Category: Technology
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Social media’s transformation over the years
These days I find myself, somewhat unconsciously, viewing more videos on Facebook than YouTube. This is something that Facebook has been pushing for some time.
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Was spam invented to kill electronic communications?
This thought has occurred to me more than once and seems that there is some logic to this thinking, namely whether the main purpose of spam is to kill electronic communication. Take e-mail – one of the oldest forms of electronic communications still around. On my google mail ID, for instance, I have been getting…
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Are news paywalls still relevant in 2022?
Or perhaps the question should be “were they ever relevant at any point of time?” Recently I was checking for news about the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka and came across a couple of articles that were behind paywalls. Needlessly to say I simply went on to click other links. In this…
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The mystery of the missing camera
It’s been a while since I’ve paid attention to the photography gear scene, but these days it appears that there are very few affordable, and more importantly newly released enthusiast/prosumer interchangeable lens cameras available on the market (at least here in India). The least expensive DSLR camera I found was the rather underwhelming Canon EOS…
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How to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice
Another video tutorial, this one on how to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice Draw and Writer. Creating video tutorials like this with more editing work is something different that I am trying out. I edited and finalized everything on kdenlive which is an excellent Open Source non-linear video editor on…
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Video tutorial – how to maintain a fuel log with mileage calculator in LibreOffice Calc/Excel
Something different I tried recently. A video tutorial on how to maintain a fuel log with mileage calculator in LibreOffice Calc or Excel with simple formulae. Hopefully this provides some good information. This is something I am still working on, especially my voice and recording clarity, so please do leave your feedback on the video.
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GIMP Tutorial – fire animation in pixel art
Yet another video tutorial on GIMP – this time explaining how to create a fire animation for use in 2d pixel sprite based games.
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GIMP tutorial on drawing 2d pixel art bush
Here’s my video on YouTube, showing how you can draw a simple bush in 2d pixel art style in GIMP.
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The best way to type on an iPad
Apropos of my earlier article on alternate input methods on a touch screen device, what is the best method of typing text on an iPad or other touchscreen tablet without an external proprietary or generic Bluetooth keyboard? After some experimentation, I feel that using the onscreen keyboard combined with a cheap passive stylus pen is reasonably efficient…
