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These are the remains of my old point-and-shoot Canon A80 from years ago. The part creative and part goofiness in me just couldn’t let these go to waste. I had to do something with them. I recently read about people attaching Holga lenses to their DSLRs to have some good ‘ol Holga fun. It got [...]
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Is Flash Dead?

Yes. But don’t just take my word for it.
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Oh my, what’s up at Apple…

I really couldn’t care less about the fact that the new iPhone that Apple introduced three months late wasn’t an iPhone5. However, as a web designer, I do seem to notice somethings more than others. Things like how they present new products on their website, design, layout, etc. If you visited apple.com today, you’ll see [...]
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Pretty Loaded

Days of Flash loading screens are long gone…, well, almost. Designers used Flash loaders to retain visitor’s attention while pre-loading bunch of other Flash stuff. Some of these short movie clips from the heydays of Flash were very creative, entertaining and enticing. PrettyLoaded is a growing collection of Flash Loaders from the past.
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“Sent from my iPhone, inside my Ferrari”

‘Sent from my iPhone’, ‘Sent via Blackberry’, or sent from whatever mobile device signatures used to imply one of few things: 1. “Look at me I’m cool~~!, I have [name of the latest mobile device here]. I’m also writing this as I’m driving my Audi A6 while reaching into my Prada to find something… oops…, [...]
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Fixing Samsung LCD TV – follow up

I posted an article on how to repair the non-powering up Samsung LCD TV. Here’s the original post. Quite a few people have e-mailed me saying that they could not find the same capacitors at Radio Shack. Remember, as I stated in my original post, you’re NOT looking for the exact same capacitors at Radio [...]
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Which is longer? Facebook Privacy Policy or The U.S. Constitution

Here’s a nice graphic from the New York Times that charts the growth of Facebook’s privacy policy. How much does the entire Internet know about your personal life? Here is how much As a user you are not Facebook’s customer. You are its product. Facebook sells its product (your data) to the advertisers who are [...]
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Mega Wasted Pixels – The Digital Camera Myth

Digital camera market is full of advertising gibberish boasting high number of megapixel designed to lure consumer and beginner photographers into believing that more megapixel equals better picture and a better camera. Of course, this is complete nonsense. Higher number of megapixel does not equal to higher quality pictures. Higher number of megapixel in a [...]
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Somebody pull his head out of his arse already.

Will Zuck’s arrogance ever see an end? Facebook claims that their new messaging system will render e-mails and phone numbers obsolete. How are they planning to achieve this exactly? I don’t know. Maybe someday phone numbers or e-mails as we know it will become useless. But it surely won’t be because of Facebook. Not that [...]
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Dear – Mad Soul Child (Ajussi OST)

This is the ending credit song to a movie The Man from Nowhere (Ajussi, 2010). Beautiful song and equally impressive movie from an unlikely source. Click image for music video Official movie trailer
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