Category Archives: Tech

Vignette: a mini photoshop tutorial

I’ve seen quite a few photos on Flickr lately that took my fancy for one reason or another, and one of the things that crops up from time to time is the Vignette that comes with some photos. It reminds me of older times and … Read More

Shutdown day 2007

He heee… I love this concept (though I naturally would recommend appropriate recycling of computer hardware after it’s had its useful life).

Are You Worthy?

Found a great Photoshop Contest called “Are you worthy?”. Some top public information-type images that are poignant at times and downright hilarious at others.

Web 2.0 – it’s a great era and now we’ve got the validator

Thyere’s loads of stuff come to the fore over the last few months since someone somwhere coined the phrase “Web 2.0″ – I can’t deny that the concept excites me. This article by O’Reilly sums it up really, especially the first page or so of … Read More

San Francisco, the model city

SF, the model city Originally uploaded by mathowie. A lovely bit of photo-tweaking and a nice Photoshop tutorial showing you how to make normal cityscape photos look like those architectural cut-out models.

Driving me mental

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth: “Now you can have maps that don’t just have satellite views: Microsoft’s Virtual Earth now lets you walk or drive around the streets and see a street-level view”. Hmm. You can explore street-side views by ‘driving’ (with your mouse or with the … Read More

Google ?? But not as we know it.

After holding out longer than any other major internet company, Google will effectively become another brick in the great firewall of China when it starts filtering out information that it believes the government will not approve of. Another brick in the great firewall of China. … Read More

Synthesiser Syntax Error !!!

Something about this made me giggle. What sysnthesisers say when everything goes wrong…