Custom Made Notebooks / Journals

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I recently took up part-time residence with my new friends the Dandy Collective and to mark the occasion I made them each a little notebook. Very easy to do and I’ll follow this up shortly with a how-to, thought I’d share them though.


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Led Zeppelin iPhone / iPod Touch Wallpaper

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

I have just combined my love for both Led Zepellin and my iPhone by making a wallpaper in Photoshop.  Feel free to download it and use it yourself!

The best way I’ve found to keep all your wallpapers tidy is just to create an album called iPhone Wallpapers in iPhoto then tick it for sync in iTunes.

Left click the image to the left to preview the image, and right click / ctrl click download linked file / save target as to save it to your computer.


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Apple’s Advertising: The Holistic Synergy

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I was until fairly recently a Windows user, the only reason being because of the ubiquitous nature of the software when I was first getting into computers. My decision to move to Mac was based on a very delicate and ingenious advertising campaign by Apple that I failed to recognise until after I had spent close to two and half thousand pounds on their products.  Don’t get me wrong though, even though I’m conscious of this wrangling of my own will by a corporate giant, I still embrace it lovingly. read more…


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Java Image Upload With Client Side Resizing

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

JumpLoader ScreenshotI was recently looking for a way to upload large images for the web and automatically create different sizes (small, medium and large.) The only viable way to do it is with Java because it can all be done client side. If you do the work server side, you’ll be uploading a large file then using a lot of processor power to resize it.

I’ve tried a few and the one that came out on top was the JumpLoader it’s good looking, functional and customisable. When uploading several versions of an image at different sizes though it will zip them up (for transfer purposes,) you’ll then have to unzip them - here’s the PHP to do that.

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University Work - 3D / Live Action Film

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Here’s the final rendering of a piece I did whilst studying at NTU. I shot the live action parts against a green screen and built the scenes in 3D Studio Max. read more…


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Defining Geekalicious

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Geekalicious

When building this site, I toyed with the idea of using the domain (and moreover the ethos) of geekalicious. The fact that I didn’t in the end is neither here nor there, but I think it had something to do with the fact that noone really knows what it means. There are a few oblique definitions out there on the web, but I’m inclined to disagree with them all: they’re just missing the point. So here, is a fully qualified description / definition of Geekalicious:

Geek·a·li·cious [geek-uh-lish-us]

Adjective

  1. Pocessing or pertaining to a technically and / or creatively resplendent quality.
  2. Specifically (but not reserved to) the pleasing of geeks.
  3. Alias for - Wil Linssen (that’s Wil, not Will or William.)

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