A page about the The TTL Flash System, something I need to become intimately familiar with in the next couple of months.
I didn’t see this back on the 5th, but the Maryland tech tax was repealed. Halleleujah, amen.
8 quick Photoshop tips to improve productivity. Some of these I’ve known, but some are very helpful.
Now that I have a fancy-fangled iPhone, I may need this info: Five email addresses for converting documents. Say you have a Visio doc not readable on a phone: email it to one of these addresses and it will be returned as a readable PDF file. Sweet!
Wow, this looks cool. Autonet mobile is essentially a carrier-agnostic wireless router designed for cars or hotel rooms. $80-100/month for a broadband router, not just a contract-based card. Sweet!
As much as I’ve phased out my Thinkpad, I still use it quite a bit. The USB port on the back is dead, so I searched the lazyweb for answers and found this wiki site dedicated to thinkpads which tells me the chipset is probably toast.
Lifehacker ran a fantastic tip today on sharing a keyboard and mouse among multiple computers. Synergy is cross-platform, open source software, and it took about five minutes to set up on my two Macs here, allowing me to FINALLY remove a full-size keyboard from my crowded desk. I’m now considering installing it on the Thinkpad to see if I can do away with the second mouse. (OS X download here.)
No, I’m still here. Today was Meeting Day, when both the project team I’m working with and the entire art staff at work met at two separate times for long periods of talking. Then I had to pump out a sketch of an impossibly convoluted UI screen for a meeting tomorrow morning before leaving tonight.
What was a bleary, semi-conscious but cheerful mood has turned ugly and black, courtesy of my work computer. I’m getting really tired of working on four-year-old technology, both here and at home. I’ve recently considered the possibility of a new laptop to replace the five-year-old Powerbook I’m on right now, but with our priority list remaining full and unchanging, I’ll probably have to put it off a while longer. And a Mini, while inexpensive and fast, is still out of my current price range. (It’s sad that over the years my target price range has dropped at the same rate as the street pricing of technology.) As for the work computer, I don’t know if my bitching (and kicking) has changed anybody’s priority levels either. Go to your happy place…
Saturday: HTML-> PHP-> library -> Photoshop-> lunch -> HomeSite-> dinner-> HomeSite-> beer-> posting-> sleep (3am.)
Sunday: HTML-> HomeSite-> posting-> duck, potatoes, chocolate-> Photoshop-> beer-> Illustrator-> HTML-> posting-> Illustrator-> tea-> Photoshop-> posting-> sleep (3:30am.)
Last night, we got water back at the house. …Granted, it’s rusty, hissing, orange water for the first ten or fifteen minutes. Filling a glass with it reveals a whole spinning universe of floating stuff, stuff that should be back in the reservoir it came from and not in my glass. However, it’s water, it comes out of the shower head, and when I consider some of the questionable rivers and lakes I’ve bathed in before, it’s not all that bad. (And the water is hot—an important distinction.) When we get another 50° day where I’m not doing five other things, I have to drain our hot-water heater and clean out the gallons of sediment I’m sure are sitting at the bottom.
In other news, the freelance fairy came and dropped a project in my lap for the weekend, one that’s going to make our existing commitments that much more interesting to work around; it’s another long-distance job which will test my knowledge of PHP, ssh, and the lovely VI editor. Fun (not that the Superbowl is going to be that interesting, anyway.) Money is a good thing.