A Quick Look at Google Picasa 3

Chris    Online     google apps, picasa 3

My personal opinion of Google Picasa 3 is that it is a fantastic improvement on Picasa 2.

They have played around with the menu a little bit but my favourite aspects are the additional features that lacked in Picasa 2.

The ‘red eye removal’ is far superior than the previous version and I actually use it now rather than fixing it in Photoshop.

The ‘retouch’ tool is a cool feature to play with if you want to remove blemishes from photos.

You also now have the ability to write text on your images which you couldn’t do before.

It’s still a very easy to use program and if you take lots of snaps with your digital camera, I highly recommend using Picasa to management and tweak your photo collection.

Check out the Google Photos blog.

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The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock

Chris    General    

I love checking out thought expanding/conspiracy theory stuff when I can. Recently someone suggested I check out this video called the 2012 Enigma. You’ll either fully dig it or think it’s a bunch of crap but its worth checking out anyway!

2012: Tragedy, transcension or just another year? David Wilcock exposes many great secrets: DNA, consciousness science, wormholes, stargate travel, sacred geometry, three-dimensional time, the Mayan Calendar and much, much more! Part I: CONVERGENCE The Movie, consciousness energy field, Edgar Cayce reincarnation, Da Vinci Code, Inconvenient Truth, galactic alignment, dodecahedron, 2012 / DNA crop circles, sacred geometry as vibration, tetrahedron, 19.5 degrees Part II: Hans Jenny / Cymatics, space and time inverting, wave-particle duality, Buckyballs / fullerenes, DNA as a wave, Kaznacheyev, psychic healing, Dewey Larson, 3D time, space-time fabric, time-space Part III: Fairy circles, natural stargates, ESP, nested spheres, channeling, chakras, Pineal gland, Sumerian tablets, Osiris, kundalini, pine cone symbolism, Tammuz, Shiva, Third Eye, Bindi, Bacchus, Dionysus, Jesus, the Vatican Part IV: Pyramid sarcophagus, cathedral windows, the World Tree, melatonin, DMT, ayahuasca, Dreams, Out of Body Experience, the Silver Cord Part V: Mark of the Beast, microclusters, synchronicity, shamanism, holographic sound, reverse-engineering the pineal gland, Dan Burisch, Project Looking Glass, CONTACT Part VI: The Last Mimzy, the Roswell Crash, the Cube / Yellow Disc, Hellraiser, election tampering, pole shift, time-viewing technology, the Iraq War, DCTP / Doctrine of the Convergent Timeline Paradox, human-lineage ETs Part VII: Tree of Life, Illuminati, Rothschilds, Hitler, New World Order, Lucifer, Luciferian philosophy, Catholic church, Philadelphia Experiment / Rainbow Project Part VIII: Phoenix III, Montauk chair, time travel, Dec. 21, 2012, 20-year cycle, Stargate SG-1, Outer Band Individuated Teletracer / OBIT, The Outer Limits, Time Vector Generator / TVG, Mars pyramids, underground bases, jumproom, Total Recall, Minority Report, X-Men / Cerebro, Rifts in Time Part IX: Forbidden Planet, psychic conduit, LSD trips, zero-time, 2012 dimensional shift, Edgar Cayce readings, Chandler’s Wobble, pole shift, Library of Atlantis / Hall of Records, California earthquakes Part X: Create your own reality, 2012 not cataclysmic, Russian physics, Dr. Sergey Smelyakov / Auric Time Scale, Mayan Calendar, spiral imploding into 2012 changing consciousness, Ascended abilities, spiritual growth

Insightful Thought for 12 Dec

Chris    Self Help     provoking thought, quote

“When something ends, something else begins. Leave your egos at the door, because life is too short to play/work with people who aren’t as committed as you are.”

Thanks to Lee Alford for sharing this with me.

Why Kicking the Busyness Habit Is Good for Everyone

Chris    Self Help     busyness

by Dr Kathryn Owler

Did you know that busyness is a recent phenomenon? Studies have shown that the more affluent a society gets, the `busier’ people feel. In New Zealand busyness has become a habit. As Christmas approaches just watch the busy frenzy get into full swing! According to research evidence however, busyness is one habit that could be well worth kicking for everyone’s sake!

As New Zealander’s we carry busyness as a badge of honor. We assume that if we are busy we must have a lot of important things to do. However, some experts argue that busyness is a state of mind rather than merely an activity. They argue that we are so busy being busy, that we may have lost sight of what is important to us. It is interesting that in Russia, the word for busyness is the same as for the word `vanity’. Far from signaling productivity, it implies and empty, unproductive spending of time, `something like walking on a treadmill’ (Greenfeld 2005).

So why are New Zealanders all so busy being busy? Some people argue that busyness results from all the options that we have in developed countries. In countries like New Zealand most of us have an incredible range of choices including how to fill our days, what job or career to pursue, what foods to buy, what car to drive and what sort of person to be and so on. We can end up spending so much time and energy negotiating these choices that we get caught up in `doing, doing, doing’.

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The Easiest Way to Resize Images

Chris    Online     image resizing

You could use applications like Adobe Photoshop or Google Picasa (free) to resize your images. Thing is, they carry a lot of extra features which you may not necessarily need.

The easiest method I have found to resize images from your digital camera down to a respectable size that you can email of upload to Facebook, Myspace, etc is to use the Microsoft PowerToys for XP Image Resizer.

Of course this is for Windows XP only, sorry Mac or Vista users.

It’s only 521K in size and once installed, all you need to do is right click on your image file and select ‘Resize Pictures’.

You’ll then be given some resizing options and then voila, you have optimised and resized your image in just a few clicks!. You’ve just changed that 2MB pic into around a 40KB pic!

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