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Do More With Your Photos - Two New Apps

April 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Two new applications I’ve been impressed with are Piclens and Animoto.

Piclens is a plugin for Firefox that lets you view photos on the web in a new, completely immersive way. Once you have it installed, it integrates with all the major photo sharing sites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Smugmug, etc. With [...]

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Tags: photography · technology

How to Light Paint

February 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Light painting is brand new to me, but I saw a few examples scattered about the Internet, and decided to try it last night.
Here are a couple of the better pictures:

And here’s how you do it:
Ingredients:
1. Camera that can be set to have a long shutter
2. Flashlight
3. Pitch Black Room
That’s it…
Ok, so if you’ve [...]

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Tags: howto · photography · technology

Best of the Web 2007

November 23rd, 2007 · 8 Comments

Here they are. These are the best and brightest web sites out there right now. What do they win? Nothing… but maybe they’ll get a few new visitors when this hits the presses. Check them out, and leave comments!

Netvibes has become my homepage of choice as of late. It competes [...]

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Tags: best of · technology

Google Translator

September 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’ve been using the Google Translator this morning, and I am extremely impressed.  It let’s you plug in statements in English, and it spits back the translation in almost any language you would want.  But even more useful is the ability to translate entire websites.  For example, today I’m looking for sport leagues/clubs to join [...]

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