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admin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:34:50 +0000

Oh my God! I cannot believe the amount of time that’s slipped by since my last entry.

I have a good excuse though - I’ve been busy setting up and building my new company. Yes I finally made the break and resigned as Operations Director of Creative Solutions, the design agency I started nearly 10 years ago.

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Photographic Composition…

admin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:34:39 +0000

I’ve had to undertake more photography than usual lately, mostly for clients who claim to have “loads of great photos for the brochure / guide / product catalogue”.

Granted some of the shots have been good, but I am finding that the composition is increasingly just not quite right for the intended use.

So as a humorous reminder to you all to check and double check your composition of the shot (even if it’s to save hours of photoshopping out that irritating something in the background) here’s a few photos that aren’t quite right… (NSFWish)

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Comparison down memory lane…

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:32:28 +0000

Variously posted at Gizmodo and Macenstein this great pic of Windows and Mac OS through the ages.

Make a Single Layer Leopard Backup DVD…

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:47:51 +0000

Lionel Faleiro has published instructions on his blog for stripping out all the unnecessary “junk” (you know, developer tools, foreign languages, printer drivers, etc.) from the Leopard install discs, and creating your very own 4.2 GB Single-Layer version of Leopard to use as your own personal backup copy. The only necessary tools are a blank DVD, a Mac running Tiger, and Apple’s own Disk Utility.

Not tested this yet.. all at your own risk

The truth about Andrew’s early morning migraines..

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:03:47 +0000

If anyone knows the creator of this short animation please let me know

Demonoid down again…

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:57:47 +0000

OMG has (probably) the best (imo) private bit-torrent tracker finally been taken down for good?

A notice on the Demonoid homepage reads:

“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”

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Stereoironics videos…

admin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:18:23 +0000

Just added some Stereoironics (the no.1 Stereophonics tribute band) videos shot in our workshop to my YouTube channel…

It’s nearly time…

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:46:51 +0000

It’s nearly time… the countdown for Leopard release is at 1 day 7 hours 29 minutes 11 seconds.

I’m in the camp that is actually looking forward to the new features, especially after watching the guided tour which finally really bought the new features home to me, even if the delivery erred on the ‘Noddy’ side as we say in the UK.

Free online storage & file transfer…

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:36:28 +0000

A list of 50+ File sharing / online storage sites and their restrictions … (more…)

Illustrator Tutorials…

admin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:59:21 +0000

Some great Illustrator Tutorials have been put together by N.Design studio, well worth a look. Another page on his site that is an absolute must visit is the page showing how he designed his amazing background on his site.