Tips & tricks
Acronyms and photography
I just came around of list of Canon specific acronyms used in conection with photography. This list is made by photographer Joe Kurkjian to help out folks that don’t speak English as their first language.
AA - anti aliasing
ACR – Adobe Converter RAW, the RAW converter included in PS
ADC - analog to digital converter
A/D - analog [...]
Free Alien theme icons
Russian icon design company TurboMilk offers free alien themed icon set for free download. They come for Windows, Macos and as PNG files. Icons can be freely used for personal noncommercial purposes. Give credits to http://www.turbomilk.com in case of public use
They have also two tutorials on icon drawing:
Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors
Drawing an icon: [...]
70 Free Photoshop Actions to enhance your photographs
Just to drop a note for Photoshop lovers that Rains Wim is sharing free Photoshop actionscripts for photography enhancement - noise reduction, color correction, sharpening and much more. Actionscripts are divided into several categories. Preview of each actionscript effect is available (needs Javasript to function properly).
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Very useful office equipment
Very useful equipment for office workers. Every office must have at least one like that. Stimulates work.
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Device Charging Holder
Does messy wires annoy you when you put your mobile phone or any other portable device to charge? Company Driinn has designed simple yet very handy mobile phone holder. It comes in a variety of colors and is just around $7 at Amazon.
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Simpsonize me!
Some weeks ago i wrote about how to make your own Southpark character. Now it is possible to make your own The Simpsons character, too. It could be done with simpsonizeme.com. Though, you will need your picture for this purpose. Picture is Simpsonized by program and afterwards you can adjust hairstyle, dressing, accesories rtc.
Here is [...]
Free stuff for students
Some stuff that might be helphul for students:
advise on how to learn more and study less;
Software for starving students - collection of free software which could be helpful in students’ life (full list of programs: http://softwarefor.org/faq.html).
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Guerilla marketing: how to promote your blog with no costs
Technosailor in his article Guerrilla Marketing Techniques that Anyone Can Do gives some interesting advices on blog promotion with low or no costs. ProBlogger responding to the article gives his own tip on guerilla marketing technics. Some of ideas are pretty smart. Read comments, too. Probably it stimulates some good ideas.
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How to teach a kid to program
In it’s article Wired gives some nice tips and shares resourses on the topic. Like an author i started with BASIC. Now i learn PHP reading manulas. With some success.
Read the article article.
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10th dimension
I think almout everybody considers taht there should be more than just 3 dimensions. But have you ever wondered how looks 4th or 5th dimension? It’s not so comlicated, actually. Here is good resource whisch explains how dimensions work - up to tenth dimension: http://www.tenthdimension.com.
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