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- AI-generated Art
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Screenshots
- Wacom Tablets and Windows 10 - Go ahead and upgrade
- Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Screenshots
- Monument Valley Screenshots
- Wolfenstein: The New Order Screenshots
- Scaling Entities in User Experiences
- My Visio Presentation from the PowerShell Summit 2014
- Exporting the Contents of a Git Repository with PowerShell
- Comic Neue
- Look up when you play an FPS. You might have missed some cool ceilings.
- Should you get a 4K or Ultra HD LCD Monitor for your PC?
- Consolas vs Luculent
- Arial vs Clear Sans
- Content-Adaptive Image Downscaling from Microsoft Research
- Generating Auto-Incremented Version numbers with PowerShell
- Interlude: Swan Lake through Zeno Music Visualizer
- On the future of MetaWeblogSharp
- O’Brien Describes The Future (from Orwell’s 1984)
- MetaWeblogSharp 1.1.2 Released
- VisioAutomation.VDX 1.1.0 Released
- The Creation of a Typface: FF Quixo
- Microsoft Research: Automated video looping with progressive dynamism
- Interlude: A Doo-wop cover of Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop"
- More about (Photoshop) Blend Modes than You ever wanted to know
- The way it used to be done: The 1983 HBO Intro
- Help me with my Visio + PowerShell presentation at the PowerShell Summit North America 2014
- The Redesigned MSNBC in 2013 Looks Great
- Drawing the iOS 7 User Interface with Microsoft Visio 2013
- Visualizing Data Streams with Sedimentation
- Fixing Muffled Sounds in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
- Interlude: Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (Kulkid Remix)
- Chart of Display Resolutions by Aspect Ratio
- Extracting 3D Objects from a Single Photo (From SIGGRAPH Asia 2013)
- Dishonored - The Brigmore Witches Screenshots
- Interlude - Minecraft Acid Interstate [Far Lands + Acid Shaders]
- Double-Lined Shapes in Visio 2013
- What it Feels like when you Design Something Great
- The Windows and Wacom Tablet Nightmare is Over
- Interlude: Real Computer Monster
- Making Mischief - The Newest Tool for High Resolution Artwork
- UX: Over-sensitivity in Two-Level Flyout Menus
- Using C# To Draw An OrgChart in Visio 2010
- Returning Collections from Functions in PowerShell: A tip for C# Developers learning PowerShell
- BioShock Infinite Screenshots
- First Look at ArtRage 4
- Interlude: BALANCE by Tobias Hutzler
- Start CMD.EXE and PowerShell in a Folder The Easy Way in Windows 8
- Another Experiment with Fills and Effects in Visio 2013
- Wacom Art Pen versus the Wacom Grip Pen
- How to Force Internet Explorer and Chrome to Launch in Desktop Mode on Windows 8
- Screen Capture and Recording
- Two tips for C# Developers Trying to Learn PowerShell (Set-StrictMode and ErrorActionPreference)
- Interlude: Giant Steps Animated by Michal Levy
- Interlude: Beck Reimagines David Bowie's "Sound and Vision"
- Raymond Hettinger's Amazing PyCon 2013 Talk: Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python
- Getting a Depth of Field effect with Visio 2013 and the Soft Edges Feature
- A Simple Example of Web Scraping With the Html Agility Pack
- My New Favorite Typeface: Quan
- We have a winner for "Worst Chart of the Year"
- Automating Visio with PowerShell - VisioPS 1.1 Released
- A Document With all the Visio 2010 Shapes
- An Anecdote on Innovation
- Interlude: A remake of Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" by Pete Oak
- Merge Many MP3 files into a single MP3 file with PowerShell and FFMPEG
- Batch Trimming a Folder MP3 Files Recursively with PowerShell and FFMPEG
- Visio 2013 Unboxing
- Interlude: Crystal Timelapses + Deus Ex: HR
- Reliable Path Navigation in PowerShell based on Script Location
- Improve Your Podcast and Screencast Audio with Auphonic
- Interlude: How To Draw Really Good - Spiderman
- My Audiobook Recommendations for 2013
- Announcing MetaWeblogSharp - a Simple .NET MetaWeblog Client Library
- Test Post [IGNORE]
- January 2013 Updates to the Typeface Metadata Database
- Take Advantage of the Visio SubReddit
- Visio Tip - Controlling Shape Size with Shape Data (Screencast)
- Are you Looking for a good RSS Reader for Windows 8? A Mini-review of NextGen Reader
- 2012 Blog Summary
- A Simple C# Starter Project for Automating Visio 2010
- A Possible Workaround for Pen Dynamic Feedback effects and Wacom tablets
- The One Way Mac OS X is Undeniably Superior to Windows
- Introducing the Typeface Metadata Database
- Interlude: My Favorite Covers of MGMT's Kids
- Finding the Advanced Text Format Options in Visio 2013
- Dishonored PC Screen Captures
- A Pretty PowerPoint Roadmap Slide
- Chrome Experiments: 100,000 stars
- xkcd-style charts using JavaScript and Python
- Automatic Delaunay Image Generation
- VisioPS now Requires PowerShell 3.0
- Bringing Back the Start Menu in Windows 8 with Classic Shell
- The Humor of ReSharper 7
- Exporting Windows Media Player Metadata to a CSV file
- An RGB Atlas of Colors - Just a page after page of sweet, glorious RGB
- Odd Maps of Interest ... also MapPorn
- Interlude 2012/08/28: IBM's Ad in the New York Times
- Windows 8 and HyperSnap Corner Clipping Problems
- Mocking up Windows 8-style Start Screen UIs with Visio
- Windows 8 RTM and Wacom Tablets - Even More Flawed Than Before
- Who would have guessed the City of Melbourne has such a cool logo?
- Procedurally Generated WebGL Trees with SnappyTree
- Zip up a Folder with PowerShell 3 the Easy Way
- Zip up a Folder with .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
- How to Easily create an MSI to install your PowerShell modules
- Interlude: 2012-08-11
- Clicking Quietly with Windows 8
- An Insanely Fast Trip through the Cosmos
- Interlude: Celebrate the 8-bit Olympics
- Editable Isometric test with CSS3
- A note on using my VisioAutomation library with the Visio 2013 Preview
- Visio 2013 - Crazy Delicious
- How I Choose Which Graphics Card to Buy
- My NuGet Package for Color Conversion (RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, LAB)
- My Color Conversion library, Colorspace, now available on NuGet - RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, LAB
- Translating between Powershell, C#, and Python
- Hands-On: Viewing Visio VSD files on your iPad and iPhone with Nektony VSD Viewer
- VisioAutomation 2010 and VisioAutomation.VDX available as NuGet packages
- Programmatically Generating HTML5 in C# without the Xml Declaration and using the correct html DTD - using XmlWriter, XmlDocument, and XDocument
- Visio C# Automation Samples with NuGet
- The Slick New Bariol Font Family by atipo
- Wacom tablets and Windows 8 Release Preview: What you need to know
- An Analysis of Visio Questions on StackOverflow
- A Metro-Style Dashboard as a PowerPoint Slide
- Finding all Visio Questions on StackOverflow using the DataExplorer
- Interlude: The Comic Sans Song by gunnarolla
- Interlude: ArtRage 2012.05.22
- Interlude: Could This Be by Noisa
- Real-World Metro: GitHub for Windows
- The easy way to run Powershell 2.0 using .NET Framework 4.0
- Discovered 2012-05-13
- Python Gangsta Rap: “So your code’s breezy, not sleazy”
- Is Monoprice A Credible Alternative to Wacom?
- Step-by-Step: Installing Pandas on Windows 7 from PyPI with easy_install
- Interlude: Easter ArtRage
- Speaking in Infographics
- A Preview of Power Tools for Visio 2010
- Interlude: "color" - a color matching game
- Great Improvements to the Segoe UI Typeface coming in Windows 8
- A Typographic Film Celebrating Futura
- Browsing Visio 2010 Stencil Shapes as a Document
- Improvements to Windows 8 Screen Captures with PRINT SCREEN
- First Look: Windows 8 and Wacom Tablets. It got worse.
- Exploring Visio Support in LibreOffice 3.5
- Comparing Fonts with Visio 2010
- On the Beauty of Bulletstorm
- I love that bugs in graphics code can look cool
- Mini-Review of the Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 PCIE Video Card
- A Map of all the Visio 2010 Options
- Voxel Games Unleashed: Voxatron and Cube World
- Google’s Roboto Typeface with All Styles Now Available
- Easy Batch Image Conversion with XnConvert
- 4 Fun WebGL Demos
- Microsoft Chart Controls: Using DataBindCrossTable Method for Dynamic Series
- My Alternative to Gantt charts for Project Schedules
- Getting Back to Basics with Infographics
- The Open Sans Typeface – Cool, Sublime and Free
- Recursive, Batch Image Conversion with PowerShell and ImageMagick
- Automatic Rotoscoping with AutoScope
- Using the Promising WebP Format for Blog Screenshots
- Generating Sprint Dates and a Sprint Calendar in Visio using IronPython
- PT Mono, a new FREE monospaced typeface by ParaType
- Visio: Reset the Page Grid Origin to (0,0)
- Advanced Screenshots for your Blog: JPEG has its Place
- VisioAutomation: Moving Forward to Visio 2010
- Google MapMaker Update – Makes it Easy to Edit
- Visio – Resizing Multiple Shapes
- We are the Comic Sans Defenders - the Comic Sans Project
- Learn to Write in Comic Sans
- Test Post (Ignore)
- Drawing a Color Hue Wheel with C#
- Hands-On with with Freemake Video Downloader 3.0
- PowerPoint - Fixing the Aspect Ratio of all the Images in your Slides
- Interlude: 2080 - My Megadrive
- Visio – Controlling Character Spacing (Screencast)
- Batch Exporting SharePoint 2010 List item Attachments using Access 2010 and C#
- Visio– Adding Shadows to Text
- Large LCD Monitor Recommendations for the 2011 Holiday Season
- Consolas vs Ubuntu Mono
- Preorders available for Lytro Cameras
- Visio – Creating Double-Lined Shapes
- Discovered: Ginger, A Cool WebGL Demo
- The newest Monospace font: Ubuntu Mono
- Kindle Fire. Want.
- A Lesson in User Interface Humility
- Realtime Face Substitution
- Wacom Cintiq 24HD Announced
- Visio Tip: Control Shape Selection in Groups – Advanced Techniques
- Interlude: And We Never Got Tired
- Realistically Creepy Skin Textures in WebGL
- A Great Diagram: URL Slicing by Tantek Çelik
- Working with Hidden Pages in Visio
- How to Quickly Set or Clear Text on Many Visio Shapes
- Explore the Blind Spot with an Interactive Diagram
- Wacom announces Inkling. Meh.
- PNG Image Size and the .NET Framework: An Analysis (Part II)
- Blender Foundation 2011 reel
- Displayhack
- New site for Visio Utilities: Unmanaged Visio
- PixelInvaders Modular 3D RGB Panels
- PNG Image Size and the .NET Framework: An Analysis (Part I)
- State of the Viziblr Blog: Year One
- Visio for Information Design
- My Favorite Casual Games for Wasting Time
- You're a mean one Mr. NINCH – the NINCH State in User interfaces (with Screencast)
- Picking a USB Microphone for My Screencasts - A Comparison Chart
- Interactively Scripting HTML5 Canvas Elements
- Screencast: Using Format Painter in Visio
- Screencast: Using Format Painter in Visio
- Visualizing Credit Card Debt
- Screencast: Using PowerPoint for Screencast Titles
- Interlude: Early Morning ArtRages
- The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Wacom Tablet Work on Windows 7
- Fix My Pen Makes your Wacom Tablet JUST WORK on Windows 7
- My Checklist for new Machine Setups
- Walkthrough of the new Hypersnap 7 User Interface
- 3D Sculpting on the iPad with AutoDesk 123D Sculpt (Free for now)
- Review of the Incredibly Useful Google Screen Capture Chrome Extension
- A Workaround for Using OpenType Fonts with Visio
- The Procrastination Flowchart
- Light Field Photography by Lytro
- Interactive Material with Sketchify
- Finding the Style Explorer in Visio 2007 and Visio 2010
- How Searching For Images works
- Holographic Sheets from Zebra Imaging. Wow!
- Interlude: How Ink Is Made
- Corel Painter 12 Announced
- Inline SVG Rendering comparison revisited – Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
- Interlude: "Partitura 001" by Abstract Birds
- Visio: Rectangles with Lines on One Side
- Plotting with a Sharpie Permanent Marker and the PhlatPrinter 3
- Visio: Step-by-Step instructions for creating a soft shadow
- Hands-on: OCR with the new Google Docs Android App and the Motorola Xoom tablet
- ShapeSheet Window Template for Visio
- The Mountain by Terje Sorgjerd
- A gift for the Star Trek fan in your life: TREXELS
- Rocking out with Source Control: Gource, TFS, and FFMPEG
- Interlude: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (Unstaged) by Arcade Fire
- Big Printing: First Experiences with the HP Designjet T770 44" Wide-Format Printer
- My second ArtRage of 2011: The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
- Designer / Model
- Useless Chart of the Day
- Visualizing my time at Microsoft
- Data Analysis and Scientific Visualization with Microsoft Sho
- Next generation Inkjet printing with MemJet
- Screencast Dashboards: Leverage the Power of Dual Monitors
- A Preflight Checklist for Screencasts
- My first ArtRage of 2011
- Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns
- Camtasia Tip – How not to accidentally lose your Cursor in Screencasts
- Reconsidering SnagIt for Screen Captures
- Chicken Camera Stabilization
- Playing with The Endless Mural
- A Flood of Kinect Hacks
- My Favorite Covers of “Where Is My Mind”
- Hacking the Microsoft Kinect to get 3D Video Capture
- Guide to Disabling Pen Ring Animations (Dynamic Feedback) on Windows 7
- It Only Hurts When I Print
- IronPython Script to Draw a Simple Calendar in Visio
- Linear Layout for the Visualization of Networks by Martin Krzywinski
- Video of the week: Between Bears by Eran Hilleli
- Brand Consistency can kill via pancakes
- Putting a Microscope to the Segoe Typefaces
- Scraping the NHL 2010-2011 Schedule with C#, LINQ, and the HTML Agility Pack
- Video pick of the week - Strange Arrangements by Radium Audio Ltd
- A Tale of Two Tablets
- First thoughts on Adobe Photoshop Elements 9
- Make your own Google-style kinetic bouncing ball text
- Dell shipping a new 30-inch IPS Monitor: UltraSharp U3011
- The Most Powerful Colors in the World by COLOURLovers
- Painting worlds with light and an iPad
- Downloading and Converting YouTube Videos
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging with Video
- 8-bit trip video – the product of 1500 hours of playing with Legos
- A Buyer’s Guide to Pocket HD Camcorders
- Google Chrome 2nd Birthday Posters
- Exploring 3D fractals with Mandelbulber
- Our Wonderous and Terrifying Universe: Asteroids discovered over the last 30 years
- Amazing Online painting with deviantART Muro
- Understanding Inception
- Gource: Source code version control + Phat beats.
- Become a God and Build your World “From Dust”
- WELCOME
- Creating and Saving Bitmaps to Files via C#: GDI+ and Direct2D compared
- IronPython: Stealing Colors with System.Drawing.Bitmap (and yes Visio)
- Natively viewing Visio Diagrams in your web browser – a practical use of Embedding SVG in XHTML
- Visio – Creating Tapered Lines
- Customizing the Visio 2010 Ribbon with Visual Studio 2010
- UI Prototyping/Mockup tools you should be using
- Creating a Visio VDX File without using Visio
- A List of Tools for Automatic Graph and Diagram Layout
- Visio: How to resize a page interactively (with your mouse)
- Visio: Conference Schedule Sample
- Beautiful New Segoe UI Fonts in Windows 7
- Visio: Transparencies and Soft Shadows
- Visio: Spirograph sample
- Pixels: LineoGrammer – Pen-centric Diagram Creation
- Visio: Expressive Diagrams Demo
- Video: Real-world Image Stabilization with iMovie ‘09
- Pixels: An Update to my Screen Capture and Recording Post concerning Windows Media Encoder 9 Series
- Video: A Quick Review of the Creative Vado HD
- Pixels: Screen Capture and Recording – My completely unbiased recommendations for 2009
- Visio: An Interactive Demonstration of the Pythagorean Theorem
- Visio: Shape positions drift when Resizing a Page to fit Contents
- Another blog for Visio Developers
- Visio Automation: Three Hello World Samples – C#, F#, and IronPython
- Notes on Using Client Applications to Generate Server-Side Graphics
- Speeding up Visio automation by batching via SetFormulas(), GetFormulas() and VisDOM
- Visio Trick: One-Color and Two-Color Glows
- Visio 2007 Trick: 3-Point Gradient Fills with Transparency
- Visio 2007 Trick: Transparent Gradients
- Visio and F# interop: a more complex example
- Impressive Bitmap Vectorization with VectorMagic
- For those who love color: ColourLovers
- Advanced Gradients with Visio 2007 and Visual Studio 2008
- Simple F# interop with Visio example
- Bar Chart Explorations with POV-Ray
- Delayed starting, skips, stuttering in Windows Media Player 11
- Corel Painter X: A first impression
- PowerPoint 2007 graphics have dramatically improved
- Finding all the A HREF Urls in an HTML document (even in malformed HTML)
- It's Helvetica's world, we just live in it.
- Check out NodeBox - a playground for graphics
- I always wondered what Anisotropic Filtering did
- Use the built-in Batch Rename in Windows Explorer to give files consistent and readable names
- UX: Being Good is better than being Consistent
- My most important lesson about designing User Interfaces
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