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while taking a photo will create (in general) photos that most people will throw away the instant they see it. You can however exaggerate the moving part on purpose, and create some nice abstract photos (as shown below).
Note that you need to adjust the amount and direction of motion to the circumstances. Another important part is the shutter time in relation to how fast your moving / tilting the camera. This must be long enough to create the blurring part.
Just try it.
While exploring the configuration options on the Juniper SRX firewall, I stumbled upon the so-called firewall filters. These filters are not to be mistaken for the firewall policy rules. They are something different, but can be used for achieving similar goals.
In my case, I wanted to see if it was possible to quickly block a list of IP addresses (or subnets) without the hassle of creating addressbook entries (Address Sets). My list of IP addresses consists of known hosts that participate in the criminal ZeuS network. These IP addresses are either Command&Control servers or servers used to transfer (captured) data to. In any case, servers you don't want to communicate with.
The solution on the SRX is to create a firewall filter containing the list with hosts / networks. The filter, in my case, is applied to the outgoing interface (fe-0/0/0).Normally, one would enable logging on each security policy. If you have hundreds of policies, and you want/need logging for troubleshooting, it takes a while (and some serious) effort to enable this for all policies.
Looks like Adobe is giving away the (old) Creative Suite 2 for both Windows and Mac. The CS2 download page contains direct links to all the CS2 products (individual products and the entire Creative Suite 2 installer) AND their license keys.
| Product | License Key |
|---|---|
| Photoshop CS2 [Mac] | 1045-0410-5403-3188-5429-0639 |
| Photoshop CS2 [Win] | 1045-1412-5685-1654-6343-1431 |
So if you would like to experiment with Photoshop (legally), but don't want to pay a premium price, this is one way of doing it.
There are some caveats you need to consider:
When I bought my Apple iMac about 2.5 years ago, I also added a 500GB external drive for backup reasons. This backup drive is a 2.5" USB-powered Western Digital drive. Small, unobtrusive, and stuck to the back of my iMac.
Now, >2 years later, the TimeMachine process started to complain that I ran out of disk space for (the TimeMachine) backup purposes (4.85MB free of 500GB). I used to think that TimeMachine would warn once, and after that it just started to overwrite old backups, but no matter how many times I clicked OK -> Continue etc. the out of space error kept coming back. Highly annoying. During this period I have no idea if it's actually doing anything in regards to backing up my data. I needed to resolve this, so I had two options;
Since getting a new drive was out of the question I decided to delete some really old stuff on the backup drive. My reasoning being that if I didn't need the extremely old (modified) data back then, there's little chance I need it now or any time soon.
Selecting the data and deleting it was easy, this only 'moved' the data to the Trash. In other words, it's still sitting on that drive. I have the empty the trash to free the actual space on the external drive.
The screenshot was taken while it was still counting the objects that were going to be deleted. Eventually (after 2.5 hours), the counter reached >480,000 items. After this time the actual cleaning of the Trash started. That was over 1 hour ago, and it still needs to eliminate about 350,000 items. This is one of those situations were lightning backup fast drives are welcome. For the other 364 days a year it doesn't really matter.
It's gonna be a long night for the iMac.
and what we found using the Googles.
for 3 months.
During the holiday season of 2012, Flickr offers a free 3 months Pro account. If you should already have a pro account, you get an additional 3 months for free. During these three months you get all the perks a regular Pro accounts has. Meaning unlimited uploads, statistics etc..
Ever since I switched from Flickr to SmugMug last year I let my Flickr Pro account expire, and it reverted to the limited free account. Yesterday I reinstated my Pro status again (for the 3 months). I don't think that I'll be going back to Flickr Pro. When the 3 month offer expires I'll default to the free account. SmugMug offers me much more. Things like dynamic photo albums (bases on keywords / tags), custom domain, layout, etc.. These are all features that Flickr lacks, and that I grew accustomed to.
So why upload a bunch of photos just for these three months? All for the cause of some extra free exposure I guess.
Another photo app for iOS (iPhones etc.) has been added to the Apple Store. Normally, these apps cost money, but Distressed FX is free for a limited amount of time.
Distressed Dough
The app used (predefined) filters, and blurring effects to manipulate photos. Photos can be made by the in app camera function, or by selecting a photo from your library.
