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Moving to sgawne.com/blog

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I’ve decided to create a blog to go along with my photography website so this blog will be moving to a new address, www.sgawne.com/blog/.
The new blog will be split between photography related posts and technology related posts. I feel this is a good move for me because I would never be able to maintain both [...]

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Discover New Music!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

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No matter how large your music collection you’re probably getting tired of hearing the same songs over and over again? And this can’t be more true for those of us who’s collection is full of popular songs heard constantly on the radio. It’s time to Discover New Music!
The other day I [...]

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Awareness Test

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Think you are always aware of your surroundings? Think again! I ran across this little awareness test today and figured I would share it with you. I’ll admit that I failed and I consider myself to be more aware of my surroundings than most. Enjoy!
Take the Awareness test!
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Election Tools To Help You Decide!

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Still having trouble deciding who to vote for? Lifehacker list the “Top 10 Web Tools For Election Season” to help you learn about each of the candidates and where they stand on the issues that matter most to you!
The tools included everything from side-by-side comparisons, video clips, spending & donation trackers, polling locations, recent news, [...]

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Three weeks ago I stumbled upon hundredpushups.com. I briefly looked over the site and thought what a great idea. A 6 week training plan that builds you up to one hundred consecutive push ups. Well actually, my initial thoughts were “Wow, one hundred consecutive push ups, that sounds like something I would never be able [...]

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Find Your Celebrity Look-A-Like

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Looking for a little fun on the web? Dig up a photo of yourself and check out MyHeritage’s Celebrity Facial Recognition software. After uploading your photo using their simple web form MyHeritage does two quick scans, one to locate the face and a second to detect facial features. The facial features are then compared to [...]

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Search Safely with Yahoo!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Searching the web through Yahoo! just became much safer thanks to a new feature called SearchScan. Every time you search the web using Yahoo you will see warning messages alongside the results alerting you to potentially dangerous websites. What a great feature! Now you have a heads up whenever a site you’re about to visit [...]

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The Not-So-Boring E-cards!

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Everyone has sent an e-card at one point or another, you know this usually boring online greeting cards you can email to celebrate a holiday or someones birthday. E-cards are typically quite dull and boring, but they don’t have to be. The next time you look to send an e-card take a look at [...]

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Microsoft Purchases Farecast – $115m

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch.com is reporting that Microsoft has purchased the airfare prediction search engine Farecast.com (confirmed on their blog). Farecast.com, previously talked about here, is an airline flight search engine similar to Kayak.com. It searches across multiple travel sites including the airlines themselves, finding you the best bang for your buck!
Farecast’s claim to fame [...]

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Adobe has launched it’s online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. It’s currently a public beta and open for anyone to sign up.

The online Photoshop Express is a nice little photo editor for some of your more basic editing needs but if you’re used to the advanced features of the full blown Photoshop then it’s [...]

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