Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers -- Quoted from the website Mission Statement: "A Ninth Connecticut Vicksburg Committee has been formed to place a State of Connecticut Monument at the Vicksburg National Military Park to honor the “gallant soldiers of the 9th Connecticut Infantry who participated in the Vicksburg campaign of 1862”. Long denied any memorial at the Park, legislation was amended in 1990 to broaden the park’s interpretive mandate to cover the period April, 1862 to July 4, 1863, and to provide for the acquisition of the remaining vestige of the canal area. Thus Connecticut is now allowed to place a monument honoring their soldiers who participated in the Vicksburg campaign of 1862."
I am very proud to be affiliated with this project as the Composite Design Artist and have dedicated a specific Casual Clicks web page to this monument.
Operation Photo Rescue -- if you restore photos yourself, please consider paying this site a visit. Volunteers are always welcome. "Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is a volunteer network of professional photojournalists and amateur digital photographers, graphic designers, image restoration artists and others. OPR's mission is to repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances such as house fires and natural disasters at no cost to the people who own them."--Operation Photo Rescue web site. Some of my OPR work can be found here...
Jeff Lowe Photography -- Mr. Lowe is a very talented photographer who shares wonderful images on his Flikr website under the name Casual Clicks. (Our businesses are not at all related, except in our very clever choice of names!) In the mood to look at some amazing and diverse photography? ...wander over & check it out!
World of Warcraft -- Yup, you read it right! Love this game! If you're interested in a guide, check these out...
Zazzle.com -- This web site is just too much fun! You can customize anything from clothing to bumper stickers to mugs. It's fun to upload your images and just see what they'll look like on different items! (Or just to see what others are selling...)
Moo.com -- Another fun site where you can express your creativity. Here you can print stickers, greeting cards, etc... with your own images, artwork, doodles, photos--whatever...
Imagekind.com -- This site is unique in that you can print your own artwork on a variety of papers & sizes, but also in that you can check out the galleries of hundreds of talented artists who want to share their work.
Obsidian Dawn -- Stephanie Shimerdla, a talented and generous artist who creates fabulous photoshop brush & pattern sets, has made her work available for both commercial and personal use. (It seems that most free brush & pattern sets found on the web are limited to personal use only.) Not only does she offer brush and pattern sets, but tutorials as well. Her work is phenominal!
Photoshopsupport.com -- This website has links to everything Photoshop: tutorials, tools, plug-ins, brushes, actions, you name it... some free, some to purchase, but all worth looking at!
Brusheezy -- Wonderful website full of free Photoshop brushes, patterns and resources.
Fresheezy -- Wonderful website full of free themes for Wordpress, Expression Engine, Blogger, BBPress, and more. If you are interested in making your own blogging site, you must pay this site a visit.
(nope, I don't get any click-through revenue... I just believe that free, well made, spyware-deficient utilities should be freely promoted... These are all terrific programs that are generously shared by their developers...
Ultrasnap Pro -- an excellent screenshot utility --The download page is here . Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page... the Standard version 1.8 is shareware and a little less expensive to purchase...but still very functional! (...once you use it, you'll want to either buy it or upgrade to the Pro version...--great to make quick annotated screenshots without having to load up Photoshop.)
Crap Cleaner (aka: ccleaner)-- an excellent computer cleaning utility
Pictobrowser -- a simple, elegant way to display your flikr collection
Spring Widgets -- a fun and customizable way to add RSS feeds to your pages