Category Archives: Tutorials & Other

How-To’s and Other Useful Resources

Digitizing a Family Crest

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Several months ago, my mother was cleaning out a closet and came across a small woodcut print block and a printed-on-paper example of the woodcut block. The print is a large deer head with antlers, a shield featuring a lion … Continue reading

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How to Keep Your PC Running Smoothly

Once you have installed and ran these programs, you should notice a definite increase in your PC’s productivity. AVG – Anti-virus protection. It’s free, it works, and it can be configured to update automatically. Don’t be suckered into that Norton … Continue reading

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Web Developer Bits & Bytes: May 15, 2009

Here’s an eclectic little assortment of some web sites I stumbled across recently that I’ve found useful for my latest web development projects.. some of them are just entertaining or interesting: Folders4Gmail for Greasemonkey – Keep your gmails organized. I … Continue reading

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My Favorite Firefox Plugins

Firefox Plugins which all work with the latest version of Firefox. Colorzilla – This one is great for graphic and/or web designers. Colorzilla lets you eyedropper sample any color code on any website in RGB, HSV and additional formats. Cooliris … Continue reading

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Bits & Bytes: March 17, 2009 St Patricks’ Day

Here’s some stuff I found interesting and/or useful recently: Phpbb is a nice solution for people looking to add a forum community to their site. It is open source, highly customizable, and quick to install. FlashChat is a chatroom program … Continue reading

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Photoshop Tutorial: Lensbaby/Low Aperture Look

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This photoshop tutorial demonstrates a quick and easy way to make a subject pop out of an otherwise boring photograph. It is roughly based on the look of a Lensbaby camera attachment, which is essentially a second lens on an … Continue reading

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Free Photoshop Brush: Robots & Monsters + tutorials

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below is a sample featuring the images from a free photoshop brush featuring robots and monsters. i created all the creatures from the tutorial below, and then saved them as a brush. please click the sample image to download it … Continue reading

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The Most Prolific Poet of All Time

hello, please help me to become the most prolific poet of all time: try out the VERBASIZER (click it)! what is the verbasizer? the verbasizer is a random poem generator. it is a simple php script i wrote while learning … Continue reading

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