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Cursebird.com

Friday, November 28th, 2008

If you’ve got time to waste and are up for a laugh, then look no further than cursebird.com (thanks to madcaow).

As the picture suggests, it’s a realtime feed of people swearing on Twitter.

Today is particularly interesting, as I was watching the feed being flooded with a lot of disgruntled Amercians are now waking up cursing the existence Thanksgiving and the tragedy of Mumbai.

In any case, it’s a laugh.

Problem solved! (For now…)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

The time has come to get to the bottom of this. I’ve always kind of ignored the infamous colour profile problem in Photoshop, but seeing as that my photos will be the best way of describing what life is like in Sweden, I finally fired up Google and found what I was looking for (only after realising that spelling ‘color’ is the only way to search these days).

The Mysterious ‘Save For Web’ color shift.

Ever wonder why your colours shift dramatically when exporting without an embedded colour profile? Firefox and Safari are two of the few browsers that do read the embedded profiles, however IE does not, and this means your photos, web graphics and ultimately masterpiece designs are shifted across all clients.

Get on this tutorial on how to configure Photoshop and get your photos tight and right.

Ok, let’s be honest…

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I’m actually spending my time playing Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe online, and it’s rad.

I figure, why not?

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Sometimes I forget that Parallel’s is for more than just XP. So I figured, now that my XBox & Wii have been shipped to QLD, what better opportunity to cure bordem than to install Ubuntu and get playing. ;)

It’s either that, or Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.