While this blog is a great place to write about new projects, releases and whatnot, I’ve found that it’s not ideal venue for me to showcase the things I’m most proud of. Because I wanted a single spot where people could easily find all the things I’ve made, I decided to create TommyBrunn.com!

Before you start complaining, I did not bend over backwards to accommodate for ancient or strange browsers. The site will work just fine for almost all browsers (as long as you have Javascript enabled), but if you’re running Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98, it will probably look a bit funky.

If you want to view my illustrations and other kinds of designs, my applications, scripts and snippets, or read a little bit about me personally, hop on over to TommyBrunn.com!

I’ve been looking around for a way to quickly upload images to the web without having to deal with any dialogs, menus or captchas, but to my utter surprise - I couldn’t find one that worked with multiple files, spaces, etc. So I decided to make one on my own. My first idea was to create a gnome panel applet that you could simply drop an image on top of, have it be uploaded somewhere and get the URL to it on the copyboard. However, that idea turned out to be horribly complex - and I don’t think panel applets support drag-and-drop anyway.

So instead I created a nautilus script! It was quite complicated to get it to work, for reasons I’m not going to go into now, but at least it works. You can select one or more files, right-click and goto scripts → Upload to Imgur and the script sorts out any files that aren’t permitted and then uploads the ones that are. What you get back is a set of newline delimited URLs to your uploaded images - straight into your copyboard, so all you have to do is press Ctrl +V to use them.

Download

Downloads are available from Gnome-Look.org. Simply run the installation script to install.

I recently got a drawing tablet, and in learning my way around it, I’ve found that tracing flowers is a great way to improve hand-eye-coordination and learn how to properly apply pressure to vary line width or opacity. As a result I’ve made three flower themed wallpapers: one with a lotus flower, one with a rose and one with both flowers.

I’ve only got 1440×900 versions available right now, because that’s my screensize. If there’s a demand for other sizes, that can be arranged. The wallpapers are all distributed under CC-BY-SA 3.0, and I have included an alternate download that has the gimp files so that you can modify them to taste. Read the rest of this article »

I’m sure a lot of you have updated or soon will be updating to Ubuntu 10.04. With this new release the default theme has changed from the old Human theme to the new Ambiance theme, and along with that the default icon theme has changed to ubuntu_mono_dark, which gives your indicator applets a really sleek look. Sadly, Caffeine doesn’t really blend in all that well with those nice monochrome icons.

That’s why I have gone ahead and created two sets of new icons to be used with the two new themes included with Ubuntu 10.04! Read the rest of this article »

Having worked on mostly boring school work and a slightly more interesting, yet hardly exhilarating, application for the Ubuntu Manual Project, for the past three days I have amused myself by instead working on something that I always löve doing; game creation with Lua and the Löve framework!

A number of months ago, I posted the first game I had ever made using Löve: Söccer. Since then I haven’t really gotten around to playing with it a lot. I have started working on some smaller projects just for fun, but I never got around to finishing them. However, now I have finally finished (well, kinda. At least it’s in a playable state) one of them! This one I call Oh Snap, Aliens!

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