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Get a Mac to stop at dropdown menus

After using nothing but PCs for the past 15 or so years, getting a MacBook has given me a little more of a learning curve that I was expecting.  Fortunately it’s been pretty intuitive and hasn’t been that bad.  But there’s been one little snag that kept catching me.
By default the tab key does not [...]

Michael Jackson was an inventor

Who knew?  Michael Jackson had a patent in his name.

It was a design that allowed his feet to go into the floor of the stage and stay locked in place for a dance move where he leaned out over his center of gravity.  The normal way of doing it would have been to use stage [...]

Bullet at 1,000,000 frames per second

Sure, your fancy new digital camera does 10 frames per second. Sometimes that just isn’t fast enough.

Be sure to head to Kurzzeit.com and watch the video.

5 Photoshop brush sets to add to your collection

Sure, there are a bunch of brush set for Photoshop out there.  The hard part is knowing what to get.  To help, here’s 5 sets that I came across that would fit in pretty much anyone’s collection.
Hi resolution tree silhouettes
Need a tree?  Head over to BestDesignOptions.com and download a set of 25 tree brushes.

Real life Twitter

Can’t say I’ve ever seen the point of Twitter. But it does make for a funny video.

Watch Real Life Twitter on CollegeHumor

DIY High Speed Photography

One of the first photo projects I can remember my dad and I working on was stopping the splash of milk dropping into a dish.  Nothing spectacular, but we did wind up with some pretty cool shots.  Shattering light bulbs and popping balloons work pretty well too.  And if you try the balloons, be sure [...]

Need a repo man for a 747?

If you need a repo man to take back a Pinto Nick Popovich is not the guy to call.  If you need a Lear Jet repossessed from an armed group of white supremacists give Nick a call.  Nick is a super repo man that specializes in repossessing very high dollar items like jumbo jets and yachts.
“You move another inch [...]

ProofBuddy 1.0 released

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.

Add a false window to your wall

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 adds gas price estimator

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 [...]