Random Wisdom » Art

Picture of the Moon

Mostafa — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:10:00 +0000

For a while now I’ve been thinking of photographing the moon. It was a clear night and I finally got around to doing exactly that:

I used my Fujifilm FinePix S5100 (Black&White mode, ISO 200) at a combined maximum zoom of 360x. Then I used Photoshop to increase the contrast a little. I’m quite surprised with the result — didn’t expect this from a consumer grade digicam.

New GDM Theme

Mostafa — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:31:00 +0000

Just designed my very first GDM theme. It’s based on the “Pixel Girl” theme and uses the “Blue Turbulence” wallpaper. Here’s a screenshot:

It can be downloaded from GNOME-Look.org or here.

To install and use, run the gdmsetup tool as root and look under “Graphical greeter”

Inkscape

Mostafa — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:09:00 +0000

I installed Inkscape a few days ago out of pure curiosity. Today I’m glad that I did .. I needed to touch up some diagrams with a few translucent windows here and there and GIMP didn’t seem to have any easy of doing it. So came the first field test of Inkscape ..

It works quite well – at least from the first impression. I can already see it giving MS Visio a run for its money …