Not sure when this feature was added, but I’m running the Inkscape 0.47 preview and discovered that the default install now includes a “Printing Marks” feature. You can access it from the main menu:
Extensions > Render > Printing Marks
The small options window that pops up allows you to adjust a variety of settings for the [...]
Over the last few months I’ve been shopping for a new/refurbished laptop. I had my mind set on a refurbished Thinkpad R61 or R500, but those were ranging between $600 and $700. At that price I was going to have to wait a while until I had more money set aside. In the meantime I [...]
If you don’t know, Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org make it very easy to install the artwork from OpenClipArt.org as a built-in gallery within OpenOffice. It’s slick: while in OpenOffice Writer go to TOOLS > GALLERY and a little panel shows up, displaying categorized clipart, ready to be dropped into your document. Very cool.
Unfortunately, after Ubuntu migrated [...]
There’s been some over-politicizing in the news about something that John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods said in an editorial about health care for the Wall Street Journal. Here’s an article from the BBC about customers boycotting at Whole Foods stores:
BBC: Customers call for Whole Foods boycott
After reading that story I was expecting a [...]
My wife’s 1997 Ford Escort suddenly started having idling problems today. Basically, whenever the car was fully stopped or in park it would idle up and down, hovering over stalling and eventually doing just that. However, it would have no problems restarting after the stall.
Initially I thought the problem was related to the status of [...]
Several years ago I bought an old PowerBook G3 Lombard in pieces, put it together and installed OSX 10.3. It worked surprisingly well and was good enough for email, web and other basic stuff. However, one of the biggest disappointments was how ‘dumb’ the trackpad software was. That was the first time I discovered Raging [...]
Wow… just came across this term for the first time. Just when the Midwest was starting to get some respect!
Flyover States
There are many aspects of Apple’s Mac OS that I dislike, but there are others that I like very much. Ever since I switched from Apple to Linux I have searched for an Apple-like way of entering special characters. “Special characters” are any characters that are not visible on your physical keyboard. For my needs [...]
As the Web Producer/Designer at Country Weekly Magazine’s website I am proud to announce a new feature that will make it easier for people to find our magazine in stores. I was able to create this tool thanks to Google’s excellent generosity. You can see this new tool in action here: www.countryweekly.com/where2buy
If you haven’t already [...]
Dave Girard from Ars Technica has written a very realistic and thorough review of the GIMP 2.6.4 “Suite freedom: a review of GIMP 2.6.4”. It’s a couple of pages long, but any graphic designers out there that are pirating Photoshop for their home computers should take a look. It’s refreshing to see a designer’s perspective [...]