A Hiccup
My Independence Day project didn’t work out as I hoped. It probably seems like overkill, but I bought this Corsair Carbide Spec-01 case to house the Mini-Itx motherboard which is essentially the heart...
View ArticleAffinity Designer
I’ve been playing with a ten-day trial of what for me is going to be the Adobe Illustrator killer. It’s called Affinity Designer. Vector art programs have never really been fun. A lot of the graphic...
View ArticleSwimming in the Low End
I just purchased a used 2009 Mac Pro to use as a replacement for my recently departed dual G5 Mac Pro which I also purchased used. It served me well as a graphic design and digital illustration...
View ArticleOK, Now We’re Done
With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go! As I recently wrote, my G5 Mac Pro which the world and Apple’s marketing department has...
View ArticleHonest Abe Lincoln
I came across this famous photographic portrait of Honest Abe and decided to play with Adobe Photoshop’s new Neural Filters. With the touch of a button and maybe a two second delay, black and white...
View ArticleThinking Differently
We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level...
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