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. read more | digg story
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 🙂 read more | digg story
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…
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. read more | digg story
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…
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
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…
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….
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…
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….