Archive > January 2009

Where are the professional manga sites?

So I was looking around the other day, there are a lot of “professional” anime sites, like ANN, AoD (now Mania.com), and so on.
So, where are all the professional manga sites? No, not blogs, but sites on the level of ANN and such in terms of “professionalism.” Over the past few years, manga-related sites have […]

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Adobe CS4 Announcement Recap

As one might have guessed, the blogosphere and twitterverse have both been overwhelmed with CS4 info about today’s official feature announcements (note: NOT release!). I semi live twittered the event while watching it, and you can check out all those tweets at twitter search.
Despite the let down of non-US pricing being 1.6 times the US […]

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Greenery v2.2 - WordPress Theme

Supports Wordpress 2.6+
This is a snazzy dark grey theme with splashes of greenery (hence the name). The original template is an open-source design by Pat Heard from FullAhead.org.
I have included, as of Version 2.0, an Adobe Photoshop template file that allows the painless creation of custom theme “middle-space” images (hint: the “middle-space” is the large […]

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Monthly Book Selection

This choices for this month have arrived. Please leave a comment and let me know your choice as soon as possible.

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) with Ajax: Visual QuickPro Guide
Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement, and Output

Thanks to Peachpit.com for their continued support.

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I Actually Finished Kyouran Kazoku Nikki. I Bet I’m the Only One.

I appear to be the only person I know or have heard of that sat through all half a year’s worth of Kyouran Kazoku Nikki. It ended last Saturday with an ending as exciting as flat coke. Pity. For an anime of 26 episodes, there sure was a hell lot of pointless time wasted, resulting […]

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Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing

I used to work for a small Christian non-profit as their in-house design guy. I would take their projects, make graphics and lay them out for print. It was a lot of work and not always as rewarding - but I learned a lot about publishing design.
So it got me thinking, I’d love to […]

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The Evolution of a Logo (I Can Live With)

One of the most frustrating things for me since I started writing on this blog was the lack of a logo I really loved. That’s not to say I haven’t tried. But logo design, to me, is kind of a thing all it’s own and I’m just not very good at it. But I know […]

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Bumper Crop of Cool Digital Cameras

The past few weeks have been crazy with announcements from camera makers about the new cameras that are going to be launched shortly. Canon, Casio, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, etc. all are launching new products in the next month or two. Canon EOS 50D, Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Nikon Coolpix P6000, Olympus SP-565 UZ, etc. […]

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