April 2006 - 2010

All Gui Gizmos can be found in the
downloadz section.
(The Leather SteamPunk
beta download is below on Mon14/12/09)
 
Wednesday 24-11-2010

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Thought for the day: |
Merry Xmas Again!... =) |
New
Portfolio Page : For my Icons and Interfaces.
 
Sunday 03 -01-2010

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Thought for the day: |
Twenty Ten seems so far away from Twenty Nine ...
=) |
More
Icon Sets: None of these latest icon sets are downloadable
yet... I will announce when they become available.
A step away from
the round theme...
The "Cut" series takes the icon Glyphs and embeds them directly
into the desktop, minus the round icon. (these come in two sizes)
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon set.
The "Tan" series give them a uniform
colour scheme
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon
set.
 
Thursday 31 -12-2009

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Thought for the day: |
We are all the same age... I've been doing it
for longer ...
=) |
More
Icon Sets: Still on the Round theme... I tried removing
the glassiness over the indent shapes.
Yes, I think that works.
And tried out an odd "clip" idea, as a potential folder... not
sure if anyone would use that.
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon set.
So I then built a set made of Greenstone
called Pounamu .
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon
set.
And then another set of Pounamu
and Paua
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon
set.
 
Friday 25-12-2009

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Thought for the day: |
Merry Xmas ... =) |
More
Icon Sets: Still on the Round theme... I tried adding
a little more colour.
Click image above to see more complete collection
of the icon set.
In the process of making these...
I stumbled apon a new way to build chrome.
I use multiple layers
of Styles in Photoshop. For example the above icon uses 13 layers
of styles. Some of those styles will each have up to 10 effects in
them, and each layer may well have a mask added as well. Multiply
that by the number of icons and you're getting an idea of the size
of my Photoshop files.
In the process of buliding these icons
I generally have 8 Photoshop windows open at once, plus an iconographer
window.
I am also juggling 8 Finder windows of icon sets.
And to add to the chaos, I also stay in touch with "the real world"
by having 30 tabs running in my Firefox browser.
The new chrome I built gave me an
idea.... so I made this set...
Click image above to see more complete collection of the icon set.
This Icon by the way used 17 layers
... not counting the background of course... thats another story.
Time for me to spread Xmas cheer....
Merry Christmas everyone. =)
 
Tuesday 22 -12-2009

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Thought for the day: |
And Just before Xmas ... =) |
Alternative
Icon Sets:
Taking the round style in a different direction.
Click image above to see more complete collection
of each icon set.
 
Wednesday 16-12-2009

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Thought for the day: |
A Little on the side ... =) |
Alternative
Icons :
These Alt Icons are almost ready for release. (Scroll down to Mon 14 to Download
the theme)
This is what they look like in use.
And this is what they look like closer up...
 
Monday 14 -12-2009

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Thought for the day: |
Xmas is coming ... =) |
Beta
Release :
Here is the first release of this New iPhone theme.
click the above image to download the beta version
 
Wednesday 11 -11-2009
Saturday 28 -11-2009

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Thought for the day: |
Not such a good day ... =) |
Ohhh
Darn! :
Is this a new idea for a new theme?.... Nope.
As you can see, I'm having a bit of a problem. It appears to be something
in my Dynamic Libraries causing a crash.
The problem has been fixed.
 
Wednesday 11 -11-2009

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Thought for the day: |
The Tweeks continue ... =) |
iPhone/touch
themes continuing:
When plugged in, my new battery shows behind the Lock screen info
 
Sunday 8 -11-2009

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Thought for the day: |
A bit of trial and error ... =) |
iPhone/touch
themes continuing:
I am experimenting with some Calculator keyboards...
Trying out some subtle
differences.
And yes they are all different.
 
Friday 6 -11-2009

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Thought for the day: |
I am still awake ... =) |
iPhone/touch
themes continuing:
It is starting to work the way it should... Although I am continually finding
things that try to stump me.
Here are 3 of the 17 steps that make up my new battery
for the Lockscreen.
However If I just replace the existing images without
any other tweeking, they run into a reflection problem:
See... looks kinda pretty (and yes it is off centre) but it is really
not meant to be cut off and reflected at the bottom like that.
(Ooops, I just spotted a flaw in the battery shadows...
looks fine of course on a black background, but not so good on this
one.)
.....
..... (later today)
Fixed the reflection

 
Saturday 29 -10-2009

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Thought for the day: |
The Dragon stirs... =) |
iPhone/touch
themes:
At last... I am creating again...
I have an iPod touch and have
discovered how to theme them.
More importantly, I am making my own and am having a ball.
They are simpler to make than the old OSX or OS9
and earlier themes / schemes, but because I am new to themeing on my
ipod touch, there are some quirky little things that are still fooling
me... and some images are very good at hide and seek.
My first new theme is called "Leather SteamPunk".

After studying the very cool "Gruppled" lockscreen
theme...
Here is my version, designed to be used with my "Leather SteamPunk" theme.
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Here is the first page of my "Leather
SteamPunk" theme
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And when my SBS screen pops down
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while the stop watch is loading,
this appears.
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This is the "Stopwatch" screen, half converted,
(The top
half is fighting me so far)
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This is the "World Clock " screen,
almost complete.
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Some of my new icons
click to see at full size
(the extra shadow around each icon doesn't appear)
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As you can see,
this
is a work in progress,
but I am pleased with it so far.
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Saturday 29 -04-2009

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Thought for the day: |
Ok... So It's been a while. I guess I should
rebuild this website now. |

Wednesday 11-04-2007

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Thought for the day: |
Time to start again |
Portfolio Page

Sunday 17-09-2006

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Thought for the day: |
A little crippled woman has been running an
endless marathon...
at last the marathon has ended. |
Dragon
Wife:
The dragon's wife died today at 12 mid-day.
"night night Anne"

Monday 11-09-2006

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Thought for the day: |
If all our dreams joined up and made sense...
would our real
life become a dream? |
Dragon
Wife:
The dragon's wife is having an operation

Wednesday 19-04-2006

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Thought for the day:
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As you slide down the banister of life...
may most of the splinters point in the right direction. |
Dragon
Wife:
For those that are interested in how the Dragon's Wife is doing...
Today it was confirmed that the gastric cancer has spread to her bones...
it has metastasised. Secondary cancer.

Tuesday 18-04-2006

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Thought for the day:
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Peel bananas from the other end...
prove that chimps are not more intelligent than us. |
Welcome back after a long absence...
Interesting
sites:

Sunday 27-02-2005

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Thought for the day:
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If enough people believe it,
whether it is true or not, it becomes a fact. |
Icons:
I have created a bunch of Head icons... they seem to be multiplying on
their own. I'll have to keep an eye on them. Check
them out here
Music:
I was involved in a Live transmission of a multimedia
Extravaganza to the Antarctic yesterday. It involved the local Sympony
Orchestra, Film footage from Scott's 1911 expedition, Sir Edmund Hillary
narating, TV crews everywhere, and a two way video cast live link to Scott
Base.
Music performed:
Beethoven "Symphony 5 Cminor Op67"
Psathas "View from Olympus" ... (impressive piece ... Purcussion
solo)
Vaughn Williams "Sinfonia Antartica" ... (unusual to have a
mis-spelt title)

Wednesday 29-12-2004

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Prediction:
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The value of waterfront
properties
will take a dive. |

Tuesday 28-12-2004

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Thought for the day:
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The easiest questions...
are the ones with answers. |
Personal
Stuff:
Radiotherapy is complete...
A wonderfull new house has been bought opposite the "horse shoe lake"
Dragonette now has a new sister born 12 Dec. A new grand-daughter for
the Dragon and wife.

Monday 20-09-2004

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Thought for the day:
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The trick to 'walking
on water'...
Is knowing where the rocks are. |
Personal
Stuff:
I still haven't managed to do much GUI stuff online. It looks like looking
after wife is going to take
more and more time... Chemo and Radiation therapy will be starting soon.

Sunday 8-08-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Umm... |
Personal
Stuff:
I have been shifting house over the last week... not such good timing
considering the wifes upcoming
Op on thursday.
We have been considering buying and converting a huge 'Mill' to live in...
but in the meantime, we have moved into an older relocated house at the
same address.
Do I feel at home yet?.... well yes... now that I Have finally got my
little powerbook back online again, of course I do. =)

Tuesday 20-07-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Anagram: ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE |
Personal
Stuff:
A couple of years ago, I was mentioned in Wired Magazine... as you can
see here,
here
and here.
For some reason it was believed at the time that I was a woman. I don't
normally spread much news about myself on the net, but I am here now to
say... "A woman I am not... and never have been."
I am clearing this up because I want to anounce some really bad news:
Recently I discovered that my wife has stomach cancer!!
=(
Not good news! Here is a
link to a page containing her upcoming treatment.
A
book by any other Name may taste as sweet:
Something else that I have noticed recently while looking up the Dragon
Tongue name:
Check out this
book title... and notice the image of the front cover? Now check out
this
image I created over twenty years ago (as seen in my early arts section)...
look similar? That's what I thought.
I was going to chat to Laura J Underwood about this... but her email seems
to have my country (NZ) blocked.

Saturday 10-07-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Why did the chicken 'cross' the road?
because it was religious. |
Busyness:
Some people have suggested that I am very busy/fast pumping out Themes
and Icons at the moment. I would like to suggest that I am nowhere near
as busy as I was 4 years ago. Here
is an example of what this site looked like in 2001. Every day was full
of interesting and exciting new stuff.

Tuesday 29-06-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Dashboard = Konfabulator? |
Icons:
Sunken Balls
If you like these.
Then you will like these new icon sets.
4 Icon sets in the new Sunken
Ball series:
They come in:
Blue Plastic,
Brushed Alloy,
Plastic Brass,
and Sleeved Blue

Tuesday 22-06-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Are we all falling through time...
or is time washing over us? |
OSX
Theme
Here is my third theme:
It is also still at the beta stage for now... but you can now have access
to it 'pre-release'.
It comes in two variants so far.
View small preview here...
and a Large preview here.
The DT X-Anon beta 3.1
version can be downloaded here.

DT
Little-Black-Book OSX Icons - system sets
I have just completed 5 multiple icon sets:
Black
2.64M ... (4 subsets)
(with 30 black, 32 blue, 39 brass, and 38 white glyphs) +10 extras. download
Black
Blue 2.74M ... (4 subsets)
(with 30 black, 28 blue, 32 brass, and 31 white glyphs)
+ 6 extras, + 8 ice-blu. download Blue
Leather 1.43M ... (2
subsets)
(with 31 black, and 35 brass glyphs)
+ 7 extras. download Leather
Red 1.82M ... (3 subsets)
(with 27 black, 33 brass, and 27 white glyphs)
+6 extras. download Red
White 3.40M ... (4 subsets)
(with 44 black, 43 blue, 44 brass, 39 white)
+ 8 extras. download White
That makes a total of 17 and a half separate colour combination sets!
more than 628 icons in this Little Black Book Set!!
What
else am I working on?
Take a peek in here.

Monday 31-05-2004

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Thought for the day: |
Time... is what you are traveling through...
when not moving. |
OSX
Themes:
More Themes are on the way...
(while making the Grippled Alloy and Brass paper Themes I also tinkered
about with some icons)
OSX
Icons:
I have two new sets of icons. They can be downloaded here:
OSX 2004 June
and Brass Sphere
Icons
Some of them can be previewed here:
Icons One, .. Icons
Two, .. Icons Spheres.

Monday 31-05-2004

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Thought for the day: |
If it looks like a melon, and smells like
a lemon...
then it is probably a scratch and sniff book. |
OSX
Themes:
Here is my second theme:
the BrassPaper3b.guiKit
It is also still at the beta stage for now... but you
can now have access to it 'pre-release'.
It comes in two variants so far.
The beta 3 version can be downloaded here.
(file size is about 2.2M) (link fixed)
OSX
Icons:
I've been working on some icons recently. This is what they look like:
Icons One, .. Icons
Two, .. Icons Spheres.

Thursday 6-04-2004

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Thought for the day: |
zzzZZZzzz.... yawn... is it time to wake up
again yet?
Yes!! =) Dragon Tongue is back! |
Sleep:
Well... as you can see. I have been asleep for such a long time. Almost
One and a half years! If you look down below you can see how long it has
been since I last posted.
OSX
Theme :
I have just created my first theme:
The Grippled Alloy Smooth (GASb3)
It is still at the beta stage for now... but you can now have access to
it 'pre-release'.
It comes in four variants so far.
The beta 3 version can be downloaded here.
(file size is about 2.8M)
Dragonella
:
Apologies to friends of Dragonella. She is still there, chatting to all
that want to. but the link to her images have been disconnected. I will
repair them soon.
Powerbook
:
I have moved on from my little ibook... I am now living in a lovely 12"
powerbook.

January 2003

All Gui Gizmos can be found in the
downloadz section.

Sunday 19-1-2003

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Thought for the day: |
If the heart is an organ...
I have found me an organist! |
ICQ:
ICQ has a nice new version... 3.2
for Mac OS9 and OSX
I have just modified it with new icons and stuff.
Here, take a peek, or download
it here (631k)

Thursday 13-1-2003

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Thought for the day: |
The Dragon is about to smile Big Time! |
Apple:
new 17" powerbook
...
new iGo table
for iMac
 Transportation:
personal flying
machine ... don't buy this.
personal ground transport...
buy this.
 Flies:
Found... an old unfinished tale written by a young Dragon Tongue.
Long since thought lost to the world.
Check out the first public release of this never before seen novel.
Chapter One - Jan and Tom
 Latest
Schemes:
available at the latest and final NAUS


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