‘design’ Entries
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Dec052010
Wacom Bamboo on Ubuntu
I purchased a Wacom Bamboo stylus this week, and thought I'd document for my own reference how to set it up in Ubuntu.
To Install the wacom driver support in ubuntu, I found this blog, which showed a painless install using the doctormo ppa. If you dont want to follow the link, here are the steps which works for me on Ubuntu 10.10.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms xf86-input-wacom
Note: You …
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Apr242010
Open Standards in Digital Design
Though I consider myself a mediocre designer, I have long held the opinion that, good design is not limited by the tools the individual uses, but by the mind of the individual using the tools. What this means is that, using certain “industry standard” tools, does not necessarily make you a better designer.
For this reason I have long been in strong opposition of certain “industry standard” design tools, like for example Photoshop. Don't get me wrong, I think the guys at Adobe have done a phenomenal job and created one of the best tools for digital design. …
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Apr172010
Animated PNG on the web
I'm slowly getting more excited about the new web technologies. One of these is the move to support animated PNG in browsers. Animated pictures are nothing new, we've had GIF for ages now, but the problem with GIF have always been that it only has 1 bit transparency. Which means, if you have a transparent background, you will see nasty edges.
PNG's on the other hand are much higher quality images. Here is a quick example of an animated PNG that I quickly made this evening. Note that this picture wont work in all browsers. You can have …
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Apr182009
Preloading images using CSS
Some of us may be familiar with the problem of roll-over images that temporarily disappears as you roll over them. This is because the browser is downloading the roll-over image at that time. There are solutinos using javascript, and this method have become quite popular over the last couple of years. But what do you do, when the user has javascript turned off?
The method here is very simple, no extra javascript needed. I was quite surprised on how simple this process is, and I might just swap out my rollover script on this website, with a pure …
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Apr152009
New Site Up
I have finally decided that it's time to have my own, personal website up and running, with which I can advertise my skills and services. I previously used teh_node for this, but after much thought, and chatting to others, realized that teh_node may have been the wrong website to advertise myself.
There were 2 main issues:
Firstly, teh_node is advertised as a business, yet I was using it as my personal site and portfolio. People got confused when I sent them the link to teh_node, thinking I'm working in that company, and the work there are of …