i use a clipping mask to create those rounded corners. very easy: just draw a rounded rectangle, then move it below your photo layer. then right-click the photo layer and choose “Create clipping mask.” done!

to add multiple layers to be clipped, just put the new layer on top, then right-click and choose “Create clipping mask.” here’s a tutorial:
http://www.elated.com/articles/creating-and-using-photoshops-clipping-masks/

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Last night I was sent a MMS text message (text and photo) to my Google Voice number, and I received nothing. I didn’t get the text portion of the message, nor was I informed that I had even been contacted. In the future, I would like to see Google send a notification that I had been contacted, but that the message could not be delivered.

I don’t really mind this limitation, as I don’t ever do MMS messaging. If I want to send a photo, I’ll put it in an email. But if you happen to use it, or know someone who uses MMS regularly, then Google Voice is not a good solution for you.

First add a contact in your addy book with the email address yourname+journal@gmail.com (I don’t want to put your real address here, so just interpret that to mean you should add “+journal” after the first part of your email address. Gmail will always ignore the part after the plus sign so the message will get sent to your normal inbox.

Call this contact Journal. That way you can create and address an email to yourself quickly. Hit Compose, start typing Journal, then tab to the message body.

Then go into Gmail and create a filter matching the yourname+journal@gmail.com address. Make it automatically add the Journal label, mark read, and archive the message.

Quick and easy journal in one step!

I have filters and labels for this called “reference” and “self”. “Self” is a note to myself (duh) and Reference is anything I think I might want to look up later on. Journal is a great addition that I might just copy!

You, go, Craig, use, as, many, as, you, like, we, will, still, enjoy, anything, you, write,

Oops. I suppose I should have written the following comma-less statements.

“Thanks. I hereby direct that expression of thanks at Craig.”

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

i read somewhere that the macbook air was the first to include the re-installation OS on a USB stick. very cool. hopefully everything (including car music players) will be solid state storage soon. we’re not there yet, ergo your article, so i wish they’d hurry up!

Ironically, I usually star those in Google Reader because I want to check them out even *later* when I’m not just browsing through RSS feeds. Twitter to Favorites to Google Reader to Starred Items. It’s a long way to go for some video of a frog or whatever that sounds interesting!

-Chris

After the install, I jailbreaked the device to enable the missing features like multitasking and wallpaper. I can tell you that the overall performance decrease from having multitasking and wallpapers enabled on the 3G was seriously not worth it. IMHO, Apple was correct not to support these features on the older hardware.

Apps that have been updated to use multitasking in iOS 4 tend to load in about 3-4 seconds on the 3G with multitasking enabled, which is not much better than the normal load behavior with multitasking turned off. For apps that aren’t updated yet, the extra memory requirements of multitasking resulted boot times of 10-15 seconds or more, and noticeable delays in the keyboard response, springboard scrolling, taking a photo, etc. It was painful, so when I installed the final 4.0 release yesterday, I did not apply the jailbreak and things feel much snappier.

That said, I will definitely on the lookout for a discarded, cheap 3GS later this week. I have tasted multitasking and I liked it.

aside from Photoshop, i’m no fan of Adobe. but, like it or not, Flash has evolved as a de facto standard. (i looked up “de facto” btw.) Flash will always outpace HTML in feature set. (reread that sentence, please.) and i like that my Flash app/rectangle will work as expected, regardless of user agent. that’s the whole point.

then there’s the overwhelming amount of current Flash content i view every day. (this has nothing to do with porn. no it doesn’t.) i’ve tried Flash blockers, but i got tired of manually enabling Flash practically everywhere! i want to block ads, not Flash generically.

i love standards and code to them. but, IMHO, currently, and for the foreseeable future, Flash plugs some enormous functionality holes in HTML’s very underconstructed dam. (is that a mixed metaphor?) also consider how easy HTML 5 will make it for the average schmoe to create annoying Flash-like ads. as craig mentioned, what does that spawn? HTML 5 media blockers. oh yeah…

Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline REST API methods. Requests for more than the limit will result in a reply with a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. Twitter still maintains a database of all the tweets sent by a user. However, to ensure performance of the site, this artificial limit is temporarily in place.

You might be from Arizona if…

* You think someone driving wearing oven mitts is clever.
* You buy salsa by the gallon.
* You notice the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
* Your Christmas decorations include a half a yard of sand and 100 paper bags.
* You think a red light is merely a suggestion.
* All of your out-of-state friends start to visit after October but clear out come the end of April.
* Most of the restaurants in your town have the first name “El” or “Los”. (Or they end in “-bertos”: Hilbertos, Filiberto’s, Eribertos, Izberto’s, Alberto’s…)
* You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful yard.
* You’ve signed so many petitions to recall governors that you can’t remember the name of the incumbent.
* You notice your car overheating before you drive it.
* Your house is made of stucco and has a red clay tile roof.
* You can say Hohokam and people don’t think you’re laughing funny.
* You no longer associate bridges (or rivers) with water.
* You see more irrigation water on the street than there is in the Salt River.
* You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.
* You can say 115 degrees without fainting.
* Every other vehicle is a 4X4
* You can be in the snow, then drive for an hour and it will be over 100 degrees.
* Vehicles with open windows have the right-of-way in the summer.
* You have to go to a fake beach for some fake waves.
* People break out coats when temperature drops below 70.
* You discover, in July, it only takes two fingers to drive your car.
* The pool can be warmer than you are.
* You can make sun tea instantly.
* People will drive over a hundred miles just to see snow.
* You run your air conditioner in the middle of winter so you can use your fireplace.
* Most people will not drink tap water unless they are under dire conditions.
* Most homes have more firearms then people.
* People who have black cars or black upholstery in their car are automatically assumed to be nuts or from out-of-state.
* The AC is on your list of best friends.
* Monday Night Football starts at 7:00 instead of 9:00.
* You realize that Valley Fever isn’t a disco dance.
* You can finish a Big Gulp in 10 minutes and go back for seconds.
* You can (correctly) pronounce the words: “Saguaro”, “Tempe”, “Gila Bend”, “San Xavier”, “Canyon de Chelly”, “Mogollon Rim”, “Cholla”, and “Ajo”.
* It’s noon in July, kids are on summer vacation, and not one person is moving on the streets.
* You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
* Sun screen is sold year round, kept at the front of the checkout counter, a formula less than 30 spf is a joke, and you wear it just to go to Circle K.
* Some fool can market mini-misters for joggers and other fools will actually buy them.
* Hot air balloons can’t go up, because the air outside is hotter than the air inside.
* No one would dream of putting vinyl upholstery in a car.
* Kids will ask “What’s a mosquito?”

Each cover appears to link to Amazon for the actual artwork, but it makes the search a lot more simple.