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Toy cars, originally uploaded by borwick.

This is the first flash picture I’ve taken that I kind of like.

For Christmas I received a Canon Speedlite 430EX II Flash.  We anticipate taking lots of indoors pictures this year, since we’re expecting in May.  I haven’t learned much yet about the flash, but even in full auto mode the flash looks really good–much better than the built-in flash.

The flash attaches to the flash mount on top of my Canon XSi.  It takes four AA batteries–I’m not sure how many flashes you get out of one set of batteries.  The flash is divided into two parts–the bottom part … Continue Reading

I’m trying to start going through my LaterLoop queue, which I’ve apparently had for over a year now. Thus, I finally saw this video, “Hug a Developer”:

• Ludus Novus » The Majesty of Colors
  This is a really excellent, short flash game with five different endings.
  (tags: flash game cool beautiful beauty pixelated)

• WebGear.co.nz | GO Contact Sync – synchronize your contacts between Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail

  (tags: google outlook calendar sync synchronize software contact contacts gmail)

• David Rasmussen's Blog : OneNote Notebooks on USB drives and SD cards

  (tags: onenote shared notebook usb stick sd card howto)

• Lock ‘n’ Roll 1.0.1 at csammisrun
  Pidgin plugin to mark you as away when your screen is locked. Yay!
  (tags: pidgin lock n roll plugin windows screen locked saver away message)
  … Continue Reading