The Good Life (a Vox.com remnant)

Test new software safely with Sandboxie

I almost let this LifeHacker article slip by me. Being a fan of GiveawayOfTheDay.com (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com), a program like this will be extremely handy. Can't wait to give it a try.

clipped from lifehacker.com Safely test new software with Sandboxie Windows only: Freeware application Sandboxie provides a safe "sandbox" for you to test out new software without making any permanent changes to your system. Sandboxie is a lot like previously mentioned Altiris SVS, but since I've started using Sandboxie I've become somewhat of a convert to its no-nonsense operation. Both Sandboxie and Altiris SVS are great choices for testing out apps before you completely install and for browsing the internet with nearly complete safety, so if you haven't tried out virtualization as a testing bed, I'd recommend giving one of these a try For 'sandboxing' I've been using DefenseWall for some time now - makes you feel much safer connecting to the internet: www.softsphere.com there is an excellent article on sandboxes here http://www.techsupportalert.com/security_virtualization.ht...

PuppyCakes - Flickr image

Cute, and easy to make!

clipped from www.flickr.com Puppy + Cupcake= PuppyCake!

Artsy: More Art Links

I found a few new art blogs, and other interesting links. Figured I'd better post them before my browser crashed and I lost all my tabs.

Cow Shell Graphics - has fun art and links to a whole slew of other art blogs/communities. Don't miss Mike's Blog and Cow & Buffalo

Lunchbox Funnies - Web comics for all ages

Illustrative Of - Pook has just started posting her art on the web, head over and give her some encouragement

Scott McCloud - You probably know who he is, if not, you should visit his site. He is also touring every state in the USA in a year to promote his new book. Wouldn't that be a blast? Read the tour blog here.

Lucylou - A recent art school grad, who looks to have a promising art (and music) great career ahead of her (just dig that crazy Escher-esque wallpaper of hers).

Yolk - AKA Monika, is a colorist and has a great blog where she shows her work

Making a Comic (video) - Here is Soulsearcher's process of creating a web comic, from pencil to scan to web. Keen!

More comic making videos - These were the videos in the "related" category on the above video.

OK, that's about all the Art Envy I can handle for now. More when the mood hits...

Spider-man speed painting in Photoshop

I am not sure if this one has been getting much publicity (maybe I should check Digg), but I found this on my own on YouTube. Nico Di Matta sketches, then paints, Spider-Man in Photoshop. It is a time-lapse movie of what was a 3 day project. It shows too, really excellent art. Check out Nico's Sawyer and Locke drawings too!

clipped from www.youtube.com SPIDER-MAN Speed Painting by Nico Di Mattia Watch Video Added  May 02, 2007 From  macpulenta http://www.speed-painting.com Time lap... http://www.speed-painting.com Time lapse digital painting in photoshop

Apple's Refurb Store

Did you know Apple has an official refurb store? Yep, you can get some great deals on iPods and Mac hardware and software. Keen!

clipped from store.apple.com Apple Certified Refurbished Products Apple Certified Refurbished iPod nano (current generation) Refurbished iPod nano, 2GB - Silver Your price: $109.00 Free Shipping

Amazing Tornado Chaser Video from May 5, 2007

I appreciate that there are folks who will do this, but seriously, they must be insane.

Watch another mind-blower here.

clipped from tornadovideos.decadehost.com Shown below is our video from the May 5, 2007 tornado in Stafford County, KS, west of St. John.  I enhanced the brightness/contrast slightly such that it appears more like it did in real life.  This is a VERY violent tornado...and thankfully it did not hit a populated area.  Watch Video

Free Bejeweled for Mom

This looks like a winner - sign up for the newsletter and get emailed a special download link for Bejeweled for your Mom, or Mom of your children, or you, if you are the Mom. Keen!

clipped from arstechnica.com PopCap to offer free Bejeweled to the mothers of the world PopCap is offering a free copy of Bejweled Deluxe for Mother's Day, and it's as easy as signing up for PopCap's monthly newsletter, The Fizz. Whoever's e-mail address the subscription is under will get a special link and key, you put that in a Mother's Day card, and she enjoys her new addiction.

How to Open Multiple Links in Firefox

Lifehacker had a post about the Snap Links extension, but I found the comments to be more helpful.

clipped from lifehacker.com Open multiple links with Snap Links With Snap Links, you click and hold the right mouse button and drag a box around the links (which get highlighted with red boxes for easy visibility). When you release the button, presto: All the selected links open in new tabs. Of course, this works with any links, not just search results. Mouse gestures has this built in already. Draw a line through whatever links you want, then the gesture and it opens them all in tabs. (The default gesture is three-sides of a square Right-up-left) You can do the same thing with "All in One Gestures" the freaky great gesture add-on. Here is a video demonstration... http://one.revver.com/watch/135913 All in One Gestures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12 Linky can: * open all links on a page via right-click menu * filter out links that have already been visited * allow you to open links in tabs or windows

10 most useful greasemonkey scripts (aacording to BloggerWhale)

I thought a few of these scripts would be useful, be sure to visit the site to see the entire list.

clipped from bloggerwhale.blogspot.com 10 most useful greasemonkey scripts Lifehacker.com listed their Top 10 greasemonkey scripts which made it to the digg front page.But i was very much dissatisfied with their list since some extremely useful scripts were not part of their list.This prompted me to list my own selection Greasemonkey scripts which are truly great creations 2.IE7Pro Compatibility Script 6.Thumbs2Links-Thumbs2Links is a Greasemonkey script that gives you the ability to download large groups of videos in a fast and easy way 8.Youtube Embed Video Downloader 10.Youtube Cleaner

The Lego Bible

First a Lego church (see my previous post), now a Lego Bible. What next?

clipped from www.thebricktestament.com Old Testament > Genesis > The Garden of Eden