Viewing Archives for July, 2007

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Ars Technica has reported that the Copyright Board of Canada is pushing again for an “iPod Tax”. Some might remember a similar $40 levy that was introduced a while back but then was quickly shot down. The proposed levy would apply to digital media players such as iPods and is supposed compensation for artists whose music is being illegally shared.

For the past few months, I’ve been mostly kicking it back and enjoying the summer. Besides the relaxing part which comprised of hanging out with friends, playing video games and spending sometimes too much time just surfing the web, I’ve also been freelancing. Around the middle of June, I was approached by Foundpages, an online marketing firm, to see if I could help out their design team take some of the workload off their back. However, about a week before I started freelancing for Foundpages, I applied for job at Critical Mass, a popular interactive services firm as I was unemployed then and was still looking for a job to keep me busy during the summer…

A few days ago, I received a contract which I had to sign and then return back via fax. Unfortunately I didn’t have a fax machine to do this the traditional way, but I recalled my dad sending a fax with our PC many years back through the internal modem. My iBook had an internal modem, and sure enough I found out that Apple built features into OSX which allow you to fax whatever documents which you can print, provided your Mac has an internal modem, or you have the USB modem which you will need for the Intel-era machines.

If you’ve ever processed your photos in software such as Aperture or Lightroom, you might have made adjustments to those photos. Check out how Adobe has included a useful mode called Camera Raw in Bridge CS3 to allow you to make the same type of adjustments to photos you might not want to mix with your Aperture or Lightroom library.

I’ve finally finished up my ‘Wii Friend Number‘ Facebook application and released it to the public. This app allows you to easily share your Wii Friend/Console Number with your friends on Facebook.