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All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
~Longfellow, The Builders |
| Welcome to the Qru Studios newsletter. We put it out every
Monday to keep our visitors, friends and clients informed on our progress.
Qru is a web site design firm specializing in multimedia production. Our own
sites are constantly being updated to include our new features and
capabilities. Visit us often. |
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Top of the
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Tuesday and Thursday nights at 8:00pm CST are now chat nights on the Inner Outpost. Everyone is invited to
meet servil, Hoover, the KnowMadz, and the rest of the Qru
constituency. And you don't need a special plug-in to join. This is made by
software compiled in Java by Webmaster, Inc. and enables anyone with
Netscape 2.0 on up or a comparable browser to participate. To enter just
click on the "CHAT" button on the main menu of the Inner Outpost. This
project has become a point of study at Carnegie Melon University on
interactivity on the Internet thanks to the efforts of Noah Simon, Qru representative
and Media Consultant.
Unfortunately this chat is in its testing phases. We can only continue to
keep it going if we get support from you. We encourage you to visit us on
Tuesday and Thursday to discuss what we have done, possibilities for the
future and just to hang out with friends. If you are interested in your own
chat or know someone who may be, invite them. We can set this up for any of
our clients and friends. |
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Featuring...
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At a time when such technologies were only available to those with the
biggest, fastest and most up to date computers, our own David Cole was exploring
graphical programming on his Apple IIgs. Available on Particle Space are the concepts
behind the shapes and arrays on which graphical programming still rests.
These are the same technologies that brought us the CAT scan and
other such devices now taken for granted in our society. Currently, David is
experimenting with graphical design using CGI. Look forward to interactive
backgrounds in the future. |
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On the LAN
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Last weekend and into the wee hours of Tuesday the Qru put the
finishing touches on our intranet (internal internet). Having found the SQL
database difficult to instal and utilize we pursued creating our own using
CGI and PERL. With David Cole making modifications on scripts created by
Selena Sol we came up with our current product which is in full use and able
to be easily implemented on any of our clients sites. We are equipped with
such features as encrypted password protection, database access, interactive
data entry, search engines, easy access to otherwise remote locations on our
site, local testing of scripts and much much more. This has led to greater
ease in administration, troubleshooting and keeping our site up to date. We
can offer all this to our clients enabling ease of access to information
wherever they go.
Beta testing of Netscape 4.0 continues. Some new features and a
different layout make it somewhat less desirable than its predecessors. But
in the long run it will allow for ever expanding capabilities offering video
game like qualities such as layers which allow for sprite movement
(characters that can travel across your screen without limit) right in your
web site.
We have just updated our server to its current incarnation. With all of
our work coming in through Beauty we
are granted faster access to our information. We also are on faster phone
lines better enabling our remote members to access their work. |
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On the See
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Signing up for Qru's News has just been made easier! Just go to
our sign-up
form, enter your name and e-mail address and the newsletter will be
automatically sent to you the following Monday. That does not mean you can
get out of sending us your responses to our site. We would love to hear from
you so please send your comments to cdp@qru.com or info@qru.com. |
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Client Side
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Creative Director Tate
Madler has begun negotiations with Sabretooth, a New York based
supplier of vampire related wares, for logo artwork to appear in their
Vampyre magazine summer issue. Sabretooth makes custom fangs and sfx eyes
like the ones worn by Michael Jackson in Thriller or
Jordy and Data of Star Trek the Next
Generation. |
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Tech Tips
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While we at Qru Studios often speak of our many VRML worlds, VRML
(Virtual Reality Modelling Language) is rather rare to this point on the
Internet. If you have tried to view our sites you will discover that the
length of time it takes to download the files is longer than many are
willing to wait, especially users that do not yet know what they are getting
into. Apple Corporation, IBM and Paragraph, leaders in computer
technologies, are coming together in support of a binary format for VRML
files which will enable them to be compressed at a 50 to 1 ratio. So keep an
eye out for the new, sleeker, faster, smaller VRML to show its head this
year. As soon as the standards make a public appearance Qru Studios will
update our sites for your benefit. |
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