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    Archive for September, 2008

    Closed Versus Open Source DVD Burning Software

    Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

    Ever try to burn a DVD from avi or mpeg files on your computer to have it play back on any DVD player? There are many video formats and they have to be recoded into the DVD compatible format. There’s also menus to deal with. Here’s an overview of my personal experience with a few [...]

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    New Publication: Fall Home & Garden 2008

    Sunday, September 14th, 2008

    The new edition of Patuxent Publishing Company’s Home & Garden is out. The Spring Edition which I also designed was a lot more conservative. In the same tradition as that issue, it’s very colorful, fun and literal. I did custom illustrations for the pages and was even allowed to do a full illustrative cover, possibly [...]

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    Wikipedia Portals Make Discovering Content A Little Simpler

    Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

    Wikipedia has an underused feature called Portals which guide you through a variety of subjects Some of the very people who write and edit articles have put together guides to help you pick out interesting tidbits of content from the pages of the online encyclopedia. photo credit: throwthedamnthing Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has more ways [...]

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    Camp Guide design mock ups

    Thursday, September 4th, 2008

    Some upcoming cover options for camp guide 2009. Its about summer camps for kids. Share this article Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Digg StumbleUpon Yahoo! Buzz Google Bookmarks RSS email

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    Google Chrome Launches

    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

    Google Chrome, a new web browser has been released in Beta. So far in my testing, it seems pretty fast although understandably unstable at times. It’s based on Webkit, the open source rendering engine that Apple uses in it’s Safari browser with some code adapted from the open source Firefox project. I love that there [...]

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