Pink Sandbox » foss http://www.pink-sandbox.com Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Artistic Frustrations http://www.pink-sandbox.com/technology/artistic-frustrations/ http://www.pink-sandbox.com/technology/artistic-frustrations/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:09:00 +0000 kelay http://www.pink-sandbox.com/?p=22 (Haha weird post title. Anyway, I’ll not be talking about some obscure way of venting out my frustration.)

I stumbled upon an FOSS 3D content creation software last week and here I am fantasizing yet again my dream on becoming an animator. I have dreamed of becoming one when Pixar started coming up with those amazing animation movies. Unfortunately, I lack the knack of being artistic yet fortunately, I think I’m not really hopeless enough that I can bring it out through study and practice. :)

Oh, FOSS, FOSS, FOSS! I am happy that there are free and open source alternatives to your favorite enterprise applications. And since its open source, you really need not wait for the next release to get that functionality that you deemed so important. Well of course if you are a developer, you could be the one to add the functionality. If not, well, if your idea is truly good, I bet some programmer may have already worked on it; just search and build.

]]> http://www.pink-sandbox.com/technology/artistic-frustrations/feed/ 0 FOSS for Sketching and Prototyping http://www.pink-sandbox.com/technology/foss-for-sketching-and-prototyping/ http://www.pink-sandbox.com/technology/foss-for-sketching-and-prototyping/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:48:00 +0000 kelay http://www.pink-sandbox.com/?p=19 I decided I’ll have to find a prototyping tool for the changes mentioned in this morning’s presentation. Though html,css, and jQuery are fun to work with, I think I’ll have to forgo with the fun and make do with the straightforward. I have all the time in world before to use html, css, and jQuery but since my next presentation is up in a few day’s time, I have to find that prototyping tool!

The googled solution: Pencil Project

I got the Firefox plugin. Weird though because it has nothing to do with any viewed pages. It works in a separate window.

Although you can get the Pencil Project as a standalone application. I think I’ve used a free prototyping tool before but it didn’t impress me much to have me happy to use it again like Pencil. :) Luvit!

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