Flogging ((a) Dead Horse(s) for) Courses

Microsoft Photo Draw 2000 V2 will be ten on the last day of the year and I still rate it a 10/10. Un-10-tatively, I’m going to blam on about it again – having lifted the following from a post (where it made a naughty and rather inappropriate imposition) at my OTHER blog – the NeatRetreat [...]

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Screenshot of my Tyger Project Snooker Eye Ball Photo Draw Master Board

A screenshot showing the complete freedom afforded by Microsoft Photo Draw 2000 V2. Its “Desktop” is just like a real-world table, letting you plonk all of your assets wherever you please, duplicate, modify, group/ungroup and re-arrange them.
The in-yer-face interface  is NOT restrictive and cramping (with crap dials, hidden menus and buried filters) like Photoshop, doesn’t force [...]

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Screenshot of Adobe Premiere Pro Workspace

This is a visual illustrating (top right) how much screen real estate I have for compositing using Adobe Premiere Pro.

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NeatNiks

I am going to try to be a neater person at http://neatretreat.wordpress.com
Could “Anita Parson” make a slicker vicar ?

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More Spore

I gave “Spore“ another try on Sunday afternoon, dutifully dragging myself back after a nine-day absense, and managed (!) a rather paltry (Oooh ! “rather paltry” sounds a bit like “Roger Daltry“. Who ? Exactly). extra half an hour (bringing my total gaming experience with it up to 270 minutes).
You may be of the opinion [...]

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Cash (Cadged) for (Cached) Questions…

…well, answers, actually – CORRECT answers as, charmed by and armed with this “heads up”  you  turn tail and head to —->
http://www.royalquiz.co.uk/
to partake (and $take) in head-to-head trivia “Duels” versus quick-quipping contenders plucked from a learnéd lobby a-brim with a bevvy of savvy Swedes who know their Northern European geography and their footie FAR better [...]

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A Royal Pain in the Ar(t)s(e)

Hmmmm…..despite many companies’ (many years of arty R&D &) best efforts to entice me to stray, I really CANNOT find any software to sway my undimming and undying lifelong love 4, and loyalty 2, the elderly (tragically , M(i)Sguidedly mothballed) Microsoft Photo Draw 2000 V2.
Whatever graphics software comes my way is inevitably compared to it [...]

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College Colleague Collages – The Doritos Ad’ Winner

I didn’t actually see “Tribe” :
http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/news/july8/grads-ad-out-of-this-world.html
screened on the telly. Its rum victorious [mainstream-media] run was so curtailed that jogging memories of its brief broadcast mayn’t long be passably possible for those who (doze an’) didn’ take an active int’rest in the competition’s digital denouement.

I watched (in line) online as “Tribe” scooped the early accolade of [...]

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Online Creative Arts Collaborations

Sprung in the spring and still young, Poetry Visualized launched its alpha site by encouraging submissions from members as solo or mutual efforts thus allowing poets, performers, readers, writers,  musicians, film-makers and animators to play to their strengths individually or as co-operative powerhouses.
Collaboration is also key to a current contest at (the soon-to-be re-launched) artistic community Tailcast.com,  whilst [...]

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Websites to Watch

www.librarything.com
remains my “GREATEST web discovery of the year“. It was a vital, fight-all, comforter, motivator and much-needed distraction to me (meee MEEEEEEE !) during a dreadful January. Whilst the global markets plummeted, taking more than their fair (un”Car(e)”ing (?)) (bear) share of my now-lo$t $avings with them, I could, at least, find SOME (un-glum chum [...]

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