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WTF What a day! August 29 2009
Today is Michael Jackson’s Birthday • The anniversary of hurricane Katrina • Ted Kennedy’s funeral & I found out this morning that DJ AM passed away!!! WTF
My prayers go out to ALL the families!
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Spending time with family today and trying to get some todo list items complete. Still will update on twitter, facebook and my wordpress blog.
APPLE PBG4 Resurrection!
I woke up this morning with the bright idea to fix my laptop out of the blue. Actually I was working on a friends Powerbook that made my wheels turn. I was able to resurrect my Apple Powerbook G4 after being down for over 2 years. Come to find out it needed a new internal hard drive, LOL
My son destroyed his Apple iBook 13inch G4 early this summer. I was about to toss out both laptops, then I decided let’s try to frankenstein my machine, only going to toss it any way. I salvaged parts from my son’s old laptops and the rest if garbage*. I was able to salvage battery, ram, air card and hard drive. The hard drive works perfect in my Powerbook 
It’s alive!!!! The rest will go on ebay. I might even sell the Powerbook on ebay too.
*Hey I might be able to salvage the LCD, dvd/cdr drive and some more so I might just keep the rest…
Call me the Mad Scientist … I love it =]
40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials – noupe.com
1-The Gift v2 by MrBadger
2-Typography by fabianohikaru
3-TechnicalLove by Mrgraphicsguy
4-Beauty by Mrgraphicsguy
5-Stel Christian Cambas Poster by SeBDeSiGN
6-Oriental Pages_Page32 by Malikanas
7-XTRABOLD
10-Good Morning Stranger by Nicolas Alexander
11-Smoke + Type by Daniel Gordon
12-Futura by Craig Ward
13-Ink and Water Don’t Mix by Craig Ward
14-Bckyrdflw Promo by Andrew Dyjak
16-Children of the Idiom by Pablo Alfieri
17-Drasik
18-Drasik
20-Avatar: 15 Minute In Calcutta
24-Beautiful Decay by Alex Trochut
25-Adobe by Stefan Lucut
26-BMW X3 by Sergio Cullell
28-What is Graphic Design by Wearenotyou
29-D-Edge Awards by Rodrigo Braga
30-Folklove
Photoshop Tutorials
31-3D typographic effects in Photoshop Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
32-Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. You’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.
33-Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.
34-Smooth Glass Type Create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.
35-3D Bulge Text Effect tutorial Create an awesome 3D text effect with various photoshop filters (Plastic wrap, Blur, Sharpen) and other tricks that will make you a text effect master!
36-Decorating Text Creating text and then decorating it is often a daunting task, not knowing what colors to use and how to achieve effective results with the resources you have is often hard to overcome.
38-Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect
39-A Slick Supernatural Text Effect This tutorial we’ll be creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter.
40-Simple Burnt-in Text Effect How to make some simple, yet very nice looking burnt text
12 Unusual and Creative Hotels Crazy ass hotels!
12 Unusual and Creative Hotels
Collection of unusual and creative hotels that are committed to providing unforgettable experiences for its guests.
Floating Hotel in Sweden
At this hotel, guests can work and socialize in an inspiring environment, enjoy good food and drink, and then fall asleep to the sound of lapping waves. [link]
Sand Hotel in United Kingdom
World’s first sand castle hotel at Weymouth beach in the seaside Town of Dorset in the UK. [link]
Jungle Hotel in Mexico
V-Houses, an amazing jungle retreat near the fishing village of Yelapa in tropical Mexico. [link]
Ice Hotel in Canada
Unique ice and snow hotel offers a distinctive and incomparable experience that disappears every spring. [link]
Capsule Hotel in Japan
Modern hotel where the guest space is reduced in size to a modular plastic or fiberglass block, providing enough room to sleep. [link]
Survival Pod Hotel in Netherlands
The Capsule Hotel, which consists of oil rig survival pods, is located on a canal in Amsterdam. [link]
Cave Hotel in Turkey
Unusual Cave hotel in Turkey offers fabulous atmosphere and a perfectly exotic setting. [link]
Airplane Hotel in Sweden
Now you can spend the night on-board a real jumbo jet… [link]
Treehouse Hotel in India
Eco-friendly jungle getaway located in the heart of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Get ready for wonderful and amazing experiences. [link]
Prison Hotel in Germany
Former German prison turned hotel offers guests a jailhouse experience, with a possibility of walking out whenever they like. [link]
Underwater Hotel in Fiji
World’s first undersea resort located on a private island in Fiji. Poseidon Resorts offers exciting adventures with luxury accommodation. [link]
Drain Pipe Hotel in Austria
Cool hotel constructed from repurposed, incredibly robust drain pipes. [link]
monkeylectric wheel led signs
Will have to have one of these in Providence Sound Session ‘10 parade…
Ex Apple Designer x SurfBoard 2.0 = Not Your Daddy’s Longboard
After quitting his job as a designer at Apple in 1998, Thomas Meyerhoffer dedicated himself to surfing every day. But he hated his boards, and set about inventing a new one. Though initially laughed at, the design is now something of a blockbuster–the initial run of 1,000 copies sold out, and the backorders stretch through February.
As The New York Times reports [1], Meyerhoffer–who has also designed for Porsche and Cappelini, and created everything from paper towel dispensers and ski goggles–approached the task with zero preconceptions. He let trial and error guide him; as he says, “I never designed the board to look this way. It became this way.” Not without a lot of intensive work, though: Meyerhoffer originally started producing prototypes using CNC milling, but that wasn’t precise enough so he had to re-learn the lost art of manual board shaping.
What The Times article manages to skip entirely is why the board actually works. Meyerhoffer’s key insight was that the the board isn’t monolithic; instead, it has different zones that need to serve much different functions. Thus, near the front, there’s a “waist” which allows a paddling surfer to maneuver more easily, with less impediments to her arms. In the back, the pointy tail digs into a wave’s surface, providing leverage to maneuver the board during tail rides. For nose rides, the front end is deeply concave, to conform to the wave and offer lateral stability. It all gets really complicated, but Meyerhoffer is happy to explain, in this video which Design Boom unearthed [2]:
Read the rest of the backstory at The New York Times [3].
[Via Design Boom [4]]
Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/sports/14surf.html?_r=2
[2] http://www.designboom.com/Weblog/cat/8/view/6987/thomas-meyerhoffer-changing-the-shape-of-modern-surfing.html
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/sports/14surf.html?_r=2
[4] http://www.designboom.com/Weblog/cat/8/view/6987/thomas-meyerhoffer-changing-the-shape-of-modern-surfing.html
SCION A/V REWORKS GRAND PUBA FOR JULY
Scion music imprint features “Get It” re-imaginings by four of dubstep’s finest
Scion again taps talented artists and producers to create exclusive remixes for Scion A/V, the automaker’s private record label. This July, Scion A/V enlists four of the dubstep scene’s up-and-coming DJs and producers to transform hip-hop emcee Grand Puba’s track “Get It” into unforgettable club bangers for “Scion A/V Remix: Get It.”
A founding member of the pioneering group Brand Nubian, Grand Puba’s previously unreleased track “Get It” will be cut up by Caspa, Toddla T, Reso and 12th Planet on “Scion A/V Remix: Grand Puba.” South Yorkshire’s new bad boy Toddla T and dubstep authority Caspa infuse their booty-shaking beats into the track. The UK’s young Reso delivers his own twisted take with rich musical texture and color, while Scion House Party headliner and LA-native 12th Planet delivers West Coast dub rhythms.
Beginning July 21, 2009, “Scion A/V Remix: Grand Puba” will be available for purchase at all major online retailers and distributed at special Scion-sponsored events.
In its continual effort to show support for artists in the music industry, Scion covers all production, licensing and distribution costs for the A/V projects, and all proceeds go directly back to the artists.
For more information on these releases and other Scion A/V projects, please visit: http://www.scion.com/#scionAV
Track Listing
Scion A/V Remix: Get It
1. Grand Puba – Get It (Caspa Remix)
2. Grand Puba – Get It (Toddla T Remix)
3. Grand Puba – Get It (Reso Remix)
4. Grand Puba – Get It (12th Planet Remix)
MGM Foxwoods trip 10/08
I had to show off my 20 of the 40 we made of 5 at casino. Split with my better half. Enjoye dinner at Hard Rock. It was a cool relaxing night out.
10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks
Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient. By making efficient I mean using some tricks or the cheat sheet provided by Google itself to quickly find what you actually require. Having being hooked onto Google for a long time now, I have come across some amazing search tricks which can change the way you look at Google today.
In this article I will list down the search tricks which I use quite frequently. Be it finding time, meanings or watching the cricket score, searching PDF’s, with Google as the search engine life cannot be more simpler. Here are the 10 most amazing Google Search tricks:
1. Different Types of Files at your will
How many times would you have asked for materials (PDF, PPT, DOC) for a particular topic from a friend? Its almost everyday that we might have the necessity to ask them either for knowledge, preparing a presentation, white-paper or for case studies. Such times it mostly difficult to look out what to exactly search for because most of the times you don’t know about the topic at hand. But this petty keyword unleashes its lethal power at such occasions.
Let’s say I want to implement a case study on SOA which means I have to read a lot of information for SOA. So I just have to find materials which might have already been uploaded on the web in the form of PDF’s, DOC’s or PPT’s. These materials can be easily obtained by doing a search for:
- PDF - service oriented architecture filetype:pdf
- PPT - service oriented architecture filetype:ppt
- DOC - service oriented architecture filetype:doc
2. Scholarly Search
If you want some authenticity of the materials then it would be better to find the materials from educational institutes or universities. For this use the Google scholar search. But suppose you don’t like to switch to Google scholar search you can add the same query with an additional parameter to the normal Google search box,
3. Meanings of any word in an instant
Now you do not have to carry a dictionary or install a dictionary software just for the purpose of finding out a meaning of a word. With the wealth of information in Google’s hands, its a piece of cake to find out the meaning of the word. Just use the define: keyword. The meaning would of course be displayed but also a set of other links which might have an alternative definition are also given out with the link to read more about it.
You would argue here that, a dicitionary gives out more information than this. But what about words that don’t actually fall within the vocabulary. Suppose you want to know what SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is then you would have no choice. Google Search comes to your rescue in this case,
- Abbreviations - define: SOA
- Jargons - define: Web 2.0
- SMS language - define: LOL
4. Find the time of any location
Many of us might be probably working for client which are based at different locations. And communication has to be carried out frequently carried out in such cases. But before a communication you have to know which time zone the location is falling into otherwise you would be causing a disturbance.
I have seen people installing time zone software for showing the time of the location they would be calling to. But with Google at your hands you don’t have to install any software. It would be just simple to use a query for finding the current time such as,
psst….look closely the time on the little clock graphic. It also shows the perfect time!
5. Weather at your fingertips
I had been to GOA for a Christmas vacation in the last week of December. But I made a mistake of not finding out the temperature of GOA before leaving. Had I known that it is hot even in the winter I would not have made the mistake of carrying additional luggage consisting of blankets and jackets.
If you are thinking to visit a place it is useful to know what the temperature of the place is before hand, it can make efficient packing. Google helps you here too. Just use this query without asking anybody or waiting for the news to make a weather report. I wish I had thought of this!
6. Google does live commentary too!
Indians are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting time to watch the cricket scores instead of doing their work. What I think they fail to understand is that by blocking the live cricket scoring sites they are actually making the employees more curios and provoking them to hunt for proxy networks or listen to the radio or chat with their friends elsewhere.
Jokes apart, you actually don’t need proxy networks to view the live cricket scores if you at least have access to Google. If you want to find the latest info about all the cricket matches then just type,
But if you want to find out only about a particular match then use only the names of the two playing nations,
Remember that the scorecard will come only when the play is going on.
7. Calculate with your browser
Every OS has a calculator inbuilt but when the browser is the thing which is constantly open whey bother to open up a calculator. Open Google and straight away type your mathematical expression. You can go all the way from basic arithmetic to trigonometrical expressions. This is simply amazing stuff accomplished by Google.
8. Compare your currency with others
Now that the dollar is declining, the rest of the world must be busy trying to check the impact of the dollar on their currencies. But first of all one must know how much a particular currency amounts to when cashed in another currency. Google’sinbuilt currency converter just does this.
9. Keep track of the stocks
With the booming stock market it is very important to track the stocks on a day to day basis. Putting a stock ticker in the search box is the most obvious thing you would think of. But it is not always you would remember the stock ticker, you should add the keyword “stocks:” to the company name.
The best part of the obtained result is that it provides a chart which shows the trend in the company’s stock along with important statistics.
Note: Currently the results are restricted to the companies listed in the US stock markets.
10. Wanna find some faces?
This is most interesting trick. You might be needing images for various occasions and searching for images is the most difficult thing because what we expect might not be possibly mapped to a query. But Google has a parameter in place for images in situations we need an image which describes a face.
Suppose I search for the term “happy” then the Google results page displays smileys. But I would like to use images of happy people. Even if I choose the term as “happy face” the results don’t show images which contain people. For this there is a parameter “imgtype” which you can use with the URL. For this put in the URL as follows:
There are many more variations which can be bought about with the above tricks thus making your search experience not only enriching but also exciting. If I have missed any tricks of common usage, feel free to mention it.
Update 1: Google keeps on experimenting new ways of searching. If you liked the above tricks then don’t miss out my article which mentions how to use the new search experiments introduced by Google. Believe me, they are brilliant!
Update 2 : Search for your favorite movie information with Google and enjoy it even more. Have fun with the 5 Most Fantastic Movie Search Tricks With Google.
Update 3 : Why not carry out the search for exactly what we are looking for? Get excited for trying out 5 Most Exciting Search Tricks with Google Operators
