GRK BLOG/ZINE

Wow, a crazy laptop, the new Thinkpad W700 with an 10.6″ diagonal second display screen. Foldable and white LED backlight second display and 768 x 1280 resolution. You will have two display, I like this design. It features Intel Core 2 Quad, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M, 64 GB solid state drive and 4 GB memory DIMM. The display featuring at the below.
• 17-in WUXGA with CCFL backlight and 1920 x 1200 resolution
• 10.6-in WXGA with white LED backlight second display and 768 x 1280 resolution

The Joker Christmas by Jackolyn.

Photoshoppers, have you use them all before? I started at Photoshop 7.0. Looks like the masking tool is an add-on, PS.87 and PS1 doesn’t have the masking icon on the palette.

A company (vashprint.ru) at Russia is offering this Photoshop shirt, it shows a “paint bucket tool” at the center, filled the shirt up with the “background color” on the palette. No pricing announced. This shirt will definitely suit on designers.

[via Yaplakal]

Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City. There are now thousands of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied.

Just fly to ‘New York City’ and turn on the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. Tilt your view so you can see the buildings in all their glory.

Here’s something you could wait for. And it didn’t take long. Get your shoes ready and play Sock and Awe.

Someone with a lot of time on their hands made a Top 2000 of music videos.

It’s done by someone from my country so there may be some Dutch artists in there with songs that you may have never heard of but most of the other ones are probably familiar.

Computer mouses have come a long way since they made their wooden box debut about 40 years ago, and now there are literally countless shapes, designs, and features for every type of computer user.

The mouse, an accessory that grew out of a purely functional need for pinpointing and clicking on the computer screen, has now developed into a highly personalized piece of gear with different technical
variations, depending on the primary use. Here is a look at the metamorphosis of the computer mouse over time.

The 2008 crash is probably the most serious economic crisis we have faced after the Great Depression. Stock markets from around the world fell as much as 20% in a single week, dozens of banks either failed or were rescued by government and private institutions, and companies started laying off employees as a consequence of the reduced demand.

One day, better times will be here again but until then, cheer up a little by looking at some company logos… after the crisis.

Stop motion photography is a form of animation and allows otherwise lifeless objects to move and change.

Here are some examples of stop motion photography.

A collection of titles shown at the end of movies.

Take the How Dangerous Of A Driver Are You? test and find out whether you’re a safe driver or people have to flee for their lives.

Some really nice graphic work by Markus Hofko.

The music tools made by Roland back in the days have been remade by Hobnox to create a kind of online Reason.

Go make some beautiful music at HobNox Audiotool

Colorful and isometric graphics are part of the brief but very strong Behance’s portfolio of russian illustrator and designer Alexandre Efimov. The freshness of his work speaks by itself.

Today the Motorola Hint QA30 is official announced. It is the Motorola’s new Motorola QWERTY slider
design cellphone, it features includes 2.5″ 320 x 240 screen, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, microSD support up to 8GB. Its slider design reveals a full QWERTY keypad when open, Cool! Motorola Hint QA30 will be available in Q4 2008. It will support CDMA calling and EVDO data. [ link ]

The sight of a dragonfly on the wing is one of the more remarkable that nature has to offer. Here, with the help of some astounding macrophotography, we take a look at the life cycle of the dragonfly as well as its remarkable and unusual physiology.

Have you ever picked up the phone to call someone, only to realize that you didn’t know how to pronounce that person’s name? Have you ever read a name but had no clue how to say it? Is your name commonly mispronounced?

How To Say That Name lets you learn how to pronounce names as a native speaker would say them. Not sure how to pronounce the name ‘Nguyen?’ Listen to a native Vietnamese speaker pronounce it.

Top Gear is an Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. The programme is estimated to have 8 million viewers each week in the UK.

The show is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig, an anonymous test driver. It is one of the most pirated television shows in the world.

Here are the top 14 Top Gear moments.

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