It’s going to cost you just under $30, but this guy tells you how to use iPhoto to order a big poster with 98 of your favorite digital snapshots. Neat idea for a gift, especially if you take a lot of nice pictures.
Yeah, it specifies iPhoto, so this favors Mac people. However, I’m pretty sure that Picasa 2 can make you a similar grid of photos as a collage. There is a little discussion on the page about using other tools to do the same thing. Also, your local print shop may give you a better deal on the printing — and you’d be supporting your local businesses.
Every week there is a Shotgun link weirder than all the others. This week, this is it. Some guy lip synching some foreign language song (can’t understand the lyrics) in front of his webcam. Proves that the bar is far too low for creating video content.
If you own any DVDs, you may be able to participate in this class action lawsuit and collect something like 7 dollars and change. Apparently, they made misleading statements about the aspect ration on certain DVDs. You will have to apply for your part of the settlement.
Do you have a large image or video that you’d like to distribute, but the bandwidth costs would murder you? Or, maybe you don’t even have your own website and you want to host an image for an EBay auction. Try one of these free services. Registration is not even required for ImageVenue. I haven’t tried Putfile yet. Keep in mind that if these services disappear, so do all the media that has been uploaded to them. So always keep a copy!
This is a different approach to sparing your bandwidth. It’s a site that claims it can provide you with distributed hosting for your high bandwidth pages and files.All you do is append something to the hostname of your link. Interesting idea, though I’m not sure in reality ho much it would help.
“Laim.Name (Loser Aim Name) is the very first list of AOL Instant Messenger bots that reject people who IM them. Use one of these names if you don’t want to give out your real AOL name. When they send a message to it, the name will respond with a message saying they have been rejected. On top of everything, we post their reactions”
Stephen King is a successful writer, so you have to figure his advice is good. Here is his stripped-down quick take on what you need to know to focus on success as a fiction writer.
