Profile: Jason Mayoff


Jason Mayoff is a dad, a tech geek and a Canadian radio broadcaster (CJAD 800). You can also find Jason at his a href="http://www.pleasantnights.com/">photoblog.

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  • Photoshop Tips: Selecting with Quick Mask

    March 9, 2009

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    I have always found that one of the toughest parts about working in Photoshop is selecting parts of an image for deletion or enhancement. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago, I thought the only way to accurately make complicated selections, ones that aren’t simple rectangles or ovals, was to use the polygonal [...]


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  • Adobe Photoshop Tips: Photoshop Layers Tutorial

    March 5, 2009

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    If you’re new to Photoshop, as everyone is at some point, then you may not be familiar with the idea of layers. Thus, we parepared a Photoshop layers tutorial for you. Most modern image editing software uses layers to allow you to make changes on top of what’s already there in a non-destructive way. This [...]


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  • Slide, Don’t Type On Your iPod Touch or iPhone

    July 31, 2008

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    If you’ve got an iPod Touch or iPhone, you’ve got to give this neat little app a try. Its called “Writing Pad” and it’s free. It may look like your average textpad or notepad, but it’s far from it. You can type the old fashioned way by tapping on individual keys, or you can type [...]


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  • 1 Free Program to Run Windows on your Mac

    July 9, 2008

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    Virtualization seems to be one of the great buzzwords these days. Everyone wants to be running an operating system other than their own. My first experience with this sort of thing was trying to run Linux alongside Windows XP using VMware. My second was with Parallels, running XP on my Mac. The big problem with [...]


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  • Jump Into The Sandbox & Play With The New iGoogle

    June 27, 2008

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    There’s a test version of the new Google customizable homepage (startpage), iGoogle, available to play with. When you start it up, the first thing you’ll notice are the pretty rounded corners on all your gadgets. The second thing you’ll notice are the tabs along the left side of the page, rather than across the top. [...]


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  • Three More Great Twitter Tools Worth A Look

    May 16, 2008

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    I’ve had a Twitter account since the early days, but I haven’t really used it all that much. I’ve tweeted occasionally and I’ve even set up several of my feeds to automatically tweet for me, but I never really got twittering. That is, until I got myself an iPod Touch. Now I can’t stop Twittering [...]


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  • The two week Safari challenge

    April 25, 2008

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    I’ve been a Firefox user for a few years now, since it came out really, and I love it. It’s a great browser and the extensions can turn it into anything you want it to be, from an FTP client to a multiplayer pong game. I’ve been using a Mac for a little over a [...]


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  • Whadja say? Online Word Pronunciation Guides

    April 14, 2008

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    When you talk for a living, it’s usually a good idea to know the proper pronunciation of the words you’re using. As a radio newscaster, I come across the occasional word that baffles me, either because I’ve never seen it before, or because I’ve seen it written, but have never heard it pronounced. Case in [...]


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