Woot! I’ve had my dispatch notification from Apple. Tiger is on it’s way! With a major OS release like this, I have a tried and tested strategy for upgrading: I maintain two partitions on my “main” hard-drive (I have another physical hard-drive that I use for all my work files). One partition (called “Boot”) holds [...]
Mac pundit John Gruber makes some very disparaging comments about Adobe on his Daring Fireball site, in an article titled The Fish Rots From the Head. In it he condemns what he sees as Adobes recent focus on sales, rather than on creating great and innovative software: Rather than expand into untapped creative markets, Adobe [...]
I’ve posted a small selection of images from a new project. These icons form part of a forthcoming mobile phone “flirting” service, and represent either the users projected personality (like sexy, horny devil, shy) or an action or emotion (like lust, snog, tease) that can be exchanged with other users. Edit: These images have not [...]
Adobe has announced their acquisition of Macromedia, makers of (among other things) Flash and Dreamweaver. Flash is enormously popular and enormously powerful, but (in my opinion) has never had the GUI polish of Adobe’s products. Hopefully this deal will see some of Adobe’s UI know-how rubbing off on Flash, and better integration with their vector [...]
A few days ago I pre-ordered a copy of Tiger, due out on 29 April, and last night I took the plunge and pre-ordered Adobe Creative Suite 2. I’ve ordered the Standard addition, as I have no need for GoLive and Acrobat (included in the Premium Suite). I’m looking forward to the new tools in [...]
If you are using Opera, you might notice that the banner of this site is a bit broken. I have no idea why this is, I can’t spot anything obviously wrong with the XHTML or the CSS, and it works correctly in Internet Explorer (5 and 6 on Windows, 5 on Mac OS), all the [...]
I do all the design and testing of my site on my own computer (using OS X built in Apache server), before uploading new content to my Dreamhost server space. After adding the WordPress installation, I was hoping I could connect to the same Dreamhost MySQL database from my local test version, so that I [...]
If you are a returning visitor to my site, you may notice the brand new look. I am now using a WordPress blog installation for this front page, which will make it much easier for me to add news about new projects and images, and enable regular visitors to leave comments and feedback. This is [...]
On my old news page, I used a script I wrote myself to create the posts. Each post was stored in an XML file, generated by a CGI script, which I then uploaded to my server. These individual files were used to build the news page. It was quite a nice system, easy to use [...]
I’ve added a couple of new images to my portfolio. The characters are for a forthcoming mobile phone game, but as the developer hasn’t launched it, I can’t reveal the details yet. I’m very pleased with these two images. The brief called for a skater/urban/extreme sports feel, and a more grungy look than my usual [...]