I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I love this time of year and hope that everyone is finding joy and happiness! On my personal bl...

This is a picture of my bathroom here in China. Nothing special really (other than the fact that I moved into a really nasty apartment ...

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So I am in the San Francisco airport right now waiting to board a plane for China. This could mean that Tutorial Geek will be blocked by the...

OK. So I must admit, this post does not really go too well with the theme of this blog. This is  tutorialish, nor is it very geeky (unle...

RAW Image Edited in Darktable Ever since I have been getting more into photography I have always been looking for what I need to do to i...

I have always been a huge fan of making home made root beer. It is super fun and easy, but more importantly, it is super delicious. Th...

Well; I have been slacking off. I have been doing a lot less tutorial because I have less time, but mostly because I have run out of ideas f...

Recently I have been doing more screen casts for my blog. Unfortunately, in Linux there are not a whole lot of programs available. I will di...

Recently I have been trying to do a lot more photography shooting in RAW. Because of this, I have been doing a lot less editing in the G...

Google+ is Google's latest attempt to take some of the social network from Facebook. Now that I have Google+ I thought it would be...

Yay! My first paycheck from Google! Enough money for....  something I guess. Yes. It is possible to make money with your blog. I have...

For this past Father's day, I worked with my brothers to create a slideshow of our awesome dad. My older brother scanned old photos f...

Exercise equipment is great, but can have a lot of drawbacks. To name a few, exercise equipment is a bother to move around, takes up s...

Growing up, I remember my older brother was always really good at making cards. I don't remember if he actually taught me how to make...

As I have continued to play with RAW images, and have been continually looking for the best software. Previously I had mentioned that Ra...

This is a list of links to take you to company pages where you can opt out of receiving junk mail. If you would like something else added, p...

Personality tests have always been pretty interesting to me. I enjoy taking tests to find out a bit more about myself and how I work. Th...

Doing sleeve faces (or record faces) is a fun thing you can do with all your old records! Here are some tips for how you can get the most...

This is ongoing collection I am creating to make it easier to download brushes for the Gimp. I have included the link to the source as w...

So I have been using the Google Chrome OS Cr-48 for about a month now. Here are some of my thoughts: This computer has been great as a bac...

Following the devastating earthquake in Japan, there has been an outpour of love and relief effort going to that country. You have proba...

Yesterday I was filling up my plant waterer and realized that I have been using it for over 15 years. I made it when I was a kid and it...

I just discovered a new Gimp tutorial website. The site is called GIMPons . The site is in French, but if you are using Google Chrome, you c...

A while ago my brother came up to me and handed me a scratch piece of paper. It was something that he had drawn years ago and he just fou...

Here is a hypothetical situation (not really, I was in this exact situation for the past three weeks). Suppose you are looking for a really ...

Replacing my desk chair for an exercise bike works wonders! The other day I was talking to my brother and he had mentioned how even thou...

Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools avail...

If you are a photographer who uses watermarks on your photos, you know that adding a watermark by hand on every image is a laborious and...

If you want to be a photographer to make a living, or perhaps as just a side job, chances are you will want to start watermarking your ima...

After having tried many different RAW editors in Linux, I came to the conclusion that RawTherapee is my favorite. RawTherapee has many great...

If you are a photographer who shoots in RAW, then chances are you have heard of and probably used Adobe Lightroom . If you use Linux however...

If you do any sort of photography or photo editing, you will need a photo manager to handle all your photos. Linux offers quite a few ...

Portrait photography can be a lot of fun. There tends to be some higher expectations when you do portrait photography though. With landsc...

I recently did a post on different options for backing up and storing files online . Even though online storage and backup is wonderful, the...

Something happened this morning that made me super happy. I replied to a message from Facebook using Gmail and it worked! This must be a new...

Today I just signed up for another online file storage website.  http://uploadingit.com . I tend to sign up for as many different file stora...

Chrome OS running on CR-48 Here is an in depth review of Chrome OS on the Google CR-48 computer. The Chrome OS is a new concept for the...

OK. So Valentine's Day is usually not the funnest holiday. Spending many miserable valentine days getting hopes dashed I decided to do s...

VS About a month ago I made the switch official. I now use Google chrome as my default browser. I remember it as being a bitter swee...

With all the hype BYU's Jimmer Fredette has been receiving, I decided to do a celebrity wallpaper tutorial featuring him using the ...

Jimmer Fredette has been a Utah celebrity for a while now, but has slowly worked his way into the national spotlight. I thought it would...

The Jimmer - You Got Jimmered! BYU Cougars - Jimmer Fredette #32 The Jimmer BYU Basketball - You Got Jim...

Anyone getting into graphic design will eventually start using different textures. I want to feature a few of my favorite places to find som...

Recently on Lifehacker.com I read this article on making an oil lamp using bacon grease. I did a bit more Googleing found a site where...

Before Fake DOF After Fake DOF This tutorial will be discussing depth of field and how to create this effect in the Gimp.

This is a pretty simple project for making a phone charger stand out of tennis balls. It can be used for just about any type of phone wi...

If you want to do a search for something online, you google it. You don't bing it. That just sounds bad (and perhaps inappropriate). Goo...

One of the simplest ways to improve any design is by having a well designed font. Fontsquirrel.com is perhaps the best place I have seen ...

8bitcollective is an online chiptune media sharing site. What is is chiptune you ask? Basically, it is Nintendo or gaming console music (Wi...

HDR photography is done using 3 or more bracketed images. There are some instances though where taking three bracketed photos is not poss...

Note:  As was mentioned in a comment on this post, Resynthesizer no longer does what this blog suggests; if you want the functions shown in...

If you use the Internet for more than 1 minute a year, then chances are, you have seen an icon that says "RSS" or "Feed....

For this tip of the day I am going to talk about two of my favorite things in the universe. WD-40 and hydrogen peroxide.  They both have ...

A while back I did a tutorial for making a business card using Inkscape .  This will be basically the same, but use the Gimp instead. A...