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Good website, clear and simple to navigate.

@hd I've just been skegging at what you skegged at!

Word of the day...
Skeg: noun, mainly northern England: a look or glance.

Being a southern...

Hi Toonicorn, pretty sure I'm not the target audience for your t-shirt and also I'm that not clued up on popular culture, so take my feedback with a massive pinch of salt, but there are two things...

Learned something new. Isn't nature marvellous. We've got three or four oak trees down our road. I'm going to watch them closely. I've been meaning to plant some of their acorns, bring them on a bit...

Me too! :D Playing around with Xara's Fx's. It was originally blue but turned orange after using the negative color filter and preferred it that way.

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I notice the list doesn't include my first version of Photo & Graphic Designer v6.1.2.1 July 2010

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Just recieved an email from Xara offering a huge discount for their + (plus) products, so I'm testing the latest version of P&GD. Specifically I'm checking my favourite live effects and plugins still...

Thanks Rik :D

Happy birthday. Hope you have (or had) a good one. :D

Hi all, Since upgrading my old laptop with an SSD I feel much more inclined to use it. It’s been a few years since I’ve done anything purely with Xara and I must say it still one of my favourite...

Thanks Rik.

Celebration of fun using Xara's custom scatter brush.

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I think forgetting how something was made sometimes comes from being lost in the creative moment and due to pushing forward trying different things in quick succession, each process building on the...

Hehe, it would nice to have some hair! Mines disappearing at an alarming rate. I’ve never understood the biological advantage of loosing hair, when everything seems to point to it being quite a...

I'm just going through some old xara files and exported images and found this one from around 2016. I'm still looking for the source xar file, as I can't remember exactly how it was done. I guess a...

LOL
That's a thought! :D

Thanks Acorn and Spondoolix - apologies for the very late reply!

Hi Egg

Just to mention I get a 'potential security risk' warning from Firefox when trying to follow the link to your website. It says the website's certificate is expired which prevents Firefox...

I've just found a whole folder of files and doodles that I had completely forgotten about. Some I actually wish had remained forgotten! It's amazing it's still possible to open xar files created from...

hehe, that's my special skill too! :D

It’s been a bit of a journey but I’m back up and running on my Windows laptop. :D

In the end the tech guy could not rescue the original mechanical hard drive, so I cut my losses and went for a...

Thanks all.

@Chris (it's a Lenovo Thinkpad) I'm thinking the (blue) screen options showing are part of the Windows 10 recovery system. I've done a search on "windows 10 recovery options screen"...

Decided to update the hard drive.


worked out which ssd would be suitable for laptop
purchased ssd (Crucial MX500) and a USB to 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD cable
did a complete full back up of all...

Thanks Rik. Great correction :D

Some great entries this month.

Here are a few daft ideas that sprang to mind...

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I'll reply back here properly once I have decided which way to go, but thanks for all the advice and recommendations.

Hello all

I'm in the market for a new Windows PC! (Yes, yes I know I'm a Mac user!). My 10 year old laptop is showing its age (super slow boot up and loading programs) and can't be updated to...