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Caricature drawing, two iPad caricature articles

Friday, 2010.04.16 J.D. H. Leave a comment

YouTube – iPad Caricature Demonstration with Art Studio and Pogo Sketch (with Digital Artist Angie Jordan) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDXe_wsk9bc&feature=youtube_gdataiPad Caricature Demonstration with Art Studio and Pogo Sketch (with Digital Artist Angie Jordan). iPad Caricature Video Demonstation – Part 1 – Digital Caricatures by Angie Jordan http://blog.angiejordan.com/2010/04/ipad-caricature-video-demonstation-part-1/On Saturday, I drew my first iPad Caricatures at the device’s launch. After I posted pictures here and on Facebook, I was swarmed with emails, Facebook messages, and phone… Fast Icon – Quality Custom caricatures from photos

Roofing drawings and modeling using Google Sketchup

Monday, 2010.04.05 J.D. H. 4 comments

Today I started the order for some new roofing for our house. Here are some of the drawings I made in Google Sketchup. These were what I used for calculating how much roofing to order: Top view: Overall, Sketchup made it nice and easy to produce “good enough” drawings for my purposes :-). Top Search Terms:roofing drawings (25)roof drawings (21)sketchup roof (21)house roof (18)google sketchup roof (17)house drawing top view (14)top view of house (12)google sketchup roofing (12)top view of

Raon Digital EVERUN UMPC S60H

Sunday, 2010.04.04 J.D. H. Leave a comment

As part of my bought and sold series of blog entries, here is a copy of my eBay auction for the the Raon Digital UMPC S60H Ultra Mobile Personal Computer. This was truly a cool little mini-tablet way before iPads were all the rage 🙂 Raon Digital EVERUN UMPC S60H The EVERUN features the “classical” UMPC look, with the keyboard and control options placed on both sides of the 4.8-inch LCD display, which has a resolution 800 x 480 pixels. Moreover,

Canon HV20 1080i MiniDV HD Camcorder 3.1MP Camera

Sunday, 2010.04.04 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Title: Canon HV20 1080i MiniDV HD Camcorder 3.1MP Camera Subtitle: Like Brand New. FREE USA SHIPPING! Up for auction is a gently used Canon HV20 HDV Camcorder. Camera has low hours of use, is fully functional and shows little to no signs of wear. Items included in this auction: HV20 HDV Camcorder Battery Pack Compact Power Adapter Stereo Video Cable ??? WL-D87 Wireless Controller ??? IFC-300PCU USB Cable ??? CTC-100 S Component Cable Digital Video Solution Disc for Windows and

Pairing Saitek A-250 bluetooth speakers with iPhone/iPod touch

Friday, 2010.03.26 J.D. H. 50 comments

Today I paired my old Saitek wireless speakers with my relatively new iPod touch. I’d paired the Saitek to a PC before, and the iPod to a different wireless speaker, but this was my first time with iPod + Saitek. Here are two links that were helpful to me, one on iPhone/iPod Touch bluetooth and one on the Saitek (and how to pair). NOTE: these instructions are for the iPhone’s and iPod touch models that have built in bluetooth. Hands

Vector images in the iPhone SDK

Wednesday, 2010.03.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I’m interested in using vector images for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch apps. As Apple keeps adding different screen sizes and form factors, scalable vector images would seem to be the way to go (rather than bitmaps that don’t scale well). With vector images, it wouldn’t matter what the resolution of the device’s screen was, the images would scale to whatever was needed. Here are some misc links and info related to vector graphics in the Apple iPhone SDK: Apple iPhone Tech Talk

How to optimize WordPress for iPhone?

Thursday, 2010.03.18 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Q. What’s a good and easy way to optimize WordPress for the iPhone/Ipod touch etc. ??? A. WPtouch :-). Here’s some more info: WPtouch iPhone Theme « WordPress Plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone,… To use the plugin with Weblogs.us hosting: download it unzip it upload it via FTP to: /wp-content/plugins/wptouch/ active the plugin from your WordPress administrative interface

Culinary Delights

Thursday, 2010.03.18 J.D. H. Leave a comment

When Samantha is cooking, she is usually too busy (or too covered in ingredients) to take photos of the process. So when I’m around, I try to snag a few photos of what’s cookin’. Here’s a sampling: Homemade Strawberry Shortcake Samantha’s desserts are always to die for, and this one was definitely not an exception! Stuffed Pepper Beginnings I’m not big on stuffed peppers, but these turned out to be AMAZING once Samantha finished with them :-).