Google Trends have been made available for quite some time, ever since its Beta version. There are localized versions available too, e.g. Google Trends for Singapore. You will be surprised on how these valuable information is made available for free, and such easily accessible!

** Do note that there is a quota limit each day, not sure about the number of queries limit, should be around 20? Anyway its a free tool, what’s more to ask?

On august 2008 Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data. I am not going to talk about that in this post, maybe soon though as it seems interesting.

This is a casual post that I will walk through some of the keywords that I find interesting

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I have written up this short tutorial to show how to achieve classical cross-processed look on a JPEG photo, using Adobe Photoshop. The main objective is to turn a normal daily life photo into vintage-feel in a few steps, without the need to work with RAW files.

For your information, cross-processing is the name given to the practice of developing films in the wrong type of chemistry, resulting in strange color casts but at the same time adding impact onto photo. This can be easily done on digital photographs, especially when you get to see the result immediately.

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