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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #111 |
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Welcome to the 111th issue of Cool Tricks and Trinkets offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet. In this issue: - Marcus
Leatherdale Photography Marcus Leatherdale Photography Marcus Leatherdale, a photographer known best for his portraits of celebrities done in New York in the 80s, has spent much of the last 7 years living in India. Based in a 200-year-old house in the old city, he began photographing the diverse and remarkable people there, from the sadhus (holy men) to celebrities, royalty to the Adivasi (tribals). Each year, for the six months he lives in India, he works out of his studio and then travels extensively, setting up makeshift studios in villages and carefully negotiating among some of India's most elusive figures to make his portraits. http://www.marcusleatherdale.com/home.html Computer Guardian With all the viruses, bugs and potential conflicts in computers programs, it is hard to keep up with all the new fixes and patches being added daily. BigFix is a utility that scans your entire computer for potential system conflicts and provides automated solutions to them all in one place. After running this program, BigFix detected problems in my Internet Explorer, Pentium Processor, Windows 98 security settings and pointed me to the proper company sites where I was able to download the fixes. This is a really useful program. Note < We initially reviewed this program nine months ago and are still impressed with its functionality.> Cool
Utility - Big Fix (free)
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Keyboard Lite ($19.95) Free 30-day trial Poems That Go Uniting words, design, music, photos, graphic design and motion, this next site offers a unique example of how the rush to technological convergence might effect art. Poems that Go is a site that is designed to "celebrate poetry through techonology and the Internet." Consciously abandoning the tradition approach to literature, this site uses motion graphics and animation in a new form of expression that integrates the online experience with the written word. Digital Dirty Dancing If your partner has been bugging you to learn how to dance and you just can't break away long enough to take lessons, this could be the answer. Bustamove will teach you to dance with or without a partner using a variety of media, including videos with music, still frames and animated segments. Start practicing at home, then when you're ready, hit the dance floor. Epidemic: On the Trail of Killer Diseases On the Trail of Killer Diseases is a site create by Discovery.com and the American Museum of Natural History. Featuring five major public health threats, tuberculosis, influenza, polio, dengue fever, and the hantavirus, this site provides rich historical summaries and details of each epidemic and their large-scale effects. There is an intriguing section which describes how centers in Australia, UK, Japan and the US coordinate efforts to predict the possible flu strains before the flu season and develop vaccines for them. http://www.discovery.com/exp/epidemic/epidemic.html
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