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Yearly Archive for 2009

Magic Mouse Momentum Mend

Apple’s new Magic Mouse is quite an amazing piece of technology, with a very nice iPhone-esque scrolling feature. The trouble is that if your Mac doesn’t run Snow Leopard, momentum scrolling isn’t supported. This is a problem for those of us who do not want to upgrade just yet, or worse, for those who can’t upgrade due to no PowerPC support in Snow Leopard. Fear not, there is a solution! If you can follow instructions and are moderately tech-savvy, you can enable this useful feature. Read on to find out how.
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Offensive? No, You’re Just A Dumbass

A forewarning, this post may be offensive to some groups of people. Haha, I just contradicted the title, how ironic. This post’s about how easily people get offended nowadays, and how political correctness is bullshit.
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Typography

DSC_4544, originally uploaded by daniel.zabolotny.

Flickr apparently has this neat feature which lets me blog directly from it. I figure it’s going to be pretty useful for posting some artworks on my blog.

Change… Not!

Now who do we most associate change with? If you answered Obama, give yourself a cookie, because he’s the one I’ll be ripping on in this post. Continue reading only if you don’t mind a little Obama-bashing.
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17

I’m finally 17 today. Know what that means? It’s my birthday. Can’t believe how old I’m getting. I swear it’s like just yesterday I was a short 14 year-old kid with a crappy freewebs site. Now I’m a taller 17 year-old kid with a slightly less crappy site :P

Guitar, Anybody?

I made a fully-detailed guitar in Photoshop class at school. No, I didn’t use a tablet. It was all done with an Apple mouse, using the pen tool, on a Power Mac G5. I based it off Schecter’s C-1 line of guitars, but it’s not pixel-accurate because I didn’t trace it. See it after the jump.
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