I was looking for resources to learn java on the mac and found this email:
Re: Best Place to Learn Java on a Mac
- Subject: Re: Best Place to Learn Java on a Mac
- From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:16:44 -0700
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Don Guernsey wrote:
>Anybody know of any formal classes or the best way to learn Java on a Macintosh.
Try Google with these keywords:
java tutorial
The Sun Java Tutorial (for 1.4) is good, and applies to Mac OS X. When
they show a command-line, use the one for Solaris, not the one for Windows.
Other than that, everything else should work fine.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/>
This site also has good material:
<http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tutor.htm>
To learn how Apple's tools (e.g. Xcode) work with Java, use Apple's intro
and tutorials:
<http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/GS_Java/>
A caution: the Xcode Java tutorial is primarily an Xcode Cocoa-Java
tutorial. Cocoa-Java is NOT what you want if you're interested in learning
Java itself.
You might be better off with a ProjectBuilder tutorial, which is Appendix A
here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java131Development/>
Another caution: some of the OS integration changed completely between 1.3
and 1.4 Java (MRJXXHandler et al.), as did features (hwaccel), and some
other things. Some of what you learn about 1.3 may be obsolete on 1.4.
And some of what you learn about PB is different in Xcode.
For 1.4 Java on Mac OS X, I strongly suggest:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java141Development/index.html>
Or pick what you want to read here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Java.html>
You can search Apple's developer site here:
<http://developer.apple.com/search/search.html>
If you can't find an Xcode tutorial that addresses Plain Ordinary Java,
rather than Cocoa-Java, I suggest filing a bug-report with Apple.
<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
In any case, there is no "best way", because individual preferences vary.
That's the value of using a search engine: you can examine the material
yourself and see if you like it. If you don't, then you just take the next
fruitful-looking URL in the search results.
-- GG
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Ripped, hacked, and put together from the Winsor & Newton site.
Like everything you learn in elementary school, the color system they taught you is also wrong. We are taught when young that the three primary colours - red, blue and yellow - are all that are required for colour mixing. In fact, in pigment form every colour has both a masstone and an undertone which is different to the next colour.
For example, a blue pigment will have either a red undertone or a green undertone in comparison to another blue pigment. French Ultramarine is a red shade blue whilst Prussian blue is a green shade blue.
So, red, blue and yellow alone are not the whole story and in fact six colours provide a wider base for colour mixing: a red with a yellow bias, a red with a blue bias, a blue with a green bias, a blue with a red bias, a yellow with a red bias and a yellow with a green bias.
Three Primary Colours
Theoretically, the three primaries are magenta, cyan and yellow. But, remember that each artists’ colour has a masstone and an undertone; that artists require a package of handling properties and that permanence is also important. The recommended primaries therefore offer the best practical mixing properties combined with permanence wherever possible.
Listed below are the recommended primaries for each Winsor & Newton range:
Artists’ Oil Colour:
Transparent Yellow, Winsor Blue
(red shade) and Permanent Rose.
Artists’ Water Colour:
Winsor Lemon, Winsor Blue
(red shade) and Permanent Rose.
Artists’ Acrylic Colour:
Azo Yellow Medium, Phthalo Blue
Red Shade and Permanent Rose.
Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour:
Lemon Yellow, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) and Permanent Rose.
Artists’ Oilbar:
Cadmium Lemon, French
Ultramarine and Alizarin Crimson.
Griffin Fast Drying Oil Colour:
Winsor Yellow, Phthalo Blue
and Permanent Rose.
Designers’ Gouache:
Primary Yellow, Primary
Blue and Primary Red.
Winton Oil Colour:
Cadmium Lemon Hue, Phthalo
Blue and Permanent Rose.
Cotman Water Colour:
Lemon Yellow Hue, Intense
Blue and Permanent Rose.
Galeria Acrylic Colour:
Lemon Yellow, Winsor Blue and Permanent Rose.
Note; It is often a surprise to artists that Cadmium Red is not recommended as primary red in a three colour selection. Permanent Rose produces much cleaner and brighter violets and oranges, because it is closer to magenta.
The Six Colour System
A broader spectrum can be mixed with six colours as discussed under Basic Colour Theory earlier. As a learning exercise, the move from three colours to six also begins to introduce other variables like opacity, tinting strength, drying rate, and granulation, depending on the type of colour used. Here are the recommended six colour palettes:
Artists’ Oil Colour:
Winsor Lemon, Winsor Yellow, French Ultramarine, Winsor Blue (green shade), Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red.
Artists’ Water Colour:
Winsor Lemon, Winsor Yellow, Scarlet Lake, Permanent Rose, French Ultramarine and Winsor Blue (Green Shade).
Artists’ Acrylic Colour:
Lemon Yellow, Azo Yellow Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue Green Shade, Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red Light.
Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour:
Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Hue, French Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade), Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red Hue.
Artists’ Oilbar:
Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Pale, French Ultramarine, Manganese Blue Hue, Permanent Magenta and Cadmium Red.
Griffin Fast Drying Oil Colour:
Cadmium Lemon, Winsor Yellow, French Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue, Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red Medium.
Designers’ Gouache:
Lemon Yellow, Permanent Yellow Deep, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine, Scarlet Lake and Alizarin Crimson.
Winton Oil Colour:
Cadmium Lemon Hue, Cadmium Yellow Hue, French Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue, Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red Hue.
Cotman Water Colour:
Lemon Yellow Hue, Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue, Ultramarine, Intense Blue, Permanent Rose and Cadmium Red Hue.
Galeria Acrylic Colour:
Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow
Deep Hue, Ultramarine, Winsor Blue, Permanent Rose and Vermilion Hue.
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If you're looking for a twitter client for ubuntu, look no further than the ubuntu repository. In the add remove applications, if you search for twitter, it'll return three results: Twitter, gTwitter, and Twittux.
Get gTwitter.
This is the client I've been using with my ubuntu box.
The ubuntu client twitter is just a prism wrapped twitter. They suck. The Twittux would close the window if you click on the [x], although it does sit on the tray. I couldn't find any homepage for the two on google.
gTwitter, is almost like Twitterrific for the mac, but for ubuntu.
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Whew! That's a long title, but it's definitely worth it! Corel has a bad history of unstable programs and bad customer support. And I don't see it changing anytime soon. As a Mac user, I don't use much of their program. Except Painter. And today, out of the blue, it decided to crap out on me. Yep. I got one of those:
This installation of Painter has been damaged or illegally modified. To the untrained eye, this might seem that I have either done something stupid and delete a file, or may have pirated (*Gasp!*) the software. Well, whoopde-fuckin-do. You know what? Corel treat people with both disorder the same way: With a cold shoulder.
After trying multiple time to install and uninstalling the damn thing, I scoured the internet. One guy/gal in a forum posted that s/he has fixed his/her copy by downloading a crack(!!) off of a hacking site. Well, that's a solution, Corel! You should distribute cracks to fix your brokkin software! But that solution is neither elegant, nor Mac-worthy.
The thing about a Mac, is we're outnumbered by the dumb people who choose to deal with viruses and all those windows crap instead of switching to a beautifully designed hardware with a revolutionary and well thought-out OS X. But enough about you PC users.
To fix the problem on a Mac, you don't need to install or uninstall or do anything, just go to your HD > Library > Preferences folder and delete the file named nTitles Product Licenses IV.
Then just load Painter! You will have to re-register so I hope you haven't thrown out your hard copy. *grin*
Now, on a PC, we have to delve a little deeper into the horrid entanglement that is the Windows Registry! *Dun-Dun-Dunnnn*
Oh, yes, this baby may look tame now, but watch out! Y'all artsy-artsy people are in for an ascii headache.
The rest of this solution is basically lifted from here. I got rid of my Windows headache so I won't have to deal with this registry shit anymore. Did I say shit? I meant crap.
you have to delete the Protexis files afterinstallation, but before trying to open the program.
So after uninstalling and then reinstalling Painter, do START>>RUN>>typeREGEDIT Search for all PROTEXIS files [two of them] and DELETE (being careful that's all you delete - remember to backup the reg first just in case). And only then open the program. Also, the one reply to that blog post was;
hey, the nudes were weird but I liked the other stuff you can draw Ah, PC, how will we Macs live without you?
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The pen would sometimes fail to detect and stop working for a second until it refreshes and starts working again. While this doesn't seem like a big deal, it craps out your workflow especially when you're already in the zone and in the middle of painting or cross-hatching.
Also, I couldn't seem to revert to an older version without uninstalling the new one first… which would mean that I would lose my settings. Grrr. :S Why couldn't they make wacom settings saveable elsewhere as a file and so you can just load them and share them with people.
Of course, this applies specifically to Wacom intuos 3 driver. But I expect the entire wacom tablet series that uses this driver is affected.
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As a photoshop painter, you understand the need for natural brushes, such as pencils, pastel, watercolor, to name a few, and photoshop is way behind its competitors in this front. It couldn't even rotate its canvas fer cryin' out loud.
But have no fear, one man has filled in this void for you! David Nagel! All of this brushes is now available.
Yep, David Nagel has created so many brushes for photoshop, it's website, the creative mac, couldn't even catalog it.
Seriously, the site is very badly put together, not to mention spam heavy, that it's so difficult to navigate. But oh, you so dearly need the charcoal brush! The pencil! The watercolor brush! Your life depends on Photoshop!
Have no fear! Google is here!
Just Click Here to go to google and have all the photoshop brushes you need listed. If you don't know which to get, just get Series 33 (chalk, dry brush, charcoal, pencil), and 30 (bristles, charcoal, pastel). They're the essential ones. Oh, and Series 40 watercolor.
And as you can see, David Nagle created such great brushes, the charcoal photoshop brush looks like charcoal, the pencil photoshop brush looks like pencil, the watercolor photoshop brush looks like watercolor, and the gouache photoshop brush looks like gouache!
But that's not all! He's even created the cloud brush, it's so easy to use you'll get clouds done very quickly! There's also a couple of stamps like the butterfly and various animals.
Oh, did I mention the skin brush? It even comes with a hair brush, you know to paint in those hairs when you texture your 3D model.
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I thought I was gonna retire this blog, but it turned out, I kept getting computer-related stuff that I always want to share with you. ^^
Now, one thing that makes photoshop such a powerful software is the plugin. And most of us mere mortals… well, we can't even code html right to save our ass. So, the only reasonable solution to this, is having someone else to code for us. But here's the catch: Money. Well, everybody wants something for nothing, and the economic law says, where there's demand, there bound to be supplies.
And what luck would have it, here's a website that list a whole can of free plugins for Photoshop. And not only that, they would also provide help in case those software got outdated and won't run in your version of photoshop as much as they can.
From their page:
We are committed to cross-platform open source software and welcome discussion of any issue pertaining to the software on this page, including build issues. As a proponent of open source, I like to plug for this page. ^^ However, be forewarened, they have plugs that aren't free. :(
Create .ico on your mac with Photoshop
I wanted to create a .ico icon for one of the many websites I maintain. And it turns out, photoshop can't open nor save .ico. :( Luckily, someone GPLed a .ico plugin for photoshop that would also run on a mac. ^^ You can download it from the aforementioned website. It's listed at the top of the list as of this writing.
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