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Okay, since you seemed to like this article about Photoshop trick, here's another about 124 Photoshop actions. Have fun. :)

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picture taken from the article

Some nice tutorials for beginners and maybe even for advanced PS users.

Smashing Magazine article

just a quick note:

i will be off and out mostly until sunday afternoon.

see you.

as of 2008-07-04.
* some sites are directly linked to my profiles.

I think i have accounts at over a few hundred websites, these are the ones i use daily or often and/or suggest/recommend (right now). this changes daily!

daily

• vimeo (HD video, sharing)
• mento (social bookmarks, community, sharing)
• twitter (microblogging, community, networking, fresh news)
• ipernity (pictures, video, blog, community, sharing)
• last.fm (music)
• google reader (online feedreader) my shared items
• summize (twitter search)
• dict.leo.org (translation)
• google calendar (calender duh!)
• tweetburner (short urls for twitter)
• new: identi.ca (twitter-like)
• plurk (like twitter only different)

often & sometimes

• google docs (online excel, word, ppt)
• myskitch (screenshots storage online for skitch shots)
• scrnshots (screenshots storage online)
• friendfeed (lifestream)
• gmail web (email)
• getsatisfaction (support, feedback)
• wikipedia (encyclopedia)
• eatlime (filesharing)
• viddler (videos)
• youtube (videos)
• jamendo (music)
• xing (networking)
• box.net (fielsharing & backup & storage)
• drop.io (filesharing)
• facebook (networking)
• openthesaurus (language)
• flickr (pictures, community)
• qik (videos, mobile)
• ustream (streaming video)
• meebo (im)
• netvibes (personalized homepage, feedreader, etc)
• mogulus (streaming video, personal tv)
  

more suggestions & recommandations

laterloop, zootool, woobby, boomloop, aka-aki, brightkite, evernote, dopplr,
pownce, jaiku, linkedin, urbandictionary, rememberthemilk, scribd, slideshare,
#hashtags, cocomment, lingr, google groups, pbwiki, plazes,...

more:

• my bookmarks at mento
• my bookmarks at delicious
• apps i use coming soon
• code libraries & frameworks i use coming soon

.... just when i reach my last 100 days in this project some new members join the group! And this makes me so happy to see.   Scratchy and I have been the only ones left here at ipernity (there are some more at vimeo) who are still active with their daily one-minute videos.

365minutes was started by David in October 2007 as some sort of animated self-portrait. One minute each day about yourself, your life for one year. Unfortunately David left after a few weeks. Nancy joined and we became video-buddies :) which used to be a lot of fun. She managed to add 52 cool videos to the project-group. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere Scratchy joined and surprised me. He still does with his urban-style, sometimes weird but interesting vids. Check them out! Oh and even Christophe from Ipernity shared some funny videos with us in the group ... And now ... we have Armin (StarScream) and Kemikatze who joined the project. You two - Have fun and enjoy it! :) Share your thoughts and creativity with us and let's enjoy it together :D

BIG UP to the new members!

And time to say thanks to all those i mentioned and all those true visitors that take their time to watch my silly, boring, crazy-ass videos. I guess by now you know what this project means to me. 365days has been hard (1 self-portrait each day for a year) but this is the next level. You can learn so much in these projects.... and i did, with you! Thank you all....

• You can subscribe to the 365videos here.
• Join the group here

I studied a few online video sites and their player design, cause i am designing an interface (GUI) for a clients' website player with a lot of functions. Here are some screenshots of the sites i checked.

First of all, here's the official help page for Ipernity-Feeds:
http://www.ipernity.com/help/feed

And here are some examples of feeds for your inspiration and better understanding, what you can do with it. Just replace the values with the ones you need. Ask me if you have questions or feel free to add your examples in the comments.

Examples

• "My favorite Song of the Day" group docs:
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?group_id=songoftheday
• "My favorite Song of the Day" group discussions:
  www.ipernity.com/feed/topic?group_id=songoftheday
• a certain user's docs (only public ones):
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?user_id=assbach
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?user_id=14507
• docs of several users (maximum of 10 different):
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?user_id=14603,30571,t2helsinki,empomat
• blog posts of several users (maximum of 10 different):
  www.ipernity.com/feed/post?user_id=14603,30571,t2helsinki,empomat
• certain tags/keywords:
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?keywords=shtoopid
• more than one tag (comma seperated):
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?keywords=shtoopid,fun
• only audio files (all public ones):
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?only=audio
• only audio files of a certain person:
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?only=audio&user_id=assbach
• only audio files tagged with "pop"
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?only=audio&keywords=pop
• pictures that someone has faved (Sherry in this case)
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?only=photo&user_id=14603&fave
• all cc-licensed photos tagged with "clouds"
  www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?only=photo&license=cc&keywords=clouds
• with private/shared docs:
  http://YOURUSERNAME:FEEDPASSWORD@www.ipernity.com/feed/doc?user_id=assbach&auth
  you can see your username and feedpassword here:
  http://www.ipernity.com/pref/key

you can combine alot of these parameters and get new results. Funky isn't it? ;-)

You don't know what to do with these feeds?

Well, it's a nice way to keep up with the loads of new pictures and data uploaded at ipernity.
All you need is a Feedreader. I use Google-Reader online, but there are lots of Readers around.
Here's an old screencast i made for Brief, a Firefox extension for reading feeds. And here's an old general little howto about feeds. Of course you can use these readers not only for ipernity feeds but ALL your feed-subscriptions.

Questions?

Here i am... :)

WTF?? video portraits, OOOOH how brilliant. how inventive...

photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/long-portrait-video

what have they all done within the last years?
video has been there eversince youtube launched.
f*ck it.

btw. today is my 183/365, that mean's i'm half thru. <b>HA!</b>

H A L F W A Y , dig that biatch!

pardon

it's a shame. see:

"PHOTO 2.0: 336 ways to edit, upload, share, search, buy or sell pictures"

everything 2.0

I didn't make any new easter cards this time, but feel free to use one of my old ones...

happy easter

#237: sHappy Easter you shtoop…

Frohe Ostern (2007)

Easterbunny

Der Osterhase

ich wünsch dir viele Überrasch…

ei

frohe ostern

frohe ostern

or check the ecard group for more.

"ostern" , "easter" (all ipernity docs, please see license for usage)

Here's some eCards services you can use:

• http://www.onesens.com/
• http://phreetings.com/
• http://www.rattlebox.com/
• http://www.skwibble.com/
• http://www.care2.com/

all the good old ones i had last year seem to be dead and down :(

if you know more, add them please :)

Happy easter!

für die, die mein richtiges Blog nicht lesen:

barcamp ruhr

Meet me on saturday at BarcampRuhr in Essen, Germany.

vimeo. password protection of…

Every now and then i have a bunch of pictures from a party or some event i want to share with my friends that are not so webaddicted or do not have accounts everywere but still want to have or see the pictures or movies. On the other hand i probably don't want to show these pictures to the world or my friends don't want me to show their pictures, you know?

Well, usually my friends send around emails with big attachments but i think that sucks. It's cooler to see thumbnails and have comments and all that, instead of just downloading a package and have it on your local drive.

Actually i love having all pictures here but since this is missing i tested some other ways and services. Here goes....

1. Of course you can zip the pictures and use one of these free sharing services
2. flickr with guest pass
3. google picasa web albums (1GB max space)
4. photobucket (ugly, but there is a nice slideshow, 1GB space)
5. box.net (they have a picture preview also)
6. mediafire (picture preview here as well, but you have to upload single files)
7. jalbum (i really don't like how it looks)
8. drop.io (picture preview, blog, comments... but only 100MB per drop-area)

I really love drop.io for several reasons. It has a very plain and simple yet professional design, is fast and easy. I think it allows comments as well.

It would be a dream if sorting albums, adding sub-albums or collections and this feature would be added to ipernity, don't you think? (yes, i know it's in the official wishlist already)

I am receiving a lot of mails lately saying people quit my groups, or the ones i moderate and administrate. I always take things too personally (btw is it personal or personally?) and i was asking

"why do they quit my groups? Disinterest, mad at me?"

I hope it's some kind of cleaning up and organizing, throwing out groups that are not in the focus. I  think i will do so as well. I have a lot of groups i never visit because of a lack of time and because my group-page is so long. Maybe there is a lack of usability or group-managent here, i don't know but I could never  take a look at ALL those groups daily or weekly although i am interested in all of them. I am already having problems following everything my friends and contacts post here.

So in advance, to all those who will receive a "Sascha has quit your group"-mail, DO NOT take it personal(ly). I might join again later...

deutsch, bitte hier lesen.

I made a blogpost some days ago and want to share this with you. It's a list of filesharing tools and online-services with which you can upload and share big files (even over 100MB). This is pretty useful if you do not want (or cannot) send big files via email. Some of them don't even need a registration, so they work "anonymous".

See my german article for details.

Without registration:

• senduit (100MB/file, anonymous, timed delete, simple)
• drop.io (100MB/file, storage-folder, anonymous, password protection, timed delete, several files in one place)
• file.io (100MB/file, 200MB storage, like drop.io)
• Mediafire (100MB/file, anonymous)
• box.net lite (10MB/file, need email adress)
• Megaupload (500mb/file)

With registration:

• box.net (10MB/file, 1GIG storage space, filemanagement)
• Mediafire (100MB/file, unlimited storage space, filemanagement)
• divshare (200MB/file, 5Gb storage)

Tools (need installation)

• Pando, Dropsend, Skype

more: ipernity (of course), eatlime, pownce, dropboks, miHD, ...

mail2mail services are not listed (those where you need to enter the senders and recipients email adresses)

Does anyone know a good and perhaps even free PC Video Converter? (AVI to MPEG or MOV,...)

Let's say you have a 300MB AVI from your digicam, what now? How can you put it here or any other online video-site??

Please read here, join and help if you can:
http://www.ipernity.com/group/userhelpcentral/discuss/13887
btw, i started this group for things like that as well. not only ipernity questions.

or use the skype chatrooms.

I don't know if there is already a public open ipernity chatroom, but i would like to open one in relation to this new group, (ipernity user help central) i just started (and more). Thinking about chatting with friends and discussing about problems, photography, videos, nice things, whatever... what do you think?

I guess some of you are as geeky as i am and have skype open anyway, maybe let's try this.

A skype-testroom so far.

• Weblink to join (<< english) (deutsch hier lang)
• In-Skype link

Or would you prefer IRC? Lingr? meebo? any other service?

Please let me know your opinion.

Would then start an english and a german chatroom ... :)

DE: wie sieht's aus mit meinen guten Vorsätzen nach einem Monat?
EN: how about my resolutions after one month?

see this post for more details.

1. mehr Sport treiben, auch Teamsport, Endorphine! (-)
   --> mindestens 1x alle 14 Tage, noch keine konkreten Pläne bisher
   do more sports, teamsports as well, endorphines!
   --> at least one time every 14days, no plans yet
   
2. mehr echte Zeit für Familie und Freunde (-)
   --> mindestens 3x pro Woche mehr als 3 Stunden
   more real (!) time for family and friends
   --> at least 3x per week for more than 3 hours
   
3. weniger sinnlose Überstunden (-)
   --> weniger als 70 Stunden pro Woche
   less senseless overtime working
   --> less than 70 hours per week
4. mehr über Erfolge jeder Art freuen, auch über die kleinen, alltäglichen ( + )
   --> einen Erfolg pro Tag, aufschreiben!
   be happy about successes of all kind, even the smallest, everyday
   --> one success per day, write down!
   
5. lernen abzuschalten und zu entspannen, täglich (-)
   --> keine Ahnung wie ich das messen soll!?
   learn to get away from work and relax, daily
   --> no idea how to control and review this?!
   
6. weniger darüber grübeln, was andere über mich denken ( + )
   --> keine Ahnung, wie ich das messen soll
   think less about what others think about me
   --> no idea how to review this
   
7. weniger über Geld(probleme) nachdenken ( + )
   --> keine Ahnung, wie ich das messen soll
   think less about money (problems)
   --> no idea how to review this
8. Endlich aufhören an den Nägeln und Lippen zu kauen (vor allem in Videos und Meetings) (-)
   --> ende des Jahres komplett aufgehört haben für mehrere Wochen dann
   Finally stop biting my nails and lips (especially in videos and meetings)
   --> stopped at the end of the year, for several weeks already then
   
9. mehr Bücher lesen (keine Sach- und Fachbücher) ( + )
   --> mind. 10 Seiten pro Tag
   read more books (no specialized technical referencebooks)
   --> at least 10 pages per day
   
10. nicht erwachsen werden ( + )
    --> mindestens 2x pro Woche kindischen Mist machen ;-)
    do not grow up
    --> be shtoopid at least twice a week
    

(-) means no progress or even worse

( + ) means progress

DE: soweit sogut... warum?

ich hatte mir nicht vorgenommen alles vom ersten Tag an durchzuziehen, das wäre super unrealistisch. Ich will am Ende des Jahres zurückblicken können und bei einigen der Punkte sagen können "Geil, da hast du einen guten Schritt nach vorn gemacht!". Meistens hab ich da so eine 70% Regel. 70% wäre ein Top-Ergebnis hierbei, weil schwierige persönliche Punkte dabei sind. Und ich bin leider viel zu perfektionistisch und hart mit mir selbst... :)

Die roten Minuspunkte kommen hauptsächlich daher, dass ich seit Jahresanfang hauptberuflich in einem großen stressigen Projekt hänge. Oft mache ich mir den Stress selbst aber hier war bisher nicht viel mehr Entspannung drin.

Die Werte, die ich jetzt zum Messen und zur Selbstkontrolle dazugeschrieben hab, mögen für euch lächerlich erscheinen, aber ich muss kleine Schritte machen. Ansonsten kann ich es direkt sein lassen, mir große Ziele setzen und wie viele andere alles im Februar schon wieder vergessen haben...

EN: so far so good for me.... why?

well, i didn't mean to be successful with ALL of them from day one, that would be very unrealistic. I want to be able to look back at the end of the year and say "Great, you have made good progress!" concerning some of the issues. Usually i have a 70% rule for myself. Achieving 70% of them would be top-notch, because there are really hard personal things among them. And unfortunatly i am too much a perfectionist and hard with myself... :)

The reason for the red negative points is mainly that i'm having to deal with a huge stressful project in my main job since the beginning of the year. I'm frequently stressing myself but this time there was not much room for more relaxation yet.

The values i put next to each point for measuring my progress might look ridiculous for you, but i must make small steps. If not, i could just quit it now, set up huge goals and forget about them in febuary already like many others do...