TinEye – Finding your images on the web

Came across a new search engine called TinEye last week.  It lets you either upload or paste a link to an image and it searches its index looking for the same image.  For those that make money off of their images, or just don’t want copies on other sites, this is a good way to [...]

WordPress release archive

Didn’t know this was around, but looking for older versions of WordPress to test plugins against I found the WordPress release archive.  Looks like you can find pretty much every release they’ve put out.

Switching from eCommerce to free with ads

A few years ago I got on a kick making simple Photoshop templates and threw up a website to try and sell a few. I had no illusions that my templates were of the level that were being sold for $20+ so I went with a type of credit system similar to what iStockPhoto.com does.  [...]

My first public WordPress theme – Christine

Meet Christine. This is the first WordPress theme that I’ve done that’s getting released. I’ve done probably a dozen themes for various sites but never sat down until now with the intent of doing one to share.

You can download it from Reliti.com

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 [...]

What to do with 1,500 hard drives