I saw a Subaru commerical the other day that caught my interest. In it, they showed several boys in uniforms competing in what appeared to be a Pinewood Derby. Since I was a Cub Scout for several years and have fond memories of building Pinewood Derby cars, I wanted to see what their message was. But I was distracted because at the end they show the boys in their “uniforms,” which are really just vests–not button-up shirts like I’m used to. Doing some research, I found out that these boys were actually wearing Girl Scout uniforms. According to a commenter on motherproof.com, the Boy Scouts of America would not allow them to use their trademarks.
Note: I couldn’t find a video of this commercial online. If anybody could post it in the comments, that would be great!
I just saw in the Gmail blog that they added an Undo Send feature. Seems like a pretty cool feature, but not as useful as the Outlook (Exchange) feature. This Gmail Undo Send only gives you 5 seconds. It does not, however, let you suck back an email a day later after you’ve had time to sleep on it. I’m sure some people will find this pretty useful (I’m definitely keeping this enabled on mine), but I think having a larger undo window would be more useful.
For some reason, when I clicked links in TweetDeck, they would open in FireFox even though my default browser is Chrome. Here’s how to change that on XP.
- Click “Start”->”Settings”->”Control Panel”->”Add or Remove Programs”
- Click the “Set Program Access and Defaults” button on the left
- Expand the selected configuration
- Set Chrome (or whatever browser you want to use) as the default Web browser
I don’t know why TweetDeck doesn’t automatically direct it to the default browser (maybe it’s an Adobe AIR problem), but that’s how to fix it.
I was revising the tutorial on Mark The Dark and decided I needed some graphics. Seeing that I’m cheap, I looked for free stock photo sites. I compiled a list of the best sites I found. These photos are great for using on websites when you want to fill up an empty space or even if you’re printing something. Make sure you read the terms of use–their licenses differ depending on the site and the photographer. Here’s the list (in rough order of usefulness):
Stock Exchange
Free Photos Bank
photocase
OpenPhoto
Morguefile
BigFoto
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeImages
FreeFoto
Aarin Free Photo
NASA
NOAA
National Park Service
gimp savvy (Index of other free stock photo sites)