{"id":24,"date":"2007-07-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/22\/blog-beak-lift\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T07:23:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T07:23:41","slug":"blog-beak-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/22\/blog-beak-lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Webfooted weblog receives <br \/>much-needed beak-lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As you all know, I am a very busy, international, jet-setting sort of a goose. This means I don&#8217;t have much time for mundane things, such as washing, tidying my pond or keeping my blog up to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The GIMP\" title=\"The GIMP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/images\/wilberright.jpeg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Basically, I never bothered to change the look of my blog from the default &#8220;Kubrick&#8221; template that the WordPress software came with. Trouble was that frankly it looked rather boring. It was not the sort of image that a glamorous goose-about-town such as yours truly really desired. So last night I sat down with the latest GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) and had a good splash around to see if I could perk up my blog just a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is much debate online regarding GIMP versus a commercial product called Adobe Photoshop.  I accept that Photoshop is generally pretty good. Lots of graphics professionals use it. But it costs a wing and a leg. And I am far too mean to pay for expensive, proprietary, American software. Besides, there isn&#8217;t a version for Linux yet &#8211; though I did make Photoshop version 7 for Windoze run under Linux using WINE, once upon a time.  Buggered if I can remember how!<\/p>\n<p>Granted, &#8220;GIMP&#8221; is a bloody silly name for a product that should really be taken <strong>very<\/strong> seriously. On the other hand, GIMP offers cross-platform compatibility in a manner that totally eludes Adobe. There are versions of GIMP for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Apple Crapintosh and Windoze. But its real difference is that GIMP is 100% open source. This means that the source code is freely available to all. It also means that GIMP can be recompiled for virtually any modern graphical operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, it is <strong>100% FREE of charge<\/strong> too. Yes FREE! No strings, no adware, spies or nasty stuff. It&#8217;s just good, solid software for your computer with no damage to your wallet whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>So, whilst the arty types slug it out over on Slashdot &#038; Purestorm, the debate round these parts never really left the pond. GIMP is now the official image editor of choice for all good little geese everywhere. Check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Official GIMP site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">http:\/\/www.gimp.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honk! Honk!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>PS. No wallets were harmed in the making of this site! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, I am a very busy, international, jet-setting sort of a goose. This means I don&#8217;t have much time for mundane things, such as washing, tidying my pond or keeping my blog up to date. Basically, I never bothered to change the look of my blog from the default &#8220;Kubrick&#8221; template that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/22\/blog-beak-lift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Webfooted weblog receives <br \/>much-needed beak-lift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}