While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Ba...

Crude, crass and unfunny. Surely there's no excuse for Horne and Corden's sketch show? I know that Gavin & Stacey is the most universally adored show ever, it's won every award going, and its stars are now national treasures. It's so warm, people say. People are fools, though. Warm isn't enough; a c...

a construction zonebuilding us a new normalwith noise and plastic The equipment is here, the supplies are on their way. Thankfully, the nurses at the hospital helped us stockpile a bunch of stuff to help cut costs. It's all tucked stealthily away in the closet under the stairs; the Harry Potters of ...

(A few days ago, I talked some trash about Killzone 2. Sony has since patched the game to fix roughly 1/3 of the things I hated. This is good news, but I'm not sure why they waited two months after the game went to press to figure out how an analog stick works on a PlayStation 3. Anyway.) Street Fig...

When was the last time enterprise software was interesting? For half of you, the answer is “never.” For some it might have been when CRM finally grew up in the late 90s. Others, maybe when email came to work. Remember that? It was around the time when only people on CompuServe accounts c...

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[From MacFalic] I never thought that I would be a retired person with so darned many "gadgets." My laptop, as my main PC, has too many add-ons to be very "mobile." I only use my cell phone for emergency calls (the only new device), great cheap plan. My media player is too small to see the screen, an...

Partnering up with AMD, on Monday Seagate announced the latest Serial ATA specification: SATA3. The new specification offers hard drive transfer speeds of up to 6Gbps, which is around 600MBps. This new specification was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization, in order to provide a he...

Except I don't have any Xanax. We have been cleared for release from the hospital. Yay, right? Well, thanks to the collective bumbling of the case management team, we don't have the equipment we need to go home. Specifically, we don't have a suction pump. I find it exceedingly fitting that a thing t...

Being lord of the manor is all well and good, but beware these four words: open to the public I feel a bit sorry for Adam Nicolson. He lives in this big fat house called Sissinghurst (BBC4, Sunday), which is where his mum and dad used to live, and before that his nan, who was a famous gardener and w...