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Fun experiment – Type Halloween pumpkin monsters

Dragos M — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:21:06 +0000

Today I had an idea of a fun experiment. To make a pumpin out of letters and symbols. Then I wanted to use the top 5 fonts: Helvetica, Garamond, Frutiger, Bodoni and Futura to make a contest to see which is the most scary font. Here are the results, see it for yourself and decide.

Helveween Monster

Garamondween Monster

Frutigerween Monster

Bodonween Monster

Futurween Monster

Enjoy

ACS Builder app ico (beta)

Dragos M — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:21:35 +0000

ACS Builder

KWiki 0.1 – KDE Plasmoid

Dragos J — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:46:50 +0000

KWiki 0.1 - KDE Plasmoid

Well hello there.

It’s been quite a while since I last posted here. Luckily, my friend Dragos M has been quite active and provided you with a lot of really nice eye candy.

Recently, I have entered the season of “Screw Windows OS, let’s try Linux”, and while this happens once every few years, I have to say that this time I am genuinely surprised of how much Linux has evolved. I’ve just installed Ubuntu 11.04, more because I wanted to see the new Unity interface, not necessarily because I like the Ubuntu Distro. The Unity interface is … cute, but I found it a bit to limiting for my taste. And that’s why I’ve switched to my old friend KDE. I have to say, KDE 4, is a real pleasant surprise, even for someone who has been a fan of the Window Manager for quite some time.

One of the things that I really liked was the concept of Plasmoids. I know, it’s not something terribly new, but somehow, I found myself really using them, and not just activating and deactivating them as I would usually do on other OSs.

But the real surprise came when I saw how terribly simple is to develop a new Plasmoid. And this brings us to the actual content of this post: KWiki 0.1.

The Plasmoid was created mainly because I wanted to play around with the concept, but also because all the plasmoids that I found until now, that do similar if not exactly the same thing, were scripted plasmoids, not binaries. And I wanted to see how difficult it is to create an actual binary plasmoid.

And thus, KWiki came into being.

I will not go into details of the code; I think it is pretty self-explanatory. All you have to do is fire up KDevelop 4, load the project, look over the code, and follow the instructions in the README file. Oh, and also have some cake.

I hope that this might prove of use to some of you, at least in giving you an overview on how Plasmoids work.
As usual, if you have any questions or suggestions, drop a line in the comments.

Source code: kwiki-0.1.tar.gz

Amiraelus – wallpaper

Dragos M — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:03:54 +0000

Amiraelus, work in progress

What I have till now.

UPDATE: the project is done. You can download the final piece from http://www.amiraelus.ro/home/bunatati – wallpapers

Custom lettering “AMIRAELUS” for a new project

Dragos M — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:12:44 +0000

Custom lettering for a new project

Working on a new iPhone app

Dragos M — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:13:07 +0000

Here is a little preview on the iPhone app i’m working on at the moment.

Paper mockups

After i’ll get all the paper mockups aproved i will post more images from the process.

Off to The Future of Web Design Conference

Dragos M — Sat, 14 May 2011 09:52:57 +0000

I am so stoked to be able to go at the Future of Web Design Conference in London. I think this is one of the best design conferences in Europe and it makes me very happy to go there. On top of that it will be my fist trip to London which it seems to be the beating heart of the online community of Europe.

And off to London…

My name is …4

Dragos M — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:22:55 +0000

My name is Dragos M.

My name is (3) poster

Dragos M — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:18:10 +0000

My name is (3)

My name is…(2)

Dragos M — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:43:52 +0000

My name is... Dragos M.