Udemy : Online courses : An amazing place to learn

There were two things that stopped me from taking online course seriously The free ones, did not have much depth and did not cover the topics in details ( reminds me of free youtube videos and showmedo) The paid ones, especially since the payment had to be done in dollars, ended up costing much more… Read More »

M Audio M Track – Audio Interface on Mac

Connected M Audio M Track to the USB port of my mac. Everything was so fast. As soon as I plugged in, it was detected and I was on my way to start recording in Garage band. The only change I had to do was, go to Preferences ( Garage Band > Preferences ) and… Read More »

Animator vs. Animation IV

Such a beautiful story, animated using stick figures, just an amazing creation by the artist. And when I learned that it took 11 months ( 750 + hours) I felt even more respect for his dedication and commitment, to the project. It goes on to show the effort required for something as small as a… Read More »

Character animation software

I have lot of ideas that I want to convey to the world in a very easy way, visually. That means I do not want to work on character sketch, perfecting the hair strands for weeks together. I am more concerned about the content, the story line and the message that I intend to convey… Read More »

Painting exhibition – Dudhat art

On my way back from the British library, I decided to take a look around the painting exhibition that we held at the Rangoli Metro Art centre, M G Road boulevard. Since I was the only person in the exhibition hall, I had ample time to look through each of the paintings and savour it’s… Read More »

HP wireless printer in MacBook

For wireless printing using HP 8600 printer, you could use the very useful HP generic printer driver from apple : https://support.apple.com/kb/DL907?locale=en_US The list of all the printers supported are shown here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP I was able to wirelessly scan photo. I will try the printing features tomorrow.

C# development on Mac

PrologueI am pretty excited to begin C# coding on my new macbook pro.The primary reason is to begin coding whenever my heart sets in, without waiting for the system to load up and open Visual Studio 2015. Back from the days of linux yore and Linux for you magazine, I was aware of Mono, the… Read More »

Android development on Mac

Installation Installed java Downloaded and installed Android studio ( around 1.1 GB) Took about 5 minutes. There was additional download and configuration, and that took about 4 minutes Creating my first hello world program When you first open the IDE, you might see nothing. Don’t freak out. At the bottom of the screen, you can see… Read More »

Installing Java on Mac

Before I executed the the ‘sudo’ command, I made sure I enabled the ‘sudo’ account ( Google if you don’t know how to do that ) Next I wanted to find the location and version of the java installed in my system.>>sudo find / -name javaIt listed several directories, including /usr/bin/java. I proceeded to execute… Read More »