Entries from July 2006

dgp Bumptop Demo

July 8th, 2006 · No Comments

This dgp technology demo is great. However, since the symptoms it addresses (organizing many disparate documents on a desktop space), the real world usefulness is questionable; the real solution seems to be better organization and a clear desktop. Nevertheless, the demo is still cool. Very very cool. dbp is the dynamic graphics program at University [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Software · Tech News · Technology

Gmail Chat Fun

July 6th, 2006 · 187 Comments

Update: For the full list of Gmail chat emoticons, including the new category-four smileys and the new robot smiley, see Gmail Chat Smileys. Currently Gmail Chat does not support formatting like Yahoo or others do. But there are some things you can do to spice up the experience, such as it is. Some of this [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Google · Tips

Tutorial: The Gimp

July 5th, 2006 · 8 Comments

For this tutorial you will need a copy of The Gimp. You can download it here for Windows, Linux and OS X. For any project you need a goal, so for this tutorial our goal will be to create a fantasy image of a far away galaxy. Cheesy? Yes, but also very easy if you [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Modify · Software · Tips