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A little more personal, from my family to yours:

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Kathryn, Eli, Hannah

Cheers,
~Sly

Happy Halloween to from all of us at Your Mac Life and my favourite musician (if you don't know who that is by now, you haven't been paying attention...hehe):

Be safe out there!

~Sly

From my youngest nieces (Kathryn on the left, Hannah to the right) and their little brother (my nephew & God Son), Eli:

HAPPY CANADA DAY to all our Canadian (and honourary Canadian) listeners out there!

~ Sly

From Joy of Tech
You should be able to identify at least *one* of them very easily!

Click here to see the entire list of "Joy of Tech's Macworld Expo Celebrity Check List!"

Hey Shawn,

Wanted to let you know that I finally got my Simply Canvas print delivered, and I must say it really is like a work of art. I'm so pleased with it. I decided not to go with any of my personal snapshots, mostly taken with a 3.2 megapixel Canon PowerShot. Instead, I got my grubby little hands on some professionally done pictures from my brother's wedding a couple of years ago. Perfect timing for a Christmas gift. And I'd like to share with y'all how it turned out.

Original picture (Look kids, rule of thirds!)


And the resulting canvas

Yes, my own camera skills are lacking. If only there were some kind of class a photography white belt like me could take.... :)

Thanks again and Happy Holidays!

George Ramos

From Webware

If you're not using Twitter yet, you may feel as if you've missed out. Twitter has not only tipped the tuna, but by some estimations, it has already jumped the shark. Don't be put off by its excessive popularity with SXSW geeks or by the whining of Twitter haters who missed the fun.

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into the "club." So, here's a newbie's guide to this new platform.

(Shawn's Comment: FYI Lesa's Twitter "address" is http://twitter.com/LesaKing" and mine is http://twitter.com/ShawnKing - no promises we'll "follow" you though :) )

Click here to read more "Newbie's Guide to Twitter"

Announcing an all new interactive eight DVD training series designed to give you the knowledge to take your creative expression to a whole new level! The lessons are geared for the person who wants to be in a beginner’s mind. They are at once both advanced and straightforward. Whether you are a novice, intermediate or advanced Photoshop user, you will find the lessons will accelerate your knowledge to match the quality of your vision. These lessons have taken me personally years to discover and develop. They are shared here for you to learn, integrate the knowledge and stimulate your creative process.

Click here to read more "Vincent Versace’s Welcome to Oz"

SpamSieve "brings powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients". I've been using it for a few months (after trying several other apps, including SpamAssassin and SpamArrest). It’s easy to control SpamSieve from within Entourage, and I have customized it to work with the rest of my (hundreds) of Rules.

I *love* this new camera bag from LowePro.

Easy to carry, compact, holds the camera snugly and has room in the main body for lenses, hoods, batteries, etc. Outer pockets for miscellaneous stuff. It has an interesting carrying position too. It "slings" across your body like a messenger bag and, due to the design of the camera opening, allows you to quickly get at your camera and even use the bag as a "platform" for shooting.

Peter Cohen says:
PBS' Frontline is currently broadcasting the first part of a four part series entitled News War. Absolutely fascinating stuff, and I highly recommend it.

The people they lined up for Part I are truly a stellar cast -- executive editors for the New York Times and Washington Post, a writer for The New Yorker, Bob Woodward, a professor of journalism at George Washington University, Judith Miller and others, talking about how the Bush Administation has manipulated the press.

Click here to read more "Watch Frontline"