Category Archives: Software

Trashing Files on Accident Bites

For some strange reason, I tossed my ‘Images’ Folder into the trash and deleted it. If I hadn’t had an image open at the time I probably wouldn’t have even noticed I had thrown the folder away. *shrugs*

On the one hand I’m really annoyed because I had screen shots and the like (along with all the images Mike sent me of that one show that I can’t remember the title of) as well as some HQ downloads. It’s nothing I can’t get again; but I can’t remember for the life of me what images were actually in the folder.

*sigh* I know the importance of backing up but I don’t have another external harddrive yet (Poor TIme Machine isn’t getting used…this could have all been avoided. *_*) and Back-Up software is expensive. I’m better off paying $100 on a new external harddrive to use Time Machine than buying some of that stuff.

Ah well; Mini rant because I could have been in bed instead of searching google for a quick way to recover those files. I guess I’ll just have to re-download them later. *sigh* At least it was nothing too important.

Still a pain. End of Rant.

Autocad is…

AutocadĀ  is Illustrator on Crack.

This has become my new favorite phrase as of late. I spent about 3-4 hours yesterday getting trained in the basics of Autocad at work and today I spent 8 hours cleaning building diagrams in said program. (Did I mention I’m an administrative assistant?)

Anyway, it’s a decent enough program – the input system is horrid and archaic, but it does allow you to control all the widths and use measurements that you could probably do in Illustrator but with much more headaches.

In either case, apparently I’m picking it up quickly. Hurrah. But I swear that hidden files that I can’t see even when the layer is ‘on’ are going to be the death of me. They’re so evil. *_*

And Sweeny Todd is addictive.

In other news, I’ve been listening to the Sweeny Todd movie soundtrack on loop since I first saw the movie. It’s sooo wonderful. Go buy it. It’s worth it.

InDesign My Love

It’s ironic, despite the fact I use Photoshop the most out of the Adobe Suites, I think my all-time favorite Adobe product is InDesign. It’s such a wonderful program for page layout and I adore it to bits and pieces.

I think my love of typography and books is showing…again ironic considering that I own more books than I read. They’re just such gorgeous things that I can’t help but love them. Which would make sense why I love a program that sets them up….along with literature.

Badly designed campaign literature makes me cry.

Point of edit – InDesign rules. Long live page layout programs that aren’t PageMaker. *shivers*

NeoOffice & Furigana

Since I’ve yet to get an updated copy of Microsoft Word, and my old copy hates my new Intel Processor – I’ve downloaded the free NeoOffice. Now, I’ve actually been quite happy with the program. It works as well, if not better, than word – it has a nice layout, and it does the things I tell it too.

Well, today I discovered something really awesome about the program that I’d been having issues with in word – it has an “Asian Phonetic Guide” feature that lets you easily add Rubi/Furigana to the kanji. It’s amazing and I love it to bits. And just because it is so cool – here’s a screenshot of it in action!

NeoOffice Asian Phonetic Guide