Jeremy Shank : Artist & Designer » Random http://www.jeremyshank.com Sui Generis. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:23:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Creative Surge http://www.jeremyshank.com/2010/09/10/creative-surge/ http://www.jeremyshank.com/2010/09/10/creative-surge/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:59:01 +0000 Jeremy Shank http://www.jeremyshank.com/?p=281 It has been in the works a while, and I feel I am entering a stage of creative fervor. The pressure has been building more than usual and I am releasing it in a variety of forms. I do not know which of these meddles will see the light of day, and which will dwindle as another fire takes light, but I am very excited about the projects in the works.

Stay Tuned.

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Here are a few of my opinions on it so far…

  • The font management on OSX is far superior to Windows… basically Windows has none.
  • Automator: After seeing this demonstration is about the point that a Mac’s silvery glow started calling to me. It was just one of those apps that I couldn’t see Microsoft ever including in its OS.
  • The UI is far superior. I actually use the finder. Searching on a Windows machine was such an arduous task.
  • No viruses yet.
  • I am still getting used to all of the new key commands and key symbols.
  • I dig dual booting. OSX plays well will the Windows Partition.
  • I have not yet even begun to learn about the guts of the OS. After having so much experience with the Windows registry and utilities it was a little ominous leaving that for something new, but so far it has been great.
  • I am also looking forward to popping FinalCut Pro Studio 2 on here and taking it for a spin.
  • Some of the Adobe line are still being developed for Windows only, which is a little frustrating for workflow. I don’t know how many times in a row I have restarted the machine only to forget to press the option key for bootcamp. ID10-T Errors, gotta love ‘em.
  • I love being able to drag a file to the taskbar to open it with a program.

I will probably be cross platform for quite some time to come. PCs have their upside, as I will be able to upgrade my 4 or so other machines with whatever Frankenstein pieces I can pick up along the way. They make great render nodes for larger 3D projects, every cycle counts. It seems like people like to throw them away after they get a new one… to which I say: send them to me!

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I was only used 2 of the many services that Google has to offer, namely Gmail and Search….

Under Search I found that there was a link for “free wifi” they would send out your receiver and proper cabling to hook into their network. It just so happened that their network was a series of cable connections that were ran with the sewage lines. all you had to do was flush your Ethernet cable down the toilet, and you would be integrated into the network. Quite funny if the angle on it is poking fun at Ted Steven’s whole “the internet is a series of tubes” mindless rant.

The other was a new service for Gmail where they will give you a hard copy of any email you want… All you have to do is press a button and tell them how many you want… absolutely free. This also went for images, just click an image you want to print, and they will send it back printed on premium glossy paper… 1 or 100,000.

It leaves me to wonder how many people clicked through to sign up for these services.

Humorous.

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And this is a post. my first blog post.

I guess at this time now… I can officially receive that Time “Person of the Year” award. gravy.

I would like to thank my family, friends, coworkers, agent, mailman, and Europe… oh and of course, the readers… of which… I have none.

Except for you of course.

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