I decided to move the current storyline to its conclusion (which will happen on Friday now). What you’re reading today was the ‘toon slated for Friday. Enjoy the Bonus Thursday strip. Come back tomorrow for the conclusion!
-Krishna
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Here are the pencils and inks for Monday’s comic, with a slightly different bit o’ dialogue – as I originally wrote it.
-Krishna
A few site-related news bits I wanted to share…
1) pcweenies.org now redirects to pcweenies.net – the goal here is consolidate all traffic to one source. pcweenies.org will lay dormant until I decide to do something with it…
2) I’ve sent e-mails to various sites that have graciously linked to The PC Weenies, to update their links to pcweenies.net
3) The Magic Square is still available – if you’d like to place a PCW self-updating badge on your website.
To add a PCW badge to your website, simply right-click on the image above to copy its location, then add a link back to pcweenies.net
4) Effective today, all PC Weenies ‘toons will exclusively be carried on pcweenies.net only – I’ve discontinued comic-mirroring on other websites because it doesn’t really bring any more visitors to the site. If you see my comics mirrored on another site, please let me know.
5) (Unrelated) New Uncubed tomorrow.
-Krishna
Now that I’ve been using Leopard (aka Mac OS X 10.5) for almost a year, I felt compelled to weigh in on its value. The most current version, at this writing, is version 10.5.4 and it’s been a trouble-free computing experience. I am very happy with Leopard, but the fact remains that I do not use several of its touted features.
Let’s take a look at some of the major features I enjoy about Leopard:
1) Spaces – now that the bugs have been more or less squashed, I am very happy with the built-in virtual desktop option.
2) Quick Look – worth its weight in gold for me. The convenience of quickly checking the contents of a file without having to open the application first almost completely justifies the Leopard upgrade.
3) Time Machine – extremely useful and has already saved me a total of 20 man hours. Being able to retrieve a file I accidentally deleted a few weeks or months earlier, is a boon. This feature has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.
Now let’s look at features within Leopard I never use.
1) FrontRow – on a desktop Mac, without a remote control, FrontRow is nothing more than beautiful eye candy. With a remote, there’s some potential.
2) Dashboard – I can’t remember the last time I installed a widget. I never use Dashboard. I would use widgets more often if they could be shared on the desktop. (I’m aware of Amnesty – but I want the solution built-in.)
3) iChat – I have never been able to use the video conferencing capabilities of iChat within Leopard. My parents are on a Leopard system as well, and we’ve never been able to get iChat to work with video or audio. We have routers on both ends, and I’m sure its something related to port-forwarding – but the fact that Skype has no such issues when it comes to video chatting while iChat does – makes iChat nothing more than a wasted application, IMHO.
What about you? If you’re running Leopard – what are your favorite features? What, in your opinion, are its most useless features? Sound off in the comments below.
-Krishna
Here is a turn-around for a character model sheet I drew a few days back. I created it to use as an example for one of the classes I teach.
-Krishna
