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Fun Photo Effects

February 24th, 2010 · View Comments· , , , ,

The Joker

Joker's Card

Have you ever wanted to make a goofy picture of yourself or a friend? Then this post is for you!

There are plenty of sites out there that do the work of Photoshopping your pic into a cool or silly effect for you. Some of them are easier to use than others, and they all offer different effects. Some of them are really lame, so you may have to hunt around a bit to find an effect you want to use.

I bought new glasses recently, and I felt like playing around with a few photo sites. So, I thought I might as well write about them, too. Enjoy! :P

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Motorola Cliq will Get Android 2.1!

February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments· , , , , , ,

Androids

Androids on skateboards! =o

Remember how I said that if you wanted Google Maps Navigation on your Cliq, you’d have to wait for T-Mobile to roll out an upgrade? Well, it looks like that’s about to happen!

Well, eventually.

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Playing with Google App Engine

February 20th, 2010 · View Comments· , , , ,

I’m playing with Google App Engine!

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Google App Engine is basically free hosting for Java and Python apps. Your app is hosted on an appspot.com subdomain, and you can pay for extra resources if your app starts to get really popular.

I’ll be using it to play around with Java web development (since my webhost doesn’t support Java). I may play around with Python eventually, but for now, I’ll be leveraging my Java experience to do my bidding.

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