Securing Your Laptop at Work
I wanted to share this litte trick with you for quite a while now, but of course I have been busy and other things came in the way. They always do.
I work with my MacBook Pro at home and at the office. That is of course nice, because it is my only base of operations and I have everything in one place.
But do you know the feeling that you are working with your laptop at work and don’t want anyone to snoop around on it, because it also is your private laptop and has all kinds of personal stuff on it? I know I do.
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If You Are a Newbie, Don’t Act Like a Pro!
We met our new interns today and they all seemed very nice. One of them made a little bad impression though. Not only was he new in the company, but he also made bold statements about his future work. And he had never touched that area before, so what he said was either over the top or just wrong. Both things made him look like an arrogant guy or someone who has no clue at all (I am not sure which one fits better).
Read More...Displacement Using Bloat Effector in Messiah
This is just a quick, very quick! demonstration of using the Messiah “Bloat” effector to displace a sphere. The Bloat effect has a procedural shape driving the displacement which is been animated. One advantage is that it can be seen in real time in a viewport and its dynamic.
Naming Conventions - Part 02 - Real Life Application
Last time I talked about the basic ingredients of a working naming convention, which got inspired by a topic covered on Lifehacker and 43 Folders. What to avoid — like never using the word “final” in any circumstances — and what to include — for example version numbers.
This time I will show you how to use this new gained knowledge and plug its elements together into a working template for a professional naming convention. Just read on to find out how it’s done.
Read More...Naming Conventions - Part 01 - the Basics
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Do you know filenames like this? Or even worse, do you still use them? I did too. But I learned how to avoid these ugly names that no one can decipher 5 minutes later. And in this two parts series — that got inspired by a topic covered on Lifehacker and 43 Folders — I will show you how you can get a clean working naming convention, too. Just read on. It will take less then 5 minutes — promise.
Read More...Directory Structures and Workflow - Part 01
Last week we spoke about naming conventions, which got inspired by a topic covered on Lifehacker and 43 Folders. A great start to a more streamlined workflow. But what good is a great filename, when you are unable to find your files in the chaotic folder structure you might have?
For exactly this reason we will talk about how to get an optimized folder structure for multi-media projects. I will obviously have a bias to look at it from a compositors/3D guys/VFX supervisors view, but I am also able to accommodate you editors and other departments.
What we will end up with is an understanding of what is important in a file and folder structure, so you are able to easily adjust the two templates, that we will discuss, to your needs.
Read More...GTD With POPfile and Mail.app
I know that this is not the next part of my Directory Structure series, but unfortunately things got in the way and so I wasn’t able to finish part two up. Sorry about that, I will have it ready for next week. But for today I finished up another quite interesting topic. Just read on, this is a quick one.
As there seems to be an ever growing demand in streamlining your productivity and in David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”, I thought I’d show you how I set up my E-Mail client (Mail.app in this case, but doable with any client that supports either smart folders or normal folders), so I get a very fast and pretty automated GTD solution. This solution is based on several posts from 43 Folders, Lifehacker and Hawk Wings with a little bit of my own spin.
Read More...Twitter for Colloquy
I don’t know if you already know this service called Twitter. It can be described as a IM independent status message, so you can notify people of your current doings if you like.
Coda Hale created a Quicksilver action to post conveniently to Twitter. Ted Leung thought it would be nice to have Growl notifications in the mix and Matt Matteson thought it needed a bit more sparkle by adding iChat support. Well, now I add two more options to the mix.
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