So we came home yesterday from celebrating Christmas early with my family to a phone call from John at SyncSpeed asking “what happened?” Apparently our web stats went crazy. I quickly checked my e-mail to find 30 new comments about the Yo Momma Loves Ubuntu post and an [...]

Amy’s got this whole Dutch thing going on where she’s extremely conscientious about correspondence. She always RSVPs, writes thoughtful letters, sends thank-you notes, sends out announcements, etc. Left to my own devices I would probably forget all of those, but I have Amy to remind me. So, I sat down at the [...]

Actually, my mom loves Ubuntu. My mother is like most parents these days – they buy a computer at Best Buy or Walmart and they take it home, plug it in and start using the web. The computer they bought usually has Windows on it and some form of AOL. After [...]

While working on my post for StK about Extreme Background Removal, my eMachines desktop computer decided to go poof. That ozone smell was horrifying. This event required me to turn my Mac Mini back into a desktop computer (it’s been a faithful little file server for our house for months) so that I [...]

Amy’s talked about touching up the backgrounds of photos to remove visual clutter, usually using the clone tool to copy “clean” sections of the original image into the “cluttered” areas. This is a great technique and one that almost every photo can use, whether you’re removing lens dust or the kid making goofy faces [...]

A few posts back, I talked about a great, free program called PhotoPlus from Serif Software. It’s a photo editing package with much of the power and features of Photoshop (including access to Photoshop plugins) without the cost. When putting together this post, I tried out pretty much every free image editing program [...]

I recently posted a review of Serif Software’s PhotoPlus image editing software. The responses to the article were interesting in that each commenter brought up a different piece of software that they loved to use and that didn’t cost them any money to get rolling with. Free software. For parents living [...]

I love Photoshop. I’ve used it since version 2, own a copy of CS2 and work in it every day for both personal projects and my occupation. Now that I’ve said that, I have to admit that while it’s great for professionals, it’s not an ideal choice for many people out there. [...]