Totally off topic, but I feel compelled to share this story…
While I was waiting in the doctor’s office today, an elderly lady walks in and sits a couple of seats away from me. A minute later, her husband hobbles in and sits right across from her. She says “Why don’t you come sit next to me?” to which he replies with a large grin “This way I can look at you!”
This news is a bit old, but if you are interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime, you should check out Adobe’s on AIR Bus Tour. The tour is an 18 city road show where you can learn how to bring your AJAX or Flex web applications to the desktop. Each event is free to attend and include many very cool sessions. I will be at the event in Vancouver on July 11th, so if you live in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver Island area, I hope to see you there!
Mashable offers an exhaustive list of web analytics tools that include both hosted and non-hosted solutions. In the short analysis of each service, they discuss the strong and unique features that each tool offers.
The fine people at TechTV and the Lab with Leo have uploaded my segment to Google Video. You can watch it right here…
Designer//Slash//Model is a short but funny video that will nicely bridge you from Friday to your weekend!
Show Desktop by Everyday Software is a neat little utility for OSX that mimics the Show Desktop button in Windows. Click on the icon in the Dock and it hides all open windows until you decide to show them again. A friend of mine asked why not just use the F11 key to show your desktop? F11 only temporarily shows your desktop while you find a file. Show desktop is a bit different. You can specify which windows to never hide, so if you have a nosy boss, you could say tell Show Desktop to never hide Excel! Now when you boss comes by, you click the Show Desktop icon and it now looks like you are hard at work in Excel (yuk)!
Looking for a new color palette for you next web project? How about consulting nature? CololLovers have posted a list of 18 butterflies and their color palettes. My favorites are the Butterfly Brown, Waiting to Fly and Silver Studded Blue.
I’ve recently been considering purchasing a new digital SLR camera. With so many choices out there, how does one end up making a decision? Here are some resources that I have been using.
Camera review sites like DPReview and MegaPixel offer great unbiased reviews and have excellent and very active forums where people who own cameras share their experiences.
I have talked to a few friends who own DSLR’s to find out what they like about their cameras, and more importantly to find out how they made their decisions.
Flickr captures meta data from almost every image uploaded to their photo sharing site. Their Camera Finder tool is useful in that it uses the “wisdom of crowds” to show you what cameras are most popular with photographers. It also lets you see the quality of images that are captured with a certain make of camera (although be careful - the image could have been retouched with Photoshop).
In the end, I am still waffling but will hopefully make up my mind by month’s end!
If you want to take better pictures, make sure you read this! Photographer Andre Gunther offer his list of The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes. His tips, anecdotes and examples around subjects like “less is more” and “patience” are fantastic.
Clone pictures are very creative and fun pictures you can make with your kids, friends and even yourself. Clone pictures are essentially pictures where there are two or more image of any one character in a scene composited together to tell a short story.
In my first appearance on the Lab with Leo, I did a tutorial on how to create clone pictures using GIMP. If you happened to miss the show and would like to learn how to make clone pictures I have prepared an online tutorial that you can follow.
