Mark Poppen

Gotta love it:

WYSIWTF

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That’s exactly what it is, fun with photo’s.

You don’t have to sign up, just add your picture to the site, select an effect and save it to your disk, add it to Imageshack or make it into an avatar. For some effects it uses face recognition, and it’s not fool-proof, but it’s a pretty damn good time-killer . Here’s a few I’ve created with the Poppen.ca logo.

Oh my Gawd! Is this where Mark lives?

Poppen.ca hits the catwalk

Big ad-campagne for Poppen.ca

Even Angelina Jolie is a Poppen.ca fan

(I could’ve finished a project in the time I putzed around with this…)

You know, Internet Explorer 6, that old piece of shit browser that some people still use? The browser that’s always a pain in the ass when you’ve finished your design, to find out it doesn’t work in IE6? Yes, That one. We’re going to kill it. Join the IE6 DeathMarch and show you’re done with IE6.

Why should we still design around IE6 when there’s a bog load of alternatives? IE7 and IE8 are up for download, Firefox is better, and Chrome is faster and Safari is cross platform. Unless you charge your client extra for working around IE6, it’s just costing us, as designers, money.

So: Join the DeathMarch and start creating conditionals for IE6 telling people to upgrade their browser!

torrent episode downloader

Huh? Doesn’t that sound a bit personal? Don’t worry, I’m not going to bother you with my personal life too much, but I met ted today, and he’s my new BFF.

Since my wife and I moved to town in June, we didn’t bother getting TV here. We have a TV, but it’s just hooked up to my computer. We’ve been talking about getting a satellite reciever, so we can sit on the couch and zap through 3 zillion channels to find out nothing interesting is on, or just watch 0.001% of all the available channels, so no TV for now.

Like I said, ted.. ted is an awesome little, lightweight program that sits in your system tray, waiting for new episodes of your favorite TV-show to come out on a bittorrent network. When it finds a new episode, it opens up your favorite torrent-client and downloads that episode. It comes with a list of preset popular TV-shows, so all you have to do is browse. If there’s a show missing, you can easily add it to the list.
Right now I’m monitoring: Heroes, Bones, Flashpoint, NCIS, Numb3rs and Top Gear.

The only downside of ted is that you can’t download sports-events. I’d like to download formula 1 races as soon as they are available. Maybe in the next version?

My very first email in my Gmail account dates 12-09-2004, so I’ve been using Gmail for 4 years now. I use various plugins for Gmail to make my workflow (which is a very freelance word btw) more awesome than Gmail aready is.

The last few days Gmail is letting me down a little. I keep getting spam emails in my inbox, which I never used to get. Am I the only one (so is my account being a pain) or is Gmail’s spamkiller overworked?

Some stats:
When I click “All mail” it says I have 8013 emails,
I use 19% (1372mb) of my capacity,
I average about 3000 mails in my spambox monthly.

I recently started using delicious again. Again, yes. I’ve used it for a while back when it was still de.li.c.i.o.us (or whatever), and before the facelift. I always had the feeling I couldn’t find my own bookmarks, sorting was a bitch, I guess I just didn’t like it.

Now, I decided to give it another go with a new sidebar for Firefox and a better web interface, and I must say, I like it so far! The Firefox add-on replaces your standard Firefox-bookmarks, but leaves the star-icon, which you can use to add bookmarks to delicious. A popup appears when you push it, and you can add tags and share it with your network.

Anyway, I would like you to add me to your network on delicous. I’m constantly watching my network to see if there’s anything interesting to check out, heck, they might even become blog-posts!

Seriously, do!
Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don’t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I’m not the only one
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.

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I’m not a gamer, I don’t play WOW, COD4, D&D or Crysis. I get bored after 10 minutes. Probably because I suck at those games.
I don’t play flash games either, because they’re usually made with the craftsmanship of a poodle, but I saw an episode of Epic Fu, where they (very) briefly mentioned a flash game. I had to rewind the episode 3 times to get the name of the game, and I decided to Google it. I found it, I love it!
It’s called Coign of Vantage and it will be my game for my next designers-block.

I got up to 312570 points, I’m sure you can beat me. Play it, and leave a comment with your score.

Update Sept 10, 2008: 461180 points, 61 images!

Let’s start off with the obvious question: What’s Xoopit, and why would I want it? In short: It’s awesome. The longer version is a little like this:

We all had a party or a meeting where the question came up: “Oh, remember that picture I emailed you? Can you bring that up please?”. We all had to wade through millions of (spam)emails to find that one specific attachment with the answer to a simple question, and, let’s face it; not everyone saves their attachments the minute they get in to the inbox.

Xoopit makes finding attachments a breeze. When you’ve installed the Firefox extension for Xoopit, your Gmail will get an extra bar above your emails, showing thumbnails of the latest attachments sent to you. You can scroll the bar from new to old, so, if you’re looking for a picture, you should be able to find it in that bar. If not, there’s always the Xoopit serach-box on the left side of your emails.
When you click on an email, Xoopit will show the attachments the sender of that email sent you in the past.

It’s an awesome addon to your Gmail (they are planning to implement it into Hotmail/Live, .Mac, AOL and Yahoo pretty soon), and I can’t wait to give my 5 invites to you.

How can you get an invite? Just leave a dandy comment, and the first 5 commenters will receive an invite to the supplied email address.

I couldn’t handle using a standard template for this blog, so I tweaked it. Since I like the layout and the readability of the standard template, I left it at that. I just personalized the header.

Why the Matryoshka‘s? Well, my last name is dutch, and it means “dolls“. I always had a thing for these little dolls, and now I can use them for something.

The only thing left is a punchy, witty tagline. Since I’m not witty and hate being punched, that might take a while (unless all of a sudden I get a spark of creativity soon). Done

Anyway, Hope you like it, and if you don’t, I don’t care