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New Site Coming Soon

Uripides — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:35:30 +0000

I am currently building a new site so I have abandoned this blog for the time being. As soon as I release the new site I will be back to posting. In the mean time, you can check out Cameron’s Website.

What Makes a Good Portfolio?

Uripides — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:18 +0000

I recently decided to redo my portfolio ala my Website.

Now, one doesn’t just go and redo one’s portfolio. This is something that should be given some thought and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. The question I keep coming back to is what makes a good portfolio? What should I make it look like? Should I make it dark and minimal; maybe flashy and something wild or something that I’ve always wanted to do but haven’t had the change to do? Should I use Wordpress, Expression Engine or just static pages? The list goes on and on!

Are You Really Going to us that Image?

Uripides — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:35:39 +0000

I found an article on Snap2Objects.com that struck as really funny because of all the designing I’m doing at this point in my career. In summation, it basically says not to use about 80%of the images I was looking at using. Now, it’s not to say that I’m a lesser designer for using these images but in corporate design, usually the “safe” approach is the one most taken. So, yes i’m guilty of following the heard but I’ve also heard that Web 2.0 is so…last year!

Check out the article, it’s a good read! Even though, there are still some practical uses for this kind of imagery.

Techno Baby

Uripides — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:32:29 +0000

Now that I’m a new father and pretty much a tech geek I’m looking for something to interest Cameron in when he gets a little older. I found this game where kids can just mash on the computer keyboard and cool images and sounds popup. It’s called Baby Smash and it’s really quite interesting.

Watch the Video

Make Your Mixes in the Same Key or Not

Uripides — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:34:13 +0000

As a DJ, as a retired DJ now a professional “Bed Room” DJ, I can say that this piece of software is strictly for the hardcore enthusiasts! Mixed In Key analyzes your music and tells you what key its in. This way you can have your entire mix in the same key or in a complimentary key. And since most of my music is now mp3 I think that I could come up with a wikkid set! I’m not sure if it would be boring to only stay in one key but I’ve read that this software also recommends keys.
They say “professional DJs, including Deep Dish and Pete Tong from BBC Radio 1 in using Mixed In Key software.” So, I guess it can’t be half bad!

Watch the Demo.

But i got to say..the video leaves a lot to be desired!

Start Off With Some Music

Uripides — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:19:49 +0000

Now that I’ve had some rest and I’ve finally gotten through my daily reads which accumulated on Google Reader (all my categories were 1000+) over the past weeks I can now begin my weekly posts.

So, why not start off with a little music. I recently rediscovered RBMA Radioкомпютри, Red Bull’s Music Academy. They have some really sweet archives that are totally worth looking at especially Marcus Intelix’s mixes. They‘re just awesome.

make sure you search: Marcus Intalex

He’s Here!

Uripides — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:39:49 +0000

OK! Cameron Bertoli Cunningham was born Friday May 9th 2008! So, for the next few weeks i’m going to be in and out admiring my new baby boy! As we progress with his development I will continue to update this blog with his progress but for now i’m going to take a small break and just admire his beauty!

Studying to be a Good Dad

Uripides — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:53:57 +0000

Ok, so I’ve been totally caught up with Baby coming and work. Being at my new job is quite different than I had expected. But more to the point, I haven’t been able to spend hours a day on my blog. Therefore, my posts have begun to dwindle.

I assume that once Baby Cameron comes it might even get worse. In my quest to become a better father I’ve been doing a lot of research. As a kid growing up my dad had a hand full of interesting things he could do. One of the most famous tricks was turning a napkin into a bra. He never missed an opportunity to show off his brazier making skills and still does it to this day!

So I thought, well I had better come up with something that Cameron would remember. Get ready Cameron Daddy’s got a new trick!

Organize Your Music, Better Than You Can Do

Uripides — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:38:42 +0000

If you’re like me you have a ton of MP3s on your hard drive and you have at least some kind of folder structure.
But with all those single mp3s that don’t have an album to call home my library can get really out of control. So, being the neat, I mean beat, freak that I am I found TagScanner to be a real gem. It a free Windows application that boasts such features as getting album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon. TagScanner also supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. And if you’re also like me, you think iTunes blows and is not really good at cataloging music. Besides it’s a memory hog!

So be like me and download this program.

Batch Image Resizing

Uripides — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:40:06 +0000

Now, batch processing isn’t the most interesting topic on the planet, and no I’m not starving for content thank you very much! The reason I’m blogging about this is every once in a while you just need to batch some freak’n images.

For example, a client of mine, who is a photographer, has a site that’s really pretty cool but every now and again I have to update his site. That means taking a ton of images and making them uniformly the same size. I know I know, I can use Photoshop for that but have you seen how complicated it is to get Photoshop to do that. It takes more time for me to set it up than it’s worth.

Therefore, I was overjoyed when I saw this handy little batching program that said it was really simple and it’s cross platform. Allow me to introduce Squash. Squash makers say that it allows resizing of images in a batch mode. It is friendly and usable and does one thing well - resizing images. It is a multi-threaded application and is designed to run on Linux, Mac and Windows. It’s really simple and easy to use.

So, if ever you’re in a situation where you have to resize a shite load of images try Squash and it will make you smile!

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