Archive for April, 2009

Camera Obscura Flickr Set

Posted on April 13th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • 1 Comment

Check out the camera obscura images from Flickr user mauricioasial asial. I’ve always loved this idea. It’s like, or really is, being inside the camera.

 

Toolbars for everyone!

Posted on April 12th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

I’ve had opportunity to try out Conduit.com to create a toolbar for a client. Conduit’s toolbar is easy to assemble, just create an account and select which features you want to add. RSS feeds, an email notifier, and weather are a couple of the items I started with. Now that I’ve lived with my sample toolbar for a couple of weeks I’m hooked on the convenience – not that toolbar’s are new to my browsing habits – in fact, I’m very fond of the Facebook toolbar. But what I’m thinking is, why not make a toolbar just for me?

While the intention of Conduit, and others like them, is to create a toolbar for mass distribution to your audience, I may just build one for myself. Just me. That may be a side effect of making it so easy to build. Everyone can build their own, custom, personalized browser toolbar because they make it so easy. Toolbars for everyone!

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Light Painting

Posted on April 10th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

If you are a fan, you might want to check out Light Paint, which is also one of the coolest Tumblr sites I’ve seen.

But let me add this about this light painting – I don’t see enough credit given to Pablo Picasso who did this in 1949.

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Lazy Ass Blogging

Posted on April 10th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

That’s right…lazy. But I don’t think of lazy as a bad thing – it’s a good thing when it’s in the context of working smarter. So with that excuse in mind, I’ve installed Zemanta. I haven’t grasped all of it’s super hero powers yet. In fact this post is a trial run for Zemanta to see what it will do for me.

So far I love the ability to suggest images based on what I am writing, while I am writing. Next, I may see what it does when I plug something on Amazon.com.

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Laptop Felt Sleeve

Posted on April 8th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

I dig this Laptop Felt Sleeve, and apparently Swiss Miss really digs hers saying; “Who knew one can get excited about a laptop sleeve? This one is a real beauty and head-turner when ‘unfolded’ in public. The right hand flap (or left side, if you’re a lefty) functions as a mousepad. Genious!”

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