2014 Review – Just Good News [video]

Doggy Undercover [pics]

Every Christmas, photographer Peter Thorpe turns his dog into different animals.

See the the dog HERE.

PicPick – Toolbox of Awesome – FreeFile Review

PicPick is a toolbox full of utilities for graphics/design work. It combines eight tools into one neat package. A screen ruler, screen protractor, color picker, magnifier, and an excellent screen capture utility are the main tools in PicPick. It is for Windows only and is free for personal use.
The best feature of PicPick is how well all of the tools are integrated. Installation is very quick and problem-free with only one .EXE needed. The program is pinned to the taskbar during installation, so that any of the eight tools are available by right-clicking the pinned icon. This makes it very convenient to launch any of the tools. The portable version of PicPick will require manually pinning it to the Taskbar (not a big deal). The tools can also be launched through a desktop shortcut. I found all of the tools to be both simple and effective. The screen capture tool has top-notch features, such as image adjustments, drawing tools, and Save as PDF. I wish that the Color Picker and Color Palette tools had more options for adjusting/mixing colors, but overall, they are simple to use and effective. Rounding out the tool kit are a Cross Hair tool, to determine the pixel coordinates of any object on your screen and a White Board tool for making freehand notes on your screen.
– – The Bottom Line – –
Certainly, if you do any graphics/design work, you regularly use one or two tools similar to these, but having eight great tools in one little package is too good to pass up. PicPick is free for personal use.
Download PicPick HERE

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Mr. Cat Poop – Strange Titles For Well Known Movies In Foreign Countries

Cracked found 9 bizarrely retitled movies –

Some filmmakers spend literally years trying to think of a movie title that will strike the right balance between “this doesn’t sound completely stupid” and “this will make me filthy rich.” It may not always look like it, but there’s a lot of effort, a lot of money, and a lot of hard drinking behind even the simplest of movie titles … all of which goes out the window once that movie ships overseas and needs to make sense in another language.

As we’ve shown you before, translating titles isn’t as easy as it looks, since they so often contain some idiom or pun that would be complete nonsense directly translated in another language (and, as you’ll see, this works both ways). It forces distributors to get creative, and sometimes the results are amazing:

See all 9 movies HERE.

 

Man Controls Robotic Prosthetic Arms With His Mind [video]

From TheVerge –

Thanks to a neural surgery and robotic technology, a man in Colorado named Les Baugh is the first person to gain the ability to control two shoulder-level robotic arms with his mind. The limbs and the technology that powers them were developed by Johns Hopkins University.

Continue reading and watch video HERE.

 

Worst Christmas Trees In Britain

BuzzFeed gathered a few of the saddest Christmas trees found in Great Britain.

See them HERE.

 

Let It Snow – Covered By Star Trek [video]

Horrifying Vintage Holiday Recipes

I don’t understand how, in the 1950s, it was thought that putting Jello and mayonnaise in all recipes was a good thing. BuzzFeed gathered 20 such, stomach churning delights for your approval.

HERE they are.

 

Digital Suit Of Armor

According to ExtremeTech –

Teaming up with Symantec and its famed Norton moniker, Betabrand will be producing data-protecting jeans and blazers. The clothing builds silver-based RFID-blocking material into the pockets in order to prevent ill-intentioned passersby equipped with scanning devices from stealing your confidential data. Perhaps as importantly as the data protection, the clothing is said to be comfortable to wear and easy to manage. The Ready jeans, which are made for an active lifestyle, have two RFID-blocking pockets (one front, one back) and are comprised of 88% cotton, 10% polyester, and 2% spandex. The Work-It blazer contains one secure pocket, and is made of 67% rayon, 28% nylon, and 5% spandex.

Continue reading HERE.

 

A Powerful Lesson About Privilege [video]

Twitter Clock – AllTheMinutes.com

AllTheMinutes.com is difficult to fully describe. It uses random tweets to display the current time.

Just check it out HERE.

 

Forgotten Car Collection Found In France – 60 Cars Could be Worth $20 Million

From BoredPanda.com –

Even today, when the whole world has been mapped by GPS, there are still valuable hidden treasures left to discover. After calling in auctioneers, the grandchildren of entrepreneur Roger Baillon discovered that the collection of 60 vintage automobiles from the 1930s to the 1950s left to rust in sheds on the family’s farm in western France could be worth £12 million or more at auction.

Continue reading and see some photos HERE.