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This is for all of the random, off the top of your head kind of blog post.

Web Subway Map Wows Us

Maps - Geeks, nerds, travelers, and millions of trivia buffs, all love maps. Almost everyone, except my mother, loves maps. Internet maps are particularly interesting, because they often highlight the most read sites in a creative way. One trend is to show off site popularity by mapping sites on a subway map. Subway maps have lots of logical pathways that...

Creative Recycling of Dead Hard Drives…

I’ve got some bad news for you; your hard drive is going to fail. It's not likely to be any time soon; under average conditions, most modern hard drives have a fairly long life span. I’ve got a 10-year old...

Photoshop World 2009 Boston

Photoshop World, in Boston after a 2-year hiatus, was quite a candy-store for photography enthusiasts and professionals. In addition to hundreds of informative tutorials and speaker-led sessions on Photoshop, Lightroom, design, video, and digital photography, there was a vendor trade show. If...

Women in Technology and Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in computing, actually caught my attention in Marshall Kirkpatrick's ReadWriteWeb blog. He posts about how the celebration includes multitudes of bloggers promising to write about a woman in technology they admire on March...

More Flash for Portable Photo Gallery

A previous blog post by M. Chris Stevens gave you a tip to create your own portable HTML-based photo gallery using a keychain USB flash to tote around your photos. I also do that, but use already available solutions. I...

Rebates Are Not A Dirty Word

Mention the word "rebate" and most people have a horror story filled with “choice” words over all the hassles they dealt with on a rebate offered by a “big box” store. Well, as you know, we do things just a...

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