Author Archives: Donncha
GIMP Articles – Panoramas and Crystal Ball
Last weekend I took a dozen photos of a valley south of Mizen Head with the intention of stitching them together in a wide panorama. This tutorial will help by using Hugin, Enblend and The Gimp!
Nice effect – Crystal Ball
Mozilla/Firefox Stuff
The PRGoogleBar adds page rank to the Google Bar for Mozilla, another reason not to use IE!
The Mozile inline editor looks promising. It allows one to edit xhtml documents within a web page in a WYSIWYG way. It might help to style the containing DIV a little so it actually looks like an editor however.
Here’s a nasty spoof to try in Mozilla or Firefox. It may not work in FF PR1 but in earlier browsers it’ll display a Paypal login screen that looks very authentic!
Sunset in Douglas
Last Friday’s sunset was gorgeous!
Refract/Reflect Plug-in for the GIMP
OOh, wish I could compile this plugin, but it failed as a .c file wasn’t generated. Still, take a look at the Refract/Reflect Plug-in for the GIMP, must try to compile it later.
Macro Insects and Gardens
mytinygarden has some superb photos, and here’s several photos of insects. Scary or beautiful? You decide.
WordPress Multiuser 0.1.3
Here’s a new release of WPMU, and this is what’s new!
- Added enclosures support.
- Added blog post instant preview.
- Misc bug fixes and WP upgrades.
Go get it from the download page!
When upgrading just copy over your previous installation. It should work without running any upgrade script.
Calendar Script Tutorial
Here’s a nice way of adding a calendar graphic to your website – use the background= attribute of html to fool the eye!
Swans in Ballydehob
| Awwww! Such beautiful creatures! Majestic, rulers of their domain, proud! |
| Oh My God! He’s getting close! Must zoom out! |
| Aarrrggghhh! Jump back! Bloody thick headed bird went for me! |
Learning to See
All the best equipment in the world won’t help if you can’t see a good photo in a scene. I’m still amazed sometimes when I see what are lacklustre scenes in reality when they’re displayed on my monitor!