Having a child really changes the way you view ordinary objects. A plastic bag from the grocery store can become a death trap. The business reply cards in a magazine become the best toy you’ve ever given your child. It seems like we’ve found multiple, non-intended uses for just about every object [...]

I hate inkjets printers. At best I’m able to get 200 prints or so out of a color cartridge, making my average per print WAY higher than $.25. And then there’s the banding. And the smudging. And the paper. And the…
I’ve needed to print documents recently, so I started looking [...]

So it’s 10PM and I need to get out of the house and shoot some photos. I end up strolling out onto the property to see if I can get some black & white shots of the rain on the asphalt. There were a couple of neat shots, but it was while [...]

For so many reasons, I’m a fan of Yahoo! Widgets, the new name for Konfabulator. If you’ve ever used Dashboard on OS X, then you know exactly what it does, but if you haven’t – think of it as a way to have little mini-apps either on your desktop or accessible on a secondary [...]

Next to Microsoft Windows and Office, the next most pirated piece of software is Photoshop. This isn’t much of a surprise – ask any one you know if they have a copy of this $600 piece of software and about half the time they’ll say yes.
But what alternatives do digital photographers have that don’t [...]