January 19th was my birthday and this year I got a nice Canon digital SLR, the Canon XTi with the EF-S 18-55 lens. Now, I’m no professional photographist, that’s the word they use, but from what I’ve read and seen with my photos is that this camera takes really good photos. Here’s a photo of my dog Jackson.
What I don’t know is what is the difference between a zoom-able lens and a non-zoom-able lens. Post your answers in the comments, I’m going to go take about a hundred more photos of my dog.
I’ve been playing with Pixelmator and man is it pretty awesome. Don’t write it off because “It’s not Photoshop.” Pixelmator is a more Mac-friendly Photoshop application that is $60.
Here’s a litte tutorial that I made up for you guys to see how I made this heart and how you can too!
Quick tutorial on how to make my pretty heart. I used a Gaussian blur for the shadow and layer-clipping masks for the gradients.
To make the shape of the heart I made a rectangle and put a circle on the tip, making half of a pill shape. Then I copy and paste’d it and rotated it 90° and that made the heart shape.
At CES this year Gizmodo brought a device called TV-B-Gone which is a one-button turn off for all the TVs around you. Very clever idea! CES is full of these TVs which all look the same and there no innovation except for the occasional new format that no one cares about (2 by 4K what?). Gizmodo decided to turn off some TVs as a prank, they even hired a new guy to do it so no one would really get in trouble.
In my opinion the joke was really funny the only part that wasn’t was when they turned off the TV of the guy giving a presentation. Besides that it was innocent fun. A little corperation-bull and some bull being thrown back in their face.
What am I getting at? Don’t hate Gizmodo for the joke: hate them for the awful blog and lies they report. If you have ever read their blog you know what they are about and inviting them to CES was your own fault. Gizmodo was very cool about it in the sense that they were prepared to take the consequences. That my friend is the only positive thing I can say about Gizmodo.
I will not link to the Gizmodo video showing the prank because I do not want to give Gizmodo that much promotion.
Now, from ZicklePop Productions, you too can do your own keynotes! Become Steve Jobs in this iChat and Photobooth effect. Just drag the download on to your Mac OS X Leopard computer that is on Intel and iAnnounce away!
To install: Unzip file and place it in /Library/Compositions and copy it and place the copied file into /Applications/Photo Booth.app/Resources/ (you can get there by right-clicking on Photo Booth and selecting “Show Package Contents”)
January 19th was my birthday and this year I got a nice Canon digital SLR, the Canon XTi with the EF-S 18-55 lens. Now, I’m no professional photographist, that’s the word they use, but from what I’ve read and seen with my photos is that this camera takes really good photos. Here’s a photo of my dog Jackson.
I’ve been playing with 
Now, from ZicklePop Productions, you too can do your own keynotes! Become Steve Jobs in this iChat and Photobooth effect. Just drag the download on to your Mac OS X Leopard computer that is on Intel and iAnnounce away!
