Tips & Tricks

⇒ youparklikeanasshole.com (link from Jul 24, 2007)

Providing notices for when a note scrawled on the back of a receipt just won't do. Via DF.

⇒ Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home...FAST (link from Jun 19, 2007)

I have a lot of binders, particularly at work, full of books and manuals that I've printed for reference rather than read online. I may set this up to use at work, or to make a permanent copy of Transformers Version 2.0 when it's finally complete.

⇒ Eli's Amazon Link Generator (link from Jun 11, 2007)

This one's been around a while, but I use it all the time. Plug in an ASIN and your Associate ID, and this little widget will spit out Amazon links in every flavor, including the locations of the thumbnail images. Awesomely handy.

⇒ How to take in a shirt (link from Jun 10, 2007)

Pinch and pin, pinch and pin, pinch and pin. How many shirts will I ruin before I get this right, I wonder?

⇒ Fix your broken Parallels Desktop (link from May 29, 2007)

I love Parallels Desktop, but it had become completely unusable as of late. I didn't know why, whether it was a bug of some kind or some "feature" that didn't like my Macbook Pro. I even wiped my VM and installed a new one, and while it worked fine for the first few boots, after that, it slowed down to the point of stalling my entire system, taking roughly twenty minutes to boot Windows.

It turns out this is the result of a problem with Windows Update. For whatever reason, it seems to be hitting users of Parallels Desktop particularly hard. The link above is to the fix, which worked for me.

⇒ How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop (link from May 20, 2007)

Ever wonder how a city that looks perfectly wholesome when you visit turns into a much more serious, grainy place when it's used as a movie set? This demonstrates a technique to do the same to your photos.