Happy Birthday Mac

Today the Apple Macintosh turned 25. Enjoy this video

Photoshop Actions

Polaroid has discontinued production of film. Sales of film are decreasing rapidly throughout the market. However, there are people developing Photoshop Actions trying to emulate the results of film. Here are two free ones that I have found:

Polaroid Generator (Instant film with template, pretty neat!)
TLR Cross Processing (C41-E6 and E6-C41 overlays)

Here's a sample of the Polaroid Generator.

My Image Was Selected

This is the Henry Ford II Bridge located in the Far South Side of Chicago. The image was selected by Schmap a free online/offline travel guide. The best feature of Schmap is that it can be used on various mobile devices. This is great not just for tourists, but for actual people living in the city.

First Digital Camera 1975

According to retrothing, the first digital camera "used a futuristic CCD image sensor (now commonplace) and took 23 seconds to record a crude 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape." Digital cameras have come a long way and have ways to go. The technology only becomes better.