Cool Picts

You can still get cool pictures...

... without spending $500+
It helps to have a computer though. With the help of free paint programs (Gimp, Paint.net) you can still get cool pictures without having to lug around a giant camera.
Below was the original.

Sometimes you can make a bad picture good just with a few minutes on the computer. It might take an hour messing with all the features of a paint program to learn what you want to do, but once you've done it once, it doesn't take nearly as long to make a nice photo that will make you all happy like.

Rotating or cropping an image can make the biggest difference in a photo. The nicer the camera the easier it is to crop it without it becoming blurry. Next comes hue, saturation, and brightness. Making a picture just a little brighter with deeper colors can turn a sad panda into a cool lookin' picture of a sad panda!

Next, blurs, brightening a section, rendering cool stuff like rays, and adding lens flare can make a picture that looked like it was taken by a point and shoot (which it was) into a nice picture from a high end camera.

(I'm not trying to say good cameras aren't good, I'm just saying
that the high end cameras are more than what most people need. It's like putting a cake in a box. and then shaking it... all you get is splattered cake.(hmm, I think I'm getting my metaphors messed up.)

Ok, I'm done being nerdy, now you can get back to work. ☺

Strange things happen when it's late....

Feebldeegloble! Yeah, you heard me.

WOW! MY BLOG IS STILL HERE!? RATS!!!! I guess that means I need to post something. Although if you count the number of days I was away (365) and divide them by my number of posts (50) ... I still posted about every week. Plus I realized I had to post since this is the one year anniversary.
(The posts should be backwards so you don't have to scroll all the way down to get to the beginning.)

Well, it was a long trip away from the "blog-o-sphere," but I guess I'm back, so click the pict!

Rant

O.K. Here's a rant (every blog has to have at least one)... sorry you have to suffer through it.

Panoramas galore!

Here they are (finnaly) I put together some old pictures I took from the canada trip and a

few others that I took here and there. I used autostitch, it's really easy to use and it's

free. All you have to do is open the picts you want

"panoramaed." and PRESTO CHANGO! You have a nice panorama picture.

Helichopters.

Ever wanted to fly the helicopters in Microsoft flight simulator?
Well, now it's not quite as much of a pain.
Just hook up a game pad and follow the instructions!

1. Get a game pad.

2. Get some ductape.

3. Get a marker. (or some sort of stick.)

Put ductape around one end of the marker (or some sort of stick) and then put it on the right side of the game pad's joystick.
Then change your controls so that the throttle axis is on the left up and down stick, the rudder axis is on the left right and left stick, and set the aelerons as the stick with the marker (or some sort of stick).

There ye go! A much easier way to fly helicopter.... finally.

DUCT TAPE!

Ever need a case for something or a holder for something but
you didn't care enough about it to buy a case?
Well... again, duct tape saves the day!
Here is a case I made for a first gen ipod shuffle

Here I just cut a hole for the headphone jack and folded the sticky part over to make a flap for easy opening! (I'm starting to sound like an infomercial) BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

It usually works pretty well to wrap the duct tape tightly around the object with the sticky side out and then just wrap another layer around that to make it "un-sticky"

From sd cards....

TO PENCIL HOLDERS!!! ALL YOURS FOR ONLY THE 2 MINUTES TO READ THIS + THE TIME THAT IT TOOK YOU TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT + THE TIME TO FIND WHERE THE DUCT TAPE IS + THE TIME TO MAKE IT! ORDER TODAY!

M....o....v....i....e...s.....

Here are some of my old stop motion movies that I made eons ago. Sorry, no sound, I was way too lazy. I should have probably found a better program to put them together than windows movie maker…taking more picts would probably have helped more : P. Oh, well, too late now! ENJOY!

Here ye be!

Earbuds


Well… they are finally here. (And have been for a while) Totally wireless ear buds. They use a different type of wireless signal (Instead of Bluetooth) to boost sound quality.

Or if this is a bit over budget you still have these

I bit cheaper. .. but headphones and not as good of quality.

So there you have it folks! You can actually have wireless ear buds…… if you have a lot of money to waste.

There are also the infrared and wireless headphones… but the infrared often pick up radio signals. (At least in our area they pick up radio disney.)

VROOOMM!!!

Sorry, please click here.

VROOOOOOOOOOMMM!!! SNAP!

:'-(

POP! OW!!!!!

Blorp!

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (it's a blower in case you can't tell)

Surely you all have seen somebody using this for their entire yard. Our neighbor "Helmet Man," (The owner of robo mow) goes out every fall and blows his entire yard (which is about 3/4 of an acre) off with one of these.



Or, most likely you've seen one of these.

Now I still see people all of the time using these, and they are no different than flat head screws... They work, but they’re a pain to use. Plus, when faced with the daunting task of an acre or more, that’s gonna be one long day.
So hopefully, most of you have switched to using one of these.

O.K. Maybe not one of those, but hopefully you do have one of these.

They are by far the best and fastest way to get up leaves in a jiffy. They are a pain to unload, and you smell like leaves and gas, but it's still going to be easier than raking an entire lawn. So maybe you'll take my advice, and use one of these next year.

Back away from the computer, and waste no more time.

Macro shots are sweet....

YAY!

After the pre-stated incident, I bought two palms, one to sell and one to keep....