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Friday, September 11th, 2009I was looking through Daniel Lemire’s website for some information when I noticed that he’s written an entry on suggestions on traveling to conferences. If you don’t have a lot of experience going to conferences, go read it now, it’s chockfull of really useful suggestions.
I wish somebody had told me to travel light the first […]
Photoshop tip: Reducing images while keeping their resolution at a good level
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009I was getting very frustrated yesterday. One of the reviewers for our Interact paper asked us to add images of the software we used to collect our data. A fair request, I thought, since we go into some detail describing some of the screens and since we include the order of the screen presentation in […]
Writing tip: organising your text
Monday, February 9th, 2009The book chapter I’m co-writing with Daniel Lemire is going much better than I had expected. Daniel did a very good job of taking all the ideas we had been throwing at each other for the past few months and turning it into a first draft. Most of the work I did on it last […]
Lots of web design tools
Friday, November 7th, 2008Mashable has a very useful article listing over 130 tools to help support your web design efforts. They include such things as web templates, CSS builders, colour selection tools, image manipulation tools, favicon makers, and lots of other cool stuff. Some of the tools are free and you know that’s the price I’m always looking […]
You suck at Photoshop
Friday, September 26th, 2008Looking through the timeline of internet memes (and can I just point out that I’m flabbergasted by how many of those I missed the first time around), I came across one meme called You suck at Photoshop, a video series purported to teach you Photoshop tricks, but which really reflects the creator’s ongoing marital problems. […]
More video how-tos for Second Life
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Did you know you could now talk in Second Life? Yep, you can now chat with others instead of just typing to communicate. Well, the other day I turned off the voice function and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it back on, so this little video on how to turn chat on would […]
Machinima basics
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008If you’re interested in recording videos inside virtual worlds (a.k.a. machinima), but you have no idea where to start, VirtualBailey (or JuiceofPrunes inside Second Life) has put up a couple of very short movies about the technical aspects of creating machinima: Getting Started and Interface, Mice and Arrows. Although these instructional videos are aimed at […]
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