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Archive for January, 2007

January 31, 2007

Starting to Use Photoshop Brushes?

Brushes in Photoshop can be used for many different kinds of effects. Recently I just found out about Brusheezy. If you are like me, and seldomly use custom brushes, maybe it’s time to give them a try. And perhaps this big library with custom brushes may just make it a little easier to use.

For some [...]

January 30, 2007

Refresh rates make movies smoother…

Gizmodo claims that the secret to making movies look smooth… as butter is the magical refresh rates.

Gizmodo looks at the correlation between film and the frequency at which LCD and projectors refresh them selves. Generally for computer screens the refresh rates have been a multiple of about three of the PAL systems 24 25 frames [...]

January 29, 2007

UK GetAMac Ads

These ads from the UK are new to me, just read about them recently via Digg. I wrote about Apple’s GetAMac Sabotage? a little less than two weeks ago. These new characters from the UK are a delightful addition to the Get A Mac commercial family.

The Ads – all Hi-quality:
Trust Mac – Spy Ware
Office at [...]

January 29, 2007

The Joy of Vista

After attending and participating at a conference this weekend I had a good laugh and inspiring moment from this comic from Joy of Tech. I first caught a glimpse of it during the conference with some friends and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
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This morning I found another amusing Joy of Tech comic on a [...]

January 28, 2007

Picture(s) of The Week: 04

Well considering my last Picture Of The Week post where I mentioned that the sleet or snow that briefly fell one day didn’t settle, a couple hours later that very evening it actually did snow again, and it did settle.

Above is the first picture I took the day after when I felt there was enough [...]