Watch as the Copper Queens are brutally devirginized by the ruthless posse of Tucson police known as the Vice Squad! Welcome to the league. They do look awful charming in those copper shorts, and this was a damn good first showing for the newest team in the league. Good job gals.
Tucson Roller Girls: Season 4 Bout Two:
Video and Audio: BitcloneLLC
Here is a great reference for when your head is like a bowl of soup overflowing with all sorts of HTML and CSS tags, and you just draw a blank…it happens to me anyway, all the time. Here you can select a tag and it instantly displays the definition, and provides a nice visual example of the usage (complete with a panel on how it looks when displayed).
HTML Playground: Website
Tip of the hat to Mr. Fortin for the link
How is this for an excellent and appropriate use of Ajax? PCNames let’s you start typing in a name and then finds out (as you are typing) possible domain matches, and display’s their status. This really cuts out quite a few steps in the old method of domain name searching. I’m going to cut this review short, and simply let you try it out for yourselves…too cool, our only question might be what’s up with the lame name?
PCNames: Official Website
Tip of the hat to Mr. Willis for the link
Don’t let it catch you dude. that camera has been stalking this poor guy all over the world, he keeps running and running…it’s no use, the camera is always there, right behind him, biding it’s time. You’ll trip and fall one day smart guy, and then…it’s over, you’re camera food.
Running from Camera: Blog
It’s about time someone addressed the issue of junk mail, and from a business model standpoint how can these folks lose? For $36 a year they will cut your junk mail down 90% or so they claim. I’m sold, both from an ecological and annoyance standpoint. They contact bulk mailers on your behalf, and if a signature is required they will send you a postcard (recycled paper of course) with postage paid so all you need do is sign and drop in the mail. AWESOME, thanks and best of luck to these people and their company I will do my best to inform as many people as i can…starting here.
Thanks to our good green buddy Mark for this tip.
If you are feeling like the creative well is a bit dry, or you just happen to have some of that rare thing known as “free time”, take a spin through the awesome archive of Ads of the World. This is a huge collection of really creative ads guarenteed to spark some sort of flame in your creative brain. Check out this super cool image for an ad about a waterproof camera.
Ads of the World: Website
HDR is a way of creating cool photographs using a somewhat complicated method of combining overexposed and underexposed RAW images into one final saturated painterly image. The effect produces something similar to a photo realistic painting, and is pretty cool. If you don’t have the capability with your digital camera or want to play around with an existing image here is a fun tutorial that lays out a few tricks you can deploy in Photoshop to achieve a similar effect.
Here is the results of my attempt…it came out pretty good, one thing not mentioned in the tutorial i learned, is you might need to switch the direction of your gradient in the last step.
original (burnt out truck i photographed):
modified:
How to fake HDR: tutorial
Check out some real HRD pictures: Flickr HDR Gallery
These are some of the excellent new Apps I discovered via friends and cohorts last week. They are mostly Mac based…because we use Macs and hopefully you do as well, but fear not we don’t discriminate, nor do we desire to engage anyone in a lengthy moronic argument over platforms. Just enjoy these applications, and if you can run them do so.
1. Coda
Holy death nail for Dreamweaver Batman, take a look at this new awesome application from Panic Software, the creators of the most excellent Transmit FTP software. Coda is what Mac hand coders have been waiting for “One Window Web Development”. It combines a text editor, css editor, ftp program, and a preview window into one VERY slick application. I have been using the demo for a long weekend, and I am totally sold. The best part…it is a very reasonable price for such a perfectly designed piece of software. If they had included a wyswyg panel for those who want that I’ll bet they could have knocked Dreamweaver completely off the map, however I’m guessing they will probably have more street cred for not including that feature with the hard core design gang. the software rocks, and sports some powerful collaboration features, for…collaborating. Visit their slick site to learn more, and just buy it. now.
Panic Software: Coda
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2. Mail Appetizer
This great little plug-in for Apple Mail will pop up a small notification window with a brief summary of the incoming message upon it’s arrival, and show you the contents. this is helpful as you don’t need to switch to mail to see the message unless it’s your boss and you need to respond immediately.
Bronsonbeta: Mail Appetizer
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3. Color Oracle
The good Mark Wyner is an accessibility champion and he dropped this neat app on me for checking to see what your website will look like for those who have common color vision impairments. This is a group that is often ignored, and it is good to keep in mind that not everyone can see your pretty link colors.
Bernhard Jenny, Institute of Cartography: Color Oracle
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4. iShowU
This program allows you to capture and record anything on your screen, and you can include audio from your microphone, or existing audio on the mac itself. This is handy for presentations or saving something to show someone who is not currently available.
Shiny White Box: iShowU
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5. DVD screen grab
This isn’t an application, but a simple apple script. I was trying to take screenshots of a DVD for a work project, and of course Apple DVD Player has screen capture disabled…to satisfy some retards at the movie industry palace of wealth and greed no doubt. Anyway this is a quick easy workaround for this problem.
Low End Mac: DVD screen grab
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Bonus! Vecteezy:
Looking for some free vector art to jump start that Monday morning dead battery of an imagination? This new site offers plenty of FREE downloadable vector files for you to pilfer and add to your design masterpiece…or that damn crappy flier the boss is stomping on your nuts about needing five minutes ago.
Vecteezy Website: Vecteezy
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Comments are open, let us know what cool new Apps you’ve discovered recently!
Hello TRD Roller Derby fans! I finally had time to edit the first Season 4 bout trailer. Sit back sip a spiked lemonade or a frothy PBR, enjoy the sounds of Tucson’s own Al Foul, and watch the gals knock the heck out of each other! Ahh yeah another season of Roller Derby gets under way.
Tucson Roller Derby: Season 4, Bout 1!
Today I discovered this great website that will convert a youtube video to .avi or .mov for you allowing you to download the video and edit it. Of course the quality of the video still sucks because youtube compresses the living daylights out of it initially. I have tested it with a few clips and it seems to work without a hitch so far, despite being a “beta” service. It’s damn simple to use, you just copy the link url from youtube, paste it in the form and selct type of video to convert to…and once it is done converting it offers you the option to download. Sweet!