Kaspar Manz

Yet another task manager. - Kaspar Manz

"About to go to bed now (coming from Europe, so it's already night). And considering the fact that my stomach flu is slowly fading away, I can't complain." - Kaspar Manz

"This is a modification of an original post for use when you have a corrupt sparsebundle backup on a NAS (as opposed to an external drive attached to a router) and it needs to be repaired. The NAS is likely a hardware product from the likes of Netgear, Synology, Buffalo or QNap – or for those of us with a home-grown backup server running FreeNAS. The error you may see is “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.” This can be fixed by following the below." - Kaspar Manz

"If you or your elderly parents belong to those who have to frequent the bathroom by night, and sometimes get disoriented in the dark, this might be worth a try. Like the illuminated floor lane in a smoke filled airplane, the EL wire shows you the way from your bed to the bathroom, triggered as soon as you step out of your bed... (and decent enough not to wake up your partner)" - Kaspar Manz

How to create normal maps for low poly game characters. "This is not a step by step tutorial.I will summarize the workflow i used for one of my characters with lots of images and some print-screens directly from the applications used ( maya/mudbox/photoshop etc ...), also in the end i will provide some info about tangent space normal maps so you could think of this tutorial as mainly normal mapping related stuff." - Kaspar Manz

How to create hair on low-poly characters. "This is not a step by step tutorial.I will nail down the main stages for creating hair for game characters using lots of images and some printscreens directly from the application used ( maya/photoshop etc ...). The idea for this tutorial came from the polycount forums ; for the Dominance War II contest i joined Polycount team and the folks there asked me if i can make a little tutorial about Varga's hair so here it is ..." - Kaspar Manz

gingerhaze - Kaspar Manz

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Kaspar Manz

Online 3D model of the human anatomy. Great resource. - Kaspar Manz

"RPTools is a brand of open-source programs designed to enhance traditional pen-and-paper role playing games. They can be used for face-to-face play, or Internet role-playing in real time even if your players are on the other side of the world.  MapTool (which is our free virtual tabletop application) in particular works great with voice-chat services!" - Kaspar Manz

"I'm waiting for that to reappear in a James Bond title sequence ..." - Kaspar Manz

"I'd say ... Always online guy + (ex-) Student + Gamer = Me. Wow. That sounds really nerdy." - Kaspar Manz

sweetupndown - Kaspar Manz

Calculates when you should go to bed or get up. - Kaspar Manz

"Asana is the shared task list for your team. The place to plan, organize and stay in sync on your efforts." – Yet another task manager for teams. Still pending testing. - Kaspar Manz

"Macs come bundled with a lot of software out of the box and while most of it is at least passable, much of it lacks the feature set power users need. That's the catch with a lot of default Mac software, it's easy, but the second you want to do something more with it, you're out of luck. We've compiled a list of our favorite replacements for the usually workable, but generally boring OS X default software." - Kaspar Manz

"I think that basically any indirect multiplayer idea should be explored more, where the players' activities change the environment for other players, while still basically being a single player game. The connection could be even subtler – maybe things just go bump in the night, because some other player ran into them?" - Kaspar Manz

Huge library of concept art for many animated movies and series. - Kaspar Manz