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I’m a Microsoft guy. I admit it. I actually miss the blue screens of death from win98. And I grudingly switched to firefox after taking loads of abuse from Internet Explorer, and it wasn’t easy. Bill Gates… I think it’s the fact that he’s a blonde guy with glasses like me, but he’s a hero [...]
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Colors on the Eve of Revolution
I’ve never delved into the mysteries of photography any further than to learn that if you over-expose a picture you’ll capture more light and get cool wiggly effects if you move the camera around while you do this. Seriously, I played with this feature on my friends cam for like… hours.
Thanks to the wonderous digg.com, [...]
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Rock Chick/Silouette cut out
I was bored, so I took this pic and made a trendy Apple-ish silhouette thing in Photoshop. Actually, I made it a long time ago at the Pooh Bear’s place.
Pretty simple: Just desaturated the image, used the cut out filter. Then I had to smooth the edges and get the image to pure black and [...]
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You have no idea how bad I wanted to make a completely immature joke about pee. Apparently I do have a conscience.
So, unless you’re a total feral child who’s been living out in the woods for the past… well, a long time; You’ve probably at least heard of a CPU (Central Processing Unit for those [...]
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Worm Before I am a Man?
Sim games have never really been my cup of tea. By sim I mean Sim City, The Sims, and whatnot. I do love a good flight sim. And, to be honest, I did get into Sim City for a while, but… well… It was then I decided I wasn’t cut out for government.
Anywho, as I [...]
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Tabs? No, I do layers.
I’ve been using Opera 9 for a while now, and I now use it for most of my web browsing needs. I still fire up (pun intended) Firefox to make sure I’m not missing anything and to log in to various accounts (auto-complete in opera is a little quirky, but works… but firefox already has [...]
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Opera for the Cool Kids
I'm not a real big tech guy. Really. I used to be pretty tech-savvy, but over the years I've fallen behind. But every once in a while something comes along that gets my attention. And the recent release of Opera 9 is just such a thing.
For those who don't know, Opera is a web browser… [...]
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