select the object and hit the I key to insert a key frame value for that object. Select the frame number for which you want to enter a key value, by clicking in the timeline or editing the current frame number in the input below the timeline. To animate an object, you need to enter values for one or more of its properties for at least two key frames. You can even drag the green line to change the frame number, and the 3D View will change as you drag it. You can click on the timeline to set the current frame. Yellow lines mark frames that have been set as key frames for the selected object. The thicker, green line marks the current frame on the timeline. Note that 250 frames make a rather short animation when viewed at a typical 30 or 60 frames per second.Ībove the frame numbers and playback controls is the timeline itself, with the frame number running along an axis from left to right. They also determine what frames will be included when you render an animation. The start and end frames are used when you use the playback buttons. To the right of the frame number buttons is a set of playback controls, which run the animation in the 3D View window. These are numerical input buttons that you can edit. The current frame number specifies the frame that is displayed in the 3D View. On the bottom of the timeline panel, you see the starting frame, the end frame, and the current frame of the animation (1, 250, and 20 in the picture). There is Timeline frame at the bottom of the default Blender window that contains some information about animations and lets you control them: Exactly how the interpolation is done is determined by a set of “F-curves,” which you can edit to completely control the interpolation (and extrapolation beyond the key frames). You need to set the plane to be a rigid body, set to passive.\)īlender uses “keyframe animation.” That is, you set the value of a property, such as location or scale, in several “key” frames in the animation, and Blender will compute a value for other frames by interpolating between the values for the key frames. For blender render rigid bodies set both the cache and timeline to the correct frame range.Īnother question I have is that cubes I have created and set as rigid body in blender render mode, don’t collide with the plane I inserted, the cubes just pass thorugh the plane. ![]() If you want to set up rigid bodies in the GE set it up in ‘Blender Game’ not rigid bodies in the Blender Render. Playing back any saved animation is as long as the frames set on the timeline. If goes on as long as you are ruiing the game engine. The animation in the the game engine doesn’t have a real limit. Is any way to create longer animations in blender game?. Quicker doing what ? Simulation or rendering.įor that reason, when I changed the cache end frame and the timeline, as I changed to blender game it doesn’t work. The problem was that I wanted to use the blender game and not the blender render, because I think it is quicker blender game when doing the animation. |
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