Posts Tagged ‘opensource’

Google Wave – communication as it could/should be

I’m tempted to talk a lot about this new developing application; it’s uses as well as how it could well revolutionise how the world communicates online. But I won’t the video below does that far better than I could.

Create your twin with Gimp

http://chetanism.blogspot.com/2008/11/create-your-twin.html Great little tutorial which allows you to double yourself (or whatever you want really) in a picture. Well written and easy to follow, expect to see some examples of this on the site… soon as I finish the Bonsai design (see last post).

Tweeting with pleasure, courtesy of Inkscape

Today I was inspired to draw. Well, strictly tonight, technically this morning… Anyway. I quite accidentally found this Twitter style tutorial and decided I wanted a twitter icon of my own, that would go with the colours of my new design. However, I don’t use Adobe Illustrator… or whatever. Just Open Source programs. So out [...]

Bonsai Autumn Wallpaper

Just a little example of what can be easily achieved using only free software – not bad for an hour or so’s work! Click it to download the full size image if you like, it makes quite a nice desktop wallpaper. It’s in png format… not sure if you can use png’s in windows but [...]

OpenOffice 3.1 Released

Spelling and Grammer… OpenOffice.org 3.1 New Features A new release of openoffice and with it a host of tweaked or new features. One of the aspects to recieve a bit of attention is the grammar checking. It still requires a grammar checker to be installed (easy with extensions) but now operates in a far more [...]

Pulling myself together with OSS

For too long now I’ve worked on too many little projects, snippets of code and web designs to really stay sane. A few months ago I was assaulted at work. It has been a crap time in all honesty but if I can take one positive thing from the experience it is that I need to get organized. I really do love working at Plonkers (who wouldn’t want to work at an off-license called that!?) but it’s not what I want to do for the rest of my life.