If you have taken screenshots on your Mac with CMD SHIFT 4 (or 5), you will have seen that most of the screenshots do not have much detail and are in fact a bit blurry. This is caused by Mac OSX, making by defaults the screenshots in JPEG format. JPEG -unlike for example PNG- is a loosy compressed image format that is great for photo's but not too good for screenshots.

To change this, open a terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
killall SystemUIServer

From now and, screenshots will be in the PNG format, better for making screenshots.

A very good tip found on creativebits

A small test on metadata. Spot the difference.

One difference, the first I added the tag downblouse, the second is free of tags.

What a difference metadata makes and what a shame that Flickr has become a site to look for porn. Sad, I always thought of Flickr as the last bastion of true artistic value but it seems that it has is being used like the rest of the internet is.

Ik haal Brecht van school. Ze ziet me eerst niet en loopt met haar vriendje (Brecht heeft geen vriendinnetjes!) handje in handje uit school. Dan ziet ze me, laat haar nieuwe vlam los, en vliegt me in de armen.

Liefde!

I really like the new retro art like the above radio transitor as well as the rest of the retro arts

After some feedback I got from different people regarding the wallet in your mouth picture (and posting), I decided that it is your turn.

Here is what you have to do:

1. Make a picture of yourself with your wallet semi open in your mouth
2. post it on your blog, twitter, facebook, flickr etc
3. tag it with "talk-with-your-wallet"
4. add text to it with a request to potential sponsers for the Drupalcon and add links with to szeged2008.drupalcon.org/ and the how to sponsor page.
5. make sure enough eyeballs see it and more important...
6. make sure the right eyeballs see it; try to get attention from potential sponsors, explain why sponsoring the DrupalCon is the best thing they can do

Now I don not think that money will float in if you help spreading the word but 1) its funny to see people swallowing their wallet 2) It doesnt hurt 3) you can be part of this uber-cool-mini-micro-nano-viral-photo-shootout.