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Short north was home of Neff's, Dutch Cafe, Presto, and 711 (so named because the bar was at 711 N. High St). One of the toughest areas until gentrification.
[Flickr] Schmap New York Seventh Edition: Photo Inclusion Saturday, June 20, 2009
From: "Emma Williams"
To: pabear26@yahoo.com
You've been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:
"... :: Schmap New York Seventh Edition: Photo Inclusion
Hi pabear26,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released
seventh edition of our Schmap New York Guide:
www.schmap.com/newyork/tours_tour3/#p=2002D03&i=2002D...
"...
I'm the Managing Editor at Schmap, a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
More than 30 million Schmap Guides (desktop version) have been downloaded since first release in March 2006. Schmap Guides have been greeted enthusiastically by the traveling public, and reviewed favorably in a diverse range of traditional, travel and technology focused media, including TIME, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PC World and Lifehacker.
Our guides include many terrific photos from flickr users - please check them out, and let me know what you think!....
Hoping to see the natural seaside at Skipsea but we just encountered concrete and trailer parks. On top of that, the temperature was freezing and Silvia was not in a smiling mood.
I still think it gave a really nice portrait!
See where the photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc/.
(found the portrait technique on lifehacker)
This is my Tablet Desktop. The workspace shortcuts lead to .cmd files inspired by Lifehacker. I have one for each class, one for study, and one for leisure. Each opens different programs, according to class needs. The yellow shortcut leads to a .cmd file that closes the running programs (also inspired by Lifehacker), deletes any image files on the desktop (from taking screen clippings to insert into my notes), and sends any .doc or .pdf files to their proper folders. The idea is that when class ends, instead of wasting time performing all of these tasks by hand, I can simply finish them with one click. I haven't figured out yet how to close specific open folders this way without also exiting the Windows taskbar, though.
The wallpaper is from caedes.net.
I am running Windows Vista Business Edition on a Fujitsu 2010T w/ 4GB RAM.
I added a fold out map of the Chicago Loop in the front and an envelope to store checks, receipts, and other small papers, in the back of the notebook. This is a notebook I received at the Apple Store grand opening in Schaumburg, IL. The store is Illinois' first.
My first submission to the Lifehacker group...
Ok, this is heavily based on the Enigma Rainmaker set by Kaelri. My modifications are mainly icon additions that open programs (see bottom left). The clock icon opens up a calendar, notes icon opens up that note thing shown in the screenshot and the globe icon brings up a reader. HDD/DVD icons bring up the various drives too.
The icons I added that were not from Enigma were mostly from the ecqlipse 2 set (same set as that used in Enigma), other than a Fireworks 8 one which I made myself.
The system specs in the bottom right I added myself, those grab data from the registry.
I added a fold out map of the Chicago Loop in the front and an envelope to store checks, receipts, and other small papers, in the back of the notebook. This is a notebook I received at the Apple Store grand opening in Schaumburg, IL. The store is Illinois' first.
Do I cheat if I photograph the same thing for two days straight?
Yesterday I photographed this Koosh ball and lamented that it would have looked more interesting if I had my macro extension tubes with me. Underthesun said I should take the photo with the tubes so that she could compare and decide herself if it was better.
So...that's what I did. I took the extension tube into work and reshot and this is the result. You'll see that using the tube with exactly the same lens I can get much, much closer to the subject. Another consequence of this is that the depth of field available is absolutely miniscule. You can see I was able to focus on the very tips of the filaments and just 5mm behind them we're already starting to lose focus. That can often be a headache, but here it's really effective.
Well, which do you prefer? :)
Update: Welcome to any visitors from lifehacker.com, where this image seems to have been picked up as a suggested desktop wallpaper. I hope you like it!
One of a series of pictures taken continuously to capture various expressions and poses.
This image has been used in an article...
• lifehacker.com/5895220/squint-slightly-and-stick-out-your...
I added a fold out map of the Chicago Loop in the front and an envelope to store checks, receipts, and other small papers, in the back of the notebook. This is a notebook I received at the Apple Store grand opening in Schaumburg, IL. The store is Illinois' first.
Thought I’d share with you a fun Yahoo! Experiment I’ve gotten myself involved in....
Meet “Purple Reigns”
That’s the name of this particular “Purple Pedal”, from the purple pedal family, who is visiting me in southern California for a while.
Purple Reigns is no ordinary bike.
Purple Reigns sort of have super powers and employs green-consciousness.
Purple Reigns is solar powered and communicates with satellites.
Purple Reigns uses that natural power to take photos with it's onboard camera which swivels and uploads images every 60 seconds to the bike’s personal flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/purple_reigns/
Purple Reigns, then, is actively involved in the community.
Live data/photo feed of where Purple Reigns is and what it’s shooting
Now that I’m the proud caretaker of this purple super cruiser for the next couple of weeks I hope you’ll follow my pedaling journey on Purple Reigns own Flickr page:
www.flickr.com/photos/purple_reigns/
When our journey is over I will collect the best photos and they will become a Purple Reigns in Venice blog on:
You can also read more about the technology of the bike here:
lifehacker.com/5049737/flickr-bikes-photo+map-locales-acr...
Many thanks to Kaelri for giving the chance to create something nice. Many thanks to all the artists who created the skins for the programs on the picture, I really had fun jamming them all together.
Hopefully that I'll be able to create my own sometime. Though I will have a lot more to learn.
Samurize was is a fun thing, I'm still on the progress of making my own, so I used Kaelri's Enigma.
Oh, Lifehackers has mentioned that StartKiller only works on XP. Well it does work on a Vista 32-bit Service Pack 1 =P I haven't seen any Vista users mentioned this so I guess I should, just in case.
It's still done from being perfect, I'm lacking a lot of things and one of them is that... It's kind of embarrassing, but I don't know how to change the location on the MoxaWeather from the Enigma rainmeter skin, I tried but I really don't where to get the appropriate URL or code, or whatever. If you can, please do help me (lol). You can provide me a tutorial or just post the code <.< (Zip code: 96782.. City: Pearl CIty... State: Hawaii).
Feel free to ask any questions, I'd love to help.
Testing EF 50mm f/1.8 II ("Nifty 50") through various situations : My shot of the broken PC power supply.
Photo used by Lifehacker : lifehacker.com/5750365/from-the-tips-box-emergency-phone-...
Because of a recent Lifehacker post, I decided to try my hand at using a spot of color in a black and white image. I think I'm going to go back and color the rest of Santa's suit, but I thought it looked neat like this too.
There are definitely some touchups to be done to the hat, but I'm not entirely sure I possess the skill to do it...
today there was a morrissey ad on lifehacker
it was weird. it's like eating in the bathroom.
it's like what feeds your sickness and what helps you, all at the same place.
what's what?? i'm still trying to figure that out man.
Using some fancy GeekTool scripts (including one I wrote myself, to get the Phillies score!) and some TinkerTooling, I've made myself this spiffy desktop.
Reclaim Privacy:
The hot buzz today has been Reclaim Privacy, yet another approach to
countering the Facebook privacy issues. Mashable, Forbes, PC World,
Guardian, Read Write Web, Lifehacker and many others are talking about
using this open source tool to examine your privacy settings for
potential unsafe gaps with the assumption that you'll correct them.
I don't know about you all, but while I am less than thrilled with
Facebook's privacy policy trends I am also getting a bit tired of all
the fuss. I really like that this tool scans your settings without any
security risk, uses open source code, and ultimately leaves it up to
you. You see, privacy needs for a private individual might very well
be different than those for a corporate presence or someone with a
personal brand, where you WANT to be discovered.
Another way to think about this is as, a kind of cultured courtesy.
Thinking back roughly a hundred years ago, the Western culture had
norms in place that carefully moderated what sort of things were OK to
say to whom, and these were a bit different than now. There were
benefits and costs of this. Then in the middle of the most recent past
century these sort of turned upside down, but found there were
different benefits and costs. Now we are learning, as a culture, what
we can and can't say and where we can't say it -- UNLESS we want to
bear the costs.
My basic policy is this. Don't say anything on Facebook that you don't
want in public except for in private messages to one other person, and
then treat those as you would writing email. They can be forwarded.
Avoid using real names in order to protect not just your own privacy
but that of those you care for, but instead use DS for dear son, DH
for dear husband, and other commonly accepted generic acronyms. Assume
transparency of what is said online, but manage that transparency by
being careful about what is said. Simply, assume you are talking to
the town gossip, and you should get by just fine.
Here I'm meeting Gina from Lifehacker. I asked her to sign the page where she introduces todo.txt. Great geek productivity tool! www.todotxt.com