Photoshop filters in GIMP - Open Source software gets better

Photoshop filters in GIMP – Open Source software gets better

I was just reading about a fairly amazing development in GIMP.  If you’re unfamiliar with GIMP, it is an open source graphical editing package similar to Adobe™ Photoshop.  The biggest difference is that GIMP is free, and Photoshop is not.  In comparison, however, Photoshop has always been more powerful with what it could do — [...]

More forum crapola

Boring, yes, but there have been quite a few concerns about the new forums that I figured I’d respond to: We need a quick reply box at the bottom of each topic. Agreed.  I am going to be adding this.  Unfortunately, this requires some programming so it may take a day or two. It would [...]

Forum Migration complete … sort of

The migration was successful, but the way Suddenlaunch keeps their posts organized, the script only grabbed the first 20 topics in each forum category.  Bummer… This means quite a few posts were lost in the transition.  This isn’t a big deal since the old forums are still available, but I was really hoping for a [...]

The forums are migrating south for the winter

I’m moving the forums over from SuddenLaunch so I can maintain them here instead.  This way I have full control over them, plus I can make them look sexy. The forums will be located at http://www.deadtaco.com/forums (eventually that will change to forums.deadtaco.com, but this hasn’t happened yet).  Now I can integrate the main page with [...]

New Site Design

As you can see, the old website was eradicated.  Yes, it was on purpose.  I failed miserably at keeping it updated, mainly because I never set up any sort of dynamic page creation.   I started out by creating my own publishing site with PHP, but decided it would save me many hours to go with [...]