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I have been trying to create a vintage effect in Photoshop over the last few days and it seems to be a bit of a hit and miss affair. Predominantly because the overall effect depends on the original picture. Sometimes the original is just way better than the edited version. So here’s my first attempt. Hit, miss, maybe? ....

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Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter Video of a solar eclipse taken from an airplane 12 ways to sell social media to your boss - hmmm 75 Storage Ideas: A Room-by-Room Guide Stereoscopic Parking Garage - 3D directional system (picture below) Tags: links, AquilaOnline, Segway, Toyota, Transporter, Winglet, 3D, parking garage, Stereoscopic, design, airplane, solar eclipse, video, howto, storage, solution, social media, ....

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If you want to feel like a billionaire (or gazillionaire) then you should catch the next flight out to Zimbabwe. This week the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe lopped 10 zeroes off the value of the Zimbabwe dollar, thereby revaluing Z$10bn of existing currency to one Zimbabwe dollar. Independent estimates put Zimbabwe’s inflation rate well above the official 2.2m per cent - the world’s highest. On informal foreign ....

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As some of you may know (and I think I mentioned this a few times) I recently got married and as with all weddings and honeymoons one tends to accumulate a bus-load of pictures. With almost 4000 honeymoon pictures (between the two of us) and another 3000 or so from the wedding (professional and friends) it gets a bit tricky to show them off to friends, family or ....

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Pretoria - The biggest crowd ever recorded at the well-known Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, gathered on Saturday to listen to farmer and preacher Angus Buchan. There were an estimated 70 000 people. The set of pictures can be viewed on my flickr stream or alternatively click on the individual pictures below. ....

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What was supposed to be the annual “controlled” veld fire, turned a bit hairy when the fire got a tad out of hand and burnt our electric fence to a crisp. It didn’t take the security company very long to replace the wires a few hours later. I’m just wondering if the fire department is going to pick up the bill for this one. I remember ....

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Looks like there’s a fair bit of poking going on at the moment. Check out the video clips of Rex the Lion taking the mickey out of the online locals. Who knows, perhaps we’ll see a catfight soon. Tags: Rex the lion, zoopy, video, catfight, satire, humour, South Africa ....

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