Online fantasy games have booming economies and citizens who love their political systems. Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one?

An excellent guide on how to effectively make your PC go into standby mode (if your fans are still running, you aren’t fully in standby) and still be effective as an ‘always-on’ PC (eg file server etc)

The history of Pixar is a fascinating one and in this detailed account, you can read how it started from a ‘painting’ program (SuperPaint) at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973 and morphed into the animation powerhouse that we know today.

If you run a business or a manager and you are the sort who gets motivation from pep talks/manifestos, then you should check out Change This! A site containing a number of (usually) thought provoking ‘manifestos’ on topics such as business, culture, politics and technology.

The ‘Cost of Life’ is an astonishingly addictive online Flash game. You control the activities of a Haitian family trying to survive - health, education, community service and just making ends add up to a compelling strategy game thats easy to play but hard to beat. If you need some strategy tips, this site has […]

If you ever want to embed video into your Wordpress 2.x blog, forget about the WYSIWYG editor (which will totally mess up your code and templates). Save hours of stuffing around trying to get it to work and use Quicktags instead.

For beginner photographers, ‘The Rule of Thirds’ and ‘Depth of Field’ are two easy ‘rules’ that dramatically improve your photos. In this article, these two concepts are well demonstrated without getting into a technical ‘how-to’.

Feeling down in the dumps? Perk yourself up with a movie-style trailer all about how mighty you are! Good for a laugh.

Kathleen Connally has a beautiful portfolio of photos from around Durham Township. All her photos have had significant significant saturation boost and other post-processing enhancements, but it’s her ’style’ and it conveys a dreamlike look to her work.

Dan Gillmor makes the observation that the increasing prevalence of cameras and video cameras in the hands of the public will result in the decline of photojournalism as a profession, but without any loss in quality or quantity - if anything, there will be an improvement.

The Pclix looks like a pretty cool gadget to have for photography buffs interested in timelapse photos.

Ikea has a great microsite advertising their ‘dream kitchens’ and utilising a ‘frozen bullet-time’ technique to tell a number of mini-stories. They are an excellent example of a well-executed ad - quirky, fun to view, good choice in music, well put together. A little old news now, but still worth a visit. An earlier version […]