Archive for the ‘Cool Tools’ Category

I love my beautiful iPhone and the ten million apps and games I have on it. Well, there’s about 10 apps and the rest are games. Buckingham Palace Mysteries, Bookworm, Yard Sale, bloons, Myst (which I still hate after these many years of trying to complete that incomprehensible *%#&)….love the games. And I love the [...]

Ok, its a self-publishing archive. I get it. They call it “democratized publishing.” I get that. Even our President has a Scribd page with 100 friends. We can use it to embed documents into websites. Like that. Check!
Please do not say that this is the future of the book or I [...]

Vanishing Point

In: Cool Tools

11 Apr 2009

I completed the next lesson in PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs. This one was pretty easy because I skipped most of the camera raw stuff. My camera doesn’t put out this format so I’ll come back to it later. I learned a pretty cool tool called Vanishing [...]

In this installment of I’m Learning Photoshop, I took on the Working with Masks and Layers chapter from PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Ok, masks are not easy. This lesson took me two hours. Masks are like taping off things you want to retain like taping off the trim when you paint a room. [...]

I have PS CS4 Extended. I thought I could learn it on my own. Ha! Then came the endless stream of books that I either bought or brought home from work that I just knew would tell me everything if I stuck them on a shelf near the computer. I did make efforts to [...]

Ok, I’m not completely getting it. It is great to twitter and read other people’s tweets at conferences but as Jenny Levine and others point out, these little batches of information about a specific event or topic are ephemeral. Well, I guess you could save these “threads” if you start using an entirely [...]

I heart voki.com

In: Cool Tools

26 Aug 2008

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Widgets

In: Cool Tools

16 Aug 2008

So, there are widgets and there are Widgets. http://www.widgetbox.com

This is my new favorite series! It is so great to laugh hysterically while learning new stuff. I do suck at photoshop but I’m really trying to get some skill on. http://www.mydamnchannel.com/

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wordle, originally uploaded by notmarian.
This is one of my most beloved poems in cloud form.  Can you guess what it is?
Wordle is my new favorite toy and has [...]


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