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Playing around with Paint.NET post-processing 
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
I’ve been using GIMP off and on for a couple of years now, but I just haven’t been completely happy with it. I hate the multiple separated windows “feature”. And it always took way too long to load, even after I completely reformatted my computer recently. I’ve been looking for an alternative. Something with more features than Picnik, but works
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TrustyPig steals SmartyPig website
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
We don’t have many web 2.0 products coming out of Des Moines these days (you can read my commentary about that here). So when something hideous and wrong happens to one of our few entrepreneurial successes, we take notice, and we do something about it.
Des Moines-based
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I can call them ‘Legos’ if I want to (and you can’t stop me)
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Fri, 08 Aug. 2008
Since the concept of playing with Legos is so near and dear to my heart, I found this FriendFeed thread by Iowa native Chris Pirillo (FriendFeed |
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“We all agreed that we really don’t know what will happen in the future”
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Wed, 30 Jul. 2008
I live in a small town in the middle of Iowa. Part of being in a small town means you have a little book club consisting entirely of little old ladies that get together once a month to talk about whatever it is little old ladies read and discuss.
I don’t know what possessed the little old ladies in my small town to read “
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Could Des Moines be a web 2.0 hotbed?
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Mon, 28 Jul. 2008
A while back, Jesse Stay (FriendFeed | blog) asked a question on Twitter (which I, of course, responded to on FriendFeed, as did many others). It was a simple question:
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Tor.com launches! Scifi geeks gain a(nother) home
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
As if there weren’t already enough places for geeks to hang out online, another challenger approaches! Popular science fiction publisher Tor has re-launched their website as a mini scifi geek social networ
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Nintendo failed miserably today (but they will still make tons of money)
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 15 Jul. 2008
Nintendo’s E3 press conference was this morning. My co-worker and I got the opportunity to watch it over our lunch break. And let me tell you, I want that hour back. Here’s a list of what they announced (plus my quick thoughts on each in bold).
New A
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I review everything
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Wed, 09 Jul. 2008
I wanted to play around with Posterous, and I was banging my head against a wall trying to figure out what to do with it. Once I came to, hours later, a concept had become embedded deep within my brain - lodged next to bits of drywall and plaster. A mini-blog where I review everything. Well, not everything, so to speak, but actually
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Is offline access on an online document editor important?
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
For those interested, I posted a follow-up comment over on FriendFeed to my Google Docs / Buzzword post.
One important aspect I forgot to include in that post: offl
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Moving back to Google Docs from Buzzword
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
I’ve been flirting with Buzzword since just prior to its acquisition by Adobe and inclusion into their online office suite. The interface is gorgeous and the amount of functionality is astounding for an online document editor. However, all that sparkle comes with a cost. Every time I go to Buzzword to work on one of my documents, it takes two
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Nerdflood: part of the elite tech blogging empire?
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
I never take a moment to consider exactly who is going to read my blog when I create a new post for Nerdflood. Oftentimes, I don’t think about the fact that people beyond my close friends and family read this blog; and even my close friends and family don’t read it all that much (Mom? Mom, are you there? Hello, mom?)
But my morning blog stats check revealed that there are a
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Kung Fu Panda versus Wall-E
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Two excellent CGI movies have come out this summer, both from completely different computer animation studios.
Kung Fu Panda. From Dreamworks Animation, the studio that brought us Shrek (all three of them), Shark Tale, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, and the Bee Movie. Mostly “meh” movies, some good, some not. Kung Fu
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Now I have competition from my wife
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Well, not “competition” in the strictest sense, since I’m actually eager to see her in this particular space, but it appears as though my wife has decided to take up blogging. Now, I won’t be linking to her blog around these parts, as it’s a more personal site for just close friends and family. I talk about family here every now and then, but she plans on telling a lot more o
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Disconnecting, and it feels so good
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
Being offline for an entire week has really put a lot of things into perspective. Coming back to a veritable information overload online with over 1,500 unread Google Reader items, I’ve decided that a lot of the noise I listen to runs completely counter to my goals in life. So I’ve decided to make a few drastic changes to my habits.
I pared down my Google Reade
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Greetings new visitors! (and there’s a lot of you!)
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Fri, 13 Jun. 2008
I captured this shot of my blog stats this evening just as it had reset for the 13th.
That first jump on the 4th was my first post a
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IowaFlood and Nerdflood: two great floods that flood great together
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Thu, 12 Jun. 2008
Apparently there’s some confusion on the internets* about this new website that’s popped up called IowaFlood, and its purported relation to Nerdflood. So, time to clear the air. Here is a detailed side by side comparison of the two sites to give everyone a very clear understanding of what each site provides you,
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Toluu has gotten even better
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Wed, 11 Jun. 2008
My new favorite RSS feed suggester, digester, and recompenser Toluu (first talked about here) just released some nifty new features. My absolute top favorite is pictured below:
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What the hell is Toluu? And does it require a prescription?
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Tue, 03 Jun. 2008
After generally ignoring my blog for several days (as I am wont to do every now and again, especially when Twittering so much), I checked back in today only to find that I was receiving an unexpected influx of traffic from a site called Toluu. Curious, I jumped down the rabbit hole and followed the link back to a
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Sketchflood has a new home
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Sat, 24 May. 2008
Instead of posting my drawings over at Comicspace, I’ve decided instead to use the sweet new photoblogging WordPress theme, Monotone. Plus, in addition to posting my crazy drawings, I’ll also be posting the
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Back to Firefox: sorry, Flock - I tried
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Fri, 16 May. 2008
So last night, I downloaded and installed the latest 2.0.0.14 release of Firefox (I’m just not ready for beta3 yet). I’ve been a Flock supporter for abo
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