There are many times I want to leverage jQuery’s strengths to create a custom Google Maps mashup. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment. I will assume nothing, and explain each piece in detail.

In this video, I go over a very common technique of smoothing skin tones, while retaining skin detail and texture.

Ever see pictures of a bullet shooting through fruit and wondered how that was captured? How about a picture of a water balloon popping the instant it was punctured? This is called Speed Photography, and shots like these are actually quite simple, once you understand the concepts. Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/speed-photography-how-to-photograph-exploding-fruit-and-balloons-popping#ixzz0DZzzqCTs&B

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. They range from straightforward steps that offer a little protection to more complicated measures that offer near-complete safety. While we strongly urge users to follow all six tips, a lesser level of protection might be sufficient depending on your particular situation and willingness to accept risks to your privacy.

Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules.

Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?

These are instructions on how to make a duplicate copy of CD or DVD using Mac OS X Leopard Disk Utility.

Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.

Pixelmator makes image editing available for the rest of us. It is fun to use and you can do some amazing things with it. The Pixelmator Tutorials podcast will show you how to work with Pixelmator step by step. From basic image editing to advanced projects.

today we'll set up a nightly automated Gmail backup using the command line program fetchmail, which will go out, grab your newest messages, save 'em to your hard drive and exit, all while you sleep soundly in the knowledge that you've got an offline copy of your important email.

So - if you have no idea how to sharpen your photos in a dark-room, why should you care about doing so on a computer? Well, because the computer does the exact same thing, and - despite what you would expect - the computer doesn’t do it better than someone competent in the darkroom. H

So, when I got the Dell mini 9 all I wanted to do was put Leopard on it. With a little bit of tinkering and some help from a good blogging buddy Kevin Tofel I was able to painlessly install 10.5.4 on the little guy.

Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.

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Getting Started With AIR on Linux - In this tutorial Mike Chambers explains the basics of how to get setup with AIR on Linux

You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do.

Here's how to configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default mailto: application handler.

You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Windo

I keep my life in a Subversion repository.

Pandora is a GIMP script which helps in stitching together multiple images to make a panorama.

Article about incremental leading, a typography thing.

Today I have collected 24 Photography Podcasts for you. These are all podcasts about Photography which can be a great source of information and inspiration for your photography. Each one can improve and support your daily photographic life and help you im

Computers use varying types of display devices—ranging from small monitors to the latest large flat panels. Despite all of these displays, the internet has yet to set a standard for representing color and tone such that images on one display look the sa

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ScreenCastsOnline is your one stop shop for Mac video tutorials to help you get the most out of your Mac.

This CSS tutorial will show you how to display two double-quote images using one blockquote tag. The trick here is apply one background image to blockquote, and then apply another background to the first-letter (pseudo-element) of blockquote.

# Take "impossible" pictures, leaving everyone wondering "How did you do that?" # Capture high-speed events -- A splash. Popping balloons. Breaking glass. Or? # Adjustable flash controller triggered by light or sound.

A key function of any digital camera is its capacity to produce images with colours that match or closely resemble those of the original scene and, generally speaking, most do a good job. There are exceptions – e.g. when the camera’s automatic white b

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site.

Use the Tumblr API and the Code Igniter PHP framework to build a lifestream blog website.

Luminous Landscape's Understandig series on everything photography related. Great reads!

A walkthrough on the entire process of creating a strong resume, step by step.

In this tutorial I will explain how to convert a color photograph to a B&W one with color restored to selective areas. With the right subject this can give really striking results, as you can see for yourself.

This is a CSS tutorial on how I created the image browser controls for Shacknews.

Table of contents: 1. Install Compiz Fusion 2. Configure Compiz Fusion 3. Ready the desktop for Avant Window Navigator 4. Install Avant Window Navigator 5. Configuring Avant Window Navigator 6. Install Screenlets 7. Start & Add screenlets 8. Make these pr

Welcome to chromasia’s online Photoshop tutorials. From this page you can access our free tutorials and read more about our new subscription based services.

Eric's basic sheet that resets all browsers. The starting point for ny good CSS based website, thus any website.

Here you will find short video clips that highlight Ubuntu's features and demonstrate how to complete common tasks using Ubuntu.

How To Compile the new 2.6.16 kernel from kernel.org

A primer on making your Ubuntu Linux pc even more secure.

Instructions to install & configure Opera 9.20 in Ubuntu

Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape.

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A howto for Google Desktop on Ubuntu. You can also use Google's own repository instead of downloading the deb.

prevu is like your personal Backports developer, building backports with just a single command. This is a quick guide to using prevu.

This article presents the general idea of workflow in digital photography, and then focuses on how to deal with different file formats of interest (JPEG, TIFF and raw) using free and open source software. While this subject can be approached from many dif

Intimidated by the idea of off-camera lighting? Don't be. We are pretty much starting from scratch, so no worries. The first posts will be about what kind of gear you will need to do the minimalist strobe thing.

I occasionally like to clean my Firefox profile. I test quite a few extensions, and play around a bit, so every once in a while, I just want to clean up.

"you want to clean your ubuntu machine you need to follow these simple steps to remove all unnecessary junk files."

How to build A Better Bounce Card

How to use your own URL as an OpenID without running your own OpenID server.

How to divide content over multiple columns, while keeping layout/design and content separated.

There are so many ways to convert an image to B&W, each offering different advantages, disadvantages, look and feel. Personally, I find converting using the Lightness channel in the LAB colour mode gives me the most pleasing results for my portraitu

This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting

Many typical photographic scenes contain far more dynamic range than modern digital cameras can record in a single exposure. Digital cameras are actually slightly worse in this respect than film cameras, since they are very unforgiving to the slightest ov

This page is a collection of improvements to make Dapper look even better. And even more orange! (Created by Lauri Taimila)

"I thought I’d write up my workflow for mucking around with HDR and Tonemapping in Linux. (..) But first, a point of clarification in definitions: most people associate HDR with tonemapping, but they aren’t the same thing: HDR stands for High Dynamic

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

A simple javascript slideshow script, which can function as an alternative to a flash slideshow. Fancier web slideshow scripts, like lightbox, seem to be better options.