DIY Planner - DIY CD-case desk calendar for hubby - Comments

What they said.

Tournevis — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:29:01 -0500

What they said.

or.....

jonglass — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:15:53 -0500

simply shift-command-3, or better yet, shift-command-4, which allows selecting the exact area you want to capture, or, upon hitting the space bar, an entire window's contents. No need to launch Grab to do this. :-)

-Jon

I believe it is called ....

ygor — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:03:51 -0500

"Grab"

Appropriate, yes ?
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The OSX native screen

Tournevis — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:07:27 -0500

The OSX native screen capture tool.

screen capture tool

Anonymous — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:17:20 -0500

What do you use for a screen capture tool?

I haven't seen a slinky in

rfe — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:20:51 -0500

I haven't seen a slinky in years! They will always remind me of visits to my grandmother's house. She had stairs and we didn't so I kept a slinky at her house and would play on the stairs with them for hours.

Yes. My husband uses

Tournevis — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:38:57 -0500

Yes. My husband uses slinkies, bug and small as a means of concentration when he is writing.

Neato!

rfe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:23:25 -0500

This is really cool! I just might make one of these for myself rather than buying a wall calendar for my desk this year. Thanks for posting the pics!

And is that a slinky on the desk?

No need to bound

Tournevis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:24:58 -0500

The jewel case has little slots on the sides to hold the cover in place and that is quite enough to hold the pages in place.

This is so neat!

SusanBeth — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:20:04 -0500

I would never have thought of using that Avery template.

BTW, are the pages bound in any way? Or are they simply well enough behaved all by themselves?

Process

Tournevis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:20:13 -0500

First I go to http://www.timeanddate.com and make the 12 month calendars, which I copy with a screen capture tool. Then I scoure the interwebs for cool penguin pics. Since I only do this for my hubby and there is only one copy, I don't bother keeping to only CC pics. I just use cool ones.

When I have both, I use the Avery.com template for CD jewel case covers and I paste the calendars and the pics in, and then print them.

Once they are printed, I cut them with my ever faithful guillotine cutter and hand them to my husband to put in his calendar jewel case.

Voilà!

Yes

Tournevis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:15:15 -0500

I use http://www.timeanddate.com

Action Shot! (as promised)

Tournevis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:14:28 -0500

Action shot at my Flickr account.

What a cool idea

wikeh2004 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:31:08 -0500

Most photo calendars are in larger letter size format, so this is a great way to make smaller, less expensive calendars.

I figure one of the more difficult tasks would be to format each month's calendar. Do you have a source for it that we can copy and paste?

Thanks,
Walter

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"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Albert Einstein and Buckaroo Banzai

Sorry.

Tournevis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:21:00 -0500

I did not save the calendar. I can give more info on the process, of course, but I ditched the temp file once I had finished printing it.

Give me a few days and I'll have better pics and a detailed process description.

DIY CD-case desk calendar for hubby

Tournevis — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:07:49 -0500

Every year I make a penguin-themed, CD-case desk calendar for my husband, who feels there are no calendars for him out there.

The 2009 edition is on my Flickr account.

D*I*Y Planner - DIY CD-case desk calendar for hubby - Comments

What they said.

or.....

I believe it is called ....

The OSX native screen

screen capture tool

I haven't seen a slinky in

Yes. My husband uses

Neato!

No need to bound

This is so neat!

Process

Yes

Action Shot! (as promised)

What a cool idea

Sorry.

DIY CD-case desk calendar for hubby

DIY Planner - DIY CD-case desk calendar for hubby - Comments