Blog of design-loving, photo-taking, Mac-using, Christian molecular biologist and qualified geek.
Smultron is my text editor of choice. It’s easy to use and has some nifty features that after 18 months of use, I’m only just starting to use. I think it’s the best, free text editor for Mac OS X, and probably even surpasses some not free ones as well.
There’s probably some sweet improvements for [...]
Check it out! My first video tutorial.
In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP.
It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size with decent [...]
I can’t believe Saturday is almost over!
Nan update
On Friday Gran, Mum and I visited Nan (the grandma I mentioned before, who has cancer). I think we were expecting her to be awake, not feeling so great, possibly in bed, but capable of getting up and around. It was quite a shock when we found her [...]
The I Love Typography wallpaper that I made is up at iLT now. Hope ya like it!
It was inspired by a phone theme that I made, Ampersand, which was inspired by Sunday Type.
Note: there’s a bit of a dodgy artifact where I was masking, I’ve fixed it up and hopefully John will update it soon.
Goals
I only realised last night that just telling myself to do my essay isn’t working. I need to make smaller, achievable goals to actually be productive and be able to measure my success. Previous goal: “Write Proteorhodopsin essay.” Todays goal: “Read at least 3 papers and write at least 2 pages of essay.”
That might sound [...]
Color Picker in Mac OS X
Mum's Story
Personalising the Copyblogger Theme