One of my web projects met a milestone a few days ago with the 1.0 release. It took me over 2 years working part time, but 1.0 finally contains the full feature set that I wanted when I started writing ProofBuddy in the fall of 2005.
If you’ve got an empty wall begging for a window but don’t want to break out the saw to put one in, or just can’t, you might want to look at one of these. It’s a set of blinds with lighting behind to simulate a window where one doesn’t exist.
MapQuest has added a new feature that allows you to estimate how much it’s going to cost to fill up your car for a trip. You enter the miles, how many miles per gallon your car gets, and the cost of gas and the site will show you an estimate of how much it’ll cost you.
For those of you using Firefox, there is a plugin available that will allow you to view the EXIF data on any image in the browser by right clicking and selecting Properties.
The plugin is called FxIF.
For the past couple of years I’ve been a moderator on Pro Photo Forum. Over the past few months PPF has been on a decline and one of the other moderators and I decided that we should start our own photography forum. Sure, there are hundreds of photography sites out there, but we feel that with the moderators we’ve brought on board we’ll be able to start something special. With the 4 moderators we’re starting with we have a good mix of opinions and skills and our goal is to make the Photo Arts Forum a first stop to discuss anything photographic.
I did most of the design work and am the resident geek of the project. That is, I set up Etomite for the static photography article section and Simple Machines for the photography discussion forum.
As is normal with most new sites, especially forums, the main site and forums are both fairly empty right now but we’re convinced that once the ball gets rolling it will be hard to stop.
The main site is at http://www.photoartsforum.com and the forums are at http://forums.photoartsforum.com
I’ll admit it. I have no idea what food are not safe to freeze. It seems like pretty much anything should be fair game. Milk? Honey? Sour Cream?
The National Center for Home Food Preservation has put together a list of common foods along with how to freeze them, or why to not freeze them. Sour cream separates when frozen. Who knew?
If you are addicted to Minesweeper, or like me play in on your Palm to kill time, you should take a look at the History of Minesweeper.
In case you’re like me and don’t fully understand all of the different file systems that are available for Linux Kevin Hatfield has posted an easy to follow introduction on the main file systems. In addtion to the mainline Linux file systems link EXT2 and EXT3 he also describes a few that are best for specific uses like SANs and also goes into FAT32 and NTFS for the Windows crowd.
Yes, another shameless plug for a project of mine. For the past few weeks I’ve been setting up an osCommerce store (my first) to sell Photoshop templates. These are the types of templates that you always see at photo labs around Christmas time for holiday mailings, although I’ve got several other styles of templates as well.
The site is called TikiTemplates.
A quick link drop for a site I stumbled upon.
The Plugin Site has a listing of 111 free Photoshop plugins available.