Hoorah for the holidays! I’ve finally had a chance to tackle some of those things that I’ve been meaning to do with my blog. The most obvious (perhaps) being a (slightly) Christmassy theme: Archives After my archive musings I’ve finally updated my archives page. I went with the Smart Archives Plugin; I thought it had […]
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VectorMagic vs. Inkscape’s Bitmap Trace
LaurenMarie’s review of her experience with VectorMagic inspired me to check VectorMagic out. Inkscape is versatile open source vector graphics software. I’ve used its bitmap trace function to convert drawings and photographs into scalable vectors, including: the tree in the header, it was originally converted from a drawing; the guy with the umbrella in this […]
The Beautiful Sony Ericsson S500i
When my phone was stolen in July, I wasn’t that disappointed because my MacBook wasn’t stolen! However, my replacement phone didn’t live up to my old one. I couldn’t connect to my computer, I had to import my numbers manually, very limited ringtone and background options (not to mention the amount of space it took […]
24 Sweet Brushes for GIMP and Photoshop
I originally had the impression, when I started playing with digital art, that brushes were a cheap alternative to creating images completely on your own creativity and skill. However, liberal use of brushes can be beautiful or disastrous (if you don’t have an eye for their application) and they can be a source of inspiration […]
Golly gosh, that’s a lot of plugins!
I’ve always thought that if you can do it simply enough without a plugin then do! I’ve tried to avoid installing every plugin under the sun because I don’t want WordPress to get bloated and sluggish. However, these days when I navigate to my plugins page… woof! That is a long list! Since so many […]
New Apple products!
Have you seen the new Apple products? They look pretty sweet – widescreen iPod nano, iPod classic and the iPod touch (like an iPhone without the phone). You can watch a high resolution version of the new iPod nano advert on the Apple website or this one from YouTube. Perhaps if I ever have some […]