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Design, Software
Wednesday, September 16. 2009
First, let me preface this tale of User-Interface Woe with a
disclaimer: I am far from an Adobe fanboy. I love open-source
software. And of course, like everyone else, I really hate
Adobe's prices. But I've learned to use Illustrator and Photoshop
pretty well, so now, of course, switching to anything else causes work
not-so-much to grind to a halt as to slam into a brick wall while I
figure out all of the different metaphors, keyboard shortcuts, and
little tricks I need to approach anything like my former
productivity.
Trust me, I yearn to cast aside all Adobe products! Which brings me to
Inkscape, the open-source vector illustration program. I
really, really want to like it as a replacement for Adobe
Illustrator. It's one of those open-source apps I install every couple
of years to see if it's There Yet. And, yet again, I'm starting to think that it's not. Which brings me to the first problem I
encountered on my most recent attempt at mastering Inkscape.
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Categories:
Design
Wednesday, December 7. 2005
Silver was the New Black, but black is the New Silver. It's true. The pendulum has swung back. Portents of it are everywhere in the consumer electronics industry.
Black lost out years ago because it looked plastic, despite the fact that plastic really looks best in black. So the mainstream started to emulate the high-end brushed aluminum thing, and it worked, for a while. Respectable mid-market home theater gear HAD to be silver. But turnabout was inevitable, really, once you could buy a shiny silver DVD player for $29.99 at Walmart. Then it was obvious that the sexy new silver was mostly the same plastic as ever, tarted up with what amounts to chrome - in some cases even actual chrome. And chrome is the sort of thing that seems like a good idea for about ten minutes. As soon as everybody and their third grade teacher owned a cell phone that looked like it fell out of the Tin Man's ass, we were bound to be back in black again.
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Categories:
Design
Wednesday, October 27. 2004
I just finished a new web site, for Campbell Property Management. Take a look and tell me what you think.
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