Monday, October 29, 2007

Automating Photoshop; Actions and Batching Walkthrough

If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you'll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Whether it's mass resizing photos, embedding watermarks, adding filters, or perhaps something more or less complex, most of it can be automated.

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Instant iPhone and iPod touch jailbreak! Just navigate to jailbreakme.com

This new one-touch jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like. All you have to do is navigate from your iPhone or iPod touch to the page, read the directions, scroll down, and tap the button. Wait until the "slide-to-unlock" screen appears (30 secs)

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Red Sox Go to the 2007 World Series

The Sox did it, came back 1-3. Red sox nation baby!

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Cannabis: Potent Anti-depressant In Low Doses, Worsens Dep At High Doses

A new neurobiological study has found that a synthetic form of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, is an effective anti-depressant at low doses. However, at higher doses, the effect reverses itself and can actually worsen depression and other psychiatric conditions like psychosis.

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Apple and Sony, like peas in an iPod

Funny huh? We knew something was a tad too familiar with those Sony's DSC-T2 Cyber-shot cameras announced yesterday. Now, Engadget Japanese reveals why. Those pictures are official, un-doctored press shots from both Apple and Sony. The former (and we mean former) comes courtesy of archive.org since it's been supplanted by Apple's new nano.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

11 USB Toys Your Boss is Sure to Hate

Some crazy ass USB toys have a little fun.

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Amazing Cake Designs! (PICS)

It’s no surprise that Michelle Wibowo’s cake and sugarcraft are so structurally amazing - she has a degree in architecture! Just take one look at her portfolio and you’ll understand why this award-winning lady is definitely one of the best cake designers around today.

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Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F#

Microsoft's recent decision to productize the F# functional programming language is evidence of the .NET platform's robust and extraordinary capacity for mixing distinct programming paradigms.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Germany Wins The 2007 Solar Decathlon

Solar shutters, fold-up interior spaces, modern design, Volkswagen sensibility

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Mythbuntu 7.10 Release Final

The Mythbuntu team is proud to present the first stable release of Mythbuntu. This release is based upon Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). We would like to thank everyone that has volunteered to help make Mythbuntu reach where it is today.

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