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Archive for November, 2008

Designer & Photography BLOCK!!!!!

Friday, November 21st, 2008

coffee_machine-256 Lately I have been experiencing small blocks here and there when it come to either my Photography or Photoshop designing.

I cannot come to a conclusion on what it can be that is getting in my way of doing what I am good at. Well for now I’m going to sit back, relax and catch up with myself and think on some inspirational ideas. If you have and ideas on helping me kick this monkey off my by please share your thoughts by replying to this post.

This Modern Life

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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GMail Adds Official Themes for Inbox

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Source: Gmail Team

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There’s even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers — it’s not exactly practical, but it’s great for testing out your geek cred. We’ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail’s default look to make it crisper and cleaner — you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

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10 Brilliant Articles on Managing Email

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

  • Managing Email: The Great American Timesuck-CEO Blog
    Though email was intended to make our lives easier, sometimes it does just the opposite! This article provides a list of suggestions that would be helpful to anyone that feels slightly buried by the mountain of messages lurking in the corners of their inboxes.

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Photoshop Hero Comic

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

50 Popular Eye Catching Free Wordpress Themes

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Color Paper

Color Paper - screen shot.

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MySpace for BlackBerry Released

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

RIM has launched MySpace for BlackBerry, a fully optimized application for MySpace users. It integrates the main MySpace social networking components with the BlackBerry platform to provide instant, push-based messaging to BlackBerry and MySpace users. The software is available at www.blackberry.com/myspace or m.myspace.com using the BlackBerry browser.  

test post from my Blackberry

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I found this wordpress plugin last night that enables me to post from my Blackberry when I’m on the road.

I should be arriving to my destination in the next half hour…I’m curious to see how this turned out.

Hump Wedneday Melt Down!!!!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Wednesday, the middle of the week, implying that you have to get "over the hump" before you can anticipate the weekend.

I’ve finally joined the world of Smartphones

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Having to deal with many others who have iPhones and Sidekicks, I have finally decided to get up off the couch and go upgrade to a Smartphone. A Smartphone that is capable enough to help me out on my everyday needs of emailing, file managing, texting..etc..etc. So I went over to my sales rep to see what I qualify for and behold…the beauty that caught my eye was the Smartphone of all Smartphone’s, the Blackberry Curve. We went through comparing what I want and what I need and come to see the Blackberry really fits my needs and my budget.

I was originally intending to maybe get the G1 cause my carrier doesn’t do the iPhone (yet) and I decided to give the G1 a longer wait considering it hasn’t passed it’s first quarter yet. So I went with the BlackBerry Curve!