Cuil: A Brief Review

Monday, July 28th, 2008

In a day when the term “google” has become synonymous with internet search (in fact, it’s even in the dictionary), a new search engine named Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is making some pretty bold claims.

Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. [source]

Coming out from under wraps just recently, Cuil is attempting to redefine the way web search is done. After noticing it via a news story on the home page of CNN.com today, I decided to take Cuil for a spin to see what it is made of. Some of what I found was nice, some wasn’t impressive at all. Let’s start with the good news. (more…)

Design Tutorial Published

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I recently had a graphic design tutorial published online with the good folks over at Vectortuts. I wrote a tutorial showing how to create a coffee cup with vector art using the design program, Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). This is the first graphic design tutorial I’ve ever written or had published, and it probably won’t be the last.

Head over to http://vectortuts.com/illustration/creating-a-coffee-cup-with-inkscape/ and give it a read if you’re interested.