Make smart panoramas from digital snaps – Microsoft ICE

September 26, 2008

When you’re shooting away with your digital camera sometimes you just want to take a very wide image at a fairly close range.  Unless you have some awesome wide-angle lens, you’re probably are not going to make it work.  Enter a free program from Microsoft Research, Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) for, of course, Windows.
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Be Happier at Work – 12 quick steps

September 25, 2008

Gretchen Rubin is working on something she calls the Happiness Project.  She has spent 12 months taking all the advice of the ages from ancient to modern on how to be happy – and she’s writing a book about it.
Gretchen also writes articles on her website about happiness.  She recently wrote a list of [...]

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Does Beta really mean Beta? Maybe not at Google

September 25, 2008

Coming from a software background, to me, the definitions of the development stages of pre-release software are significant and not to be trifled with. To me, alpha tests mean really beware – bleeding edge software – we guarantee it’s going to break on you. Beta software means – still buggy watch out – we’re going [...]

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Share what you see on your desktop using Jing

September 24, 2008

When I’m working online or browsing the web I often see something interesting and want to share it, but it can be a very tedious process either capturing and sending a screen image or a short video sequence that I might want to record.
Jing is an easy and free way to solve that problem.  It’s [...]

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Can a printing website be cool? Absolutely. Try Printwhatyoulike.com

September 22, 2008

I intensely dislike trying to print pages from websites that don’t offer a clean print option.  This is true of most blogs, this one included.  What I get when I print is all of the ads, the navigation, and the comments – when all I usually want is a paragraph or two of text and [...]

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Quick Windows File Viewer with Benefits — IrfanView

September 22, 2008

Sometimes you just need a quick way to view an image and make a couple of adjustments.  At times like these you don’t need Adobe Photoshop, and since you probably don’t even want to keep the image when you’re finished, you probably don’t want to put it in your Picasa collection.
For quick image viewing and [...]

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Three Tips for Being More Productive from Gina

September 18, 2008

Image by DNSF David Newman via Flickr

Now I hate to come off as a complete fanboy but two people I really admire on the web are Gina Trapani and Leo Babuta.  Gina is the lead editor of Lifehacker and one of the most productive people on the web – Leo is editor of Zen Habits.  [...]

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Manage Your Windows Files without Windows Explorer

September 17, 2008

Windows XP has been around for a very long time and Windows Explorer has always been an awkward and underpowered utility for managing files. As a result, an after-market has grown up of file managers to replace and enhance the functionality of Windows Explorer.   Most of these programs cost $20 – $40. 
FreeCommander does the job [...]

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5 Questions Intended to Change Your Life

September 17, 2008

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Life Coach, Tim Brownson, on the site, PickTheBrain, has developed a list of five questions that he says, “if you commit to embedding them so deeply into your neurology by constant and conscious repetition that they become second nature”, will make a quantum shift in your life. 
Without even expecting that level of [...]

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Test the Speed of Your Broadband Connection

September 16, 2008

Most of us pay for broadband Internet connections every month but really don’t have much of an idea as to what we get for our money — other than a connection to the Internet.
Speakeasy, a communications company that sells high speed Internet connections, provides a useful service — a broadband speed test that allows [...]

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