January 25, 2010
Digital photos are great, but often times we just post them straight to a website page or let them languish on our computers. For several years now,however, Big Huge Labs has provided some awesome and practical photo related projects that can be done in a short amount of time, with very little computer skills needed. [...]
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January 11, 2010
Everyone has their favorite songs, the music that you could actually listen to endlessly and never ever get tired of. I know, it’s easy sometimes to just let that tune’s catchy beat or rhythm take you away, but when was the last time you just stopped to simply examine the meaning of a song’s lyrics? [...]
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December 13, 2009
Japanese calligraphy is an artistic writing style of the Japanese language. Its Chinese origins can be traced back to the twenty-eighth century BCE. Calligraphy found its way into Japanese culture in 600 CE and is known as the karayo tradition. For Westerners, calligraphy is forever fascinating. However, it takes years to learn how to properly [...]
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December 4, 2009
So, you want to write your name in graffiti style, eh? After all, nobody wants a bland-looking font, especially when it comes to your title. The style your name is spelled out in should maybe say a little bit of something about you, don’t you think? You don’t have to be an artist to achieve [...]
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November 4, 2009
If you can use a mouse, you can draw beautifully with LiveBrush. It is a freeware image editor that uses innovative brush styles and adds motion controls to your mouse gestures. Anyone can create beautiful website backgrounds, posters, PowerPoint presentation themes, or blog headers with this easy to use Adobe AIR app, on Windows, Mac, [...]
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October 17, 2009
Are you a self proclaimed artist? Maybe you write graffiti or maybe you doodle? Either way we all know that we love to make our own creations and share them with our friends and strangers alike. I have come across a very nifty web site that is called SketchFu – kind of like Kung Fu [...]
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October 11, 2009
I think it’s fair to say that Google’s logo has become an icon of the Internet. Hell, the word Google is now officially recognized as a verb in some dictionaries. Whenever there is a big holiday coming up such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick’s day, Oktoberfest, Google will use a new Google logo, known as a [...]
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October 8, 2009
There’s nothing really eye catching on the simple white page of Google. Except, the Google Doodle pictures. Google has always found a way to make a signature statement using special logos for special moments. The homepage logos have become a part of internet folklore. Going by strict logo definitions, the “˜Google’ we see is a [...]
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September 8, 2009
Do you doodle? Do you want to take your caricatures or doodles to the next level? Well if so, you can use a little website we found called PimpTheFace. That sure is a funny name right? Well that IS exactly what this site lets you do. If you are not hip to the lingo, here [...]
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September 6, 2009
I love tattoos. I know, everybody loves tattoos since Miami Ink and Inked and the biker culture was reignited by guys like Orange County Choppers. (Fun Fact – I did an image of the Lincoln bike for their site years ago.) But I’ve loved tattoos a lot longer. See, my dad was an Army man [...]
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June 13, 2009
I wrote an article last week called “3 Web Apps for Staying on Top of the Music Scene.” The article got a bunch of great comments, with a number of people suggesting their favorite destinations for tracking their favorite artists and bands. More than a couple of you suggested JamBase, a site I’ve become a [...]
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April 26, 2009
There are many great pieces of karaoke software out there, but without any doubt, Sony’s SingStar is the most popular one amongst the general public. If you can get past the innitial embarassment, there’s really nothing greater than screaming your lungs out after a party, be it with friends or family. One of the main [...]
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April 14, 2009
As I’ve mentioned before here on MakeUseOf, I have incredible music tastes. Well, I suppose everyone thinks their music tastes are awesome, but that’s beside the point. I love discovering new music, love sharing my music with others, and love listening to music in general. With Mixtapeme, an awesome new site, I can do all [...]
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March 28, 2009
During my early years of education, I can’t deny the fact that I dreamed A LOT. Whether my mind wandered into sports, lunch or the weekend, my grades could have been a lot better and my life could have been a lot different if I just paid a little more attention. Some of the time [...]
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March 8, 2009
There are plenty of online image editing options out there. Whether to do professional editing, or to simply to have some fun with your pictures, there are a lot of online apps to get the job done. With it being so easy to create and upload digital photos to the web, there are a lot [...]
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