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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Most Beautiful Panoramic Photos - The Louvre 360

Press 'SHIFT' to zoom in, 'CTRL' to zoom out.

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Friday, August 26, 2005

California needs to be split into three states.

The state was only to be allowed to be as big as it was because it was sparsely populated. With an economy that would be 7th in the world if California was a stand alone country it's ridiculous that its large mass and huge population is represented by only two US Senators, neither of whom represent the interests of the state as a whole. Read More.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Photoshop CS3 details emerge, two new Adobe apps set for release

Just months after the release of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Think Secret has obtained several notes regarding Photoshop CS3, as well as word that Adobe may be developing two other yet unannounced products: Adobe Acrobat 3D and Adobe Full Frame.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Pixar's New Interactive Lighting System

A new system developed by Pixar that allows lighting in realtime of their CG scenes. Including ray traced shadows. There is a video at the bottom of the page. Great stuff!

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Homer Simpson as a real person

...and other interesting paintings.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques

How to jump start your new CSS design.

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Monday, August 22, 2005

4999 Company Logos From All Over The World

A free site with a collection of nearly 5000 company logos.

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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Good Fonts for Grapic Designers

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

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Friday, August 19, 2005

Index Dot CSS

All CSS tags in one page... Cool Stuff

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Essential freeware for the PC user

Just purchased a brand new Windows PC. Try out these must have free software on your machine.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Track visitors to your website using Google Maps

gvisit.com is the newest tool to make use of the Google Maps API. It allows bloggers - or anyone with a website - to track the locations of their visitors, and plot the results on a Google Map. It is free (donation driven) and you don't even need to register an email address.

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Combining great graphics and CSS

Here is a well written tutorial outlining how you can combine CSS skills and Photoshop skills

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10 Year Timeline of the internet.

Pretty interesting, the link has most of the major things that have happened over the last ten years. I stress "most of the major things".

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World Facts in Real Time

A site that shows the population, births per day/year, and many other interesting facts with real time meters.

See it

Saturday, August 06, 2005

Remote-Controlled Humans

Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation will rock your world. Literally.

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