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I’ve been giving StackSocial a lot of money lately. LOL. But they tend to have really neat bundles of mac software apps that would otherwise cost exponentially more.
I really only wanted the Find Any File app, which isn’t $6 as they’ve estimated, it’s $7.99 in the dreaded mac app store. So I was willing to pay a couple of bucks for that. No, I literally mean a couple of bucks, as in perhaps $2.50, with the $.50 being added in to feel less like a cheapskate. That $2.50 would’ve only gotten me that app, which I was okay with initially. I’d been using an app called EasyFind that was head and shoulders above Finder and Spotlight searches on the Mac, which inexplicably, eons of OS’s later, is worse than Sherlock was on my old G4 pre-Tiger! Finder and Spotlight do not allow you to sort your searches by size and a couple of other things that’d be super easy for them to code, but for some reason haven’t. Enter Find Any File. It searched across 3 mounted external drives and the internal one and found my file in question, lickety-split! Sold!
But then I did check out the Shortcuts program by Nulana and it may hold some promise for me. I was originally concerned that I already have too many assigned shortcuts in my digital life, being a super duper fan and upser of Cinch and Size Up, but I think there still may be some room for a few more.
And the great thing is that, in addition to naming your own price, a percentage of your purchase goes to one of 3 charities of your choice.
This sale is on for 13 more days, but the longer you wait, the more the average price goes up, and you only get both apps if you pay at least the average of what most people are choosing to pay. It went up 12 cents between the time I started the purchase transaction and when I was finally signed in and allowed to purchase, so if you want this deal to remain a steal, act sooner than later.
The three charity choices are
- WWF, no not Captain Lou Albano, or Hulk Hogan’s WWF (I think this is why they had to change the name), but The World Wildlife Fund.
- Child’s Play – a charity that brings toys to hospitals with sick children, something near and dear to my heart, since one of my friend’s infant son got diagnosed with a disease that virtually had them live in a hospital for the better part of a year. A baby can’t play video games, but I like the charity’s idea nonetheless.
- Creative Commons – a nonprofit that provides copyright licenses for people to determine the terms with which people can use their intellectual property on the web. Without lawyers or pain or whatnot.
So far, they’ve only raised $108, so I decided to post so that people looking for a Finder search alternative could save some bucks while profiting a charity simultaneously. Happy computing.
It’s difficult to narrow these to just a few – I love them so! Izzy, the pinup queen shows off her patriotic spirit. She’s channeling the Fourth of July. Wondering what to get daddy for Father’s Day? Consider pinup photos – dad’s favorite model is you!
Sneakpeek of my retro pinup photoshoot
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So excited to finally have some pinup stuff for my portfolio. People want to do it, but they don’t always want it displayed for the world to see, so it’s hard to advertise that I do it. So, professional model Izzy is okay with posting – more than okay. By the way, she’s the best model I’ve ever worked with in life. Just push the button on her back and her batteries keep her going with little or no direction for hours. Super professional, super talented. Amazing!
Here’s a SOOC sneakpeek. Will post later with more edited photos.
Free wordpress themes
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As far as WordPress themes are concerned, you usually get what you pay for. Support is worth every cent of your purchase. However, short of a full-price, full support theme, I’d rather use a free theme than a half-supported theme. There are actually some really good offerings out there.
In addition to my favorite mom and pop shop for free themes, builtBackwards, I just found this new collection of high-quality free themes, at Web2Feel. I’m not yet sure what the catch is, haven’t tested for hidden links or any of that, but their offerings look excellent, especially their tumblr-styled themes. Let me know what you think of these, especially if you’ve ever used any.
Addendum: Found some promising WordPress child themes from WPCharity.
For security sake, consider using these sites for malware, base64, backlinking and exploit checking: builtBackwards Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin or Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner
From the Great Gordon Parks
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Playing in Photoshop with some photos from my roses in the backyard and found this lovely quote from famed photographer Gordon Parks.
Here are some more finished shots of the baby I photographed on Memorial Day. She has so much personality already. She’s super strong – was trying to roll over onto her back already at 9 days! She was not loving being on her belly, but it’s the best way to get all the squishy face shots with gravity helping. When babies fall asleep, their faces just go limp in a way that adults don’t. They let it ALL go! So on their backs, you sometimes get a more distorted view of their face. She finally succumbed to the sleepies and went back down. Early on, she’d open one eye and give us a look of disapproval, but I don’t remember her ever crying a peep.
I have a boy owl hat, but hadn’t yet gotten one for a girl. Everyone had been having boy babies. I’d been holding on to this rosette fabric for a year and half, waiting for a newborn girl to come along. Was considering selling it on a photographer swap page. I’m super glad I didn’t. I love it and it came out so perfect with her hat too.
Here she is:
