The best free software of the moment is the GIMP: Gnu Image manipulation programme - it's basically a free alternative to Photoshop and the options are endless. I mean I'm an utter beginner at this, and I could knock up the above in about 3 minutes
It is a truly amazing program, and even better for the fact that it's so powerful, and people are writing new plug-ins/additions for it all the time. Open Source, we love you.
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Friday, 25 July 2008
GIMP - Best Free Software
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Salford Bloggers Do It For Free!
If you live in Salford and belong to a community group, and you want to join the online revolution, go here, to Charlestown & Lower Kersal Social Media Centre. They'll teach you how to get a free blog, where you can post your thoughts, get involved in online debating and even market yourself for jobs.
Safe, mate, d'ye knaa wha meen?
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Warning: Salacious* Content Below!
I'll be honest. As a 25-year old male with the mind of a 15-year old and the attention span of a 5-year old, I only use the internet for three main purposes:
I prefer the third option, believe it or not. How else would you stumble upon a little bit of genius like The Problems of Being an Egg, from Gumtree's genuinely funny Gumtastic Ads.
Reproduced below without permission, but the author is a dairy product, so one would assume he is unlikely to have legal representation:
Please find below the problems of being an Egg
1- You only get laid once
2- It takes you three minutes to get hard, and when you do someone hits you over the head with a cold spoon
3- Only your mother gets to sit on your face
4- When you come, its in a box with Eleven others
5- Your father was a cock
This was hard to write as being an Egg myself i had to face many of the listed concerns - help please.
Advice, anyone?
*to improve your voculabulary
Thursday, 3 July 2008
How To Get Rid Of YooNo Toolbar
Mozilla's latest download, Firefox version 2.0.0.14, includes a Yoono Toolbar (beta) that takes up screen space on the left-hand side, and you can't close it.
Clicking the X repeatedly, shouting at the computer and mashing the keyboard, nothing works.
To rectify this problem, go to your Mozilla browser's Tools > Add-ons > Extensions then scroll down to the Yoono icon, click on it, then click on Uninstall.
Bob's your uncle, Robert's your mother's brother, Job Done!
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Watch TV Online
Want to see why thousands of people are refusing to pay their TV licences (not including me, of course) to see Strictly Come Shite and BBC "News"?
Visit www.all2c.tv, a new aggregator for TV-streaming sites, packed full of wonderful TV shows like the award-winning The Wire, which Brit TV execs in their infinite wisdom decided to turn down; Battlestar Galactica, a new, intelligent, gripping, politics-heavy spin on the 70s camp classic, and many, many others.
Just visit the site, search for the name of the show, then click on the episode title of your choice, and you're away.
WARNING: Will result in lengthy sessions at the computer as you delve into thousands of hours of entertainment.
If you've saved money on boxsets through this tip, why not send me a donation, my details are on my Facebook page. Cheers!
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
In Real Life - For Real G33ks
This is popping up more and more now - the use of IRL to describe happenings "In Real Life" as opposed to things that occur online, in the blogosphere etc. Let me tell you this: if you need your own acronym to understand the divide between real and computer worlds, you really need to switch it off, go outside and look at the sky. That's real.
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Social Media: Friends
The habit of "friends" tagging in social media is getting a bit redundant. People I meet on the internet are not my friends. They may be contacts, acquaintances even. But I don't complain to them about my girlfriend, or try to explain to them down the pub why Crewe Alexandra are the greatest football team in the world. You're not my friend unless you know my cats' names. End of.
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Is Twitter useful?
Once heralded the Next Big Thing in social media; are people taking Twitter too seriously? Ah, well, you see, many things that started off as a bit of fun between friends (Facebook, YouTube) are now seriously popular.
I still, despite long conversations with collegues, can't see the business application of a device which is used by so many people as yet another stream of consciousness updater. Microblogging is not what I want to see.
So you live your life online, you work there, you play games there, you blog about the interesting things you've seen (presumably on the way from the computer to the fridge). Do we really need to know what you're thinking every 4 minutes?
Some journalists (especially journalism educators) maintain that Twitter is useful as a tool for keeping in contact with your editorial team. Okay, so a story breaks and you need to get the details out quickly. That would be great. Recently, you may have seen my posts about the 2008 Manchester Earthquake...being awake at 1 i the morning and not knowing who to contact about it. Should I have twittered? I don't think so. I can phone or text just as easily without the need to engage in what is essentially a bit of fluff application.
I see Twitter as a needless and obstructive device, the problem being that the communication is one-way only. If you "twit" (ie post on twitter), you can't enter into a dialogue with people who are "following" (ie reading) your posts. You can post on your own page replies to your followers, but this somehow misses the point.
Conversation seems to be the flavour of the month with Twitter at present, as Mike Butcher ably covers here.
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