Gearfuse

Hey… it works for guidos right?

Follow us on Twitter… coooome oooonnn

Fan us on Facebook… cooooome ooooonnnn

Thank your mother for last night… coooooome ooooonnn

But in all honesty, come on, I mean… cooooooome oooonnnn, come out of your shell a bit. We’re the nice sort of geek that offers free candy and promises of gadgetry. Oh, oh, plus special exclusive discounts every once in while for our social users. It’s an offer you can’t refuse.

Now get outta here before I smack ya head.

Hey y’all. I know you probably just rolled out of bed or maybe just rolled into bed, depending on how dead-ass drunk you are, so this might not be the post you were looking for, but hey, it’s gotta be done!

We just wanted to let you know that Gearfuse has finally made the jump to Facebook. We’d love if all of you could become fans on our Facebook page. To do so, all you have to do is go to our Facebook page and click the “Become a fan” button. It’s that easy. And if you’re here reading this post, we can only assume that you have some sort of fandom, so please, give us a few seconds of your time!

We’ll try to make it worth your while by holding some awesome conversations about all things geeky. Thanks peeps. We love you all. Really.

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Just a quick heads up to all who may have missed our earlier post. We’re now on Twitter! It’s the best way to get your daily ‘Fuse fill when you’re on the go and can’t fire up our website. Follow us at twitter.com/gearfuse!

Gearfuse has finally taken the plunge and now has an official Twitter account. You can follow us at twitter.com/gearfuse. We’ll have updates on badass posts, contests and a whole lot more. Start following us today and make us feel privileged and special!

Gearfuse.com, one of the finest websites on the Internet, will now become a parkour-focused website. The move will enable Gearfuse to post more YouTube clips of Frenchmen jumping across buildings than ever before. Publisher Steve Rufer said that he is “grateful we could make this kind of switch. I recently moved to Paris and can’t stop jumping over women and baguettes! It’s intense! Parkour, baby!”

All employees will now be required to wear short shorts, running shoes and a headband while writing. A live video feed will show the writer shirtless at his desk, writing about the latest parkour news available. After all blogging is done for the day, said writers will have to continuously run for three miles while hopping over obstacles in the way.

The new era of Gearfuse is upon us! Let us rejoice and run!

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About six months ago, I was reading up on music creation and the program Max/MSP, a graphical workflow environment for creating and manipulating audio and video. Very complex, but powerful stuff. The author of Max/MSP, Miller S. Puckette, later created a piece of similar, open-source software called Pure Data (pd). Pure Data is similar to Max/MSP except that it’s free for anyone to use and make stuff with.

In this post, we’ll go over what exactly I managed to do with PD. It involved using an M-Audio MIDI controller to manipulate videos in a real-time graphical environment. Sound too complicated or scary for you? It’s really not. C’mon, I’ll show you how it works.
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My apologies for the lack of posting today. We got stuck on a train headed back to New York City today and it was just an awful mess. We’ll return tomorrow to our regular posting schedule. Look for a post within the next hour announcing the winners of our Killzone 2 contest!

I was asked by the developers of SmartRSS 2 to play around with it before its release on the iTunes App Store. The software, released by Visuamobile, is one of the best RSS readers I’ve used period, let alone for an iPhone. It’s very quick and although it lags up at times, this is expected when you’re grabbing hundreds of RSS feeds at once.

Adding a new feed is easy. Just use the menu (seen above) and search for your favorite website or blog. If it’s not listed, you can manually enter the feed URL. You can also import an OPML file via your Google Reader account, which sets up in seconds. All of the other standard features you’d expect in an RSS reader are here and the formatting is perfect for the iPhone 3G.
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Our contest is heating up! Looks like you guys really want to get in on the Killzone 2 action before everyone else. I applaud you for that. Here are some choice comments left by our dear readers so far:

“I have a stupid name. You must see it at the frontline when the hell starts. Dont mind about halo. I wont.”
“man,, i’ll suck your dick for a killzone 2 code”
“Killzone will own every single shoother thats now out. Grafics Top . Mp is just awsome .the new way to play Multiplayer. Blood, gore evrithing is better than those Halo puppies.”

You all never cease to amaze me. Now get your ass over to the official page and enter already. I want to form a team when this fucking demo comes out and you better believe Team Gearfuse will be in full effect.

Like the shitty iPhone 3G picture I took above? Just a taste of what our winners will receive.

You and I both know that the hottest game of 2009 is going to be Killzone 2 for the Playstation 3. So why do we torture ourselves over this? Do the right thing: enter our contest and you could win a beta key for the exclusive Killzone 2 demo. Did I mention we have not one but two to give away?

Stop letting the Helghast have all the fun. Enter now and play with us online come February 5th.