Profile: Jaye Frisina

 Madbadcat's Note: The first time I saw Jaye Frisina's work, I laughed out loud. How is it possible for that whimsical ninja to be endearing and threatening at the same time? The answer to that question is probably the essence of Ms. Frisina's talent. ::: Artist(s) Name::: Jaye Frisina ::: Title of Work(s::: FIN cartoons, and Thirteenth Story zines ::: Publisher::: Self-published ::: Website::: ThirteenthStory.com … [Read more...]

The Tao of I.T. Al #58

[flv]http://digitalapplejuice.com/wp-content/uploads/flash/al-mad.flv[/flv]   blame madbadcat for this episode too. … [Read more...]

WordPress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.

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And not in  a good way. If your blog looked just fine until you published that last post, if your blog post suddenly makes looks weird and the blog no longer lays out properly,  if you suddenly find that you made the background of your post area dissapear, then you probably have a bad case of msword garbage code. let's peek at the source code for a healthy happy webpage: Healthy wordpress text should look like this: notice the occasional < p > or < br/ >? … [Read more...]

A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff

This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web.  Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, others require nothing at all. Make sure you read the licensing agreements carefully. Don't abuse an artist's intellectual property rights and they will keep sharing their work with … [Read more...]

Murder on the Avatar Express

I bought my first computer in April of 93 after my typewriter broke. A trip to the local electronics store and two thousand dollars later, I walked out with a Compaq 386 windows 3.1 jam packed with 2 megs of ram. I could have gotten 4 megs but as the salesman noted, "Nobody will ever need that much memory." Fast forward fifteen years. Today, we can do virtually anything online. Our computer is an office. A school. A university. A shopping mall. A tennis court. A baseball stadium. It … [Read more...]

Review: Jumsoft Keynote FX Series (pt2)

iWorks Keynote by Apple is an excellent presentation application program for backgrounds and templates for text and images. The finished product (movies, reports, etc.) can be exported into QuickTime, PowerPoint, PDF, Images, Flash, HTML and iPod versions. Apple ships Keynote with thirty-six standard themes, providing the end user with a strong foundation and giving you plenty room to expand your library. Jumsoft is just one of a number of companies that supply add-ons to use in Keynote. … [Read more...]