Today is one of those days that designers celebrate and dread: Adobe unveils its latest Creative Suite—Number 4—with new pro versions of Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects and more. Heavy users wait with bated breath to see if their desired tweaks have been added, knowing that if the answer is “yes,” then [...]
Woz’s devotion to the Segway is well-documented, so it’s no surprise he’d blend love and Segway into a frothy mix of…something. Woz got married over the weekend at SegwayFesT 2008—to someone who is not Kathy Griffin. I think a double congratulations is in order! Oh, and today is his 58th birthday. Congrats and happy [...]
If you try to get out of your cellphone contract without paying one of those blasted (and newly illegal in California) early termination fees, you’re going to need a meticulously planned and researched counterargument for everything they throw at you. It’s not a small undertaking, and you’ll meet hostile resistance every step of the way. [...]
In the first part of this basic cURL script tutorial it was demonstrated how to navigate to a web page using pycURL and then download it to a text file on your PC. See part 1 here.
This part of the tutorial will demonstrate navigating through to a secure page within a website to see protected [...]
Choosing a file format for screenshots isn’t just a guessing game, as tech blogger Amit Agarwal knows all too well. Luckily, he’s decided to share his well-tested knowledge on which file types fit which types of shots. If you’re trying to grab still shots of a video, Flash animation, or high-resolution wallpaper:
… Always go with [...]
Web site Light Doodles teaches you how to draw in a photograph using light. What the heck’s a light doodle? See an example in the included image, and hit the site for a video of how that was drawn.
Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace [...]
For those of you who’re into a little bit of creative electronics as well as fancying yourself as a bit of a mean DJ, this DIY laser light show may be just the thing to spice up your parties. Not only will the project spray laser light around (and who doesn’t like laser light shows?) [...]