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I Like Them Too!: Happy World Turtle Day!
If you're reading this on Sunday, it's World Turtle Day. But if you're reading this on Monday, it's the day after World Turtle Day. And if you aren't reading this till Tuesday or later I think it's pretty obvious you don't love me anymore and that makes me a very sad boy. Anyway, turtles. Admit it -- you know you like them!
The purpose of World Turtle Day, May 23, sponsored yearly since 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue, is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive.
Turtle Day is celebrated worldwide in a variety of ways, from dressing up as turtles to saving turtles caught on highways, to research activities.
Somebody's getting high and watching TMNT this afternoon! Is it you? Because it isn't me. I'm playing Super Mario Galaxy 2, son!
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Thanks to Darwin, who I'd naturally select first for my kickball team any day.
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In far less depressing (non-squid) animal news, a 12-year old African spur-thighed tortoise NAMED GAMERA (♫ Gamera is really neat, Gamera is filled with meat ♫) had to have its front left leg amputated after a severe burn and tissue damage. So what did the vets do? What a... / Continue →

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Bates and Bowdoin bands bring Caribbean music to the stageAn evening of island music from all over features performances by two Bates bands — the Indonesian-style Gamelan Mawar Mekar and the Steel Pan Rhythm Riders — and their special guests, the Bowdoin College World Music Ensemble, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public. |


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Comparison: Comprehensive Investment Web Sites
by John Bajkowski
Of course, not all comprehensive Web sites are created equal. While all offer a wide range of data and tools, some have a greater emphasis in one area, such as mutual funds, while others offer in-depth market news and analysis. Your particular needs will steer you to the site that can help you the most. For example, Morningstar.com offers detailed mutual fund data and strong portfolio analysis, while Wall Street City features strong stock screening using technical studies.
The comparison grid covers four basic areas—portfolio monitoring, fundamental stock analysis, technical analysis, and mutual funds. The top section of the grid lists the Web site name, the firm producing the site, the Web site's URL address, and basic subscription information. The majority of the sites are free, but some sites are fee-based or have a multi-tiered pricing structure. The fees indicated are monthly.
Monitoring Your Portfolio
Web-based portfolio managers range from simple pages that track the market value of your holdings to sophisticated systems that analyze your holdings and alert you to unbalanced portfolio positions. Most investors desire an on-line portfolio manager that extends beyond just obtaining the latest quote and calculating the market value of their holdings. The better systems display any pertinent news on securities in your portfolio, follow the activity of the financial markets, and help to analyze your holdings based on factors such as asset allocation, industry concentration, and company market capitalization breakdown.
The portfolio monitoring segment of the comparison grid helps to quantify some of the key elements involved in keeping track of a portfolio.
The services provide a price snapshot that can be updated through another quote request by clicking on the refresh button of your Web browser. However, some vendors offer continuous quote streams on a delayed basis, in which the prices of tracked securities are updated automatically during the course of the day. These streaming quote services often require a subscription. The current quotes line of the comparison grid indicates the types of securities for which quotes are provided.
Most of these services also feature portfolio tracking, enabling you to get quotes on all of your securities with a single request. Typically, these services will also allow you to enter the purchase price so the portfolio value and gain or loss can be tracked. As indicated in the comparison grid, some Web sites give subscribers the option of receiving portfolio price updates via E-mail.
News Updates
In addition to tracking the prices of your securities and the current value of your portfolio, it is important to keep abreast of news affecting your securities. Staying up-to-date on sector, industry and economic news, as well as individual company news, is vital when actively participating in the stock market.
Of course, the risk of overloading yourself with information can also be a problem. Therefore, it is necessary to use a site that provides newswire access with timely data, filtered appropriately to match your investment decision process. Check out the news sources and make sure your data service uses a reliable industry standard for news. Some of the better-known newswires include Reuters, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones. With newswires, more is not necessarily better. One of the national news sources above should be adequate when paired with a press-release newswire such as Market Wire or BusinessWire; additional news services will usually result in duplication of information.
However, different sites may offer newswires at different subscription rates and at various levels of detail and frequency. Investors must manage these news services according to their trading style. Active investors may want an alarm when news appears on a stock in their watch list. This requires a constant log-on to see if any relevant news items crossed the wire. The long-term, buy-and-hold investor may prefer an electronic clipping service, which collects news stories that can be read at leisure. To set up these clipping files, you must establish filters that indicate which topics and newswires interest you. Some services require you to log onto the service to see the filtered articles, while other services such as CBS MarketWatch will deliver the news stories to you via E-mail. CBS MarketWatch allows users to determine which news services should trigger an E-mail alert and whether individual E-mails should be sent out for each alert or collected into a composite alert released at given time of day. Most services also allow you to check for news on a specific company when examining your portfolio on-line. The differences lie in which specific newswire is searched and the storage depth (backdating) of that service.
Message Areas
Message areas are a good place to learn about related resources available through the Internet. The more popular investment message boards on services such as Yahoo! Finance boast discussion groups for every U.S. publicly traded company, although there is no guarantee this means an active discussion is taking place. Discussions range from news alerts or chart-pattern dissections supporting a poster's long or short perspective for a given company to emotional attacks on the character of company management or other posters.
Keep in mind that message boards often contain many advertisements and you can never be sure of the motivation driving a particular posting. Read any post on the message boards with a healthy sense of skepticism. The ability to reach a large audience at a relatively low cost is both an advantage and a burden for the Internet. Stock schemes that once required "bucket shops" with hundreds of operators trying to manipulate a penny stock can be duplicated with ease on-line. However, message boards can quickly reveal some of the factors driving a company's current stock price.
Fundamental Analysis
Researching company fundamentals is an exciting option that is becoming easier, cheaper and more powerful through investment Web sites. Most of the on-line services are offering financial statements, earnings estimates, company and industry analysis, and even education on stock valuation techniques. The comparison grid indicates the various sources of financial data provided by the sites along with any additional charges beyond the standard subscription fees. The depth and breadth of the financial data provided by each service is summarized through information on the number of companies followed and the amount and type of data provided for each company. If a service offers screening, the number of data fields available for screening is reported. Screening consists of looking through a large universe of stocks to locate a few that possess one or more desirable quantitative characteristics indicating that they merit further attention.
Technical Analysis
Technical analysis attempts to forecast price movement in a security—stock, bond, mutual fund, or option—by examining how the market price and volume of market activity behave over time. Technical analysis is dependent upon large quantities of historical price and volume data. Technicians normally use charts to plot price and volume data along with any derived indicators.
A growing number of Web sites are using licensed modules from services such as BigCharts to supply their subscribers with on-line charts. These services offer users a basic set of technical indicators and data that typically covers at least a 10-year period, as well as intraday charts.
The comparison grid indicates if charting is available, along with any additional costs required to use the charting module, and the charting source.
Securities covered, time period charted, and availability of technical indicators are details that help to measure the functionality of the site's charting module. A checkmark for historical prices indicates that data can be downloaded for use in software programs.
Mutual Funds
All of the profiled Web sites provide mutual fund data. The comparison grid notes the source of the data along with any subscription charges. The data source often determines the presentation and depth of available information. Most of the sites with mutual fund data provide basic performance data, benchmark data for comparison, and cost data. Screening and ranking are also becoming more common, and these functions are noted in the comparison grid.
Analyzing Your Goals
All of these options require you to balance your needs, wants, time constraints, and budget. It is important to be realistic about what you are trying to accomplish with your investing.
If you have a large portfolio that you are actively trading, requiring timely data for a wide range of securities, then you can justify the subscription to several data sources to help in your decision-making processes. If you need a data service to update the pricing in your portfolio once a week, you have no need for real-time data feeds. However, you may still need the same amount of data depending on the size of your portfolio. Another investor may want all of this data, but the size of his investment portfolio and respective time horizon simply do not match—the cost of this mismatch will eat up profits.
Business Week Online
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Business Week Online combines elements of the Business Week publication, Standard & Poor's data and analysis, and financial data and tools from Telescan and Zacks. Business Week Online is primarily a free site that also provides enhanced reports for subscribers to Business Week magazine.
The site features domestic and global news covering current market, economic, and political news. A technology section provides news and special reports on the tech sector and technology-driven issues involving the markets. Within this section there are additional news stories on science & technology and biotech developments.
Business Week Online uses portfolio tracking, screening, and analysis tools provided by Telescan, which also runs the Wall Street City site. The portfolio manager allows users to track 25 portfolios of 150 securities each, as well as track a separate cash balance. Portfolios are updated automatically every two minutes, and free E-mail alerts are triggered by price targets. End-of-day portfolio E-mail updates are also available.
Portfolios can be viewed using eight different displays including analyst ratings, insider trading, and price breakouts. The price breakouts look at short-, intermediate-, and long-term trends versus 30-day moving averages. Performance reports can be calculated for individual securities and single portfolios, with returns for the holding period only.
Business Week Online provides three Telescan-based stock screening tools within the Tools & Scoreboards segment of the site. The BW 50/S&P 500 Screener provides access to annual magazine rankings of the S&P 500 stocks. The quick stock search and advanced stock search share a similar interface but vary in the number of screening fields supported—20 versus 75. Users can establish minimum or maximum values for a given criterion or specify that the passing value be as high or low as possible. Screening results can be displayed in a table or spreadsheet file. Screening results feature a backtested performance report of the strategy. The screening editor is basic, but covers the major elements used for screening.
The mutual fund screening is powered by Standard & Poor's Micropal database. It features 30 screenable fields, and up to five columns of data can be used for sorting the results. The screening interface comes with a nice "add another row" feature for each of its screenable fields which allows users to create screens that encompass a range of analysis periods.
Business Week magazine subscribers gain access to magazine content on-line and receive two free S&P reports each month. Site-only users who register for free have access to all areas—including the investing tools—except those tied to current and archived magazine content.
CBS MarketWatch
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CBS MarketWatch is a rich resource for company and market news coupled with a growing set of stock and mutual fund data and analysis tools.
CBS MarketWatch is a good site for keeping up to date on your portfolio and the market as a whole. Tables provide details on events such as stock splits, volume alerts, insider stock sales, and share buybacks. Beyond news, the service offers free multiple portfolios, market and company research, stock screening, charting, and mutual fund data. Mid-day and end-of-day E-mail updates provide summaries of market activity coupled with links to major market stories. CBS MarketWatch also offers E-mail alerts when a given ticker or keyword is mentioned on the site or a specific column is updated.
CBS MarketWatch can handle an unlimited number of portfolios, but asks users to limit portfolios to 200 securities per portfolio—consisting of stocks, mutual funds, and options. Portfolio performance measures are available for the holding periods of securities and single portfolios. Special views are available for portraying portfolio asset allocation and insider trading activity. The service offers a pop-up window that tracks the performance of the holdings of your portfolio with automatic updates.
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This site combines editorial content from CNN and Money Magazine with the usual array of on-line portfolio tracking and analysis tools.
CNN/Money does of good job of keeping its users abreast of the news impacting the markets. The portfolio tracker is basic but adequate and includes ties to market and news E-mail alerts. Beyond press releases, the news service highlights news from Dow Jones, CNN, Money and Fortune.
CNN/Money does not offer a stock screener, but does feature a few predefined lists of "hot stocks." Company reports cover all of the basics, although navigation between research sections for a given stock can be a bit clumsy.
The mutual fund screener allows for comparison against benchmarks including constant values, other mutual funds, or indexes. Screens can be constructed using criteria encompassing elements such as performance, risk, categorization, and costs. Morningstar mutual fund reports do a good job of fulfilling individual fund research. The site also features a wide array of calculators that deal with issues such as retirement planning, asset allocation, and mortgage refinancing.
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Microsoft and CNBC offer a complete personal finance and investing site through their free Web offering. The investing section provides portfolio tracking, charts, news, educational articles, stock and mutual fund research, and brokerage services. Access to articles, news, screens, company and mutual fund data, and portfolio tracking is free to all Internet users.
The site's portfolio tool is a true module—an actual software program that is downloaded and installed on top of your browser software. It provides users with full report printing capabilities.
As a side note, the presentation of the portfolio tool is quite different and less useful on a Macintosh machine. The portfolio application handles an above-average range of securities, including bonds and options. A cash balance can also be monitored within the manager. Portfolio displays can be refreshed at any time manually by the user or automatically when you are in the module. The frequency of these automatic updates is adjustable to a timeframe selected by the user and can be as short as a minute.
The research and screening module on the site is top-notch. The company coverage is both broad and deep. The site pulls together the content of Media General, Reuters, Thomson Financial and Zacks into a comprehensive company report.
Useful charts give you options to control time periods, plot multiple securities, and overlay basic indicators such as moving averages. An intraday real-time chart is even available for free. Chart data can be exported easily into Microsoft Excel, where it can be saved for use in other programs.
Navigation between the various modules is easy and logical. The screening flexibility is above average. As with the portfolio manager, the screener is an ActiveX program that we were able to run on Windows-based systems using either Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers. On Mac systems, however, a more basic Web-based screening module is displayed.
The research wizard walks you through the factors to consider when looking at a stock, including its fundamentals, price history, valuations, catalysts, and competition. The site includes ratings for stocks that provide specific risk and reward grades.
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Forbes.com offers investors access to the articles and lists unique to the Forbes magazine. The free segments of the site feature basic portfolio management tools, stock and mutual fund analysis, and even on-line versions of investment advisory newsletters.
The portfolio manager is geared toward tracking current market values with links to news and profiles. Free company profiles are generally not as detailed as those found on other sites, with the exception of information on company executives, which includes biographies and a table of compensation.
Forbes.com offers detailed mutual fund data and a unique collection of screening criteria that follows the Forbes methodology of analyzing mutual fund risk and performance.
The fee-based real-time subscription option is geared toward the active trader closely monitoring a stock portfolio. The service has a separate set of portfolio management, charting, and analysis tools that present much more detailed stock data than the free segment of the site.
Forbes.com combines editorial features and lists from Forbes magazine with a basic set of analytical tools.
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Kiplinger.com combines the editorial content of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine with investment research tools from Thomson Finance. Kiplinger.com is a comprehensive investment Web site providing portfolio management, quotes, news, stock and mutual fund data, screening tools, and investment education.
Kiplinger.com's portfolio tracker allows users to create an unlimited number of portfolios with up to 100 securities in each. The tracker handles stocks and mutual funds. Kiplinger.com automatically adjusts the number of shares held and initial transaction price when stock splits occur. The tracker also offers an option for automatic reinvestment of dividends. With this option, additional shares will appear in the transaction history for your security each time a dividend is reported. Another nice option is the tracking of recurring investments that are made on the same day each month for the same dollar amount: Recurring investments can be automatically entered on the specified day each month, using that day's closing net asset value. The portfolio tracker is set up to automatically refresh every five minutes. You can set your own preference to update data at any interval from five to 60 minutes.
The Kiplinger's stock screener is simple but the individual company reports are very detailed, including items such as consensus earnings forecasts and recommendations, detailed financial statements and ratios, and company and industry performance statistics.
Mutual fund investors will find a wealth of data, including market commentary on current issues and trends within the mutual fund community. Mutual fund reports and basic mutual fund screening are also included. Kiplinger.com is a source of in-depth stock and fund information.
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Morningstar.com is a full-featured investment Web site providing portfolio tracking, market monitoring, stock and fund screening and research, educational articles, and message boards. While most of the site is free, Morningstar provides additional portfolio analysis, research and screening through its premium service for $12.95 per month.
Morningstar.com allows you to track stock and mutual fund portfolios, as well as analyze a portfolio's holdings and overall composition. It provides details on items such as security pricing information, security and portfolio gains and losses, basic security fundamentals, and news alerts—all the basic elements for portfolio monitoring. Portfolio X-Rays help to analyze the asset allocation and valuation level of a portfolio. Research on the site consists of stock and fund screening coupled with research reports. Free screening is basic, but the premium screening module is well-executed, allowing investors to pick from 500 criteria for stocks and 150 criteria for funds. Comprehensive stock reports consist of sections providing an intraday and long-term price chart, company profile, financial statements, stock price performance statistics, current stock and market multiples, earnings estimates, industry statistics, fund/insider ownership statistics, SEC documents, and news. The financial statements provide 10 years of income statement cash flow, and balance sheet data. The premium reports add details such as Morningstar analyst research.
Mutual fund reports provide returns for the past seven years, along with a comparison of performance to a market index and against funds with the same investment objective. Risk measures and Morningstar ratings are included for various time periods. The portfolio section of the report details items such as the fund style, top holdings, asset and industry breakdowns, and percentage of foreign holdings. Morningstar analysis rounds out the report. Articles with a focus on current market issues, interviews, and detailed educational features are located throughout the site. Message boards provide a forum for discussion of the many issues brought up in the articles. Overall, the Morningstar.com site provides a diverse set of tools for the stock and mutual fund investor, contained in a well-organized site that features clear navigation. Notably, most investors will find the free portion of the site adequate for many of their needs unless they desire detailed stock and mutual fund screening and research.
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Quicken.com is in the process of changing from a free, stand-alone investment Web site to an on-line extension of its popular personal finance software program—Quicken. Many proprietary Quicken tools are disappearing and being replaced with investment tools from Yahoo! Finance. Past users of Quicken.com have the option of buying or registering a recent copy of Quicken to continue using the Web site, or migrating their portfolio to Yahoo! Finance.
Registered Quicken.com users gain access to tools such as Quicken's One-Click ScoreCard, a retirement planner, and the stock and mutual fund evaluator. Registered users can track their portfolio on-line and maintain watchlists and on-line alerts, but E mail alerts and the enhanced on-line portfolio tool are no longer available. Quicken.com's standard on-line portfolio manger tracks 50 portfolios with 100 securities per portfolio. Portfolios can consist of stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. A cash balance can be monitored right next to your securities.
The site includes all the basic tools required to research companies, including quotes, news, portfolio tracking, company fundamentals, links to full SEC filings, insider transactions, and analyst ratings and earnings estimates. The site presents available information for each stock and mutual fund clearly.
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SmartMoney.com combines the editorial content of its magazine with a rich array of useful investment tools and research. The free site covers all of the bases—portfolio management, market news and updates, charting, company and mutual fund research, as well as educational articles on financial planning and investment analysis. The site features a unique set of analytical tools that goes beyond the standard set of repackaged data found at most investment Web sites. For example, the charting module covers a wide range of technical and fundamental factors.
SmartMoney.com includes fee-based options under the Select name. These segments offer additional analysis and commentary, fund and stock screening, real-time quotes, and portfolio tracking. Daily and weekly E-mail updates provide a handy notice of new articles posted to the Web site.
The SmartMoney Stock Screener has a database of over 9,000 NYSE, Nasdaq, and Amex stocks. Subscribers can choose from over 140 screening variables. The screener is interactive and allows users to see the impact of filter modifications. Screening criteria can be compared against fixed variables, other fields, and industry and index benchmarks. Custom screens can be saved for future use. Once you run a screen, you can create a spreadsheet and download a report on the passing companies.
SmartMoney Select's portfolio tracker allows users to track hundreds of stocks in multiple portfolios. It automatically handles stock splits and dividends, dynamically updates price changes as they occur, and allows for import from or export to Excel, Quicken, and Money. There are also analysis tools that allow you to map your portfolio, view asset allocation, and compare investments.
SmartMoney's unique but useful collection of investment tools makes this site worth checking out.
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I just started using CS6, jumping from CS3. A major tool I use is Live Trace, and I have custom settings for that. I cannot find a way to make Image Trace behave the way Live Trace did for black and white line drawings. The results I get in CS6 are far inferior to those I got in CS3 in terms of retaining the look of the original raster image. Help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I will have to leave CS3 installed just to do my Live Trace.
Here is a sample of what I mean. You can see the quality degredation in CS6 compared to CS3. (And it's much more obvious when it's full size and full resolution.)
My settings used in Live Trace (CS3) were:
The settings I tried in CS6 that gave the above result were:
Thanks for the help!
My first thought is to reduce your "Threshold" settings. In CS 3 you have it at 128 but in CS6 you have 198. This might be forcing the trace to catch too much detail and thereby tracing all the pixels from the image.
You should also try reducing the Paths and Corners settings a bit see if that helps
And maybe you should try the Create "strokes" option too. I can't help much as I don't have a copy of CS 6 yet but those are my best guesses
Give it a try and good luck
Well, I think I figured it out... The originals I have always used are the native Photoshop .eps files created by our artists. When I converted the files to .jpg and tried it, the results were exactly like the ones you got. So, not sure why CS6 doesn't like .eps files for Image Trace, but now I know...
Thanks so much for all of your help! Although it's an extra step to convert everything to .jpg, it's better than having to use two versions of Illustrator to get my work done!
You just have to play with the settings. They are different and don't behave like the ones in Live Trace did, but with some fiddling, it's possible to get results that are close to what we had before. I was able to get this result using your top image:
These are the settings I used:
See if these settings give you the results you are looking for.
Yes, the setting name is a user preference. This is exactly what happened to me in terms of my results not matching what the other people were getting (see all original posts). The issue for me turned out to be file type. I got the results shown above by using the downloaded .png image of your file from this site. Is the image you are placing in Illustrator a .png or a .jpg? If you are using a .psd file, that may be the reason. Otherwise, I have no idea.
I was very dissapointed to find out that CS6 is much inferior to CS5 or earlier versions when tracing black and white line drawings or comic art. By the way many users are of the same opinion. Here is a review of CS6 vs CS5 tracing results:
And here is my own experience. Whatever settings I try in CS6 the result is just terrible. This one is the best I could get. Details are lost. Lines are very thick.
In comparison, here is how wonderfully the same work is done by CS5, not to mention that I didn't even have to tackle with any settings at all. Just clicked the button Live Trace and got saticfactory results with the default preset.
These are original unreduced files:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61392902/Illustrator%20Bugs/Original_Raster_D rawing.jpg
P.S. It is sometimes possible to get good results in CS6, if you take the big drawing apart into small separate drawings. However it means a lot of additional work: tens of extra hours in a year in fact. Which, of coarse, undoubtfully means that CS6 is a step backwards if compared with CS5.
Besides some big complex drawings with many details can not be devided into a smaller ones. And if you don't have an earlier version of the program, in this case there is no way to get a quality trace at all!
This example, provided by unimpersonated, illustrates the deficiencies of CS6's tracing functionality perfectly.
I compared the results between CS6 and CS5 using the original raster jpg posted above. It's night and day. Right out of the box with default settings, CS5 made an incredibly accurate representation. The same results were impossible to acheive with CS6 no matter how much tweaking was involved. Even cutting the original .jpg into smaller segments could not approach the accuracy attained in CS5.
I have to agree, this appears to be quite a step backwards for the tracing function in AI.
Just wanted to add my complete agreement. I have been tracing black and white images since the times of Adobe Streamline and with CS6 there are possibly the worst ever results.
Please Adobe please, take notice and do something about it. CS5 was excellent at it - just put that bit of code back.
To all,
We all seem to be having very similar issues. From this post I have disocvered that if the image that you are choosing to trace is saved as a PNG (larger than normal), PLACED into Illustrator CS6, then traced using CS6, the outcome is much better.
I am only speaking of Black & White traces. I have not tried this in color. It hasn't been a concern of mine yet.
I am in TOTAL & COMPLETE agreement with MaxCalo!!!
Happy Creative!
I downloaded and tried Illustrator CC (the newest version). Unfortunately Adobe ignored the problem. Illustrator CC still has the same deficiencies as CS6 in tracing black&white line art. Even CorelDraw does the job much better. However the best tracing software so far is Illustrator SC5. So I'll stay with CS5, hoping that the problem will be solved in future.


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Do you know the difference between a Roth IRA and the Roth TSP option? Because if you don't, it could cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and in future income when you retire, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
00The reason why America does not have a chancedeployed decoyYahoo CEO netted at least $7.3 million (excluding $5M in limbo in stock options, for 130 days on the job or about $56,000 a day, including weekends off. Not bad for a fraud, cheat and 1% elitist. This is the reason 99% of US businesses do not have retirement plans or health insurance for the 99%. As Mike referenced about cows, us feds are those milked dry Jerseys, while congress are the $100,000 per shot, race horse studs. California may very well go down before PIIGS. BBC today reported the worlds 9th largest economy (bigger than Italy) is whacking state workers to 4 day weeks. The USA can afford to lose CA, I suggest all federal funds are cut off immediately to CA. The up side, they would be would not be subject to federal income tax, and would not receive US (domestic) Mail. The down side they would lose representation in the US Congress and could not vote in federal elections, wait would that be a down side. Mod, here is the link to the White House Memo, signed by Obama authorizing the USA to defend Kuwait and Saudi right to keep, rape and kill slaves for 2011. The law is referenced in this Memo, enjoy the truth justice and American way. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/30/presidential-memorandum-trafficking-persons The American Kuwait Embassy under the News and Event Tab has some very good bathroom break reading material on TIP, Human Rights and Religious freedoms (or not).31008{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }0Huh???Big JoeI can usually put one hand on the guardrail and try to follow you down the road, but you totally lost me today! Not one word you wrote ties back to the TSP or Roth TSP!! I honestly think its time.......31009{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }31008Joedeployed decoyI did the TSP Roth discussion thing before it was FNR. Mikes story today forgot a few critical TSP Roth things. Like holding it 5 years and until 59 1/2. TSP Roth wont do anyone any good if they are in the final 3 or going to retire and might tap TSP before 59 1/2. I was just ranting today, as Mike noted, many private sector companies do not offer retirement packages. They are cash strapped,to busy feeding the greed of the CEO and Wall Street. CA on the other hand is a prime example of where the rest of us are going to be long before TSP ever pays a cent to US. The link is for MOD, who refuses to beleive in federal laws of the land.31010{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }31009Individual MandateTeacherssonIf people are up in arms about an individual mandate to buy health insurance (from somewhere not of their choice), than why do they keep telling us that we need to buy more and more savings accounts and retirement plans? Why would I want to "buy" a Roth anything? Why is the American worker and the American federal worker always told that if you don't have enough money in retirement, you should have bought all these things? It is my right to NOT buy a "Roth" anything, and to NOT buy a big saving account and to NOT buy a TAP 529 plan for each kid, just like I don't have to buy broccoli - as the tea baggers say. For one thing, where is the money for all this? I am to put big money in savings, big money in my TSP (because after all the FERS plan is only 20% when others are getting 60%), and I'm supposed to put big money into a TAP 529 for each kid, and I'm supposed to put big money into a "Roth" this and that. No! I don't have the money! Remember under NSPS? Formerly GS-04 white collar workers started at 16K! Not enough money to drive a junker and live in mom's basement! I'm sure that the posts here today are correct in that part of being the 1%, that makes it the 1%, is knowing how to steal money and the wages of labor LEGALLY - and it is all over for the American worker if they want to benefit from their labor - they can't. The only question is what is next.31012{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }01% er ... Really?!?JBsPoint2PonderAmazing that a discussion on taking control of your retirement planning, becomes an artificial platform for the oppression of labor and 1%'ers. Really? If you don't like your job and pay, better yourself to advance in our free market based country.31016{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }31012Medical insurance should be mandatoryModerateFirst, you are not required to participate in the TSP. It is a good idea for you to do so because, if you are FERS, the government will match up to 5% of your contributions (simplified) Thus, if you do not do it, you lose money. Second, can you live on your FERS pension and social security? If so, you do not need TSP. Consider that very carefully. As far as getting medical insurance, if you get seriously ill and incur a major hospital expense, who is going to pay for it? The hospital must treat you. Why should the hospital have to incur this unreimbursed expense. Medicaid does not reimburse properly. This is the reason why medical insurance should be mandatory.worker31022{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }31012TSP and the ability for instant tradesdailycheeseIt's amazing in this world where Iphones, smartphones, etc provide instant access for nearly everything, that federal employees still have to wait 24 hours or more to move TSP funds around. I remember the days when it took 2-4 weeks to move funds. But c'mon, this is 2012! Why is this important? Because if S&P futures are up 10 this morning, there is a high probability that the market is going up today, not tomorrow. To the contrary, if something occurs in the world that impacts the market, like JP Morgan reporting a 2 billion dollar loss, and S&P futures go down 12 this morning, it would be great to move TSP funds into the G fund instantly to protect the nest egg. You have to remember the "nest egg principle."31013{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }0No 401(k)s in Private sector?LindaI don't know where Mike is getting that there are no 401(k)s in the private sector. I would like to see hard numbers on that. Everyone I know either has a 401(k), many with a better match that I get, or have access to one and don't contribute. Which is their own fault............................. As far as getting a ROTH IRA on the private side, either said than done for DINKS. Make too much money, so no can do. I am looking forward to putting some of my money in a ROTH TSP. I have minimum of 5 years to retirement, and most likely 11 - 12 years......................As far as not being able to afford to put into a TSP, let me ask you a couple of questions.....Is your house bigger than 1,100 square feet? do you have more than 1 car? Do you have more than 1 kid? How many big screen TVs do you have? Do you have cell phones and a land line? If the answer to these are Yes, Yes, Yes, more than 1 (that you paid cash for), Yes, then those are personal choices. You can cut back on the luxery items (kids are included in this) and put money into a retirement account. Or learn to like chili every night as there may be no Welfare to bail you out when you retire at the way the government is currently spending.31018{ "Agree":"1","Funny":"1","Insightful":"1","Disagree":"-1","Offensive":"-1","Troll":"-1" }0
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Madeline Lucy Sandstrom, 95, of Duluth died peacefully with family by her side on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 in the September House in Duluth.
Madeline Lucy Sandstrom, 95, of Duluth died peacefully with family by her side on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 in the September House in Duluth.
She was born on Aug. 28, 1917 in Montreal, Wis., to Frank and Angeline Alfonsi.
Madeline grew up in Pence, Wis., and the Hurley area until moving to Duluth in 1944. She married George Sandstrom on Sept. 4, 1954 in Duluth and they started their family. She was employed at Aftenro Home for seven years and various other jobs retiring in 1976.
Madeline was a former member of Sacred Heart and St. Anthony's. She was a very religious person and extremely devoted to her family. Madeline was always worrying about her neighbors and friends, she would check in on them with a phone call regularly.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George; her sisters, Pauline Mattie, Mary Alfonsi and Rose Alfonsi; her brothers, Xavier and John Alfonsi.
Survivors include her children Michael Sandstrom of Duluth, Joanne (John) Dawson of Eden Prairie, Minn., Marlene (Dean) Holt of Long Lake, Minn.; her sister-in-law, Ginny Rettler of Sheboygan, Wis.; her grandchildren, Christopher Dawson, Emily Holt, Adam Holt; Blake (Lisa) Dawson; a great grandson, Will Dawson and numerous nieces and nephews.
A very special THANK YOU to the all of the staff at the September House for their loving care of Madeline in her final days.
MEMORIAL SERVICE: 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 in the Dougherty Funeral Home. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service in the chapel. Her remains will be place in a niche at Park Hill Cemetery.
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REFILE-Hong Kong tycoon likely winner of U.S. loan to Fisker Auto-sources
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DETROIT, Oct 17 (Reuters) - An investor group led by Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li is the likely winner of a government loan owed by Fisker Automotive, the now-dormant maker of plug-in hybrid sports cars, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Energy picked Li's group after an auction held Friday to sell the green-energy loan. The DOE and Li are now nailing down the final details of the sale, which has not yet closed, the people said.
Buying the loan would allow Li, the youngest son of Asia's richest man and an early Fisker investor, to restructure Fisker unencumbered by the obligations of the DOE funds and potentially avoid a bankruptcy filing that would wipe out equity investors.
Sources familiar with the company have said however that reviving Fisker outside of a bankruptcy would be an expensive and difficult process.
The people declined to be named because the details were private. The DOE said Thursday that the winner would be publicly announced once final negotiations were completed and the sale was closed. Fisker owes the DOE $168 million.
Li beat out at least two other groups vying to buy the loan in Friday's auction. They were German investment group Fritz Nols AG as well as a team that included Chinese auto parts supplier Wanxiang and former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz.
Fisker does not have enough money to pay its outstanding bills and has not built a car in about 15 months. Fisker laid off most of its employees in April to save cash.
The DOE said last month that it planned the auction after "exhausting any realistic possibility" that it could recoup the entire amount still owed by Fisker.
The exact value of Li's bid was not immediately clear, but bidders had to offer at least $30 million to participate in the Fisker loan auction, sources have said.
The DOE also required that all bids include a plan to promote U.S. manufacturing and engineering of "green" cars.
In 2009, Fisker won a $529 million DOE loan under a U.S. program to promote green vehicles. Fisker also got the backing of prominent investors like venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later won rave reviews for the design of its flagship car, the $100,000-plus Karma plug-in hybrid.
But in mid-2011, the DOE halted payments after Fisker drew down $192 million, citing delays in launching the Karma. The Karma's shaky launch and the disclosure in early 2012 that DOE had frozen access to funding hurt the Fisker's value.
Many Fisker executives left the company this year, including co-founder and well-regarded car designer Henrik Fisker, who resigned in March.
Henrik Fisker had been working with Li's group this spring, although the two sides parted ways this summer, sources said Thursday. They remain on good terms.
Henrik Fisker declined to comment and Pacific Century Group, the private investment group chaired by Richard Li, could not be immediately reached for comment by e-mail.
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In Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change.
Cleared out from Argentina, we've sailed to the eastern end of the Canal Beagle and anchored in a small cove to await decent departure weather. A day has passed. As the rain and gale-force gusts begin to diminish, Rolf asks me to order GRIBs showing surface pressure and wind prognoses for the next 10 days. His major interest is the forecast for the last two days of the 1,000-nautical-mile passage to South Georgia, when we'll be sailing through ice-infested waters, because the band of ice constantly drifting past South Georgia has recently been fortified by the breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea.
The GRIB arrives. The wind prognosis for our E.T.A. in South Georgia is for gale- to storm-force northwesterlies. That wind is humid and creates fog. Poor visibility and heavy wind in an iceberg zone is worth avoiding. "It's a good thing we have no schedule or feel any pressure to leave," says Rolf. "We can wait and recheck the GRIBs tomorrow."
Just as I've begun thinking how to spend an extra day at anchor, Rolf says, "Deborah, why don't you order another 10-day GRIB? This time, please check out Drake Passage."
I smile big. This is the first inkling of any intention to return to Antarctica—on Rolf's part, that is. Many times I've voiced my desire to return to the Antarctic Peninsula, my favorite place on Earth. And I especially want to go to Hovgaard Island, where we lived from 1991 to 1992. To me, Hovgaard is home. I could barely stand the idea of being so close without visiting, but it was something I had to endure. Neither the South Shetland chain nor the Antarctic Peninsula is part of our subantarctic expedition.
I can hardly believe what's happening. Rolf isn't usually an impulsive person. While we await the new GRIB, I half expect him to withdraw the idea. But he doesn't. The GRIB arrives, and I win the lottery! The prediction is for perfect weather in Drake Passage. There'll be wind, but not too much. I tell Rolf that I don't care if we spend just one day at Hovgaard before continuing to South Georgia; those 24 hours would be the best present ever. We weigh anchor and leave. It takes five days to cross Drake Passage. There's less wind than forecasted. Neither of us gets as much as a splash on our foul-weather gear.
In the Shadow of a Hero
When we sailed to the Antarctic Peninsula in 1984 and again in 1991, there was an admission price to be paid: the possibility of icebergs starting at the Antarctic Convergence, and a guaranteed band of icebergs during the last 100 miles. Both times were scary. The visibility was poor, as it statistically tends to be. Because we had no radar in those days, there was no early warning of big bergs ahead. And because there was no alternative, we stood our watches on deck, no matter the conditions. Wet, freezing, staring out into the mist, we persevered, hoping to sight any berg or growler in time to rush back to the tiller, detach the wind steering, and hand steer around it.
If I've learned one thing over the years, it's that being scared ahead of time isn't worth it. These days, I'm a lot cooler; I don't often get scared without reason. For this passage, it's a good thing I didn't bother conjuring phantom icebergs ahead of time. There was no reason whatsoever to give myself more gray hair. Not one berg was sighted offshore. Not even during the final approach to the South Shetlands. The first berg we saw was after we'd already sighted Clarence Island and Elephant Island. We found this lack of ice odd.
If coming to Antarctica is a gift to me, reaching Elephant Island is a gift to Rolf. Ernest Shackleton has been his hero since childhood, and he became a role model for Rolf's style of leadership. Lucky me! Rolf makes my coffee in the morning, because whenever the going was tough, Shackleton would arise first in order to make hot chocolate and distribute it to his men. When Rolf and I met in 1980, he had a plan to do a documentary about "The Boss." The plan changed, but that hardly dispelled Rolf's desire to see Elephant Island, the place where Shackleton's men waited for their leader to rescue them.
Rolf and I can hardly believe our continuing good luck with the weather. In calm, we motor around to the east side of the island, looking for the beach where the 22 men waited for four months. A more desolate place is hard to imagine. Elephant Island rises steeply out of the ocean; 95 percent of it is covered by glaciers. The few stone beaches are narrow and fringed with craggy black rocks. How those men kept their willingness to survive, let alone their sanity, while living in such a harsh place is beyond me. My appreciation of their resilience increases each and every minute that the island is in sight. As Northern Light draws close to Point Wild, where the men camped, the swell picks up. Waves begin breaking on the shoreline, making a dinghy landing impossible. We won't be able to touch the site.
The swell is the forerunner of wind. On the northeasterly breeze that's picking up, we set sail for King George Island. It'll be an overnight passage, but never dark. The magic of the many-hours-long twilight, when the ice and snow is washed in pastel hues of pink and green, rekindles my love for this "white" continent.
King George Island, the biggest in the South Shetland chain, hums with human activity. The stations of many countries are sprinkled over the entire south coast: Polish, Brazilian, American, Argentine, German, Korean, Chinese, Chilean, Russian, and Uruguayan. Within walking distance are rescue huts erected by other countries. Each country's presence is in part a way to lay a claim in Antarctica, though for the time being, every signatory of the Antarctic Treaty has agreed to suspend all territorial claims.
"Despite the treaty, the jockeying continues," an Argentine tour guide once explained to us. "The Chileans brought families to their stations, to prove settlement. We Argentines brought newlyweds, giving them their own honeymoon quarters and keeping them there until birth provided us with the first true Argentine-Antarctic citizen. And the English?" He paused and shrugged his shoulders to show his incomprehension of the non-Latino mentality. "The English chose to open a post office. . . ."
The Wind Tunnel
Continuing west along Nelson Island, we glide past glaciers and snow fields with meringue-like cornices only to enter another world at the Aitcho Islands. Each island in the Aitcho group is small and low. They're basically free of snow in the summer, their slopes moss covered. It hardly looks like Antarctica.
On the largest island in the group, at a site visited by cruise ships, we have an encounter with penguin chicks accustomed to people. The chicks are old enough to be left on their own, but for safety they stay bunched together in what's called a crèche. As I sit in a 25-yard no-man's land between two gentoo rookeries, an entire crèche approaches. The dozen downy chicks take turns pecking at my boots, my pant legs, my sleeves, and my camera, and finally one crawls into my lap! During our year at Hovgaard, no close encounter like this ever happened at the gentoo rookery there.
On the first of February, the mild weather pattern we've enjoyed for a month is disintegrating. We're always on alert for a major weather shift like this, whether it's a low-pressure area nudging against a high or vice versa. In either situation, where the systems' isobars meet, both circulate air in the same direction. These neighboring isobars form what's called a "squash zone," an area in which the winds tend to be greater than the spacing of the isobars would indicate.
We figure that under the influence of the approaching series of lows, the South Shetlands will regain their normal status as a very windy place. The first low in the series is a monster, covering 20 degrees of latitude, a diameter of 1,200 nautical miles! I fear we'll split at the seams as the barometric pressure drops continuously for a week, from 1,006 millibars to 968.
We keep an eye on the GRIBs and get the Chilean surface analysis and prognosis via weatherfax and wind predictions via the voice broadcasts. When an Argentine military vessel anchors near us, I hail the crew over the VHF and ask for their forecast. All the information indicates that by the time the depression reaches our position, the pressure should be rising, with the gale-force wind diminishing. The only confusing bit is that the Argentines forecast southerly wind, opposite to what we expect. Are they wrong? We think so, but should we ignore their forecast? We decide not to, so we leave the west side of Half Moon Island, where we have good holding but no shelter in southerly wind, and move five miles upwind, back to Yankee Harbor, on Greenwich Island, one of the safest anchorages in the South Shetlands. The bay, nearly enclosed, has an outer flank formed by a curved gravel bar, and we've found good holding there in clay. Snug as a bug.
With the Argentine forecast in mind, we anchor in the southwest corner, where we've anchored before. Anchor down and engine in reverse, we increase the revs. Northern Light stretches the slack out of the chain, then just sits there. We're happy. We have good holding, and in southerly wind, we'll have perfect protection. If it does blow from the north, a pretty big chop will build in the one-mile fetch. In the predicted wind speed, it'll be uncomfortable but not unsafe.
The season is now six weeks past the summer solstice, and nighttime has returned. During the wee hours, a northeasterly wind pipes up. The noise of small wavelets wakes me, and I get up to stand watch. All I can see through the Plexiglas cupola is the wind indicator at the top of the mast, lit by the anchor light. Robbed of landmarks, I check the GPS "at-anchor" screen, on which the boat's movements are drawn. The kidney bean-shaped pattern indicates that the anchor has holding. The arc represents the boat swinging with wind shifts, and the width of the bean is the result of back and forth movement due to changes in wind intensity.
The wind builds to full gale force, higher than forecasted. Rolf can't sleep and joins me on watch. So far, all's well. Even though we set the anchor for the opposite wind direction, we have holding. The wind continues to increase. It's blowing about 60 knots when a real shrieker envelops us. It gives me goose bumps. The boat starts drawing a straight line on the GPS screen. We're dragging. Toward the gravel bar.
Rolf starts the engine, and as it warms up, we quickly don foul-weather gear. After dragging 20 or 25 yards, the anchor holds. But the rail is often underwater, and the wind isn't decreasing. Even though we still have swinging room, having our tail toward a lee shore doesn't feel good. I go out ahead of Rolf, leave the cockpit, and crawl forward, my foul-weather jacket flogging like a blown-out sail.
At the controls in the cockpit, Rolf starts powering Northern Light forward, doing all he can to hold the bow into the wind, while on the foredeck I push the button to bring up the anchor. Trying to talk or scream to each other is meaningless. Using hand signals, I let him know when to pause and when to power forward. Rain and sleet fly horizontally in 70 to 80 knots of wind, waterblasting my face until it gets too numb from wind chill to feel anything.
Anchor up, we motor slowly against the waves toward a GPS anchor waypoint in the northeast corner of the harbor, close to the 50-yard-high glacier wall. In its shelter, there's hardly any wind. But from our previous time here, we know that this wall is very active, calving bergy bits by the ton. Unfortunately, the leaning ice pillar that had us worried last time is still standing. When that pillar falls, it'll create a swell that could force us up onto the rocky shoreline on our starboard side. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.
By 0800, the wind has diminished to gale force. We get a new surface analysis showing that the wind we experienced overnight wasn't created by the monster low but by an unpredicted one that formed just northwest of us. The tight little spinner has a front that forms three-quarters of a circle around its center. The eastern part of it passed us during the night; now its western part is coming.


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Hey! We highly recommend you launch this experiment in Google Chrome. It may run slower, or not at all, in other browsers.
Okay, I'll download Google Chrome I'm willing to risk itA multiplayer piano built with JavaScript and socket.io. Viewed with Chrome, the page busts out the Web Audio API.
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I can't hear anything when I try to play. There is no sound at all.
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Hi brandon can you add the fishing bot back onto piano? me and my friends want to change their color with a fishing bot.
Reply to this commentBrandon the new update does not let people to come on piano if theyre on a phone or other device. Please make it be on device again THANK YOU YOUR WORK IS AMAZING
Reply to this commentOkay the MIDI button issue is back, I cannot seem to use it as it seems to cause Java itself to crash when I use it
Reply to this commentI tested people the music was so bad there heads exploded in 10 seconds, new record.
Reply to this commentOkay, I have an issue where I click on the MIDI button and it says loading Java applet and it turns red, then after a while it just goes away, I don't get a prompt to change my input
Reply to this commentPlease remove the note quota so I'm able to play some really intense- lots of notes-per micro second songs really fast. :D
Reply to this commentPlease make us be able to have usernames or something like that when we enter the lobby? Thanks so much if you can do this! Your work is very amazing
Reply to this commentHello. I have a question. My keyboard only supports USB connection to the PC. Does USB work with multiplayerpiano aswell? Or is it just MIDI?
Reply to this commentIt does! (maybe) Personally, I have a Yamaha S90 that I've connected via USB. I had to install the drivers that came with it, but once I did, three channels became available. Set your browser and your keyboard's MIDI out to broadcast on the same channel, and you're golden. :)
Reply to this commentHey, I think I have a problem. When this page opened up the first time I heard of it, the piano appeared gray. And when I try playing notes, I don't hear any sound, not even from other players. Is there a way to get rid of this?
Reply to this commentThe grey is just the page loading, it is nothing to worry about.
Reply to this commentFor all you MIDI users out there - The extreme lag goes away when you are in another tab or have the multiplayer piano window minimized. Your welcome bro.
Reply to this commentLOLOL I JUST RIPPED A KEY!!!!! *and* i crashed my computer
Reply to this commentHi Brandon,
I wondered if it was possible to fix the MIDI javascript so that it plays at the correct octave? At the moment anything I play on my MIDI instruments comes out an octave higher on multiplayerpiano :(
Other than that, this is amazing and I have had a great time playing online with people from all over the world, keep up the great work :)
Cannot get the midi to work. Clicking on the + and nothing happens
Reply to this commentGo On This URL, You Can Chat While Playing Music!!!!
It's Called "For Everyone!!!! :D"
http://www.multiplayerpiano.com/For%20Everyone!!!!%20%3AD -Alaster Caslin
You should make private rooms because my friend and I just want to be in the room alone to play together but people keep joining and being rude and just smashing keys its getting very annoying. Like maybe they have to enter some kind of password before being able to join a certain room.
Reply to this commentChoose a name that is hard to guess, untick "Visible..." and send the url to your friend.
Reply to this commentOh wow thanks I'll try it out!
some plz help me i dontknw how to play songs can someone help ? even a simple one fine thx :)
Reply to this commentThanks Brandon! wonderful work, creative too, was there anything like this before?
Reply to this commentI think /v/ is the BEST lobby in this app! (now online)
Reply to this commentis there a keybinds list somewhere for people playing with qwerty keyboards? And is every single key able to play on/with the keyboard?
Reply to this commentwhy, when i come on here, i cant chat to anyone, how do you chat?????
Reply to this commentChat is optional in room configuration, disabled for lobbies, and enabled by default if you create a room. I don't think allowing chat on the lobby would be a good idea :P
Reply to this commentI was playing it normally, then my computer crashed and had to reboot. Now it doesn't connect! It just stays on offline mode. I tried cleaning cache, force-refresh and even using other browser, but nothing works. Checked http://websocketstest.com/ and everything's ok. =(
Reply to this commentJust wondering, I'm having major issues trying to connect and stay connected. Sockets look good, etc. Are there any plans to open source this? Any way to host it locally or on a private server location (for no profit of course with the possibility of adding more instruments)?
Reply to this commentIt keeps trying to connect then putting me into Offline mode. My friend is playing at the same time so the server must be up. Any thoughts on why? Port forwarding?
Reply to this commentMy current best guess is antivirus software. Try this http://websocketstest.com/
Reply to this commentThere should be some meter on THIS page that displays how many people are in the lobby right now. As in, RIGHT NOW, Not now at the time of this posting
Reply to this commentIt's saying I'm in offline mode. Is it under maitnance or something?
Reply to this commentIt's working right now, 5 people are in the lobby. You may be experiencing difficulty if you are in the future
Reply to this commentCan we add a comments bar, so we could tell people to SHUT UP when we want them to? lol. cuz i try to play and only one preson played with me, everyone else does random crap
Reply to this commentI'm imagining what it would be like with a "shh" button. Right mouse button shush
Reply to this commentCan you add a checkbox or a button for show/hide keyboard keys on the piano please?
Reply to this commentGoogle Autohotkey, install it, open up notepad, paste the stuff from pastebin into notepad, savfile typall files *.*, save it as Keys.ahk wherever you want, then double click the file you just made. Make sure you select the window with the piano open immediately after running the script.
I've added a notification to show people the keyboard feature :P
Reply to this commentawesome ^_^ fun experiment. may I ask why did you decide to do this in the first place?
Reply to this commentwho ever is from malaga, es: we just made beautiful music together.
Reply to this commentGreat experiment, but it could use some work. Some suggestions: 1.Divide the piano into sections for each person online 2.Play using the keyboard instead of the mouse 3.(as someone has previously mentioned) Limit # of players 4. Add a chat box 5.(as someone has previously said) limit the # of notes per second
Reply to this commentThanks for the advice! The piano can be played with the keyboard, already, but I think a notification would be nice to help people discover that feature. I do plan to address the other points, too :)
Reply to this commentNow you can do http://www.multiplayerpiano.com/WhateverYouWant ... will have to add a proper interface for creating a room, soon
Reply to this commentI want to play alone, it is possible to make a single-player version?
Reply to this commentThanks -- it should have offline play and "rooms" in the next day or two.
Characters shouldn't be allowed to play every note as fast as possible. Limit them to like 3 notes a second or something. Also put a limit on number of people allowed, 8 already seems to much. It seems like an interesting idea but it lends itself too easily to trolling
Reply to this commentI just aded a NoteQuota(tm) system, to help stave off the hungries. May need subtle adjustment
Reply to this commentSorry, the host didn't like it, and decided to leave me alone for the weekend :P I went ahead and set up a shiny VPS for this, just waiting now for the link to be updated
Reply to this commentIt's fixed!