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Off-screen windows with Inkscape on MacOS and XQuartz

Mark Tuesday, 5th February, 2019Wednesday, 6th February, 2019 Leave a comment

My go-to editor for vector images is Inkscape. So much so that I use it in the creation of my cartoons and comic strips, and have been writing a monthly column about it in Full Circle Magazine for over six …

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Miscellaneous SVG Tech

Full Circle Magazine, Issue 63

Mark Saturday, 28th July, 2012 Leave a comment

The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 3 of my Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …

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Linux Miscellaneous Tech

Minimus AVR USB

Mark Thursday, 24th May, 2012 2 Comments

Thanks to this overly syndicated blog post (really – Planet Ubuntu I can understand given its content, but Planet Mozilla and Planet Inkscape, too!?) I discovered a wonderful little device called Minimus AVR USB. Basically it’s a USB-enabled (and USB-programmable) …

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It’s not over ’til the fat Chumby sings

Mark Tuesday, 1st May, 2012 Leave a comment

I’ve written about my Chumby on this blog in the past (and this one, too). Alas! Chumby Indistries is effectively no more, the staff having moved on and any worthwhile intellectual property in the hands of a corporate trustee. Fortunately …

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Linux Miscellaneous My Green Life Tech Things I Love

RIP Jack Tramiel

Mark Wednesday, 11th April, 2012 Leave a comment

A couple of days ago Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and subsequently responsible for Atari’s home computer renaissance in the 1980s passed away. I grew up during the home computer boom of the 80s. My first machine was a Sinclair …

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Games Miscellaneous Tech

The League of Extraordinary Hypocrisy

Mark Friday, 3rd February, 2012 Leave a comment

So it would seem that DC comics are creating a prequel series for the seminal 1980s work, “Watchmen“. I’m not going to discuss whether or not this is a good thing, but rather consider the quotes on that page from …

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Ain’t That A Shame

Mark Tuesday, 3rd January, 2012 Leave a comment

…is just one of the songs from 1955 what would now be out of copyright in the US, if it weren’t for the retroactive changes to copyright law that have taken place since then. The list of other works that, …

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Miscellaneous

Open Educational Resources for Typography

Mark Wednesday, 21st December, 2011 Leave a comment

Typography is an art form all of its own. It combines aesthetic and stylistic concerns with elements of ergonomics, cultural history and science. While most of us happily plod along with a few basic fonts in our arsenal, the right …

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Piracy: Not just about price, but availability

Mark Monday, 7th November, 2011 Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting read from the Open Rights Group about the (lack of) availability of UK films as legitimate digital downloads. The short summary version of it is that many British films are not legally available to download in the …

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RIP Steve Jobs

Mark Thursday, 6th October, 2011 Leave a comment

Today the world lost a great man with the sad passing of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers. I’m no Apple fanboy – in fact over the past few years I’ve increasingly stopped using their products as they’ve become more …

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Miscellaneous Tech
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