http://blog.mikelanestudios.com Jumping into the design and blogging business feet first! Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:19:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm working on a new site (http://northphoto2.smugmug.com/) fat, dumb, and happy and all the sudden I refresh to get a new look at the page and BAM! Firefox crashes on me, hard. So I spend the next 2 hours using Safari to remove pieces of code until I ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=24 A while back I found this neat little widget by some company called Callwave. It is pretty simple, install the widget, put in the number and type out a text to someone. The international texts were limited to 5 free ones per day. Five free is a ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=23 The weather was perfect for Eclipse viewing last Saturday. Here's a pic that I was able to get. I shot it with a Sigma 50-500 "Bigma" and a Canon 20D. I made the image "pop" in Photoshop, but I didn't go to any extremes. The colors ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=22 This is the real deal for photographers out there! Digital Grin is redefining the meaning of an online photo contest by offering, get this, actual prizes. But more than that, this contest isn't some scam to get photographer's to give up the rights to their photographs. The ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=21 Someone on the NAPP member's forum asked for a tutorial on how to create a glassy looking button or logo similar to the intel Core Duo logo you can find on this page. I was going to do a bit of a write up in the NAPP forum but ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=19 I just got word that Smugmug has made a major feature release today! They are really aiming to conquer the professional photographer market. This is a major release geared towards pros and it really shows Smugmug's committment to their professional photographer subscribers. Check it out the details ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=17 Background: Don MacAskill ("CEO and Cheif Geek" of Smugmug) recently got a letter from Phil Askey (dpreview.com head honcho and cheif jerk) that said: Just to let you know that we will be blocking linking to smugmug from our forums due to the rapid increase in your "viral marketing" technique ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=16 It came back. For some reason absolutely unknown to me, my wordpress blog was unaccessible for the better part of 2 weeks. Then just yesterday I noticed that it came back online. It must have been a problem at Dreamhost. In any case I'm back up ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=15 Well Beth the sweetheart that she is finally gave in and let me get a Mac Book Pro. The 17" one to boot! What a gal. So I'm playing around with it trying to figure it out and I ran across this little widget that will let ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=14 How very, very sad. I just found out today that the wonderful service del.icio.us has been bought out by Yahoo. We're one painful step closer to an internet dominated by corporate mega nodes. I can't think of one service that has matured into a better version of ... http://blog.mikelanestudios.com/?p=13