Author Archives: Stephen Snider

From Open Culture… Last week, the launch of Stanford Engineering Everywhere, featuring 10 free computer science and engineering courses, got no shortage of buzz on the net. This led me to think, why not highlight other major collections of free … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From Open Culture Thanks to PBS, you can now download from iTunes a four-hour definitive biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR guided the US through the Great Depression, then World War II, serving as president for an unprecedented four terms. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Interested in getting good with Photoshop but know nothing about the popular photo editing software? Weblog Elite By Design puts together a crash course for mastering Photoshop in one week that might be a good place to start. Continue reading →

Photoshop Alternative Artweaver Helps Edit Your Images Windows only: Free application Artweaver isn’t just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself. While Artweaver lacks the polish and advanced feature sets of Photoshop, the menus are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

CollegeHumor, kings of turning internet memes into viral videos, have done it again with Professor Wikipedia. It’s pretty awesome, although I take issue with the notion that nobody wants to know the names of all the makeup artists who worked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have you ever wished you had a simple way to edit photos? Is Photoshop too expensive and complex? Picnik is your answer and it’s free. * Fix your photos in just one click * Use advanced controls to fine-tune your … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From Crunchgear: Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. This system, by students at the University of Washington, uses still photographs or one single frame of a video scene to automatically improve video. The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is from Neatorama: Periodic Table of Videos is neat beyond belief. Martyn Poliakoff, a professor at the University of Nottingham, and video journalist Brady Haran, put together a periodic table where each elements is a link to a video … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have you ever wanted to be a “thought leader?” Find out about Merin’s new website FlockedUp. See the video Merlin Mann – Worst Website Ever – SXSW 2008 Merlin is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster who’s based in San … Continue reading → Continue reading →