Tap into Your Power of Focus
Do you know the power you have within yourself to focus? I like to think of focus as a by-product of passion. When you are passionate about something, wild horses couldn't keep you away from achieving your goal. You suddenly have tunnel vision and you easily ignore distractions. You develop a se ...
How to Calibrate Your Monitors
Calibrating your monitors is quite necessary when working with graphics. As a designer you can't leave this one to chance. Nor do you have to as there are several ways to achieve a great calibration. Some like to download or even buy some fancy software to help them do it. However, calibrating your ...
Get Ready to Rock! Guitar Hero 5 is Released.
A few days ago, on September 1st, the much anticipated Guitar Hero 5 was released. I'm so excited about this; after all, what could be better than linking your avatar to see yourself on stage jamming out to rock music? It sounds like the perfect Saturday afternoon entertainment to me.
Guitar He ...
Beware of Some Social Media F**k Ups
I am sure that you have seen the latest material on social media as presented by Marta Kagan. Just last month she released some information on Social Media - What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later.
Now she has released a modified version of the material Brand New World which you can prev ...
I Love You Even If You Piss Me Off Sometimes…
Don't you agree? Even if we are in the digital age, it is still nice to get some greeting cards from our loved ones. It somehow makes you feel special. The ecard revolution is still great as it eliminates the use of paper but this card is awesome as it is also eco -friendly.
This is an origin ...
How to Professionally Retouch a Photo
As a designer we often get the question if we can enhance the photo's that we sometimes have to add to the "About" section on a new website. The process sometimes seems tedious and unnecessary for us but make all the difference to the client that of course wants to look her/his best on a photo that ...
Really Stupid Inventions
Inventions are there to make our lives easier and better. But if there are good inventions that truly help mankind, there are also the so called stupid inventions. Found these hilarious videos of a guy who actually has a channel on YOU TUBE and airs episodes on the different stupid inventions. ...
Is This Really Made of Paper?!?
The first time a saw this art work my question was, is this really made of paper? Paper art is one form of art that is getting a lot of attention. I find it very fascinating. I discovered a site that specializes in paper sculpting while doing my research and just had to share his work. The a ...
WiTricity | Wireless Electricity The New Standard
So, we are finally there! And I can't tell you how happy this clip made me from the second I saw the title of it. It's environmentally safe, it's non hazardous as it's not radio waves but magnetic fields that power up your gadgets. And the best thing of it all is that it's cordless. YES! I bet almos ...
3 Brain Teasers to Drive You Nuts
I've always loved brain teasers and optical illusions. They often leave me feeling dazed and confused, scratching my head in disbelief.
They are fun because they remind us of two very important things:
1) Not everything our eyes see is real.
2) Just because our eyes don't see something doesn' ...
Nokia E63 – Poor mans iPhone alternative
I would love an iPhone, most people know this, but unfortunately practicalities stand firmly in my way, too much cost for not enough usage.  As it was time to renew my contract or ditch it I decided to look into the upgrades I could get, with I must say an air of reluctance.
I was paying aro ...
Glasses that Photoshop Reality
Our world is not perfect and that is a reality that we contend with everyday. There are days when you feel the urge to just change everything with Photoshop.
Here is a video of Freya and Natasha explaining how owning a pair of this new glasses they call Re-Frame can actually change the way we lo ...
Paint with Words
There are so many creative ways in which one can use fonts or various typeface to produce works of art. Its really painting with words. Found several different examples to illustrate what paining with words mean, or how they can be implemented.
For "I love NY" -Describes the city of New York ...
How To Flirt | The Science
It was just a matter of time until someone went and published this I think. It would have been quite obvious to publish this video clip as we're talking about social media and that it's taking over the world one person at the time. Is that making us less social? Not in the words meaning itself but i ...
iJustine: From Geek to Internet Celebrity
Forget going from rags to riches, the hot story these days is going from geek to internet celebrity.
Justine Ezarik, a 25-year-old video blogger and marketing genius living in Los Angeles, has successfully catapulted herself into internet celebrity status by using her geekness to stay on the cutt ...