Sickles Insight

Let’s see, first of all: Welcome to the new look, fresh feel, and original location of my place for randomness.

It is evident that you have made the switch successfully if you are viewing this sentence at this time. If you are not viewing this sentence, then you have some troubles still, and I hope that […]

There is a large number of venues to which you can turn for web hosting today; and with so many hosting options available, it can be difficult to decide where to go for the best product and best service. After several changeovers I have finally happily landed at DreamHost. There are many options available through […]

Pong: an adaptation of table tennis to the video screen, was the first commercially successful video game and is widely regarded as ushering in the video game era.

Now that’s an intresting old poster of the original famous Pong made by who else but Atari (I think from 1973). I however have found a recent online […]

If you refer to this article from Cnet News, it’s an interesting concept on voice technologies integrated with security. Technology integration into todays society is simply put as amazing!
The concept is pretty freaking cool, but wait a minute - how does one from the bank load your original voice into the application? Are you saying […]

For those of you using a Tivo series 2 or later, I recommend that you check out the latest version of Tivo Desktop 2.3! Download the latest version (2.3a) here. Tivo Desktop has finally added a very necessary feature entitled Automatic Transfer. This means you can tell the software to automatically move a particular series […]

I recently found this, although I haven’t had time to completely test it out yet. I figured I would let you know about it while it was still free!
Website YouMail is the new voice mail for cell phones. Among many features, it allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based […]

All,
Please pardon my current absence and lack of forewarning of said absence.
I am currently attending Manage Fusion which leaves me little time for internet, creativity, or new findings. The days are long, the nights are too. I find myself quite tired in the end, though there is value in some of the things being learned, […]

Tips & Tricks - “Rule of Thirds”

SKILL LEVEL: Beginners
HOW IT WORKS: When taking a picture, divide the image you see through the camera into thirds, both horizontally and vertically (shown above with black lines). Where these lines intercept are consideredto be “hot spots” (shown above with circles). The rule is when framing a picture […]