Serious Samurize – Swirl Desktop

To keep your interest while I’m working on my job search, here’s a older desktop I created while I was teaching myself how to use the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, a free Photoshop clone) and Samurize. All of the information on the desktop is dynamic.

This was a very simple desktop to create, each of [...]

LCD News Readout How-to

This is a How-To to create a LCD style news ticker embedded on your desktop as referenced in my previous post.

What you’ll need

LCD Font
Samurize
A news source that publishes RSS feeds.

You should be able to find links to these on the main page of most large newspapers and news organizations. We’ll be using the CNN Top [...]

If you can’t open it, you don’t own it

I’m a big fan of Make Magazine, the subtitle of which I have shamelessly stolen for this article. The philosophy behind Make is that consumers have a right to know how the products they buy work and where they come from. In furthering this goal, the magazine features a cornucopia of teardowns, rebuilds, unboxing and [...]