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| Topic Started: Dec 7 2010, 12:14 PM (1,091 Views) | |
| Zoroaster | Dec 7 2010, 12:14 PM Post #1 |
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I've been using Tomboy notes on Windows and Linux and syncing to Dropbox for the last 12 months for my pet projects... works most of the time... I can update stuff at work from my Windows XP PC, and then at home using Linux... I just need to get it to work on Dropbox on my Android phone and I can update my project when I'm commuting on the train (too many parking tickets to ride my bike to work!) or stuck in bumfuck in Queensland... Gimp is brilliant with its "Animaion -> spinnning globe" filter to turn a flat map into a rotating globe.... I have two books on Blender (won't touch Sketchup as it's Windows only), my Quaddro 3500 FX is not playing ball with Linux (or Windows 7) - so I think it's time for a new multi-core PC with a dirt cheap NVidia gaming card... There's so much freeware and free services out there, the serious artist/creator should only have to pay for hardware.... |
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The Speccer Formerly Known As Magoo... My exobio project(s) : Hormizd / Zarathustra ![]() | |
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| Holben | Dec 7 2010, 12:16 PM Post #2 |
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Without much knowledge of computers at all, all i can assert is that i'm using Windows Xp on an eight-year old computer which has GIMP. I've used macs, blender, etc. though. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Dec 7 2010, 12:30 PM Post #3 |
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I'm using a electronic computer with internet accesses. |
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Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
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| Holben | Dec 7 2010, 12:31 PM Post #4 |
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Are you sure, Sir Lamna? I have four browsers installed on my computer.
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Pando | Dec 7 2010, 02:43 PM Post #5 |
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I have the latest version of Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.6.4), I use GIMP for graphics, iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) for text editing, charts, and presentations, use TextEdit for quick text, iMovie for video editing, Quicktime Player for movie playing, iTunes for music, Garageband for music, Preview for quick image viewing and cropping, I use Firefox for internet but I also have Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox 2, Firefox 1, Firefox 0.8, and Internet Explorer 5. |
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| Holben | Dec 7 2010, 02:45 PM Post #6 |
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... I don't play videos offline, i use microsoft office for everything it can do, iTunes and Spotify, and other stuff. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| skwirlinator | Dec 8 2010, 01:44 PM Post #7 |
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| colddigger | Dec 8 2010, 05:30 PM Post #8 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Oh daaamn I saw Rhino3D in there, I fiddled with that a little bit, it's a nice program as far as I could tell. |
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Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| skwirlinator | Dec 9 2010, 01:55 AM Post #9 |
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I downloaded all the free ones and most of the demos and put the install files on a dvd for future use. 1st thing I do when I start using one is go get updates. Been dying to try out sculptris but haven't even opened it yet.
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| skwirlinator | Dec 9 2010, 02:05 AM Post #10 |
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On a new note: I downloaded the entire Celestia Motherlode. My Celestia folder is now 23.7 GB. I haven't started playing with those mods yet tho. |
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| lamna | Dec 9 2010, 11:57 AM Post #11 |
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I use Microsoft paint when I have to edit pictures. Works well enough. |
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Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
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| Holben | Dec 9 2010, 12:08 PM Post #12 |
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Yes, it does. But GIMp has other functions. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Dec 9 2010, 05:45 PM Post #13 |
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I'm not use to it, and I'm not going to produce inferior work mucking around with something new. |
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Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash] | |
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| Ànraich | Dec 21 2010, 03:48 AM Post #14 |
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You get parking tickets on bikes? Never heard of that before, but I'm not surprised since you can get a DUI from riding one drunk. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Kamidio | Dec 21 2010, 03:59 AM Post #15 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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I have a rock, a rock that has shiny thi- Oh, you meant modern tools. Pencils, paper, pens, 20 year old acryllic paints, a tooth brush, paint brushes, my hands, and my acer Aspire. |
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