Archive for January, 2008
News, Reviews: January 5th, 2008I’ve had my Plantronics 650 headset for about 2 weeks now. I’ve been pretty happy with it except for one minor niggle: in order to use it, I would need to make a trip to the Sound Preference under System Preferences to select the headset as my primary audio input and audio output.
No big [...]
News, Plugs: January 6th, 2008Apparently, the word is getting around about pcweenies.net, and I would like to acknowledge a few of the sites that have helped me spread the news. In no particular order, they are:
Typical Mac User Podcast - I’ve known the show’s host, Victor Cajiao, as an online friend for a few years, and watched both his [...]
January 7th, 2008
News, Reviews: January 7th, 2008I’m a big fan of Time Machine, Apple’s back-up software that comes bundled with Leopard. It’s already saved my bacon twice - not to mention hours of painstaking work - so I value it pretty highly. On a desktop system, Time Machine’s a no brainer. I have a couple of drives available, and back-ups occur [...]
News: January 7th, 2008Nightgig Sampler #3 (vintage look)
Originally uploaded by kms007
The folks over at The Gigcast are taking pre-orders for the Nightgig Sampler #3, featuring a host of talented cartoonists including Chuck Rowles, KC Green, Kevin Hayman, Jonah Gregory, Scott Gallatin and Kit White. And some guy who drew the cover.
There are two cover variants being offered - [...]
News, Tutorials: January 8th, 2008I fully plan to create a few how-to’s and tutorials on the subject of creating webcomics. I have an older step-by-step method documented already, but it was written a while back and is starting to show its age. While I get my bearings on putting a few new tutorials together, here are a few great [...]
News, Site News: January 8th, 2008This morning I mailed out my beloved Pismo laptop. Purchased in January 2001, the Pismo gave me 5 years of solid service. It was the very first Mac I installed Mac OS X on (10.1) back in the day. It was also the first laptop I used when chatting with Aarti across the Internet, back [...]
Art, News: January 8th, 2008Guitar Man
Originally uploaded by kms007
A quick doodle jam in Painter that turned into something more…
January 9th, 2008
News, Plugs: January 9th, 2008Everyone has their favorite artists. Here are a few (of the several) that I wanted to share with you this evening:
Cedric Hohnstadt - his work screams professional (because he is!) - there’s a certain energy to his drawings that I really admire. Great line of action and character poses! Cedric also blogs on life as [...]