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Google Shows Off Chrome’s Speed at 2700 Frames per Second

Alexander — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:07:47 +0000

And the making of:

Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher at 1000 Frames per Second

Alexander — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:04:25 +0000

Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin from Blink on Vimeo.

Mindmap: Twitter commands for ‘Remember the Milk’

Alexander — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:32:23 +0000

Did you know you can control your tasks within ‘Remember the Milk’ using Twitter? I’ve created a mindmap with an overview of the twitter commands you can use to control your – Remember the Milk – Tasks.

Download as PDF here or download the Xmind file here.

Achtbaan

Alexander — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:16:42 +0000

Black & White Cheatsheet For Photoshop

Alexander — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:12:52 +0000

There are several methods to convert your color picture to a black and white picture. Check the following site for a nice Photoshop cheatsheet which shows you the black and white results of several settings. Check out the article on the original site on how to use the sheet. You can use your own photo in the sheet!

Black & White Cheatsheet For Photoshop.

The download of the cheatsheet on that site seems to be a little slow, so you can download it here too.

There are some other nice cheatsheets on that site, go check it out!
Portrait Lighting Cheatsheet

Reflectorcard Cheatsheet

Light falloff Cheatsheet

Slimmer werken!

Alexander — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:48:24 +0000

Slimmer Werken

View more presentations from Frank Meeuwsen.

Pacific Star II

Alexander — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:23:36 +0000

Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

NASA – Fly Your Face in Space

Alexander — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:48:05 +0000

NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, click the link

NASA Face in Space.

Checking in on Saturn – The Big Picture – Boston.com

Alexander — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:00:51 +0000

Checking in on Saturn – The Big Picture – Boston.com

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Backup (and restore) your photos using Flickr!

Alexander — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:53:43 +0000

Flickr is a very popular photosharing site. Basically you can use it to store your pictures and share those with your friends and/or family or make them available to the rest of the world. A free account offers you 100 MB of photo uploads a month and you can view the last 200 uploaded photos.

Upgrading to a Pro account offers you unlimited storage of photos and unlimited uploads. Because you can set privacy levels on your photo’s you can also upload photos you don’t want to share but just store (backup). It only costs you $ 24,95 a year!

By upgrading to a Pro account you have an ideal backup system for all your photos. It’s ONLINE and OFFSITE so you have a backup even in case your house burns down (hope it never happens though!).

Flickr offers a standard upload tool making it easy to upload many pictures at once and set privacy levels and categories on them. It’s available on the Flickr website at: http://www.flickr.com/tools/. Creating a backup of your photos is a piece of cake now.

Restoring your photos is a different story. Flickr doesn’t offer the ability to download all your photo’s at once so it will take you a lot of time to restore the photos manually. A solution is created by using: FlickrEdit. (Before it was a utility called FlickrBackup) This utility is free and offers you the ability to download many photo’s at once to your harddrive. The new FlickrEdit utility offers even more possibilities than FlickrBackup did.

My ideal backup stragegy for your photo’s would be:

- Create a backup of your photo’s on Recordable DVD’s

- Upload all your photos to Flickr (Pro Account) (and set your privacy level!)