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I'll tell you what, they just don't make movie trailers like this anymore. Of course they don't make too many gang fight movies where some of the gangs consist of zombie-esque baseball players and mimes, either. And we wonder where we went wrong as a nation...
Technorati Tags: movie video youtube warriorsStupid Photoshop tricks
I've been using Photoshop for over 10 years now. During my earlier years some of the built in features we take for granted today (like layers) were not available yet, and as a result I developed some really strange and convoluted ways of doing some very basic things. Like making shapes. Even though there has been a rounded corner rectangle tool for like forever, I still whipped out the marquee and paint bucket every time. Why not use the PS shape tool? Because I didn't like how hard it was to get nice clean non-anti-aliased edges. I always thought to myself, "Why doesn't Adobe make an option to snap the edges of my shapes to whole pixels?" As I discovered today, they do. And probably have for a long time.
If you have somehow missed this like I did, here is a very detailed guide on how to get nice crisp corners edges on your Photoshop shapes.
Step 1: With the shape tool selected, click on the little triangle in the tool options palette.
Step 2: Select the checkbox that says "Snap to Pixels."
Step 3: Punch yourself for not discovering this years ago.
Technorati Tags: photoshopI've done near worn out this MP3
It takes every bit of restraint I can muster to not just post Jens Lekman MP3s all day long. Somehow in my obsession I missed I Killed a Party Again, a tour-only EP released in 2004, even though it is clearly available for download from Lekman's own site. It's a pretty unique EP compared to his other work, and accourding to Jens contains a lot of "drunken sad teenage confessions, words of wisdom. all caught on my little dictaphone when i was 15." I've listened to this EP almost non-stop for the past two weeks.
Thank you Google for getting me my milkshake
Have you seen those television commercials for Sonic Drive-In's Oreo milkshake? I like to think that I am above the influence of advertising, but somehow that little ad got stuck in my head and for the past month or two I have needed an Oreo milkshake like I have not needed anything ever before. My life was empty and unfulfilled as I stayed strong and told myself that I did not in any way need a giant milkshake full of cookies. But as with nearly all of my moral battles, I gave in to the cries of desperation from my stomach and on Saturday night around 10:00 I found myself on the way to drown my weak will in frozen dairy deliciousness. In my enthusiastic dash to the drive-in, it never occurred to me that I did not actually know where to find a Sonic. Luckily I remembered reading just that very afternoon about Google's new 411 service, 1-800-GOOG-411.
Having launched earlier this month I wasn't expecting this Google Labs product to be nearly as polished as it was. Not only did the automated operator software recognize my voice commands (not helped at all by the desperation in my voice), but it gave me exactly the results I was looking for and offered to send the results as a text message to my phone or patch me through to the business if I wanted. And best of all, this was entirely free. Here is a GOOG-411 cheat sheet, but unlike Google's SMS offering it was so intuitive that you don't even really need to look at it. I can only assume that they will be integrating this with Google Maps and sticking some ads into each call, but even at this early stage they have the best 411 service around and earned a spot in my speed dial.
Oh, and my milkshake was just as delicious as I had hoped.
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