Working on the next Good and Geeky tutorial - Raycast deep dive. I used the Teleprompter App on my iPhone along with Amadeus Pro to record the audio separately. Synchronised those in Final Cut Pro. Recorded some of the screen recording. More to record today.
Read moreMAKING GRIDS OF OBJECTS IN AFFINITY DESIGNER V2
Affinity Designer 2 is a powerful graphic design software providing users with an intuitive Grid Tool that can be used to quickly create grids, adding structure, organisation, and consistency to artwork. Additionally, users can customise and save/reuse grids, allowing them to create logos, illustrations, and professional-looking designs faster and easier. youtu.be/TVoc9pTo1…
Read moreLast night was my first time to go see a basketball game. Saw Girona beat Bilbao by quite a few points. Good experience and different for me.
Read moreMULTI PAGE DOCUMENTS IN AFFINITY DESIGNER.
It is perfectly possible to work with multipage documents in Affinity Designer although you can’t actually create the multipage documents. What do you need to do is to use a template which already has multiple pages set up within it. If you want to make your own multipage documents then you need to open up Affinity Publisher. You can open the affinity publisher document within Affinity Designer or you can save the Publisher document as a template.
Read moreKEYSMITH MAC AUTOMATION APP
Get Your Mac to do the Boring Work Using Automation Tools Keysmith is an app that allows Mac users to automate repetitive tasks and save time by creating keyboard shortcuts and custom menus. It also offers customizable options such as color schemes and icons, as well as a drag-and-drop feature for quickly creating custom menus. With Keysmith, Mac users can easily automate mundane tasks and save time and effort while doing so.
Read moreGALAS HOUSE IN PÚBOL BY MOTORBIKE WITH MY YOUNGEST SON.
On a Sunday the best thing to do is to go for a spin on the motorbikes with my son. We did 105km of lovely curvy Catalan roads. Got to the House of Gala (Dalì’s wife) Museum. Second time I was there and it was still enjoyable. Long legged elephants in the garden. Small castle as a home.
Read moreI had Keysmith on my iMac and I hadn’t installed it on the new MacBook Pro M1. Just installed it and I remember how easy it is to use to make automations / macros. I have so many apps I can’t remember the functionality of all of them. Keysmith is definitely a keeper.
Read moreSo did anyone get any good technology gifts lately? I got myself a ring light to use in my YouTube videos. Only trouble is, I had a bad case of man flu and not fit enough to use it.
Read moreUSING BOOLEAN TOOLS TO MAKE COMPOUND SHAPES IN AFFINITY DESIGNER
Affinity Designer is a vector graphics design software that provides users with powerful tools, such as Boolean tools, which allow them to combine two or more shapes in order to create complex artwork. Boolean tools use the principles of algebraic operations such as union, intersection, difference, and exclusion to create the shapes. They simplify the design process and allow for greater control of the shapes. With an understanding of how to use these tools, users can unleash the full potential of Affinity Designer and create fantastic artwork.
Read moreDoing some stuff with Bunch automation this morning. Just simple stuff opening apps and then another to close everything and put in a starting state.
Read moreMAKE A MOVIE DATABASE IN TANA
Jump in there with tags and supertags to create a movie database in Tana Are you a movie buff looking for an easier way to keep tabs on your favorite films and track new releases? Tana is the perfect app to provide you with all the information you need to stay up to date on the latest movies. For movie lovers who want to keep a list of their favorites, Tana has a simple and user-friendly list-making feature.
Read moreAFFINITY DESIGNER PLAYLIST OF TUTORIALS
51 Video to help you learn Affinity Designer Here is a playlist of Affinity Designer Tutorials showing you how to do all sorts of things in Affinity Designer. I love using the app and I think it is so much easier to use than Illustrator. Also cool that to buy the software it is a one off payment and none of that expensive subscription nonsense.
Read moreUsing a Books Database in Tana. youtube.com/shorts/yo… Built in to Tana. I had to add plugins to do that in Obsidian
Read moreTELEPROMPTER APPLICATIONS
I have been practising with some Teleprompter applications on my iPhone to make sure I look at the little green dot on the camera rather than looking at the screen. This is so that when I’m talking to the camera I am not looking so shifty which is the effect to get when you’re looking away from the camera and is it off to the left or to the right.
Read moreTHE JOYS OF MICRO-BLOGGING
Looking at Micro Blogging I’m quite pleased with micro.blog and I can see me sticking with it. I was also looking at Montaigne.io which creates a blog based on what you put in a shared Apple Notes folder. I have made numerous attempts to get it working and nothing is happening. The instructions and not great and could do with a video showing how to do it step by step. I would make that video if I could complete the process and see posts arriving on the platform.
Read morePERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT APP TANA IN COMPARISON WITH OBSIDIAN, CRAFT AND LOGSEQ
I’ve just uploaded the latest good and Geeky video to YouTube. This is a video about the application Tana. I have made comparisons with applications like Obsidian, Logseq and Craft which are further along in the development cycle of personal knowledge management applications. There are a few things I like with Tana. It has a kind of database system set up already with the use of super tags. Basically a super tag is a tag with extra added feels added underneath it.
Read moreEDITING VIDEO IN DESCRIPT FOR THE FIRST TIME
Just did my first editing of a video in Descript and it’s pretty cool. I still have to do some adding of extras in other software but it was really efficient for what I did with it. Chopping out text and the video was edited. I have not tried out the thing where is will create my voice for my editing of the text. Overdub as it is called needs at least 10 minutes of my voice to do that and my recording was only 9 minutes long.
Read moreRECORDING VIDEO – OTHER PKM APPLICATIONS VERSUS TANA
I just recorded a video using an application called Teleprompter on my iPhone. I really like using it on the settings are easy to use and follow. The good thing about choosing a teleprompter is that it forces me to speak at a slower speed. I am often talking too fast for use within a tutorial video. There only thing is, I just noticed after doing the recording that my my microphone on my Mac wasn’t plugged in.
Read moreA GOOD AND GEEKY DAY
I’m having a good and geeky day with setting up AirTable with a database of all my YouTube videos. Airtable is great for organising all sorts of things. I also decided to give this Micro-Blog a try out. I looked at it before but did nothing with it. This time I have downloaded apps, and everything. I want to see how the cross- posting works getting stuff over to Mastodon as well as Twitter.
Read moreGood and Geeky Youtube I’m an old bloke who loves technology. It’s pure magic to do good and geeky stuff with my Macs, iOS devices and my Raspberry Pi’s. I make videos to show how to do things with the software, just because it’s fun. Subscribe to the Good and Geeky Channel Lately I’ve made a load of videos about the features in the new version of Affinity Designer. Excellent bit of software to work making vector art.
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