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Archive for June, 2010
Every day, I have little stabs of envy when I see the Photoshop tutorials for zarious cool things people do with Photoshop, and wonder why we can’t do that with GIMP. Well, we can. In that spirit, I’ve taken How to Create a Stunning Vista-Inspired Menu and reproduced it with the GIMP. So I tried [...]
According to a service that tracks such things, the most popular types of websites people put for which there is a subscription fee include (in order from most to least popular) How to lose weight Health products – Vitamins, minerals, colon blow Starting a home-based business How to make money from your existing business How [...]
07Jun
Adding Well-Formed-Web (wfw) Comments to Django’s RSS feeds
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
Django has just about the most awesome syndication system on the planet. It’s bog stupid simple, and if you want to implement it, the django documentation is great. But those of us who use and love RSS appreciate the ease and speed with which the WFW standard allows us to syndicate comments as well, and [...]
01Jun
Two observations on John Underkloffer’s speech on 3D user interfaces
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
I’ve recently watched John Underkloffer’s presentation on 3D UIs, and how he helped create the presentation for the film Minority Report. You know the scene, the one where Tom Cruise is working his way through the UI with a series of hand gestures (although the one in Iron Man 2 is an upgrade). As I [...]
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