{"id":20,"date":"2015-04-20T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedatajanitor.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:53:10","slug":"online-desktop-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thedatajanitor.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Online desktop applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a fit of Saturday morning creativity inspired by several cups of coffee, I wanted to make a weak troll of the Hillary campaign logo. However, I didn’t have Gimp installed on my computer because who wants Gimp installed on their computer?<\/p>\n

The logo reminded me of Rimmer the hologram from Red Dwarf.<\/p>\n

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The Hillary Clinton campaign site generously provided the logo as an SVG. Which I converted on line to a PNG with a background transparency.<\/p>\n

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Again, the internet provides.<\/p>\n

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But what about Gimp, the dilettante’s answer to Photoshop? Fortunately there’s rollapp.com<\/a>,\u00a0that provides quite a number applications through the browser, including Gimp.<\/p>\n

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There are several options for online storage, i.e. a place for reading and writing files, including Google Drive \u00a0and DropBox. I uploaded my files to DropBox, opened them in Gimp, and scaled the logo.<\/p>\n

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I placed the logo in the appropriate place, saved the file and tweeted away.<\/p>\n

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It’s amazing that I can run the full version of desktop software in browser and it’s not all running within the ecosystem of a single company <cough> oogle<\/cough>. Thanks @rollapp!<\/p>\n

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