We all know our Freddys and Jasons, but what did people do for horror movies back in 1922? One simple word, Nosferatu. This chilling and eerie adaptation on Dracula is still admired as one of the best horror movies of all time.
Watch the entire Nosferatu movie here, and you decide - is it still a hit?
If you need a few more classics to watch today, try these:
Happy Halloween everybody! Hope you have a good one!
I usually don’t invest much time into flash games online, but after finding this depository of some of the most popular flash games out there, I might have to save Friv.com for a rainy day. Once you start playing a game, they always have the controls in a graphic towards your left - so you never have to spend too much time figuring out how to play. There are tons of games to play, and once one isn’t being played any more - they toss it out, and bring in a new one.
What does that mean? You are always getting the best of the best.
As I learn to use Paint.NET more and more, I seem to be running across even more great tutorials to share with all of you. Last time around, I covered the 10 best Paint.NET tutorials - and this time I have 10 more for you to enjoy. Which is your favorite?
Kiosk Orbs - Learn how to make your own digital displays for products. Might be good for an Online store or logos.
Create a Picture Film Strip - You remember film right? That neat stuff they put in cameras before they went digital? Create your own reel of film for your own graphic designs.
Make a Bubble - Feeling a little bubbly? This Paint.NET tutorial will show you the best way to make your own bubble graphics, without the mess of sticking a bar of soap in your CD drive.
Create Fire, Scare Cavemen - Fire bad? No, fire good! Learn to make your own fire digital effect.
Easy Way to Make an Eyeball - Using a few plugins and some creativity, you can turn that flat eye image into an eyeball. Great for Halloween! (who doesn’t love a huge eyeball?)
Process of Antiquing - Make new images look like they are hundreds of years old.
Easier Image Cutting - Ever wanted to cut one thing out of an image? I do this often for some of the icons I have created.
New & Improved 3D Text/Logo Tutorial! - Create your own flashy 3-D logo and text. Works best with simple images and ideas, but lots of fun to play with and try out.
Make a Sunset - If your photography skills are lacking, you could always turn to the digital effects. Make a sunset of your very own with this tutorial.
Polaroid Collage - Create a stack of Polaroid-like pictures digitally.
Paint.NET continues to be an inspiration for my creativity. The more tutorials I find, the more things I want to try out myself - or tweak to fit my own needs.
Working on any large team, it can be difficult to keep your ideas, questions and answers all organized and in one place. Co-op, a new web service out there looks to bring all of that together for you.
From the default interface, you will think, “oh, this looks like Twitter”, but I promise that there is more under the hood than that. Think of it along the same lines though, a social stream of co-workers all posting together. The team can then post updates, ask questions, share links all in real time.
You can also quickly share the daily job or agenda with your team. This way you don’t have to bother trying to get everybody together so you can go over the job that needs to be done. You can always go back in time and check on members’ contributions and search through the transcripts. So it is an ever growing database of knowledge too.
I like organization, especially if it helps me get things done, and Co-op is a very useful combination of those two goals.
One of my most recent video game guilty pleasures has been playing Lego Batman. It might look a ‘bit cheesy, but it is really addicting and cute. So for my next desktop icon project, I figured I would deliver to you both a Lego Batman and a Lego Robin icon for your desktop.
+ Download the Lego Batman and Robin Desktop Icons (.zip)
The icon is compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format.
Wouldn’t these look totally awesome as your PC icon, or maybe even your Documents folder? I hate to make the obvious PC security joke here, so I’ll just leave you to come up with own.
I love bookmarklets. I love Google. So, mixing the two should not seem like that much of a stretch, right? Sometimes opening in a different tab just doesn’t get the job done. So why not open some of the simple services out there in their own popup window?
Google
To open up Google, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Notebook
To open up Google Notebook, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Talk
To open up Google Talk, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Calendar
To open up Google Calendar, drag this bookmark to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Reader
To open up Google Reader, drag this bookmark to your bookmarks toolbar:
What other useful Google resources would make for a good bookmarklet? These are the ones I find myself using the most, how about you?
