Category Archives: Design

Future (and present) uses of Glass

Posted on March 7, 2011 by vmvadmin

A Day Made of Glass… Made possible by Corning Miku 39 on youtube. Computer performer using #Vocaloid s/ware in a live concert. http://trunc.it/f1yst  

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Web page Colour scheme designer

Posted on February 9, 2011 by vmvadmin

Another link from JJ to help you with the colours in your web site. http://colorschemedesigner.com/

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Best/worst web sites page in wiki

Posted on August 3, 2010 by virtualmv

Just added a best/worst web site page to my wiki. Feel free to add/comment (you will need to login first) http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Multimedia:Design:Examples

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A database-ERD (+more) diagram tool (like visio)

Posted on July 26, 2010 by virtualmv

Another recommendation from JJ. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to … Continue reading →

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GimpShop (Photoshop emulator)

Posted on June 29, 2010 by virtualmv

A free Open Source image editor is Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/). A hack is available to give it a photoshop feel (http://www.gimpshop.com/index.shtml)

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Free Clipart

Posted on June 10, 2010 by virtualmv

From @catspyjamasnz http://www.openclipart.org/ Under creative commons licence.

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To Flash or not to Flash this is the question…

Posted on May 1, 2010 by virtualmv

Looks like a tsunami of change again for Multimedia. Flash CS5 Microsoft Visual studio/Silverlight HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript? With Steve Jobs firing a major salvo across Adobes bows: Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did -http://bit.ly/dzFV3V Steve Jobs: Adobe’s Flash “has major technical drawbacks”http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8179 … Continue reading →

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Lots of diagram styles

Posted on March 30, 2010 by virtualmv

From Sam M. Based on sustainability, but can give lots of ideas for adaption in other areas. http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/visualising-sustainability/ ..and more http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-informative-and-well-designed-infographics/

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PowerPoint: Adding an animated clock

Posted on March 27, 2010 by virtualmv

http://screenr.com/uQg (other effects too) I guess I’m going to see a lot of these at the next conference!!

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Using JavaScript to increase browser text size

Posted on March 14, 2010 by virtualmv

When I display my wiki on an overhead in class it is useful to increase the text size. At present I have to use page>Text Size> Larger. Using my “friend” Dr. Google (he/she?) who knows much more than me, came … Continue reading →

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