I read about this in the Unofficial Microsoft Office Stuff blog:
What is original fifties clipart?
Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common graphics for use in advertising sections of the papers. They were provided for the printer in lots of categories to meet any advertiser’s needs.
Check it out at http://www.retrographix.com/
Amazing stuff from the The Unofficial Google Weblog:
I find myself browsing through the Google Video blog tonight as a last-ditch avoidance of sleep. (I hit Starbucks at 7pm; a lethal REM-killing tactic.) I can do without the Hilary Duff video of which Google seems to be proud. And all those cooking clips? Please—enough. But the 2005 World Yo Yo Contest champion … Oh. My. Gawd. If you have ever touched a yo yo in your life, you must watch this astounding display of stringy artistry. I never got the hang of “Walk the dog.” This kid will explode your mind.
Last week I discussed flash use in digital photography. This week I will discuss some of the many ways you can use your digital photographs this coming Christmas.
The photographs you make may be printed, put in an album and emailed to friends. But what else can you do with them. With Christmas coming up, it is a good time to explore that. Most of the labs using a digital processor can now add fancy borders and messages to your print. With those, they usually offer calendars and greeting cards featuring your images. Why not give someone a coffee mug with one of your photos printed on it. Mouse pads, pillows and even blankets with you photo can be purchased as well.
If you are doing you own printing at home, you can purchase greeting card paper to make your own holiday cards or iron on transfers to make your own photographic T-shirts. Custom CD and DVD covers, personalized gift tags can be made at home as well. Canvas and silk papers can be purchased for an art look to your photos (would make a nice gift) as well as magnetic and adhesive papers for fridge magnets or home-made bumper stickers. Scrapbooking has become a very popular hobby, so why not make your own scrapbook pages?
Looking for something a little more unique? Why not have a coffee table photo book created. There are several companies on the web that offer this service. Try photoworks.com, shutterfly.com or kodakgallery.com, though I have not tried any of these yet myself.
There are endless possibilities to what you can do with your photos, all you need is a little creativity.
Next week I will go over summarize my review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.
The digital photography tip of the week is written by the PCIN Assistant Editor, Chris Empey. Chris is a long time photographer and is currently the vice-president of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. You can see more of his photography at his Photo of the Day website.
If you have a tip to send Chris, or a question about digital photography he can address in the newsletter, send it to chris@pcin.net.
As the world becomes one big marketplace, it becomes increasingly more important to understand things as simple as time zones and business hours around the world. One of the first reviews I ever did was for a product called ActiveEarth by Logos Systems Research. They have since moved on to other software, but one of the original programmers got the rights to the software and has updated it. I recently had the opportunity to review ActiveEarth 2.0 by Norris Family Industry.
Be sure to read the full review…
I’ve been doing some cleaning on my system, and I’ve been looking for files that are over a certain size. I kept having ZIP files appearing, along with the files that are inside them. Windows XP has some native ability to see inside ZIP files. But when you are searching, having a ZIP file along with the files that are inside it is kind of redundant. I did a quick search on Google for Don’t search in zip files windows xp. The 9th result was from the MVPS.org website and an article called Prevent Windows XP from searching inside ZIP and CAB files, without breaking Windows XP’s native ZIP / CAB support. It mentions a little utility called NoFindInsideZip. There is nothing to install. You just run the executable and you can choose to search inside ZIP and CAB files or not. Very handy!
TELUS is a major cellular provider in Canada. Their marketing has been very creative by using very colourful (digitally coloured) animals in their ads. There have been chameleons, rabbits, frogs, and more. If you like this sort of things, then visit their “cool stuff” web site. You can download a screensaver that has all the colourful animals. You can also send ecards.
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