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microUgly's Vanity Site: Checklist for an iPod killer
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Saturday, January 16, 2010. Checklist for an iPod killer. I don’t want an iPod, but unfortunately most other portable music players don’t offer the right features to properly compete with it. I am currently still using a 4th generation iPod brick, but it runs the RockBox. Firmware, which makes it hard to replace because RockBox makes it a much better device. So here’s my checklist of features a portable music player requires to satisfy me. More screen than controls. 160; The iPod Classic. This is an epi...
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Fontin Sans | exljbris Font Foundry blog
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Exljbris Font Foundry blog. March 9, 2007 · 8:12 am. Just two days ago I’ve released a new font Fontin Sans. Be sure to check it out…. Download and more information…. 53 responses to “. March 11, 2007 at 9:46 am. There are some OpenType functions in Fontin Sans not previously mentioned… Figures are tabular except “1”, but via Opentype options you can choose for an alternate, tabular “1”. March 11, 2007 at 11:16 pm. If yes, I’d love to be involved. March 12, 2007 at 8:02 am. March 16, 2007 at 8:57 pm.
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Fun with graphics card drivers in Ubuntu 12.04 | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/fun-with-graphics-card-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-04
Design for Free Software. Switches in Unity menus →. Fun with graphics card drivers in Ubuntu 12.04. Summary: If you have performance problems using the JACK Audio-Connection-Kit and the. ATI grpahics card driver, switching to. May solve them. Unity 3D and radeon can work, but leftovers of other drivers might get in the way. Also: Proprietary, binary blobs smell bad and Ubuntu’s infrastructure around those drivers is dodgey. On Ubuntu 11.10, I switched graphics cards and thus drivers from. Initially, I t...
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3D printing to the rescue | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/3d-printing-to-the-rescue
Design for Free Software. Strange new Windows Logo. 3D printing to the rescue. I bought a new bicycle, recently. My first with drop-bars. The additional brake-levers ease my mind, but make it more difficult to attach any more stuff. So I went looking for a well-reviewd, certified (German Straßenverkehrszulassung) headlight with a clamp that would fit into the space right next to the stem. Busch and Müller Ixon Pure. After having a quick look at the mesh in Blender, I went to shapeways.com. The quality of...
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Get on Board the Blues – Guicussion Remix | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/get-on-board-the-blues-guicussion-remix
Design for Free Software. Switches in Unity menus. Music: Gleshnor →. Get on Board the Blues Guicussion Remix. Dave Phillips recently published a great Blues track. In a not so great mix and made the material available on request. Since others covered the gentle just bring out what’s there. By Fons Adriaensen) as well as tasteful addition of drums. By Jason Jones), I just had to do something a little different. More music from Dave. More music from yours truly. In need of visual and/or interaction design?
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Thorwil's | Design for Free Software | Page 2
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Design for Free Software. Strange new Windows Logo. Microsoft Windows gets a new Logo for Version 8. It no longer tries to be a window or group of windows and a flag at once. My first impression was that the perspective looks off. I found out it is because the 2 columns have different width in the prespective, but with a rather subtle difference, that in my view allows the impression of being an inaccuracy, instead of being clearly on purpose. Matches for a search for. Turning the top panel transparent o...
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Switches in Unity menus | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/switches-in-unity-menus
Design for Free Software. Fun with graphics card drivers in Ubuntu 12.04. Get on Board the Blues Guicussion Remix →. Switches in Unity menus. Plans for the next iteration of the network status menu. In Unity include the use of switch widgets. As has been brought up on the unity-design list. Their placement on the right is likely to make the issue of diagonal movement often opening adjacent menus. State helps here, but does nothing, if all you see is an. If all you have to communicate is. Finally an exper...
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Music: Gleshnor | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/music-gleshnor
Design for Free Software. Get on Board the Blues Guicussion Remix. New Ardour Logo →. This project started as a test of Ardour. 3’s new MIDI and synth-plugin features (still in beta). In this role, it served in uncovering and fixing a number of issues and grew into something a little more ambitious over time. The kick, bass and lead all come from instances of Calf. When thinking about what I could draw as a cover image,. Other formats, the entire Ardour session. As well as a track-by-track export.
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LinuxMaya | Thorwil's
https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/linuxmaya
Design for Free Software. 3D printing to the rescue. Fun with graphics card drivers in Ubuntu 12.04 →. José Luis Romero L. asked me for a Logo for LinuxMaya. The honduran Linux users group. I said yes, mainly because it was an interesting opportunity, stylistically, and a welcome break from my currently more layout and interaction-design heavy job. A few small sketches:. I'm a designer from Germany. My main interests are visual and interaction design, free/open-source software and (electronic) music.
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User Testing Is Largely Pointless :: Librescope
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User Testing Is Largely Pointless. August 18th, 2010. Earlier reminded me of something I have been thinking about for a long time. For years usability languished in the FOSS world due to a combination of elitism and the belief that it was just a theme-pack away. As a result most FOSS projects are riddled with massive usability problems. It appears now that this problem has been noticed and is starting to get addressed, which is good. The problem is. It is getting addressed. By Troy James Sobotka. Mysql q...