Fun Finds
SCRAPBOOKING FINDS
I am excited about this site that scrapgeek referred through Hannah called "Scrap The Boys." There is some great inspiration there!
Fonts 500 is a great place to see the top 500 fonts on the internet and to be able to download them without the hassle of popups.
Part 1 and Part 2 are great videos with photograph tips by Rick Sammon. I love these! Learn how "dead center is deadly."
UnzipThemAll is a program to unzip multiple files at one time. I downloaded this and tested it out and, wow!, it works great. It sure did make unzipping all of those freebies I had snatched since last summer easy. (yeah, I know, I've had the freebies way to long to not have them unzipped yet!)
Of course, scrappers may want to use proper English in journaling so that our future grandchildren will know that we were well educationed, right? Wanda found found this Open Directory for Writers and it is a great resource!
SuTree claims to be a "knowledge community" of learning videos (tutorials). Check it out! Search for "Photoshop" or other favorite programs. There are many topics of interest. 5min.com is another place with a variety of videos. Of course, Instructables has been around for a while; try searching there.
Al Wards from Action FX has to pages of tutorials for using Photoshop here and here. I have not viewed these to see if any are application to Photoshop Elements yet, but maybe they can be translated.
Many scrappers use Slide.com to put slideshows of layouts on their blogs (like in my sidebar). Slide.com has added new features to make it more of a social network.
TECHY FINDS
In Pictures has great tutorials with screen shots for all the typical office programs and more. I was very interested in the one for building websites. They indicate more tutorials are to come, including those for Photoshop!
FUN FINDS
Who is sick? Sick? Report it. Want to know who else is sick in your area and the trends, put in your zip code. I never dreamed of such a site! Wow! You can even receive outbreak alerts for your area by e-mail. There is even a forum for each area (state).
8hands is a cool new tool to bring together several of the social networks into an IM type interface to track all sites at once. Hopefully, they will add some more promintent sites to make this a comprehensive tool. This reminds me of the Trillian concept for IM's which is awesome. Tabber also seems to be a similar concept. I am guessing these will start popping up everywhere until one of them becomes the popular one to use.
GENEALOGY
Pipl is another one of those "really scary" sites that searches the internet for you and provide detailed information of individuals. Go ahead and test it with your own name.
Family Search.com (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints site) has revamped its website and, in addition, is in the process of digitizing ALL of their records. 2.3 million microfilm records will be scanned in and available on the site. What an amazing project! I remember having to go to our local center and ordering microfilm and thereafter paying to print out the pages. This will be a great benefit to many! The project is call "scanstone."
Familylink.com is a new social networking site for genealogy. These things are popping up everywhere! What next!?
Whitepages.com has a new feature which lists names by popularity and can also filter names by location, including a map. This is very useful for tracking down areas where the name is popular in order to find someone. It even gives the most searched for names.
Search your surname in Google Books. I was surprised at the genealogy information I arrived upon.
I am excited about this site that scrapgeek referred through Hannah called "Scrap The Boys." There is some great inspiration there!
Fonts 500 is a great place to see the top 500 fonts on the internet and to be able to download them without the hassle of popups.
Part 1 and Part 2 are great videos with photograph tips by Rick Sammon. I love these! Learn how "dead center is deadly."
UnzipThemAll is a program to unzip multiple files at one time. I downloaded this and tested it out and, wow!, it works great. It sure did make unzipping all of those freebies I had snatched since last summer easy. (yeah, I know, I've had the freebies way to long to not have them unzipped yet!)
Of course, scrappers may want to use proper English in journaling so that our future grandchildren will know that we were well educationed, right? Wanda found found this Open Directory for Writers and it is a great resource!
SuTree claims to be a "knowledge community" of learning videos (tutorials). Check it out! Search for "Photoshop" or other favorite programs. There are many topics of interest. 5min.com is another place with a variety of videos. Of course, Instructables has been around for a while; try searching there.
Al Wards from Action FX has to pages of tutorials for using Photoshop here and here. I have not viewed these to see if any are application to Photoshop Elements yet, but maybe they can be translated.
Many scrappers use Slide.com to put slideshows of layouts on their blogs (like in my sidebar). Slide.com has added new features to make it more of a social network.
TECHY FINDS
In Pictures has great tutorials with screen shots for all the typical office programs and more. I was very interested in the one for building websites. They indicate more tutorials are to come, including those for Photoshop!
FUN FINDS
Who is sick? Sick? Report it. Want to know who else is sick in your area and the trends, put in your zip code. I never dreamed of such a site! Wow! You can even receive outbreak alerts for your area by e-mail. There is even a forum for each area (state).
8hands is a cool new tool to bring together several of the social networks into an IM type interface to track all sites at once. Hopefully, they will add some more promintent sites to make this a comprehensive tool. This reminds me of the Trillian concept for IM's which is awesome. Tabber also seems to be a similar concept. I am guessing these will start popping up everywhere until one of them becomes the popular one to use.
GENEALOGY
Pipl is another one of those "really scary" sites that searches the internet for you and provide detailed information of individuals. Go ahead and test it with your own name.
Family Search.com (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints site) has revamped its website and, in addition, is in the process of digitizing ALL of their records. 2.3 million microfilm records will be scanned in and available on the site. What an amazing project! I remember having to go to our local center and ordering microfilm and thereafter paying to print out the pages. This will be a great benefit to many! The project is call "scanstone."
Familylink.com is a new social networking site for genealogy. These things are popping up everywhere! What next!?
Whitepages.com has a new feature which lists names by popularity and can also filter names by location, including a map. This is very useful for tracking down areas where the name is popular in order to find someone. It even gives the most searched for names.
Search your surname in Google Books. I was surprised at the genealogy information I arrived upon.
3 comments:
That who is sick site is totally worthless and totally awesome! I could waste many many hours playing with that.
The "smart" links are nice too LOL
thanks for posting all these :)
Some cool links there - thanks!! Been ages since I did the family search thing - maybe time to get back to it. Always nice to see you at my place :)
Wow... lots of interesting stuff. Thank you.... ugh.. there are sick people by me....
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