I decided to “share” my unstructured flash experiments:
And in this case it’s a flash application that creates flat, printable versions of cubes. Just print it, cut it out, glue it together and there you have it: the amazing cube:
Or just check the amazing cube full screen..
I am convinced that a lot of people don’t want to buy commercial software because of the price.
And I’m also convinced that a lot of people don’t want to use illegal software.
But they don’t know which software they can use beside the commercial program and there friends will only advise the program they (illegally) using because there friends advised them to.
Lets stop the chain, and put some opensource/freeware software against there commercial counterpart!
| Commercial software | Replacement software | OS |
| ACDSee | XnView | UNIX, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Irfanview | Windows | |
| Nero | CDBurnerXP Pro | Windows |
| Winrar , Winzip , PowerArchiver | 7-zip | Windows |
| Izarc | Windows | |
| Microsoft Word | abiword | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Microsoft Office | Open Office | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape | Windows, Mac OS X |
| Adobe Photoshop | GIMP ** | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Microsoft Outlook | Mozilla Thunderbird | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | Nvu | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
** Use Gimpshop! if you used to be a Adobe Photoshop user: it will make GIMP and Photoshop similar.
Of course this list is much longer…
So if you need to find something else; here are some places you can look
CleanSoftware.org – Free software, no nasties!
vinterstille.dk – Free alternatives to Macromedia and Adobe
Open Source…for designers?
alts.homelinux.net – Free alternatives
Free Software alternatives to proprietary applications on the Microsoft Windows OS.
Freeware programs and applications
Freeware Programs that replace Commercial Programs
Almost every commercial program has a freeware program that does almost the exact same thing, maybe sometimes better.
So drop a comment about commercial software that you want to replace.
A illustration a friend of mine did for Parool Magazine:
Enkeling‘s interpretation of Gadget Freak:
It’s me with a papercraft Tetsujin (sadly enough the site is no longer available)
I added the category “Flash experiments” in which I will show you all my experiments.
Which usually lead to nothing, but I have fun making them.
And I have a lot of them, so this seems the best place to show them.
So to sum it up:
Soon more about this Category
When I started to create Grumm I wanted it to be a one piece (one A4) papermodel which is “easy” to build.
And because it is a “easy” model, it’s also easy to create a skin for it.
The next plan was to create extensions for Grumm.
These extensions could be more difficult, but would improve Grumm.
A extension is an addition (extends) to the main papermodel
The comments about Grumm at toydigger forum confirm that.
So here a little update about this extension project:
And the examples are glued to a basic Grumm body and legs.
biochem
camo2
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