We’ll be changing the graphics / display format we use at The House to 16:9 ratio soon, and I came across this great Aspect Ratios and Resolutions chart while checking my work. Wanted to make sure I had a bookmark handy.

These might come in handy very soon:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/

http://corporate.zvents.com/developers/

http://api.eventful.com/

Does http://going.com have one? I sure don’t see it.

Know of a site similar to the ones offering the above APIs? Let me know.

To start, if you already use GIMP, here’s a interesting link to “1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes“. I haven’t checked ‘em all, but some of them look great. If you’re not already familiar with GIMP, read on…

So, Digial Scrapbooking is cool, and apparently pretty big. I don’t do scrapbooking, but my wife does, and I’m so excited that she asks all kinds of great questions about Photoshop now, etc.

Before you go looking, the industry standard Photoshop product is $699. For casual, even “advanced” (sorry, I’m not sure what word your culture uses!) scrapbookers, that price can be extremely steep – especially considering that the full featured product is overkill, with many features that (I imagine) most scrapbook projects will never use.

Adobe does have a related product, Photoshop Elements, which is scaled down, and probably a closer-to-perfect fit for most scrapbookers. I believe they even sell this edition at Walmart, etc, for around $139.99.

However great those products are, I’m mostly here to point out some competition: GIMP (Wikipedia).

GIMP is a freely available alternative to other “graphics manipulation software”. For those on a tight budget, or that just like to be thrifty, GIMP is a very capable choice.

I’m no professional GIMP user (rather, I’m often in Photoshop) but I’m interested in helping others jump in on the free (and open-source) software options. If you’re interested in using GIMP, or you know of any interesting uses already, related to scrapbooking or otherwise, I’m interested to hear about it.

If you know the address, send me an email. Otherwise, find someone that knows how to get in contact with me. We’ll see if the whole six degrees thing really works.

Feedjack – Django powered Feed Aggregator.

Probably going to implement this with xMEMPHISx.

crowdSPRING was started to help people from around the world access creative talent, and to help creatives from across the globe find new customers.

Link.

Looks very cool. Seems similar to 99 Designs.