Twitter down time

With twitter being down today, and all that extra time that will provide me, I will post new photographs every hour until Twitter comes back up. May be 1 to 5 pics….dunno.

I have an incredible backlog of pictures that need processing and sharing…so what better time?

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First Mouse



First Mouse, originally uploaded by Kreg.

At the Computer History Museum, Chuck and I caught a glimpse of the first mouse!

Paying Attention



Paying Attention, originally uploaded by Kreg.

Down on the Penland Christmas Tree Farm, the kids were getting a lesson on trees.

Wagon Rail



Wagon Rail, originally uploaded by Kreg.

Experimenting with Split Toning.

Flickr adds Statistics?

Wow, this ought to be interesting. Having something like web statistics for who is viewing photos, and from where on Flickr. Pretty Cool. You have to activate the feature, and it is only for PRO accounts.

Flickr Add Stats to Pro Accounts

I know a lot of you are Flickr users – so you might be interested to see that they’ve added a new feature today – Flickr Stats which gives you a nice overview of how many people have been viewing your images.

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Here it is, the First

Here it is, the First, originally uploaded by Kreg.

So this is the beginning…my son lost his first tooth last night. Seems like we just brought him home as a baby, and now he is loosing teeth.

Old School Steampunk

On Technorama, we have been talking about Steampunk for a while now and I can’t help it. I am strangly fascinated with the designs that people dream up. If you don’t know, Steampunk is the now popular design style of modern day gadgets into Victorian era English style. Somewhat like the design and style of the show the Wild Wild West where they had all this cool spy gadgets in the old west.

I saw this over at Shorpy, and had to share. Shorpy is ” a blog about old photos and what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating.” The Blog is a lot of fun to follow, and I highly recommend putting it in your feedreader.

Help Is On the Way: 1915 | Shorpy Historical Photographs

“Mine Rescuer” circa 1915. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.

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Stack your Drive Mounts in Leopard

I was looking for a way to get any drives or shared folders I had mounted to show up in my sidebar under Leopard. I mean it is a little cumbersome to move to an empty space, F11, or minimize everything to get to your mounted drives on the desktop. SO, I went looking on the net for a solution.

After looking around a bit I found that there is in fact no way to put mounts into the sidebar in finder. What a bummer…seems like that should be a no brainer on Apple’s part, BUT, fear not, I have a solution that is a close second. Stacks.

That’s right, let’s use the stacks on the dock to show my mounted drives. So I can easily click the icon on the dock and instantly see a list of my drives. Here is how you do it.

Open Finder. Click Go in the menu, and select Go to Folder. A box will open and asking what folder you want. Put in ‘/Volumes’ (no quotes) then click go. Once there, you should see your mounted drives. Click on the column view. Now you should see the Volumes folder. Just click and drag that folder to the area on the dock where your other stacks are/were and there you go. You can now just click on that to see anything mounted like external drives, thumb drives, shared folders.

There you go, hope this help you out!

(Thanks go to MacOSXHints.com)

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Gmail and Colored Labels

It looks like Gmail is rolling out new features. This time, Colored Labels.

I had seen something like this with a greasemonkey script so it looks like Gmail may be integrating popular third party ideas into Gmail. It sure does make identifying emails easier within labels.

Find out more here.

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