Well, while my machine is in the shop. I’ve been doing some mockups of the new UI changes in OLM. I don’t consider myself a photoshop guru but Martin showed me the wonders of Ctrl + Shift + J, which takes a selection and cuts it out into a new layer; making mock ups a lot easier to do. Being a perfectionist when it comes to photoshopping slowed me down a little, but I think the final product paid off and looks quite nice (of course, who wouldn’t think their own work of art isn’t amazing), below are some of the screenshots thumbs:
Of course, the fun part is over, once we decide if the look is good or not, we shall implement.. which will take a bit more time and a lot more thinking. But I am a little excited about how OLM is going to look after we are done with the summer work.
Now, my machine is in the shop and well… I do like to get some productivity done when I’m done photoshopping… (i.e. for the most part, now), so while photoshopping yesterday, I decided to finally start playing with VMware Fusion.. which is still in beta, and I must say, is pretty awesome. I’ve installed parallels before but didn’t like it too much, mostly because by default, it doesn’t set your host to become a router, but rather, your VM has its own mac address… the result? I can’t use UTORwin on campus! garrr…
Now, before the Parallels Guru comes knocking down my door and asking “do this this and that and voila its done! you’re dumb for not thinking of it”. I consider myself to be an average joe for the most part, if it isnt intuitive and the defaults settings aren’t set to the way I like them, and it takes more than 5 seconds to change something. I’ll probably find another program to see if they are better.
The good news being, although reinstalling Ubuntu the first time was utter hell and took me a few days to setup OLM. Installing Ubuntu on VMware and installing OLM with all the packages and stuff took me … about 4 – 5 hours this time, a big improvement :)… I think I should time myself, maybe aim for the 1 hour mark 😛
Tony