A really cool applet visualizes name popularity trends across time as you type the name. Pretty addicting, whether or not you’re a prospective parent.
Well since we are a prospective parents this might come in handy.
World’s First Wide-Format Pen Tablet
Wacom has announced the world’s first wide-format pen tablet for use with widescreen displays and dual monitors.
This would be an awsome Christmas present, but it is a tad on the expensive side. Maybe I can find a cheaper one as a compromise 🙂
Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
Classic tips for anyone who ownes a camera or wants to own one. Click on read more below for the scoop.
Do you wish you were a better photographer? All it takes is a little know-how and experience. Keep reading for some important picture-taking tips. Then grab your camera and start shooting your way to great pictures.
Cash for the Star Wars Kid?
Remember watching the Star Wars kid zooming around the studio for the first time? Ah the memories. Check out this cnet article explaining how even the Star Wars kid could make money off of that video.
My Next Laptop: IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet
I was looking over the KDE Look feed in akregator (a RSS feed tool in KDE) and opened up a splash screen that I thought looked good in 
. I clicked on a google ad, to help support sites I like, and came upon a site called eLucis which sells linux distros on cd and dvd. I thought that site was decent so I then processed to click on another google ad that took me to the EmperorLinux, Inc. website where they are selling the IBM thinkpad X41 tablet. This laptop looks so sweeeeet! It could be used as a mobile digi-pad to work in gimp/photoshop as well as your normal tablet pc for writing notes etc. It’s thin enough that it is not a pain and EmperorLinux goes through all the pain of customizing the kernel so that all functions of the laptop work great when you get it, even the fingerprinting login system works! So with all that said. This is my next laptop. When my business starts making a little bit more in the next month or so I will be ordering this badboy. Check it out for yourself.
Repetition
The fortune cookie for today is:
“Repetition is the mother of skill.”
I thought this was a good one for all of the WoW (World of Woarcraft) and other MMORPG players.
Lucky numbers are: 3, 10, 25, 27, 30, 42
Chinese Word is Taste: Wei-dao
Second Sonigram Pictures
Well we finally got to go to our second sonigram. This one was the one were we could find out the sex of our baby. Apparently our little one is a fiesty bugger because the doctor could not figure it out. He said our baby was very active and never seperated his/her legs. So we will have a mystery baby!
The baby is healthy so that is all we are concerned about. You can check out the pictures on the pix page or just click on the image.
Mac Musings
Check out MacMusings for alot of great articles in helping figure out which Mac to buy. My friend Carol is looking into buying a new Mac and is looking at the slightly older Dual 2.0Ghz G5 machines. They look so awesome and are really fast machines. She uses it for video editing and DVD authoring. This will be a big step up from her Dual 450Mhz G4! I hope she is able to get it sooner than later 🙂
Why do people switch to Linux?
There was some interesting comments in this article about users switching to linux. Makes me think back to when I started using linux for the first time in 1997. It was RedHat 5.2 disk I got from Sams Learn Linux in 24 hours. I’ve had to use other OSs since, but have been using linux as my main OS every since.
During the last month, we conducted a survey of readers who use Linux. We asked them why they switched to Linux and received a plethora of answers. Surprisingly, anti-Microsoft sentiment had less to do with the choice than one might imagine.
VueScan 8.3.05
All I can say is wow. The latest VueScan takes advantage of GTK2 on linux and is an awesome app (also runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX). It makes scanning as easy or advanced as you would like and helps turn old pictures and faded shots into photos like they had just been printed. I had been using the trial version for some time and decided to step up to the Pro version to take advantage of it’s profiling capabilities. It’s a bargain at $49.95 for Standard and $89.95 for Pro and works great on my Epson Perfection 3170 Photo scanner (400 scanners and 185 digital camera raw files. VueScan 8.3.05 was released on October 21, 2005, and you can read about what’s new in this version.