Create bevelled text
I might be superfluous in my method here, but it works well for me 
Add some text
Added blending-modes:
Final result
Making ‘Fairy Tales’
This time round, I tried to take more screenshots
Getting the different pieces:
I had this from a trip to the Etosha National Park earlier this year:
Plus some stock-photography:
Masking and positioning
There are different ways you can get this step done. You could use the pen-tool too for example. I just chose to brush out parts I didn't need.
Preparing the background
Converted the image to black & white:
Added some clouds - just because I can
And came up with this...
Putting it together
This was the hardest step really. I try to re-draw light in the image and try to draw the attention of the viewer to certain areas of the picture
The mask resulted in some hard-edges, so I gaussian blurred it a little
Added noise:
And gave it a cyan-tint
Some magic
I used a couple of brushes to make this
The final image
And a little bit of tweaking later...
Search through files for a string (Linux)
To search a directory recursively for specific text or a string, use:
find . -exec grep "string to find" '{}' \; -print
Surrealism “Propaganda”
I had this idea for a couple of days and finally decided to do it yesterday. This was the process (very very roughly)
Step 1: Getting the initial photos
This is the embarassing part. You'll look silly almost no matter what - trying to get a self-portrait in a suitable position that you envision. A camera on tripod, remote control and bounce-flash later though (thanks, I like my bedsheets too):
Got some stock-photography from Pierre on DeviantArt
Step 2: Putting the 2 together
I had to give the photo a bit more room at the top, so I photoshopped some more wall there. With composites, sometimes I'll mask out the individual parts as precisely as I can initially and save the respective masks in my channels. In this case, I put them together first and then masked it all together. I think that's a mistake and I should have masked the subject first (me) then masked the television. Could have saved myself quite a bit of time afterwards.
Step 3: Magic
OK, so I skipped a lot of steps - my bad - I didn't take any screenshots. I was too busy wondering "how the hell am I going to get this to blend". I guess there's always a point in these highly-processed photos where I say "I should stop right now, this is just not working", but I keep on going because it's taken so much effort already. Eventually, there's a point where I say "oh, I might have something here". I suppose that makes it all the more rewarding in the end.
I use a lot of different filters and textures and try to burn-and-dodge a lot.
Step 4: Colouring and painting light
I hate masking and I love "painting-light" and manipulating it. I think that if I actually loved masking, I could have some really amazing work.
At this point, I also did a bit of liquifying and stretched/distorted parts of the photo.
Almost 3 hours later, this was the final shot:
Synchronize Google Calendar on iPhone
Note: This should also work on the iPod Touch
iPhone OS 3.0 introduced support for CalDAV and ICS - that means it's really simple to sync with your Google Calendar:
Start by going into Settings:
Go into "Mail, Contacts, Calendars", then "Add account..."
Add a CalDAV account and fill the details:
If you check your calendar, it should sync
You can also add all your other calendars by adding a "Subscribed Calendar"
Start by going to the settings for the calendar you want to add:
Click on the "ICAL" link to get your Calendar's private address
It's usually a really long link, so start by putting it under your drafts or email it to yourself. Add another Calendar account (not a CalDAV this time, but a "subscribed Calendar" Then copy-and-paste into the Server input box specifying URL to the .ics file)
Flickr adds people-tagging, finally joins the bandwagon
A feature that many in the Flickr community have been requesting for years has finally been implemented.
What?! No @ sign in front of the names??
Wordpress BlogInfo variables
bloginfo('atom_url'); //ATOM feed for site bloginfo('charset'); //The character set bloginfo('description'); //The description of the blog bloginfo('html_type'); //HTML version of the site bloginfo('name'); //Title of blog bloginfo('pingback_url'); //The pingback URL bloginfo('rss2_url'); //The RSS URL bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); //The URL for the template's CSS file bloginfo('template_url'); //The URL of the template bloginfo('url'); //The address of the blog bloginfo('version'); //Version of the WordPress installation bloginfo('wpurl'); //URL for WordPress installation