Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Before the dawn of time (pre-internet days) there was this giant book that was yellow in color. That book would mysteriously show up on your front door. Today, most of us Internet junkies go online instead of using the yellow pages to find stuff. So what to do with that ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
We were fortunate enough to be featured on Lifehacker.com twice within a week. LifeHacker.com has had a place in my feedreader for years and I always find useful posts there. Here are the two article links:
Quickly Remove Backgrounds with Photoshop
Quickly Remove Backgrounds with GIMP
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
When I installed Vista on my laptop, I did so as an upgrade from Windows XP. Soon my computer became almost unusably slow and I was experiencing random crashes. One of our programmers had installed Vista from scratch and he had no such problems. So I did what I used ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
We received the exciting news on Friday. ThemBid.com has a reserved spot at the demo pit at the TechCrunch20. At that time we will unveil project "Secret Sauce" and we will also announce another big release that is scheduled for October 1, 2007. Stay tuned.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
After publishing an article about removing backgrounds quickly in Photoshop, many have asked me how to do the same thing with the Gimp. While there is no equivalent to the Extract filter in the Gimp, you can still remove backgrounds fairly quickly. At Linux.com there is a good explanation of ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
This tutorial was created using Adobe Photoshop CS2. When I first started with Photoshop, many years ago, I remember removing backgrounds manually using the eraser tool. Very tedious, but you can sometimes get good results. Here I will show you how to do remove backgrounds very quickly with good results ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
You have successfully attracted a visitor to your site and now its time for them to leave. How can you develop a good exit strategy to maximize the inevitable? This article answers that question.
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
I picked up this book entitled "The Richest Man Who Ever Lived - King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness". This book prompted me to take a look at what King Solomon thought about success, and so off to the book of Proverbs I went. Following are some of ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Publicity is a valuable tool for any business to let the market know about their business. Here is a list of news wires that you can use to distribute your press releases.
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
We have found that most people are short on time and are bombarded with many items to do each day. The problem is compounded when you don't know where to go for a specific need or even how to classify it to begin research. Even once you determine those things, ...
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