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Some of my better photos from 2009

December 31, 2009

I’ve taken a look back at some of the shots I’ve been for­tu­nate enough to cap­ture this year. flickr has a cool fea­ture called ‘sets’, so I made one — then noticed that I can share the set as a slideshow — embed­ded below. Enjoy! And happy new year!

Tagged as: 2009, best, Image, Images, photo, Photography

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A great tool if you’re writing on a deadline

November 27, 2009
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All righty then. Just fin­ished up a cool con­ver­sa­tion with a dude that I have to meet with later to fig­ure out some stuff.
Now, I guess I’ll keep plug­ging away at writ­ing, nay, test­ing Write or Die, a tim­ing and word­count inter­face that helps focus your writ­ing by impos­ing lim­it­a­tions and con­sequences on your writ­ing.
I’ve […]

Tagged as: Blogging, Lifestyle Technology, online, Web, Writing

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Cool! Online lighting diagram creator — photography

November 22, 2009

The fol­low­ing post is a Quick­Hit™ — an art­icle or post I found online and thought was import­ant enough to share dir­ectly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opin­ions pre­pen­ded or appen­ded to this post, oth­er­wise I’m just scrap­ing con­tent, and that’s not the intent.

I’m look­ing for tools to help me set […]

Tagged as: cool, lighting, online, Photography, web 2.0

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How to easily install essential applications on a new Windows 7 computer

November 9, 2009
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It doesn’t mat­ter if you’ve upgraded from Vista or XP, or if you’ve bought a new Win­dows 7 based com­puter, you’re going to need to install some basic and essen­tial applic­a­tions on your new baby.
And this awe­some web­site makes it so, SO easy. 4 easy steps:

Visit the site
Select which applic­a­tions you want
Press the but­ton to start a down­load
Run the […]

Tagged as: application, download, free, hard drive, Install, maintenance, online, software, system, update, Upgrade, utility, Windows 7

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How to make a Polaroid from any digital image

September 27, 2009

Even though Polar­oid instant cam­era and film packs are no longer being made by the Polar­oid Cor­por­a­tion, you can get that same look on your digital pho­tos with Rollip.com. Once upon a time you had to manu­ally cre­ate these things in Adobe Pho­toshop or GIMP. Not any more.
Basic­ally, Rol­lip takes your image and does some […]

Tagged as: application, cool, Image, Lifestyle Technology, manipulation, photo, Photography, Polaroid, Reviews, WebApp

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How to use a webcam as a home security camera

September 17, 2009
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Over the years as I’ve acquired vari­ous bits of hard­ware, I’ve some­how ended up with a few ‘extra’ web­cams. Not really want­ing them to lan­guish in my parts bin, I figured I’d take a stab at set­ting them up as home secur­ity cam­eras. And, I wanted to check out what my dogs were up to […]

Tagged as: HomeCamera, Lifestyle Technology, Monitoring, online, privacy, Reviews, Security, Tech, Webcam

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