I have struggled using a mouse or a trackpoint or a ball for editing photos and drawing logos. I’ve always lusted for something like the WACOM Cintiq. But at $1999, it was not in my “justification budget”. My rescue came from the nearly depthless eBay. A little searching and I found a number of […]

I was reading a post over at Return to the Center and decided - with my non existent artistic talent - that I’d experiment with my tablet PC a bit and use GIMP to make some hallucinogenic blocks on a psychedelic background (no LSD required).
The results a crude but I am less interested […]

I bought a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC off of eBay. The price was right and the machine - thus far- is working nicely. It only had 512MB so I added 1 GB RAM. I have only one real purpose of this newest acquisition - graphics. I’ve installed GIMP and will  be attempting to  use […]

I stumbled across a link to “CHDK” - an open source firmware for many of the Canon point-n-shoot cameras. I’ve been recommending these cameras for years and I know a lot of people who have them. What I didn’t know was that a group of very talented developers have applied themselves - in true […]

I recently saw how a virtual team of a few hundred people chose to share information.

setup a “community” to manage membership and let participants choose to subscribe and un-subscribe. GOOD
setup a Wiki to establish a calendar of meeting topics. OK
setup a “quick” file sharing site for posting presentations. GOOD
email out the links to the above […]