Having a photo booth at your party has been vogue for a few years now. Celebrities often rented a booth for a shindig and rigged it for free pictures for their friends. Books have been published from the pictures; Andy Warhol used it to make his art. It’s a trendy icon that never goes out of style.
A compilation of online image editing services. Some of sites require registration, others don't. These are great to use if you don't have access to Photoshop or don't need all of the features.
Pixer.us (no registration required)
Picnik.com
Phixr.com
myImager.com
Snipshot.com
Fauxto.com
Wired Gaming has a slideshow of some really inventive and original games that really shined because of the unique features of the Commodore Amiga. I'm a long time Amiga fan, dating back to my first Amiga 500, and I've played most of these games for hours when I was younger ( especially “Beast” and later “Shadow of the Beast” ).
I found this interesting article that explains how the THX sound was created (and how it was not created).
And if you find that interesting, you may also enjoy reading these:
I was asked by my friends who run www.miiware.com to do a photo session for them as they were being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal in Japan. I obliged and shot about 400 pictures. A few pictures were selected and sent to the editor of the article and here are the pictures chosen (even if they did spell my name wrong).
I recently installed a Parrot Evolution CK3000 bluetooth adapter in my MINI. I didn't like the bluetooth solution that MINI provides as it didn't use the two phone buttons on the steering wheel. This solution uses them quite nicely. Plus it requires no cutting or splicing of the car wiring so it was plug and play.
The MINI harness came from www.newministuff.com located in Great Britain. The exchange rate sucks at the moment so the harness ended up costing more than the Parrot module (which coincidently I bought at QVC.com).
The install was pretty easy (I had some help from Jim) and only took about an hour from start to finish. The hardest part is stuffing all the cable and connectors behind the radio and under the dash.
The result is very slick– I can place a call by pushing the phone button on the steering wheel and announcing the name (that I have trained in my phone). I can also answer the phone by pushing the same button after hearing the subtle ring tone over the speakers. It pauses the CD while on the phone (the radio display says “RADIO” ).
Link to PDF version of install instructions I converted from newministuff.com.
Link to my small Flickr set of install pics.
I recently received the AppleTV that I ordered about two months ago at work. The size was surprising– it's shorter than a Mac Mini but wider and longer. The first problem I ran into is I don't have a display at work with component or HDMI in on it. So I connect my composite TV monitor to the green component output to at least get some idea of what the OSD looks like. This resulted in a black and white image (and this worked because sync is also on green).
So I took it home over the weekend. I had to update iTunes to get it to connect together. All content stored in iTunes is available to the AppleTV (provided your computer is turned on) and it can pull content from multiple machines in your house. It will play anything an iPod can and won't play the things an iPod won't. So, no streaming your VIDEO_TS folders to it.
I'm not 100% into the whole iTunes-as-your-video-organizer yet so I had to add a few videos to my library to get a sense of how it works. And it works well, the video looked great and it never stuttered while streaming (I was connected via 100baseT ethernet).
Time will tell what the USB port on the back really is for.
Link. Thanks, Jeff!
The folks at PhillyMINI.org hosted their annual member meeting this past Sunday. Although I couldn't make it, they showed a wonderful 2006 year in review video that is now on Google video.
See if you can spot yours truly!
The great thing about open source is where one person leaves, someone else can pick up and continue. It's been over a year since we've seen an update to the venerable Handbrake, despite the fact the author plead his case for people to contribute money so he could purchase an Intel Mac and continue updating it. Some one else has taken the torch and forked the project, now called MediaFork. I look forward to the changes and hopefully some bug fixes along the way.