Dirty Power Plants

January 8th, 2008

Find out the biggest carbon emitting plants around the world, and in your neighbourhood, using Carma

Speed up your pay per click..

December 4th, 2007

cherries.jpgSpeedPPC

Love lists

December 4th, 2007

strawberry.jpgIf you love lists, and I do, then you will love this online app:

To do

Share the expenses of buying a home

November 9th, 2007

A new startup that allows you to purchase a property with others and share the costs:

Pod Property

Separate a photo subject from it’s background in Photoshop

October 22nd, 2007

2ladybeetles.jpg1.Click on the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button.

2.Make sure the colors that you are using are black and white, then click on the Brush tool.

4. Using the brush, make the whole subject red. The quick mask tool uses that opaque color red as a default.

5. Then click on the Edit in Standard Mode button and you should see that it makes a selection. Go to the select menu and click on Inverse. (Select>Inverse) which will then select only what you painted red.
6. Go to the Layer menu and select Layer via Copy. (Layer>Layer via Copy).

Italians love their gelato

October 22nd, 2007

An Italian company has created an initiative whereby inmates of a jail will produce eco-friendly ice-cream using local produce.

Poetry Podcasts

October 18th, 2007

caterpiller2.jpgA blog that is based both on personal philosophies and on the writings of people such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau:

http://www.natureslead.com/

Disappearing Cultures

October 18th, 2007

This is an excellent talk, given by Wade Davis, about cultures at the far edges of the world, and the alarming rates at which they are disappearing:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/69

Straighten a photo in Photoshop

October 16th, 2007

moth.jpgHere is a quick way to straighten a wonky image in Photoshop:

1. Select the “Measure Tool” (in the eyedropper group)

2. Draw a line of a straight edge on your image. Use a horizon, wall etc.

3. Select >Image>Rotate>Arbitrary and the angle will have been filled in based on the previous line you drew.

4. Hit ok and Photoshop will adjust the image. Now crop.

Mowing the lawn, on your roof

May 8th, 2007

undies2.jpgIf you love mowing lawns, why not create a lawn on the rooftop of your home or office? Green roofs is another urban agriculture idea.

Not that mowing is a problem in Brisbane at the moment with the drought..