RealWorldPaint: Poor man’s alternative to Photoshop in web

July 16th, 2007 Chuq Von Rospach is an Adobe Photoshop veteran. Recently he had series of bad experiences with Adobe Photoshop customer support.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

March 18th, 2008 I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA.

December 27th, 2005 WordPress administrators & authors who use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser are presented with an attractive image and link to BrowseHappy site in an apparent bid to lure them away to alternative browsers. Firefox, Mozilla, Safari & Opera are the presented alternatives.

February 21st, 2006 James Huff (MacManx) points to comprehensive set of resources on how to effectively use Photoshop's Extract filter and Photoshop in general.

April 10th, 2007 XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use.

February 7th, 2007 I had few reports of inability to access my blog with its url http://blog.taragana.com/ because the ISP's DNS service isn't resolving properly. I have checked, double-checked and triple-checked my DNS and everythings looks fine.

August 7th, 2006 Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah. Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.

July 2nd, 2007 This is a rejoinder to Frank's article on the same topic. He discusses 13 scenarios.

December 19th, 2006 Drupal is known to be geeky (read hard) for casual CMS users. Drupal was all set to change its geeky image with a super cool theme - Garland.

July 10th, 2008 I am seeing Amitabh Bachchan's blog's AdSense ads on my blog. How is Amitabh's blog relevant to my blog? AdSense quite often does a real poor targeting these days.

June 22nd, 2008 The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC is a Linux based wireless webcam with its own streaming web server built in. Windows users can view the video stream through their browser without the need to install any extra software other than allowing the supplied Active-X control to run.

October 23rd, 2007 Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine.

December 2nd, 2005 Recently I had to interact with both of these companies to resolve non-trivial customer support issues. In both cases I was pleasantly surprised by the promptness and eagerness of their support.

October 23rd, 2008 Artweaver is a freeware graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich to indulge in creative painting. It is capable of simulating a wide range of classical effects (such as oil paints, acrylics, pastels, pencils, airbrushes, etc) to create natural-looking artistic images.