I recently read a pretty cool article around the idea of painting with light in photography. At first I wasn’t quite sure what that meant when I read the heading of the article but the jist of this is taking a photo with a long exposure in the dark and lighting up areas in your photo. What turns out is a photo of black but only ares where you lit the scene show up in the frame.

An idea someone did in the article was at night in a field of hay they set up their camera, and focused it upon a few bails of hay. With no light except for maybe some of the night sky they went around dressed in black with a flash light and lit up the bails and the final photo turned out with this creepy glowing bails and the rest of the photo some what dark

Here is an example of a photo taking from Chris Becker’s site. He has lots of more really cool light painted photos so be sure to head on over to his site to see more.

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If you work on many computers and need to sync your bookmarks, cookies and more I have a great tool for you. I work in many locations from home, office and remotely while traveling with my notebook. How ever I get damn tired of having to set up my bookmarks, passwords, cookies from computer to computer. I recently found an firefox extension that was developed by Google Labs that that continuously synchronizes your browser settings.

Google Sync Firefox extension helps you sync bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

Let me give you an example how I use this after you have installed it. Lets say your reading a web page at home maybe while doing some research. Instead of having to write down the url, or email it to your work account, you simply exit your browser at home, and then open up your browser at work. Google sync pops up a small window with all the urls that you had open from the last time you closed your browser. You simply click restore and it loads the page up.

This is just one example of what Google Sync does.

To grab this goody head on over to Google Sync home page.

Enjoy..