Scanlators, the new DRM

Friday, November 11th, 2011

It has come to my attention that groups have been trying to stop manga sites from “ripping” their work by using PDFs with passwords and other “secure” options (that includes watermarks and stamps)  to prevent them from uploading images to the sites. In a sense, they are creating a DRM (Digital Rights Management). Here’s my [...]

Auto-Tuning

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Made famous by artists like Cher and more recently  T-Pain,  auto-tuning has become the new rage.  For those who don’t know, auto-tune is a program by which a singers voice can be manipulated to hit the perfect notes and have vibrato and feeling added.  It can also be used to create ridiculous effects and turn [...]