I’ve made a new wallpaper for myself in photoshop. Unfortunately it’s only currently available in 1280 x 800.
Feel free to download and use it yourself and as always, criticism and critique are welcomed.
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| From Flock Photos |
And do you lack an iPhone or one of those new fandangled phones that do everything? Fear not for this will interest you.. Enter: Ag Tweet.
This service is cool. It allows you to send a SMS or text message to an Irish number and that, in turn, updates your Twitter’s feed. If you have free texts then this won’t even cost you a dime.
It’s better than forking out for the English Number and it literally takes 20 seconds to set up (including putting the number in your phone)
And for those a bit weary, there is more info here and just to prove it actually works;
Have fun and happy Tweeting 
Kinetic Typography. I really can’t get enough of this stuff. It really is wonderful to watch and it’s really is just so impressive what can be done with just text. Here is a collection of some of the best ones I’ve come across over the past 2 weeks or so.
And this guy combines the typography with real footage to really cool effect.
This dude is kind enough to explain how it’s done.
Kinetic Typography Tutorial from Elrond Hubbard on Vimeo.
And here is another Tutorial over at AE Tuts aswell that I was made aware of thanks to Sean O’ Grady
Anyone have any better ones to show off or link to? I’m gonna try my hand at this over the summer. It can’t be that hard, riiiiiight? 
Random & Useful Links:
23 Amazing Free Modern and Clean fonts
Amazing Photographer (David Hill) with Awesome Post Production Values
KFC’s very interesting Advertising Campaign
EuroGamer’s April Fools Joke – Alpine Legend
I dunno if people know or not but there is a really cool Firefox add-on available which makes blogging and absolute cinch. It’s called ScribeFire and it’s home is on the bottom bar of the Firefox window. Simply click it to bring up a window and then you can simply drag images, text and link from a site that you are currently viewing to the ScribeFire window. It just makes adding images and stuff so easy.
Scribefire: Fire up your blogging
Videos:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Links:
Awesome jQuery Tutorials.
FireBug Add-on for FireFox
iPhone Band (surprisingly cool)
Mr. Chi-City Kicking some Insect Ass – http://tinyurl.com/b6decq
Google – Smart Searchers Vs Stupid Searchers
The Saddest Bear of All – Childrens Book
I just googled myself (as you do) and a “seansmyth” gets my blog in the number 1 spot and “sean smyth” yields number 7.
If I google “sean smyth” and add any of the tags I’ve added to any of my posts over the years I get number one aswell.
Now all I have to do is wait until I’m famous, when people might actually google my name instead of just following a direct link.
This is only good news. Currently, I have to “borrow” my housemates Windows machines to indulge in id’s Quake Live but with the news that Mac and Linux compatibility is high on the company’s priority list that is soon be a thing of the past. I can’t wait. I hate the fact that I have to borrow a machine to play of reboot and boot into Windows using Bootcamp if I want to play.
A full interview can be read here at Joystiq. I’ll be up for pwning all you noobs if you are up for it. My username is imLOST (I was going to add a link to my online profile but I don’t think I can.) So add me if you want. I love a good duel, I do.
For college I have to go one day without technology to show how defendant and reliant we are on technology. Simple, eh? One day without a phone, TV, computer I can do but then there is also the fact that I’m unable to use a toaster or kettle in the morning which just plain sucks.
I dunno what I’m going to do without my tea in the morning. And to top it all off, tomorrow is Pancake Tuesday so I can’t even make them without feeling badly.
Feck it, I’ll just make them on Wednesday instead defeating the whole purpose of the original meaning of Shrove Tuesday. Oh well. Farewell internetz!
Here is a cool Navigation element that is usable on a website if anyone is interested.
I found this on an Irish Bloggers Award winner The National Lottie. I laughed out loud, I actually did. I didn’t lol though because that’s just plain silly.
Dear Wii Fit,
I did not take it personally when you said I was slightly overweight. I admit, I was impressed that you could weigh me so accurately.
I did not get mad when you stopped mid push up to announce that I had taken a break. I mean I had, after all, rolled over on my side to die.
I was a good sport, I think. I didn’t cuss you out for inflating my Mii (the cartoon replica of me) to scale or call the personal trainer names or blame you for the nagging inner ear issue I developed immediately after finishing your yoga exercises.
No. Not at all.
I respected and even appreciated what you were trying to do for me.
And then
You met
My husband.
And you?
Are clearly a home wrecking tramp.
32? 32?!?! Really?!? You calculated his fitness age at 32- and mine at 65?!?
Sixty fucking five???
Yeah. Right. He’s 30 years more fit than me. You dirty, dirty whore.
I should have bought a playstation.
UPDATE:
This morning you said I was 24. Really, Wii Fit? Really? You expect me to believe that I lost 40 years in my sleep? Correction – 40 years and 1.5 lbs?
This is obviously part of your plan to distract me from your devious nature.
I’m on to you.
(I will, however, only be using you in the morning from now on. I mean. You know. Just in case.)