This is amazing. It’s a speed painting feature using ketchup and French fries as medium. You might find it cool too.

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Haven’t maxed out your returns with Adobe CS2? Well prepare your budget if you want to have the top-of-the-line industry standard creative suite because Adobe CS3 is set to come out on March 27.
Here’s a video teaser for you:

More details can be found on the AppleInsider.
Source: The Apple Gazette

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Here’s some DIY for some old school electronic music. Back in the day, loops were made by tape loops (like this one featured here), delay effects or by sampling. Here’s how to make a tape loop:

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Ever gone ice fishing? I should’ve posted this some other time, but what the heck.
Fish hooks can be really dangerous and accidents during fishing do happen. Let’s face it, getting pricked by a fish hook stings and double that pain when the barb gets in you. It’s best to seek professional medical help if [...]

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There has been previous post here on LifeSpy on an introduction to poker. Here’s one video tutorial that you might find amusing if you intend to be a poker player. Ever wonder how those pros shuffle those chips with ease? Here’s how:

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Here’s a continuation of my series of articles on second-hand guitar buying. These points out the nitty-gritty details on the guitar that you should check out when you finally get to in person.

Scratches, dings, cracks and rust - Paint scratches and dings are common. Wood cracks and rust are no-nos.

The neck - You’d want [...]

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MP3 players really are handy only none of these miniaturized audio rigs have a compartment for the headphones. And they can sure get tangled or coiled up I had a friend who wrecked his iPod just because he was trying to uncoil. Sadly for him, his iPod slipped and fell to the floor with [...]

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Project Gutenberg has helped a great many of us obtain open domain texts. Practically free books online (some priced at $20 in print, take five books and that’s a good hundred bucks). But reading plain text can be really a bore.
Here’s yet another good freeware that lets you read those plain text e-books book [...]

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Here’s a valid question from a reader. I previously posted the freeware Pivot Stickfigure Animator and and he asks:
“How do you put your Pivot videos on YouTube? Whenever I try it says invalid format. I want to put it on.”
To answer that, first of all, Pivot Stickfigure Animator can only save animation as an [...]

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Sometimes some good clean fun can be made with your own pictures and a photo editing software. Now this one’s more than a toy rather than anything else - Distortit.
It’s pretty much similar to the sphere effect in Photoshop where a section of the photo’s magnified, creating a “bulging” effect.
It functions from a stand-alone [...]

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Kids and computers go well with each other nowadays. And many software are really designed for them featuring kid-friendly intuitive interfaces complete with bulging buttons. Anyway, here’s a paint tool that’s designed for kids - Tux Paint.
It’s got enough features to keep kids interested ages 3 and up. It has paint effects, bucket [...]

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I’m not really a sound engineering but I like audio. I did a few mixes myself and done some voice acting. I still play the guitar when I can. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from all of that, talent is one thing, but equipment counts. I’ve done some personal recordings using [...]

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Caulk can be used for common patch repairs at home. The most common patching work would be walls, tiles, and window seams. Over time, due to the exposure to varying temperatures, gaps can form from glass and windows and wood and gypsum boards. These loose seems can even cost you more for heating and [...]

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No YouTube Raids for the moment since YouTube’s down for maintenance. Since, I’ve been featuring some nice Photoshop tutorials and here’s another one for you.
This one features anime style coloring and rendering using Photoshop. Now, it’s quite nice to know how to render something from a sketch to a full-color pin-up like this:

The [...]

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If you’re into design and graphics, check out YouTube. There’s a lot of Photoshop tutorial videos found there. Not as detailed as tutorial DVDs go but enough to do the trick. Here’s one showing how that aqua sphere effect is done. This one’s done using a Mac:

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