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Clipart spotting: lemonade 26 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
I started developing an eye for such sightings: today while eating a shawarma in the touristic city zone, something drew my attention: an add at the next-door shawarma place, they were offering a free...
FLOSSCamp 2013 26 Jul 2013 | 12:49 am
Unfortunately is not possible to take a 4.5 months old hacker from her basement to the mountains so I have to skip this year the FLOSSCamp meeting which will happen over this week-end, but based from ...
On traditional media in the internet age 24 Jul 2013 | 12:16 pm
We all know traditional media is struggling in the internet age, some of them are trying various (usually bad, like paywalls) solutions, some are blaming the public, some are trying to cut costs, some...
LightZone 12 Jul 2013 | 02:11 pm
A couple of weeks ago, when I first learned about LighZone, a photo editor, was opensourced, my reaction was "heck, even if it is Java, I should try it and compare with darktable", but the first impre...
Drawing water drops with Inkscape 19 Jun 2013 | 07:54 pm
I am taking a graphic design course and one of the assignements received was to remake the logo of a well known soft drink (for the purpose of this tutorial I replaced that logo with something else, a...
Backtracks 14 Jun 2013 | 04:19 pm
Months ago when I heard rumors about Microsoft preparing Windows Blue based on the large public disappointment with Metro in Windows 8 I thought about writing some words on a perceived advantage of pr...
Photoshop versus GIMP: the Empire Strikes Back 13 Jun 2013 | 04:26 am
My Photoshop course continues and in the classes where my homework was targeting the computer display my plan worked flawlessly: I used GIMP to do all the work and when done just saved as .PSD, I enjo...
Sky wallpapers 11 Jun 2013 | 02:38 am
For the last week the sky here was dramatic, with spectacular light and clouds, so I took a lot of photos and then made few of them in desktop wallpapers to be used freely. Enjoy! The last image is k...
Photoshop versus GIMP 8 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
The title may make you think so, but this is not one of those ridiculous articles where the author claims GIMP is better than Photoshop even on technical grounds. No, let me make it straight from the ...
Some Azure ads, please? 30 May 2013 | 06:58 pm
I found this email too funny not to share, it was sent using the contact form of the Romanian Fedora community website and is genuine, from a real advertising agency (who does work for Microsoft), by ...
