I decided to try and take some photos of the eclipse with my inexpensive digital camera. They didn’t turn out that great, but here are the ones that came out ok.

This year my CoHGuru.com Secret Santa is Cloud Runner. I have created some backgrounds for him based on a 3D version of his character I created in Poser and a printable playing card for the COH Card game. Right-Click the text links and Save As to download the full versions.

Cloud Runner Background 1400 x 900 (JPEG)	Cloud Runner Background 1200 x 900 (JPEG)	Cloud Runner Gaming Card (JPEG) Cloud Runner Gaming Card (PDF)

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Editing video on your PC is simple. In our last How-To, “How-To: Create Video Using Your Digital Camera“, we started by taking video clips and saving them to our computer.

Sample Movie

Years ago, video editing was costly — if for no other reason than the software (Adobe Premier is still almost $900.). Obviously, our “free” alternatives may not do all that a professional video editing package will do, but I can’t think of any features missing from Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker, which is already included with Windows XP and Windows ME. (Sorry, Mac users! If pressed, perhaps we’ll review some web-based video editing solutions such as those offered by StashSpace, VideoEgg, Veotag and the like in future posts.)

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