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 […]
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Getting stuff done
Over the last few days I been on a trip getting things done. It’s been totally cool to know there’s a bunch of things I want to get done and I’m just working my way through them. One of the keys was to get going with iGTD. I cruised through the tutorials, read some other […]
StumbleUpon discriminates against my browser
I was reading an excellent article the other day that I thought I would like to bookmark it in StumbleUpon. Whether that meant I was discovering it or voting on it because someone else had discovered it, I don’t know. I also couldn’t find out because you can’t vote on sites without the toolbar and […]
Good advice, great software, bad timing
When I was studying for the HSC (final high school exams) I alphabetised my CD collection. Does everyone do that? Does everyone find normally silly or mundane tasks scintillating and satisfying when there’s something worse to do?
Squabble – a Scrabble variation for Mac
My husband introduced me to this game the other day. It’s great! We love Scrabble. We own the board game and we play Scrabulous on Facebook. This variation reveals letters one by one and you have to make a word with them before the other person (or computer player) does. You can also steal words […]
Combing PDFs – another handy Automator trick
Why install a program when you already have one installed that does the job. Mac OS X Hints tells you how to combine PDFs using Automator. I found this really handy this morning and just had to share. 🙂
