Fansite for Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History and The Little Friend.
100 Best First Lines from Novels
During photography’s entire history, the amateur and the professional have represented distinct and often contrary approaches to photography, each battling for supremacy. Has the digital revolution tilted the field of battle irrevocably in the amateur’s favour? Or has it swept this traditional rivalry into the dustbin? Can anyone say?
In this tutorial you will learn how to create the look of an aged, hand-tinted photograph by using masks, fill and adjustment layers, blending modes and layer styles.
As a workflow and easy to use online service, VUVOX can enable you to create personal, collaborative & emotive expressions using your own digital media – including video, photos, music and text. Huh?
See what your friends are reading: book lists online. See also Shelfari and Librarything
There was a time when the Champs-Élysées stood for grand living, high style and easy-going serendipity. With the Arc de Triomphe at one end and the Tuileries Gardens at the other, you could discover an underground jazz band at midnight and down oysters and Champagne at dawn. But the road where Charles de Gaulle celebrated France's liberation from the Nazis, the one known as "the most beautiful avenue on earth" has spiraled downward, like Times Square in New York and Oxford Street in London, into a commercialized money trap.
For some people, especially fast touch typists, removing a hand from the keyboard to use the mouse is annoying, and picking through menus is slow. They prefer to use keyboard shortcuts, but these shortcuts must be memorized and can vary program to program. Now there's a new software system that allows you to use keyboard commands to do common tasks. But this back-to-the-future system is different from the old approach. Its commands needn't be memorized, because they are entered in plain English. And they stay the same no matter what program you're using. The system is named Enso, and it comes from a small Chicago company called Humanized Inc. Interestingly, Humanized's president, Aza Raskin, is the son of the late Jef Raskin, an early Apple employee who worked on the Macintosh. Enso is dedicated to his memory. There are two initial Enso products, which can be downloaded at humanized.com. One, called Enso Launcher, allows you to launch programs and switch among windows via typed commands. The other, called Enso Words, allows you to do spell-checking, even when the program you're using doesn't include that capability, and to look up the meaning of words. Both products also include a simple calculator and the ability to launch Google searches.
Edit photos the easy way, online in your browser
Here is a cool Photoshop trick you may have seen before. Take a photo and make it pop out. It is something I've always thought looked really cool.
One of the nice things about Flickr is that because of their open API a whole host of developers have built more and more interesting things to do with the site.
While it is widely rumored that Macs don’t require any maintenance at all, sometimes things go awry on any computer. And then, the never-sick computer doesn’t look to healthy after all. Mac OS X is already equipped with most tools to fix itself, and it actually should fix itself at least once a month. But as I said, sometimes things go awry. And that’s when you need access to the Macs maintenance tools yourself, and this can be done with third-party applications.
The Pixel Patterns Collection
In this tutorial you will learn how to create the look of an aged, hand-tinted photograph by using masks, fill and adjustment layers, blending modes and layer styles.
In the Netherlands straight after World War II, there existed plans both official and unofficial to annex a large area of Germany as a way of obtaining war reparations
Create a virtual bookshelf and interact. See LibraryThing and GoodReads
WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first.
Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your entire Mac OS X installation to a new computer? Then CCC is the tool for you!
Article in Dutch newspaper Trouw about today's marriage.
Seed Magazine's downloadable 'cheat sheets' for living in the 21st century.
Open Switch article about the basics of switching to Ubuntu.
I got the Royal Noir theme for XP. I recently discovered that Oddbasket had “remixed” this theme so that it had the Windows Vista icons and noises. I don’t recall these noises from RC 1, perhaps I haven’t taken notice properly but I do like it!
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