Monthly Archives: June 2008

Online addictive games – light relief

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Because; Laughter truly is the best medicine! Its time you send mass swooping emails to tell your friends and enemies to try these links out. Go on waste your time and encourage others too :)

  1. The age old Pingu — absolute gold — via GZ
    A penguin falls off the top a hill/mountain, you are the Yeti standing with a club to hit the penguin and see how far you can swing it. the laws of Physics say if you throw an object at a 45 degree angle it goes the farthest. Hmmmm not sure it applies here… My highest score was 509! :) Dare I say its addictive.
  2. Reaction Test — via HP
    The automobile driving manual says the average driver’s reaction time is: 0.75 seconds… or one car length for every 10 miles per hour. Test your average reaction time. Be very careful this can be addictive. Click on the link below and good luck. And do turn up the volume a notch. Bbaaa baaaa baaaaa :)
    I am a lowly Armadillo. What about you?
  3. Parachuting — via HP
    A relatively new one but not yet as addictive as the previous two. But you never know.

In case this doesn’t help you waste much time head on over to Kottke’s list of Online addictive games. Be warned though. Do you know any thats as bad as these or worse still? :)

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Kangaroo Valley Weekend

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We had a short but lovely break at the enchanting picturesque Kangaroo Valley last weekend. Kangaroo Valley is situated between the regions of Shoalhaven and the Southern Highlands. Last weekend despite a rainy Friday out of Sydney and the late start on the motorway — the drive was really smooth all the way through and actually look less time than expected. Since we left late afternoon we couldn’t see much beyond the lights of our own car racing down the pitch black of the night but the meandering roads around the Morton National Park past the Fitzroy Falls and then on to the historic sandstone Hampden Bridge and then Kangaroo Valley is really breath-taking. We took a little turn off the main street into the golf course which was going to be home for the next 2 nights. In the morning while we were making our big cooked breakfast we had a pack of kangaroos big and small… a whole little family of 5 that hopped along and came by almost to our breakfast deck and stopped to check out their new neighbours! It was a sight to behold how they came by to check on us as we made breakfast… not to mention a huge wombat came and stopped in the middle of the road as we were coming into the valley the previous night… The Wombat knew we were going to stop so it didn’t really hurry across rather stopped and inspected us and then shuffled away slowly into the bush across the road, ah life is so difficult! It made our day… and then to see wild kangaroos up so close – it was commune with nature in more ways than one. There is a very good reason they call this place The Kangaroo Valley.

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Get Piclens – full screen 3D

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Have you heard of PicLens? if not, this will really make your day! Its a simple way to enjoy your digital media that is images and videos right on your desktop in such a way that you’re not tied down to viewing it within the scope of the browser window. Its clickless browsing, with interactive previews at your finger tips. And most of all its a great way to view media on a big screen… and oh so suave :)

screengrab of PicLens website

Not convinced? Watch the Demo here.
Download Piclens from Cooliris and give it a whirl. You won’t be disappointed.

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Firefox 3

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Its Firefox party time again. Can a browser really make the Web better? Try Firefox and see for yourself. Learn more. If you want to get a quick update on whats new in Firefox 3.

Firefox 3 screengrab

  1. Download your copy and install in case you haven’t.
  2. Once installed, follow these instructions from Mikelao Photography to set your colour management to True(in case it is Flase)
  3. Colour management plug in can be downloaded from Sean Hayes website
  4. Once you have done the above steps confirm its all good by visiting the International Color Consortium.

Firefox away!

Update: If you wish to run both Firefox 2 and 3 simultaneously from your Mac or windows. And in case you want to enable kerning here is hope. If you’re unsure what Kerning is, read up at Wikipedia.

World Press photography Expo

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Thanks Kel for organising the World Press photography Expo rendezvous! Despite rain and pouring conditions and the constant five day down pour that Sydney seems to be engulfed in we braved it alright. Today was the last day of the exhibition. A bit crowded to start with but still very good. Really glad we went. There were some very graphic images of our happening and evolving world. Some of which we might not even know about. As I went through from one photo to the other it kept reminding me how lucky we all are to be living in the world of plenty and peace and choice. Probably two thrids of our human population doesn’t get to make the choices we do, nor the luxury we have or command. There is much bloodshed and disagreement. Where are the ideas and beliefs and convictions of sharing caring and love.

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Beautify your Gmail interface

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For those that Firefox on a daily basis you already know that Firefox 3 beta has been out for a while. And if you haven’t you can always download it from here. But very specially for those that use Gmail a lot and are sick and tired of the look and feel Gmail offers, there is a nifty little extension that re-skins the horrid gmail interface. You can download it here. Its called Better Gmail 2 by Gina Trapani. It has useful extra features and skins to Gmail, hierarchical labels, macros, signatures, file attachment icons. If you are a regular Gmail user, this is for you.

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My first Tupperware party

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Up until Sunday the 1st of June 2008 I truly was a Tupperware Virgin. I knew what they meant and had heard good reviews from Tupperware converts and people that used them but never ever held one in my hand or knew what they could possibly do and what life changing experiences they could bring about! It was nice of Adrian & Richard to invite us over for a lovely Tupperware party. Great experience and need I say that I learnt a few things. Having had done practically no research at all I was under the impression that I would find something nice to buy under $20.00 :) well! That was about to change soon! Although David had dropped in a hint to say they are not really your average run of the mill plastic. Yet I landed up buying a bit even for my first experience. The stuff is really good! Trust me :) Or maybe I’m easily convinced. But I’d like to think the former!

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