PC WEENIES
Tech Musings and Comics.
A webcomic and blog about technology, digital life, creative frustration, and the weird humor of living with machines.
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FrugalMac: On the Topic of Backups
Backups are important. As I’ve often stated to my design students: “There are two types of computer users in the world: Those who have lost data and those who are about to lose data.” I’ll leave the sermonizing to others on why backups are important. For my own needs, having backup data is not merely…
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Video: Creating an Environment Digitally from Start to Finish
Taking a slight detour from my usual “how to” instructional videos, I wanted to share my process of creating an environment from start to finish. I work in Photoshop, and start with a large, dominant shape using polygon lasso tool. From there, I consider depth, scale, and focal point. -Krishna
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The Pleasant Feeling of a Forced Reprieve
A sobering fact: There’s not much you can do on a modern computer without the Internet. But there was a time when that didn’t matter. My first computer was an Apple IIGS. It came with a display, CPU, keyboard and a 3.5” and 5.25” floppy drive. I remember spending countless hours messing about on this…