Core Image Fun House
Now you are thinking, “what the hell is Core Image Fun House?!” 
Well, Core Image Fun House I discovered by a case! Dunno why, a picture I wanted to see opened automatically with Photoshop, so I right clicked it to open with Preview. Suddently, appeared “Core Image Fun House”…. mmmm… “let me try”
A new world came out to me!
To use this tool you need to get the Developer Tools (if you don’t have the DVD with Leopard, they are free of charge).
Then, just open the picture you want and play, enjoy, and go wild!
Core Image Fun House allows you to save as Fun House so it comes with an XML file
Lots of effects, and as we are used to: EASY TO USE & INTUITIVE
How to make Dashboard widgets?
Well, it’s simple and I’ll tell you step by step how to do them!
I know lots of mac users don’t know the “Developer Center” http://developer.apple.com . You can develope all Mac apps without being an “engineer”, or without knowing lots of stuff.
Little widgets like the one I’ll show you are easy to do, simple and very efective! And you can always say “i’m an Apple Developer” *cof cof* 
Registering on Apple Dev it’s free, so you can create your account and download the Dashcode . This application allows you to create the widgets. However, it’s in Xcode! So you need Xcode that comes with Dashcode!
After you have all this apps installed and ready to use, open Dashcode
Now we are in conditions to choose one from the Template choser! We want to do a Birthdays countdown, so we need the “Countdown”:
So, we have the widget all cute and blue right on the middle of the work space! We need to edit it to do exactly what we want! And it’s really simple and easy! You can see the interface is very likely to all Apple apps, like Pages, or Preview, with the “Inspector” right on your side. So you must be confortable with Dashcode 
If you double click on the “Event Label” you will see you can edit the text, and with Inspector, change the Font, Colour, etc.
At the sidebar you can see “Customize Countdown”, and there click on Countdown Properties. In the same moment you see the “Date & Time” field, so just put the date you want! If you choose 2/4/2009 is my next Birthday date
NOTE: Remeber the format is month/day/year
Now, you can “Run” your widget and see how nice it is working live
Pause it and let’s edit the colours with our old friend “Inspector”! You can put an image too! Easily
Just edit the widget with colours or images you like! It’s easy I believe you won’t have difficulties to do it!
You want to share it with your contacts and friends, so that they can remember your Bday?!
Ok let’s do that… but first let me make you a suggestion, when you are editing the colors/images put the image of the thing you want the people to give you as gift! Imagine you can put an iPhone and 3 or 5 from your friends give it to you
So go to “Test & Share”, only AFTER saving your project! Give a name to it and Save to Disk!
And you can put on your Dashboard too… “Deploy to Dashboard” .
Have a nice day!
iPhoto update
You can see a new update do iPhoto:
This update improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service.
What?! Am I reading this right?
>>> PORTUGAL <<< we can’t order the “books, cards and calendars” in a “normal” way, since Portugal is not listed in the country list…
Maybe I send the “books, cards and calendars” to my mansion in FL!
Apple should take care of our small country!
