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How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
Great photoshop technique.
(tags: photography howto)

I’ve been pretty quite here for a bit because I was having problems with my personal signal to noise ratio lately. Recently I’ve been struggling to stay on top of my swelling OPML reading list and have made a deliberate attempt to cut back on the amount of posting I make to this site.
That said, […]

Shuttertalk:: Putting Together a Budget DIY Lighting System
Cheap parts to a lighting system that produces better than cheap results.
(tags: photography hacks)

NewsForge | Mastering podcasts with Audacity
Great tutorial on getting the best quality into your podcasts
(tags: howto audio podcasting)

As one might have gleamed from my write up of DemoCamp 3.0, I was half suspecting that the monthly “uncampference” would take a serious leap over the shark. I’m happy to say I don’t think it has, although it’s certainly not out of the lake (lake sharks?) yet.
I think one change that significantly impacted my […]

How do you Rate?
Nice little article for how to calculate an hourly rate as a freelancer or business owner.
(tags: finances money business)

Q-Success - Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
A satirical approach to software project management
(tags: humor business)

The Gallery Of “Misused” Quotation Marks is a collection of, well, “Misused” quotation marks. As someone who has a “self identified” problem with this sort of misuse, paled only by my blatent abuse of the elipsis… I found the site rather funny.
[ via chrisnolan.ca ]

Macworld: Secrets: Ad hoc networking, Page 1
Network two Macs directly via thier WiFi connection.
(tags: osx mac)

Summersault Weblog | » Publishing Flash videos with free, open source tools
Howto use open source tools to compile .FLV from another codec via the command line.
(tags: video utilities opensource howto)

Megapixel Calculator - digital camera resolution [forret.com web tools]
Tell your clients what size photo you need in MB’s instead of resolution.
(tags: photography tools)

deviantART: Death and Taxes: … by ~mibi
See where the US budget is getting spent in a “suitable for framing” kind of way.
(tags: art economics politics design)

I’ve never understood podcasting. It’s not that I don’t think it’s a good idea for long tail radio, that I understand. What has always confused me about it is why business cares about it at all.
I’m sure a big portion is the “pod” part, and by “pod” I mean someone in the company said “I […]