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After another round of coding Imagine, I am finally able to announce some additional features worthy of note. In particular, the history manager is now usable. Not every tool has an associated history interface at the moment, though, and it’s being addressed.

The selection tool has been enhanced — you are now able to resize the selection by dragging its edges or vertices. Resizing only applies to rectangular selections, of course. But that’s not an issue, as an interface for selecting other shapes has not been implemented yet.

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Dude. This guy has way too much time on his hands. Or maybe some fried brain circuitry? Anyhow, what he did was pretty cool. Not being able to get his hands on an iPhone in Japan, he took it upon himself to build his own mock-up. From scratch. And it looks surprisingly detailed, and very much like the real thing, minus some small things. Even better, he made his iPhone from specifications only, as he started before the iPhone started selling in the States. His Website documents the process.

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I joined their Executive Board yesterday as Webmaster, with the goal of rewriting their Website to make navigation easier and the information clearer and up-to-date. This is actually the first time I used the Joomla! CMS. I had used Mambo before, but I found it a bit bloated and abandoned it. Well, Joomla! seems to be just as bloated as Mambo, or maybe even more so. But since the other DW executives insist on using Joomla!, and because it is capable of creating a nice interface, I’m going to stick with it. So far, it’s still hosted on this server, but I intend to move it off to DW’s current host soon.

DIYer Kipkay extracts the laser from a DVD burner and mounts it in a small flashlight to create a handheld laser burner that can light matches and burst balloons. Hit the play button to see how he did it. This project isn’t for the faint of heart: it involves pretty specialized components and soldering, but that’ll all be worth it when you’re camping with your pals and you start the fire by pointing your homemade handheld laser at the tinder. For more info, Kip posted the laser mod over at Instructables, too.

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Why does a minor shower have to break the mass transit system? I couldn’t get to work this morning, and I was too lazy to get out of the house in the afternoon, so I ended up staying home the whole day. How exciting…

But I did get some things done, like preparing for my exams and wasting time programming. Speaking of which, I added some 20 more filters to Imagine, and improved the plugin system. I really think it stands a much better chance against the more mature image editors out there now, though it’s still seriously lacking and in need of major optimization.