Oct 21, 2008 Change Eye Color Bare Basics of GIMP and Brushes/Filters Create an oilpainting from a photo. Making a pencil drawing from a photo. Create Lightsaber Effects
Archive for 2008
JungleDisk and S3
Posted: October 17, 2008 in SoftwareTags: Amazon, cloud, cloud-computing, S3, storage, web 2.0
RULE #1: If you don’t have two copies of a file on different media you don’t have the file. This being the case you have to back-up continuously. Backing up to an external drive or network drive is a good way to do this, but what happens of there’s a fire and all of your [...]
Yes, you can play any type of media file (MP3, Quicktime, MPEG4, Real) with “Windows Media Player“. All you need is a CODEC. The “K-Lite Mega Codec Pack ” installs pretty much all of the known CODECs, even the one’s that most of us are not familiar. Sometimes a file will not open but if [...]
Hak5 is a vidcast on Revision3 about hardware, software hacking (white-hat) and drinking beer. I have not watched it in a while. I did not care for it then but I’,m going to take a look at it again.
Aardvark is a very useful Firefox extension. Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements) and for web development.
Sep 28, 2008 Create and share screencaptures (photos and videos) with this great free program from Techsmith (makers of Camtasia Studio screen capture software). Camtasia is a very cool program but it’s very expensive but Jing is free. After you create your captures you can upload them to Screencast.com (comes with Jing download) which is [...]
Sep 26, 2008 What is “cloud computing“? Simply put it’s the use of resource on the Internet to get things done (doing work or being creative). In the old days you went to a search engine and typed a topic in, you clicked on search and came up links to match your query. You went [...]
Geni is a tool for sharing family-trees and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through the fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives’ email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow [...]
I found many GIMP tutorials on Youtube. If you don’t know about GIMP it is a great image manipulation (like Photoshop) program that is very powerful and absolutely free.
Pandora is a great Internet music service that allows you create stations based on your personal music taste. Lets say you like Elvis Presley, you tell Pandora you would like to hear Elvis and songs that sound like Elvis. Pandora will do just that.
