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PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information » A Visit to Adobe
Great tour of the Adobe offices, see the evil geniuses behind Photoshop.

Thanks to Waxy.org!

USA_G5_drag-drop.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
So do you know where your state is? Don’t worry no one will actually check your score, and it’s actually pretty fun.

You can also try Canada, Europe, South America and more.

Thanks to Metafilter

Yes folks, it’s another trick you can use to Amaze Your Friends! The Shirt

If you just can’t get enough, more Money Origami instructions can be found here.

Technorati tags: dollarshirt, origami

NPR : Steven Johnson: Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You

Steven Johnson is the author of the new book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. In it, he argues that rather than turning our brains to mush, entertainment options like video games are now so complex that our brains rise to the challenge.

Potentially useful and free Skype add in:
Co-Browsing With Skype: New Jyve Plugin Adds Call-Forwarding, Web Presence And Auto-Responders - Robin Good’s Latest News

This new Skype plug-in allows quite a few interesting things including the ability to:

a) display your Skype status on any Web page,

b) provide pre-customized auto-responding messages to those who ring you or text chat you while you are busy in another Skype call

c) activate a call forwarding facility that can make your mobile or landline ring you when you can answer important Skype calls

d) co-browse web pages in synch with any Skype contact through a custom dedicated browser.

By downloading a Skype plugin called Jyve, anyone can easily activate all of the above features in a matter of minutes.

Here is the detail of the four features activated by the Jyve Skype plugin…

FLIPBOOK!
In following with the creative theme… here’s a webapp which allows to create “flipbook” type animations, with “a 200 frames limit and 600 maximum strokes per frame (a stroke is defined as a set of points describing a pen motion on the screen)”.

Save this one for bored / creative time

art.com artPad
This is an interesting flash app. You can draw and create and then share your creations as a movie which shows your progress.

Then your friends can add to your creation, turn it into something else and pass it back to you. You can also view a gallery of works.

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites
To the Moon, Alice! Moon imagery added to Google Maps just for fun!

Good Experience Games - good games, fun games

These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a “good experience” - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they’re all free, online, and available right now. -mh

On that list, aside from the classic games like Frogger etc, I’ve played Panarity and Snowcraft. Snowcraft was a holiday card put out by an advertising company. It’s been out for several years. I play it every winter

Creating Passionate Users: Every user is new and different…

Every so often, this issue would come up on when a moderator would tell someone to do a search, rather than answering (or encouraging anyone else to answer) the poster’s question. It’s natural for a moderator to become exasperated or just bored hearing the same question over and over and over again–especially in the beginner forums. Another moderator would usually give a gentle reminder that, “for this person, that question is new. This whole topic is new. And if you shut down the question with ’search the archives for that’, you’ve killed any chance of someone bringing in a fresh perspective.”

Something every board admin and moderator and customer help person should think upon. I’m blogging this partly just for me so I can look back upon this entry when I get asked that same thing the umpteenth millionth time.