I “Stumbled Upon” Flashface the other day and have since wasted much time playing with it. I tested my skills by trying to remember what Tyra Banks looks like and then getting all the facial parts and pieces right. I don’t think Tyra would be happy with the “sketch.” Anyway, it’s a pretty fun software [...]

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Today I came across a picture of myself where there was a date on the photo over my shirt, and my face had several extremely shiny spots… other than those problems the photo was pretty cute, SO like any graphic designer, I opened up photoshop to un-shine/un-date the photo. If you don’t have that photoshop [...]

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Though the Leopard update patch is quite new, the NeoOffice project for mac is not. Based on the OpenOffice platform (more PC friendly), it runs all your Microsoft Office Apps and is FREE!!! (they do need donations). I’ve tested it in a variety of ways and it seems really stable and just as functional as [...]

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USA Today reported today that a Civil War Historian, John Richter, thinks he has found Lincoln in an incredibly small crowd shot shortly before his delivery of The Gettysburg Address. The power of the scanner is impressive. The dedication of the historian to comb through the details of it is even more impressive (and [...]

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I’m not a certified geek, or even pretend to know much about computers, but I do have severe design constraints on my everyday applications. Recently I’ve been obsessed with finding the best email app for my work style. I’m not into things being full-featured and all-encompassing (a la Adobe and Microsoft) as much [...]

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