The recent arrival of Corel Painter 11 inspired me to fire up my dusty, unused copy of Painter X and have a go at it. Recently I’ve been devouring watercolor tutorials and feel a general sense of renewed vigor for artwork in traditional media. This is a big departure for me, stepping away from the lavish accouterments of Photoshop with its fancy layer-styles and vector tools.
Had the opportunity to try out Sugar Labs Sugar Sugar environment for the One Laptop Per Child program. It’s a simple educationally-oriented desktop now easily installed on a USB thumb-drive . My take? Alright for kids in a group, but too limited for students above elementary school.
Just discovered sryo’s Modspots.net a small hub of low profile customization sites (on the English speaking area of the internet), of which Skinyourscreen is proudly noted (under mrbiotech)!
Sryo aptly brings together numerous skinning news sites, shells, developers, and artists for your perusal
Check out sryo’s LiteStep themes at LS-Lab and catch skinning news updates at Skinnables.org
Here’s my 5 minute take on the SharpE alternative desktop environment for computers running Microsoft Windows (XP or higher). SharpE has great configuration, looks great, incorporates many of the best features of alternative shells (widgets, virtual windows, etc.), is skinnable, and is free. See it in action!
Rainlendar’s got a Mac version, and I didn’t know about it until LifeHacker mentioned Rainlendar as their number one calendar application. Looks like Rainlendar’s got every platform covered now, with Windows first, Linux second, and finally the Mac OS X frontier. Looks like I’ve got some skinning to do!
