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  • 5 Irish Whiskeys for St. Patrick's Day

    Holy Kaw!
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:27 pm
    If you’re looking for a nice bottle of Irish Whiskey to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this week, Epicurious rounds up five of its favorites. The site even offers recommended cheese and dessert pairings for each of its picks. Epicurious, for instance, might interest you in a bottle of Michael Collins Irish Whiskey “A Blend,” which the author of the piece describes as: In the market now for just a few years, this big-bodied, blended whiskey has certainly made its presence felt in short order. Notes of smoke and faint iodine from the pot-distilled portion of the spirit…

  • Funny Or Die Outtake Reunites SNL’s George W. and Bush Sr. [VIDEO]

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    Samuel Axon
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:01 pm
    An extended outtake sequence from director Ron Howard’s “Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion” featuring Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr. is making the rounds on the Internet. The original clip has attracted almost three million views.This new outtake clip is an extended conversation (two minutes and 35 seconds compared to just a few seconds in the original version) with Ferrell and Carvey riffing off of one another in their roles. Some father and son issues start to bubble up (pardon the pun) and things get a little weird.Funny or Die…

  • iPad Sales: 120,000 Estimated Sold in First Day of Pre-Order

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    Dan Nosowitz
    15 Mar 2010 | 12:54 am
    After the iPad officially opened to pre-order on Friday, CNN took a sample of iPad and other Apple product purchasers to try to get a glimpse at how exactly the fabled tablet is doing in sales. The conclusion? Damn well--but that's not the whole story.Based on a sampling, CNN estimates the total product sales at Apple's online store to be about 125,000 on Friday. Once you subtract the average sales of 16,500 and multiply by the average number of iPads bought (1.1), you come up with just shy of 120,000 iPads sold. It's an estimate, sure, but a conservative one, and that number is…

  • Pictures from my trip to the Winter Olympics

    Guy Kawasaki
    GuyKawasaki
    17 Feb 2010 | 3:32 pm
    Having a great time in Vancouver. If you want to see how great, check out my pictures from Day 1 and Day 2.

  • Hunch Takes $12 Million From Khosla Ventures, Adds Former Facebook CFO To Board Of Directors

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    Michael Arrington
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:23 pm
    Recommendation engine Hunch confirms that they’ve raised a new round of financing – $12 million – led by Khosla Ventures. Partner Gideon Yu, who joined Khosla Ventures last year, was previously the CFO of Facebook. He is now joining Hunch’s board of directors as part of the deal. Hunch was valued at $52 million in the round. I spoke to cofounder Caterina Fake this evening about the round. Fake says that Hunch, which is less than a year old, now has lots of data to work with in making recommendations. In fact, she says, users have answered nearly 50 million questions on…
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  • 5 Irish Whiskeys for St. Patrick's Day

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:27 pm
    If you’re looking for a nice bottle of Irish Whiskey to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this week, Epicurious rounds up five of its favorites. The site even offers recommended cheese and dessert pairings for each of its picks. Epicurious, for instance, might interest you in a bottle of Michael Collins Irish Whiskey “A Blend,” which the author of the piece describes as: In the market now for just a few years, this big-bodied, blended whiskey has certainly made its presence felt in short order. Notes of smoke and faint iodine from the pot-distilled portion of the spirit…

  • Make your own chips in the microwave

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:19 pm
    Looking for a way to satisfy the salty, crunchy yearnings for good, old-fashioned chips? Savory Sweet Life shows us how to whip them up from the comfort of our own home with a little help from the kitchen microwave. It looks like something college kids could even make cheaply in their dorm room. All you need is one russet potato, non-stick spray, salt, pepper, and parchment paper or a glass plate. To see the rest of the recipe, go to Savory Sweet Life. More on food. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Blast from the past: 13 childhood candies

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:13 pm
    Remember these guys? Divine Caroline provides revives our childhood memories with a slide show of some of our favorite candies from bygone days. Did anyone else used to play around with the bubble gum cigarettes shown above? If you exhaled through them, the powder would come out the other end looking like “smoke.” See the slide show at Divine Caroline. All the latest news on candy. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • The magic of placebos

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:06 pm
    Eric Mead, a magician, explains the magic of placebos. How much of what we do in business is the placebo effect? More on science. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Japan's latest fad: "Therapeutic ringtones"

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:02 pm
    Call ringtones music to your ears, but in Japan the trendiest ringtones are even more than mere melody. “Therapeutic ringtones,” as they are called, are new tones believed to improve a host of inadequacies—which include everything from insomnia to the will to do housework. Though the science behind the rings is underdeveloped at best, Matsumi Suzuki, the head of the Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory, provides interesting arguments in a Telegraph.co.uk story. One ring intended to improve complexion, for instance, calls on a Schubert piece with an electro twang and an…
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  • Funny Or Die Outtake Reunites SNL’s George W. and Bush Sr. [VIDEO]

    Samuel Axon
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:01 pm
    An extended outtake sequence from director Ron Howard’s “Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion” featuring Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr. is making the rounds on the Internet. The original clip has attracted almost three million views.This new outtake clip is an extended conversation (two minutes and 35 seconds compared to just a few seconds in the original version) with Ferrell and Carvey riffing off of one another in their roles. Some father and son issues start to bubble up (pardon the pun) and things get a little weird.Funny or Die…

  • “I’m With CoCo” Artist Makes Big Bucks From Conan’s Tour

    Samuel Axon
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:49 pm
    Mike Mitchell, the artist who created the now-iconic “I’m With CoCo” image of Conan O’Brien that has circulated through Facebook profile pictures and blogs since NBC’s The Tonight Show scheduling controversy, told TMZ that he’s been paid by Conan’s producers for the right to use the image during Conan’s impending “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.”TMZ reports that the producers paid him well enough that he can “take a very, very long vacation.”Mitchell originally posted the image to TwitPic, but it…

  • 9 Ways to Geek Out Your T-Shirt Collection

    Amy-Mae Elliott
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:06 pm
    A t-shirt isn’t just a cotton garment, it’s a form of communication, a personal billboard that lets you get a message out to the world in a medium that offers the minimum of effort.Whether your geek tendencies lean towards gaming, Apple, space, film or social media, we’ve got a sassy selection of tees that will have you reaching for the plastic before you can say “medium, in blue, please.”After all, why go plain-chested when you can be spreading the word of geek? Emblazon your chest pronto with a themed tee that says it all.Amazing Apple Tees Apple fans tend to…

  • Venezuelan President Chavez Makes Threat Against the Open Web

    Amy-Mae Elliott
    14 Mar 2010 | 1:59 pm
    Venezuela, already under watch from the likes of Reporters Sans Frontieres for jeopardizing press freedom, appears to be edging closer towards the type of restrictive governmental Internet interference as seen in Cuba, China and Iran.Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called for greater regulation of the Internet this weekend, with the following statement, as reported by Reuters: “The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done. Every country has to apply its own rules and norms.”Chavez is said to have singled out one website as an example where such…

  • Foursquare Hits 347,000 Check-ins in a Day

    Samuel Axon
    14 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm
    With legions of mobile, tech-savvy individuals invading Austin, Texas for SXSW, Foursquare experienced an extraordinary day yesterday, recording a record-breaking 347,000 check-ins.In response to the boom in usage, the developers added a new badge called Super Swarm. There was already a badge called Swarm; it was awarded when 50 people checked in at the same location at the same time. Super Swarm is achieved when 250 people check in.Foursquare guru Harry H. said, “Know what you call a 50 person swarm at SXSW? The Hilton Lobby. So we upped the ante to 250 and you still nailed it. Well…
 
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  • iPad Sales: 120,000 Estimated Sold in First Day of Pre-Order

    Dan Nosowitz
    15 Mar 2010 | 12:54 am
    After the iPad officially opened to pre-order on Friday, CNN took a sample of iPad and other Apple product purchasers to try to get a glimpse at how exactly the fabled tablet is doing in sales. The conclusion? Damn well--but that's not the whole story.Based on a sampling, CNN estimates the total product sales at Apple's online store to be about 125,000 on Friday. Once you subtract the average sales of 16,500 and multiply by the average number of iPads bought (1.1), you come up with just shy of 120,000 iPads sold. It's an estimate, sure, but a conservative one, and that number is…

  • Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions

    Dan Nosowitz
    15 Mar 2010 | 12:52 am
    Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a bit popularity booster for the company--but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up by one troubling example), the company has decided to kill the contest.Netflix's recommendation engine can be a little wonky. (I know the film Big Fan is about football, and stars comedian Patton Oswalt, but it's also a painful drama written and directed by the guy who wrote The Wrestler, and it's an exceptionally bleak and dark story--so maybe Bring It On isn't the right movie to recommend, eh Netflix?) So they started a contest in…

  • Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

    Cliff Kuang
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:35 pm
    How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world? A beautifully illustrated video shows the causes. To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke. Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head. Just watch--it's excellent, and very well illustrated: The video begins with a basic…

  • Behind the Music: Devendra Banhart's Visual Art Takes Center Stage

    Alissa Walker
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:16 pm
    The Us Weekly readers who know freak-folk musician Devendra Banhart as the hippie-haired beardo on the arm of Natalie Portman probably won't recognize him now. The Portman thing ended a while ago, for one. Plus he's wearing glasses these days, prescribed to him when he started getting headaches from poring over his miniscule drawings for a recent art exhibition, he explains in a call from his home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Also, he'll begin a tour next week to support his latest album, What Will We Be, with a scandalously short-cropped do. "It's like a lesbian librarian,"…

  • Infographic: Tracking a Toxic Asset

    Cliff Kuang
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:44 pm
    NPR's Planet Money produces an astounding infographic that shows just how bad a bet the banks made when they went crazy for bundles of subprime mortgages. Toxic assets brought our economy to its knees. You remember those, right? They were bundles of sub-prime mortgages, which were sold to banks like bonds. As the bundled mortgages were paid off each month, they promised a steady portion of the cash. For the banks that bought these assets, the problems began when people couldn't pay the mortgages. NPR's Planet Money--which brought you the Giant Pool of Money story that explained the entire…
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  • Pictures from my trip to the Winter Olympics

    GuyKawasaki
    17 Feb 2010 | 3:32 pm
    Having a great time in Vancouver. If you want to see how great, check out my pictures from Day 1 and Day 2.

  • How to Avoid Gullibility

    GuyKawasaki
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:45 pm
    We’ve all been sucked into doing something stupid, right? Fortunately, Steven Greenspan has written a book called Annals of Gullibility. In its conclusion he explains how to avoid gullibility, and I’ve provided a synopsis for you. Read the full story at the American Express Open Forum. More on psychology if you need the advice.

  • How to Be Empathetic

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:24 pm
    By definition, good marketers are empathetic. That is, they have a capacity to understand and care for the needs of others. Bruna Martinuzzi explains how to be empathetic over at the American Express Open Forum.

  • How to Not Be Annoying on Twitter

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:19 pm
    Amber MacArthur explains how to not be annoying on Twitter over at the American Express Open Forum. Sage advice for you to develop a great reputation and following on Twitter. More Twitter tips.

  • The Elements of Guyle: British Blogging

    GuyKawasaki
    27 Jan 2010 | 10:06 pm
    Want to make your blog classier? You should blog like a Brit. I explain how to do this in ten easy steps.
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  • Hunch Takes $12 Million From Khosla Ventures, Adds Former Facebook CFO To Board Of Directors

    Michael Arrington
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:23 pm
    Recommendation engine Hunch confirms that they’ve raised a new round of financing – $12 million – led by Khosla Ventures. Partner Gideon Yu, who joined Khosla Ventures last year, was previously the CFO of Facebook. He is now joining Hunch’s board of directors as part of the deal. Hunch was valued at $52 million in the round. I spoke to cofounder Caterina Fake this evening about the round. Fake says that Hunch, which is less than a year old, now has lots of data to work with in making recommendations. In fact, she says, users have answered nearly 50 million questions on…

  • Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple

    Jason Kincaid
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:20 pm
    The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We’ve been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that said “My last day at Google. Incredible experience. Amazing people. Moved mountains. Next chapter. Hello Apple.” Pittman has since removed the tweet from his Twitter feed, but judging by the tweets still visible in Twitter search, it’s true. We’ve also received an email that Pittman  sent to his coworkers and friends about the move (we’ve redacted a paragraph…

  • Web Publishing Startup DocStoc Now Offers Branded Viewers To Users

    Leena Rao
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and offers the ability to customize the logo, buttons, links, and color of the viewer. The viewer itself is fairly sleek and resembles DocStoc’s normal document viewers. Users can directly download documents from the viewer and DocStoc will automatically convert any convert historical embeds with Docstoc. For example, all of the documents we’ve embedded with our TechCrunch DocStoc account…

  • SpotRank Is Skyhook’s Intelligent Location Firehose. SimpleGeo Is The First To Wield.

    MG Siegler
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:26 pm
    In terms of location data, few get more than Skyhook Wireless. The positioning technology is in use in tens of millions of devices around the globe, including, notably, on every iPhone. And now the company has a simple way for third-parties to tap into that data in a useful way. SpotRank gives developers access to hundreds of million of anonymous location entry points put into the Skyhook system. In fact, there are some 500 million points (100 meter “spots”) at the service’s launch. With this massive amount of data, developers can do things such as predict what locations…

  • Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook

    Michael Arrington
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:01 pm
    In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and other scams were the center of the controversy. The industry did a lot of talking in the wake of those posts and some long term changes have been made. For the most part, for example, Fake quizzes and the Video Professor scam are off Facebook (but see below on what’s still there). But now we’re seeing the same old scams hit the iPhone. And the same players, particularly…
 
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  • Books you don't need in a place you can't find

    Seth Godin
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:29 am
    David points us to the Montague Bookmill. This is the bookstore of the future, because it's not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI. No, it's a place, an attitude, an approach to an afternoon. They don't sell every book, they don't even pretend to.Just as vinyl records persist, an object of joy for some listeners and a profitable cottage business for some sellers, bookstores are going to become like gift stores. The goal isn't a commodity transaction with maximum selection at minimum price, the goal is an experience worth seeking out and paying for.We're going to see more and more of…

  • We can do it

    Seth Godin
    13 Mar 2010 | 4:03 am
    Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community.It's missing because people are quick to opt out of the 'we' part. "What do you mean, we?" they ask. It's so easy to not be part of we, so easy to make it someone else's problem, so easy to not to take responsibility as a member of whatever tribe you're part of.Sometimes it's missing because people disagree about what 'it' is. If you don't know what you're after, it's unlikely you're going to find it.And it's missing because people confuse cynicism with realism, and are afraid to say "can". They'd rather…

  • Naming tool of the week

    Seth Godin
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:31 am
    Oleg points us to http://wordoid.com/It's a conjugator, brainstorming and domain finder, all in one. Nicely done.I've done a few posts on naming to help you get started. Here's an old one too.And while I'm sharing links, here's a thoughtful post about money. Not about money, actually, but about the way people think about money.

  • Wondering around

    Seth Godin
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:16 am
    I stumbled on a great typo last night. "Staff in the lobby were wondering around..."Wandering around is an aimless waste of time.Wondering around, though, that sounds useful.Wondering why this product is the way it is, wondering how you can make the lobby more welcoming, wondering if your best customers are happily sharing your ideas with others... So many things worth wondering about, so few people actually taking the time to do it.Wondering around is the act of inquiring with generous spirit.

  • Helping spread the word

    Seth Godin
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:56 am
    Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I've gotten some terrific email. Most of it is about individuals who used the ideas in the book to instigate a process of self-reinvention or validation. Some of the best mail, though, has come from managers and leaders who are using the book to inspire others. One company bought 800 copies for its management, while another reader told me how two copies helped change the way her organization coped with change.When I find a book that moves me, I spread it to everyone who's willing to listen. I hope you feel the same way.It's ever more clear to me…
 
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  • Navigating the Middle of Your Post – Without Getting Lost

    Darren Rowse
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:19 am
    A Guest Post from Ali Hale from The Blogger’s Guide to Effective Writing” – normally priced at $29, ProBlogger readers can get a $5 discount by entering the code “ProBlogger” Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Navigating the Middle of Your Post – Without Getting Lost Share This

  • Why Your Business Needs Friends

    Darren Rowse
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:27 am
    A Guest Post by Johnny B. Truant from The Charlie and Johnny Jam Sessions. I got an email the other day from a man who was at his wit’s end. The email explained that in this man’s business, he was doing many of the same basic things that I was doing, but with much less success. He had been building websites for years. He had refined his craft. He felt that the sites he built were better, more complete, and had more features and better support than mine. He had more experience than I had. He even said that he was probably smarter than I was. Yet I was doing really well and he was…

  • The First Week of Your Blog: Set Up Key Pages

    Darren Rowse
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:05 am
    One of the series of posts that we’re building here at ProBlogger is all about what to do in the first week of your new blog. We’re assuming you’ve already got your domain, chosen your blog platform and have installed a template/theme/design – but what comes next? So far we’ve covered: Writing Your First Compelling Content Planning Future Content Today we’re going to look at some of the key pages on your blog that can be worth setting up. Why ‘Pages’ are Important When a new person arrives on your blog there are a variety of types of pages that…

  • How to Blog: How to Choose a Blog Niche [6 Tips]

    Darren Rowse
    11 Mar 2010 | 8:56 am
    Earlier in the week we looked at the importance of ‘niches’ when it comes to building profitable blogs. Today I want to extend the topic and gives the process that I tend to use when working out if I want to start a new blog in a particular niche. I hope you find it helpful. Many factors will come into play when it comes to choosing a niche to blog about – but the following are those that I tend to pay most attention to: 1. Your Interest in the Topic I started out blogging on topics that interested me – but as I began to see the potential to make money from my blogs…

  • Let’s Meet at SXSWi!

    Darren Rowse
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:56 am
    As this post goes live I’ll be in the process of arriving at SXSW Interactive in Austin Texas. I was fortunate enough to at SXSWi two years back and it was one of the best conference experiences that I’ve had – so I’ve made it a priority this year to return. My schedule is pretty open. The main thing that I’ll be doing is a book reading this Friday night. I’ll be talking about some of what Chris and I have included in the 2nd edition of the ProBlogger book (due out next month). The book reading is on at 5pm, Friday 12 March on the Day Stage I hope…
 
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  • Nikon Just Let Me Use a New Camera

    chrisbrogan
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:13 pm
    The folks at Nikon let me try out a D300s camera. It’s a lot more pro-feeling than my Nikon D-60. Honestly, I’m not yet that clever with it. I’m trying it out, and shooting stuff, and they’re giving me little tips so I can try to do better stuff with it. I’m part of their outreach project, which they’re doing for the South by Southwest event in partnership with YFrog. So, if you check out http://yfrog.com/nikon, you’ll see what me and a few others are shooting. Why let an idiot like me use such a powerful camera instead of someone who’s a really…

  • Business Cards And Little Programs – Kitchen Table Talks

    chrisbrogan
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:30 am
    For this, our next in the Kitchen Table Talks series, I’m going to emphasize a point I was trying to make about business cards: namely, we shouldn’t just hand them out willy nilly. We do it because we’re not sure what else to do. But we don’t always need to end a face to face interaction with trading business cards. Here’s more: Can’t see the video? click here. Direct link to the video People always ask which camera I used to shoot my video. I use the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (that’s a review of the camera).

  • Changing Lives

    chrisbrogan
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:59 am
    Hey. Take five minutes (it took me three), drop by this site and give $10 or so to send 300 autistic kids to summer camp. Think about it. Two lattes worth of cash and you can send 300 kids to summer camp. We’ve raised about 1/3 of the money required in the first 20 minutes. Want to be part of a case study in charitable giving via the social web? Come Donate $10.

  • My Plans for SXSW

    chrisbrogan
    10 Mar 2010 | 4:33 pm
    Are you going to be in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest? So will I. So will Justin Levy and Colin Bower from New Marketing Labs. While we’re there, I’m definitely up for business meetings with people interested in talking about upcoming projects. I don’t like making set time meetings at the event, because things are a whirlwind. That said, when we get it narrowed down to a day, we can usually do okay on getting a meeting set up. I’m also going to be out and about for some socialization, naturally. I won’t be going to many of the parties. I just don’t…

  • Wire Up Your Customer Base

    chrisbrogan
    10 Mar 2010 | 1:30 am
    My friend Mick Galuski is sneaky. Every Wednesday, he sends a direct message of a TwitPic of MY weekly comics. Not some weekly comics. MY weekly comics. He knows that I’ll want them. He knows that I’ll get to them soon as I can. And lately, he knows that I’ll send Kat when I’m out of the country in England and in Colombia to come and get them. I wasn’t that passionate about comics again until Mick MADE me more passionate, by keeping them top of mind for me every Wednesday. He has a @toysoldiergames Twitter account that he’s working on using for other…
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  • The Surprising Old-School Secret to Blogging Success

    Sonia Simone
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:26 am
    About 80% of your blog’s success comes from “ass in chair” time. That’s the time you spend writing posts, editing posts, finding the perfect image, connecting with fellow bloggers, answering comments, shaping up your SEO, and all the other tasks we teach you about here on Copyblogger. You’ve got to get that stuff right. But great blogs are not built by “ass in chair” time alone. There’s actually a significant element to your success that you may be neglecting with all that work and focus. Every once in awhile, you might consider getting out of the chair and physically setting…

  • How to Win in Las Vegas, And in Online Business

    Johnny B. Truant
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:25 am
    I’ve written a few contrarian things lately. Specifically, I ranted a bit about why I think the most common “make money online” technique doesn’t work for most people, and about how, really, the most important ingredients of success are persistence and grit. Then, on my own blog, I ranted about why “systems” for achieving specific results don’t work. I got a lot of comments, emails, and tweets agreeing — too many people are looking for a quick fix, and we need to remember the basics: hard work, and good old-fashioned stick-to-it-iveness. But…

  • Blogging Lessons from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

    Julie Roads
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    A 40 year-old unsolved murder mystery. Strange cryptic codes in a bible. Sweden, sandwiches, and many, many cigarettes. The badass-est female protagonist since . . . forever. And an author who has, posthumously, caused quite a ruckus in the book world and in the minds of conspiracy theorists everywhere. Yes, I’m talking about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. If you haven’t heard of it, the rest of us are inviting you to come out from under your rock. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the…

  • The Power of Confident Writing

    Brian Clark
    9 Mar 2010 | 6:29 am
    There’s a wonderful European-style market and bakery in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. They serve everything from made-to-order salads and sandwiches to chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals. But what I love most about the place is the sign on the door when you leave. It’s classic. The sign doesn’t read “Please Come Again” or “Thank You for Your Business” or some other typical exit sign platitude. It says . . . “See you tomorrow.” That kind of confidence is compelling and downright sexy. Sure, a fantastic product, service, or experience is the starting point from which confidence…

  • What Do You Do When You Run Out of Knowledge?

    James Chartrand
    8 Mar 2010 | 8:12 am
    Bloggers have a distinct disadvantage. When someone hires an expert in — oh, let’s say marketing — that expert can dispense the same information she did for the last client. And the client before that one. And the one before that. Not bloggers. Blogging is about breaking down everything you know into bite-sized chunks so that people can learn it all over a period of time. If they look back through the archives, they can often see the entire breadth of your knowledge. Then one day, your well runs dry. This is a scary moment for any blogger. It’s not like running out of…
 
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  • Never Mind the Valley: Here's Boulder, Part 2

    14 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and fueled by leaders and social hubs such as Micah Baldwin, Tech Stars mentor, #followfriday creator and now chief community caretaker at Graphic.ly of Digital X, and Robert Reich, the founder of Boulder/Denver Tech Meet-up, Boulder's startup community is pumping, even in the midst of recession. Boulder is the home of Blue Mountain cards, one of the first successful online greeting cards websites. In the 1990s, Fortune 1,000 tech companies popped up all over the Western prairie between Boulder and Denver. Since then, Boulder's creative,…

  • ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup

    14 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    It has been quite busy this week on the Web as loads of announcements leading up to SXSW have hit the newswires. This weekend's festivities in Austin look to top last year's Twitter invasion with a location-based show down between Foursquare and Gowalla. It was a busy week at ReadWriteStart as well, so here's a run down of the top stories in this edition of the Weekly Wrapup. This week we've got tips for not killing your startup, how little changes can make big impacts, the truth about VPs of sales and marketing, an early look at some data from TechStars, and an entrepreneur's take on…

  • Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No

    14 Mar 2010 | 3:04 pm
    Andrew Keen is no stranger to controversy. He has irritated bloggers by equating Web 2.0 with communism and enraged citizen journalists with his best selling book, Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. Naturally when I saw Keen's core conversation "Is Innovation Fair?" on the SXSW program, I knew it would incite lively discussion. Sponsor SXSW and the term "read-write web" are perhaps the antithesis of what Keen has become known for. While we as a publication (and often as a community) celebrate the participatory culture of Web 2.0, Keen sees the rise of amateur…

  • Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:11 am
    Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared with large partners and select small developers building the famous Twitter ecosystem of 3rd party applications around the web. A Facebook representative did not offer a denial, saying only that the company would not comment on speculation. The huge social network was once private by default, then made controversial changes in December that pushed hundreds of millions of users…

  • Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less Power to Top Diggers

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:05 am
    Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools. Earlier this morning, we got a chance to sit down with Adelson to discuss these changes in greater detail. Some of these changes will surely be extremely controversial in the Digg community and might also make some publishers who rely on Digg's traffic a bit nervous. Sponsor It's hard to…
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    Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby

  • Thrilled To Be Second!

    Scott
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:01 pm
    I know—nobody remembers the second place of anything. You don’t remember who lost the SuperBowl, or who took 2nd place in the World Cup, or who won the Silver metal, but I have to admit, I’m pretty excited about being #2 this time. First, a little back-story. For the last five years I had been the #1 best-selling author of computer and technology books across all categories (the computer and technology category includes every book about computers of course, but also gaming, photography,  the internet, software, and so on). Well, this year, they (Neilsen, the ratings people…

  • D-Town TV (it’s not just for Nikon shooters anymore)

    Scott
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:23 am
    When I was in The Netherlands last week, I can’t tell you how people I ran into that watch on one of our podcasts, but one guy I met told me although he sees me each week on Photoshop User TV, he said he doesn’t watch me on D-Town TV (the weekly show for DSLR users) because he’s a Canon shooter. I let him know that D-Town TV isn’t just a Nikon-only this season, and that we not only include Canon gear, but we’ve changed the focus of the show from one that covers which button does what, to more of a general show about digital photography, and how to “get the…

  • It’s Friday—I’ve got Nuthin’

    Scott
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:47 pm
    Hi gang: I’ve been heads down on a couple of projects on critical deadlines, and I’ve just got nuthin’ for today here on the blog for today, so…..so…..I’ve…well….uh….how about we make this “Bad Blog Friday?” (Whoops, too late—it already is). Now, it’s entirely possible I’ll wake up in the morning and have something and post it, but I’m just totally beat right now, and I can barely form sentences, so have a great weekend and we’ll see you here on Monday, where hopefully I’ll be somewhat…

  • Photoshop World Pre-Conference Workshops Nearly ALL Sold Out!

    Scott
    10 Mar 2010 | 9:48 pm
    For the first time ever, the optional in-depth, pre-conference workshops we hold the day before Photoshop World officially kicks off, are all nearly sold out in advance, so if you’re signed up to go (or if you’re thinking of going), but haven’t registered for a pre-con workshop, I’d jump on it now, as there are only 60 seats left TOTAL for all 9 workshops combined! Here’s the workshops that still have seats available: HDR Crash Course (3 spots left) >> See the video above << Photoshop for Beginners (7 spots left) Real World Concert Photography (6…

  • Quick Thursday Stuff

    Scott
    10 Mar 2010 | 9:24 pm
    Photoshop World App Updated We just released an updated version of our Photoshop World iPhone App, which includes both new features (including an Opening Keynote countdown clock, plus lots of tweaks to the “My Schedule” feature, including the ability to erase your schedule and delete all saved data), along with some bug fixes. You can download the free App from the iTunes Store, or just follow this link. Loved Nick’s Post Yesterday I really found Nick’s Guest Blog post yesterday fascinating (I especially thought his impressions of Michelle Obama and Annie Leibovitz…
 
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    Smashing Magazine

  • 50 Fantastic Favicons: Episode 9

    Sven Lennartz
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:21 am
      Every now and again we showcase fantastic favicons, those tiny pieces of art that you’ll find in your browser’s address bar or when rifling through your bookmarks. These little gems are important because they serve as visual indicators to help visitors easily identify content in their browser. That aside, favicons are just nice to look at, and way too many websites don’t make use of them. We want to change that, which is why we are presenting what is now the ninth episode in our favicons series: a small article with tiny images and fast loading time… for a change.We’ve…

  • Plasticine Art Showcase: Shape Your Imagination

    Aygul Zagidullina
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:51 am
      Do you remember?.. The first time you played with pieces of modeling clay, melting them in your hands and going deeper and deeper into the colourful plasticine world where your imagination was the only limit. Since the 19th century, when Franz Kolb and William Harbutt independently of each other invented plasticine (modeling clay), it has been used in almost all fields of art: illustration, web design, typography, claymation, installation design.Plasticine artworks can be found just everywhere: advertisements, book/magazine as well as CD/DVD covers, movies / TV series, music…

  • 45 Fresh Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Tools

    Smashing Editorial
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:14 am
      Yes, this is another round-up of fresh and useful Javascript techniques, tools and resources. But don’t close the tab yet, as you might find this one very useful. In this selection we present calendars, forms, buttons, navigation, debugging, optimization and compatibility tables as well as handy resources and tools. We also cover various jQuery-plugins that will help you extend the functionality of your website and improve user experience with ready components or coding solutions.The last section also covers a number of useful educational resources such as a compilation of…

  • Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

    Luke Wroblewski
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:58 am
      Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields.But constraints breed innovation, and mobile forms are no different. The limitations of mobile devices have forced developers and designers to find new ways to allow…

  • Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials)

    Jessica Bordeau
    10 Mar 2010 | 6:23 am
      Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet old-fashioned images have been particularly popular in the past few years. All we do seem to do now is try to recreate the atmosphere of those bygone times anyway. Blurry, distorted and over-saturated images are not just a fad anymore. People have became familiar with the style and even consider it a full-fledged photographic genre.And this is where…
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    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

  • GDC 2010: Hands on with Pocket Creatures

    Mike Schramm
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm
    Filed under: Gaming, iPad One of the best things about going to a convention like GDC is what we in the business call "doing research," which you might know as "playing games." We often get to check out the latest and greatest that developers are working on, and so when Tactile Entertainment offered us a chance to check out their upcoming Pocket Creatures title, we gladly took it. The company is founded by four friends from Denmark, one of whom used to be the Development Manager at Crytek (makers of the PC graphics engine and its flagship shooter Crysis), and Pocket Creatures, due out later…

  • Talkcast Reminder: Tonight at 10pm EDT, now with added fun!

    Kelly Guimont
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:45 pm
    Filed under: Hardware, Retail, iPadYes, that's 10pm Eastern DAYLIGHT Time; hopefully by now you've worked out exactly what time it is where you are so you can show up on time instead of coming in at the end. (Thanks, cell phone with automatically updated clock!) Tonight's show will also include the debut of a TUAW challenge! What kind of challenge? Tune in to find out! While you're there, I'm sure we can find some other Apple news to discuss this evening. I'm sure if we look really hard there is some interesting tidbit out there for all of us to chat about... Unlike those customer service…

  • Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more

    Mat Lu
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving iCal's note handling, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you're using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we'll assume you're running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if…

  • Boo Hoo! SimplifyMedia dropping products and changing direction

    Mel Martin
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am
    Filed under: Multimedia, Internet Tools, iTunes, iPhone, MusicThe problem is, we just don't know where they're going. In a Saturday blog post, the company announced it is "...taking a new direction" and won't be offering their current apps to new users. SimplifyMedia has been offering free software for computer-to-computer and iPhone-to-computer music sharing over the internet. Using the iPhone app, you could connect to your computer at home and stream albums, playlists or songs without any complicated firewall setups. A newer version of the software also allowed remote access to your iPhoto…

  • GDC 2010: Civilization V probably Mac-bound (eventually)

    Mike Schramm
    13 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am
    Filed under: Gaming, Software I've been working like crazy for TUAW here at GDC 2010 (and there's a lot more coverage yet to come), but I did take a little time for myself this afternoon and go see the demo that Firaxis is showing off here of this fall's Civilization V. The latest and greatest Civ is quite different from the past iterations. As you can see in the above photo, the squares have become hexes for the first time ever, units will no longer stack (I know!), and culture will grow only as you pay gold to grow it, one hex at a time. Even though I really only went to see this game…
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    CNN: Top Stories

  • Tropical Cyclone Tomas slams Fiji

    15 Mar 2010 | 1:08 am
    Tropical Cyclone Tomas battered Fiji's northern islands on Monday with gusts of up to 170 mph and heavy rain, but officials had not received immediate reports of damage.

  • Sex abuse cases spell trouble for pope

    15 Mar 2010 | 12:57 am
    With allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests piling up in Germany and Ireland and surfacing in Austria and the Netherlands, Europe appears poised to face church abuse in the broad, wrenching way the United States did in the last decade.

  • 3 linked to U.S. consulate shot in Mexico

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:44 pm
    A drive-by shooting in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, claims the lives of three people associated with the U.S. consulate there.

  • Bus plunges off bridge in India, kills 26

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:37 pm
    A bus plummeted 70 feet into a dry riverbed in northwestern India on Monday, killing at least 26 passengers and injuring 34 others, police said.

  • Widespread power outage hits Chile

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:20 pm
    Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN's sister network in the country reported.
 
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    Strobist

  • Worth a Sub: Michael Grecco's New YouTube Channel

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Celebrity / Nekkid People photographer Michael Grecco has created a YouTube page to display his many excellent behind-the-scenes videos.Some of you may not know that he started out as a photojournalist, and began pushing the lighting envelope way back in the very beginning of his career.The Will Farrell shoot (c. Blades of Glory) embedded above is a great example of why I always enjoy Grecco's time-lapse BTS vids. There's a lot to learn in a minute and change. Not only is he showing you the whole set build, shoot and tear, but there are several cool lighting info nuggets to be had. He is…

  • Q&A: How to Use Your Nikon SB-900 in Optical Slave Mode

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    As most of you know, the discontinued Nikon SB-800 speedlight has an awesome -- yet, oddly undocumented -- built-in slave. But given the questions I have gotten recently, many people who own the newer SB-900s are not aware that their flash has the same capability.A walk-thru on how to access and use the built-in slave in your Nikon SB-900 speedlight, and how to get better results from any slave outdoors, inside.__________SU-4 Mode Button SequenceSU-4 mode is a legacy TTL mode which existed long before Nikon's CLS system. Props to Nikon for continuing to include it. And the day they stop…

  • Speedlights at Twenty Paces

    8 Mar 2010 | 1:18 am
    Wrapping up in Dubai and getting ready to head over to Muscat in Oman for some much-anticipated R&R.Those of you who follow Strobist on Twitter knew that Saturday was a big day for me. After teaching at Gulf Photo Plus all week, Saturday night was the big shootout against Zack "OneLight" Arias and Joey "Not That Guy from Blossom" Lawrence.My shootout results, and what it's like to walk into the belly of hell, inside.__________Pucker FactorAll we knew is that we were were to have 25 minutes to use however we wanted -- including lighting, shooting, editing and post production. And the post was…

  • QOTD: Do You Co-op Gear?

    3 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    I am gonna turn it around to you guys with a question today: Is anyone participating in a formal (or informal) gear co-op program?It seems like a logical choice as a compromise for gear you cannot rationalize owning. Obviously, renting is an option for those who live in NYC or LA (and, increasingly, secondary markets). But it seems to me that the idea could easily be applicable to lighting gear. For instance, a group of weekend enthusiasts or a camera club could pool money for a monobloc kit.There have always been informal arrangements between photogs in a given local area for spotting each…

  • Five Things Music Can Teach Us About Lighting

    28 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    In 1986 I walked into the photo department at The Gainesville (FL) Sun for the first time. I was 21, and it was like walking into heaven. Several well-respected photogs worked there. There was pool glass available for borrowing. There were huge photos on the wall. And there was a nice stereo with a pair of high-end (to me) speakers on top of the bookshelf. Looking back, I think they were Bose 301's. But I was impressed back then.They said that they paid for the stereo by pooling the money they received for transmitting AP specials and enterprise art over the wire. It was the first time the…
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    Digital Photography School

  • 44% of those who own a Digital Camera with Video Never Use it

    Darren Rowse
    14 Mar 2010 | 1:38 pm
    Over the last few weeks we’ve been asking readers whether they use the video feature on their digital camera. While the largest response was ‘My Camera Doesn’t Have Video’ (35%) the break down between the other three responses was interesting. Here is the breakdown of responses from those who DO have the ability to take video from their camera (excluding the 35% that don’t). I guess all up more people use the video feature on their digital camera than don’t – however there’s a fairly large proportion of those who have video at their finger tips…

  • Cloud Photography

    Guest Contributor
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:08 am
    How to take advantage of what is right above you. The sky is the single most abstract and dynamic canvas that a photographer has at his disposal. It is an endless source of inspiration that can change a boring photo into one of tremendous interest. Sweet Home Under White Clouds - by tipiro The sky is a key element in almost all landscape photos and if you can’t get it just right the entire photo will suffer. The problem is that it is often very difficult to properly expose the sky and the ground at the same time. By turning to tools such as graduated neutral density filters or…

  • Do You Share The Images You Take Online?

    Darren Rowse
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:02 pm
    Time for a new POLL. Do You Share The Images You Take Online – if so, how often? I know many of our readers do share photos online on photoblogs or via photo sharing services like Flickr – but this poll is looking at not only IF you do it but how regularly. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Once you’ve voted I’d be interested to hear a little about where you share your photos also (photosharing, photoblog… both/other) and why you’ve chosen to use that medium. If you’ve selected…

  • This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (7-13 Mar ‘10)

    Nicole
    13 Mar 2010 | 6:01 am
    Weekly Assignment This week we repeated an old assignment that we had a lot of fun with the first time around, Jump. We wanted you to get your feet (or someone elses’ feet) off the ground and into the air. We wanted to see people jumping and having fun, and let me say, there’s just something about people jumping that seems to get them to smile! And the sheer joy on the subject’s face in our winner’s shot was one of the things that really stood out to us. unifiedphoto’s picture of the boy sledding down the hill was just spot on. The boy looked thrilled as he (and…

  • Rock Climbing Photography [Video and Tips]

    Darren Rowse
    12 Mar 2010 | 11:23 am
    Building on our recent poll that explored whether readers are using the video feature on their cameras I thought today I’d share this video by Nikon and Australian rock climbing photographer Simon Carter – a video that was shot purely with the Nikon DS3. For best viewing watch it in HD (press play, then quickly hit pause then select tthe 720p HD option in the menu instead of 360p. In the next video Simon Carter shares some behind the scenes information on the shoot behind the above video as well as giving some general rock climbing photography tips. Post from: Digital Photography…
 
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    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

  • Tip – A Bunch of Crop Tool Tips

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:12 pm
    It’s Friday and I’m heading up north to shoot my sister-in-law’s wedding. Wish me luck Anyway, I figured I’d close out the week with a few crop tool tips. • Press R to get to the Crop Tool. It works even if you’re in the Library module. • Once you’re in Crop mode press the letter O (for Overlay) to change the overlays that you see on your photo. They’ll toggle between the rule of thirds, a grid, and several other overlays that you’ll never use • Press A to toggle between constraining/not constraining to the aspect ratio • Press…

  • How Backing Up Just Saved My Butt

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:01 pm
    You probably always hear people talk about backing up right? Well something happened to me recently that I figured I’d share in hopes that anyone not backing up, will start to. The Night Before My Trip to Dubai It all started last week. I taught at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai. The night before I left I did as I always do every night – backed up my Mac with Super Duper (it creates a bootable backup of my entire drive). I have it on an auto backup setting so at some point during the night a backup is created on to a Western Digital MyBook drive. However, since I was also traveling to…

  • The 5 Places I use Lightroom Presets The Most (And the least)

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    9 Mar 2010 | 6:33 am
    If you’ve ever looked into Lightroom’s Presets folder (Lightroom Preferences > Presets area) you’ll see there are actually a lot of different areas in Lightroom that have presets. So which ones do I use the most? 1. Import – This one is pretty much on autopilot for me. Whenever I import, I have a Metadata template defined (bottom section of the import dialog) with all of my contact and copyright information. It’s something I rarely ever change or tweak. 2. Develop – Of course, this is probably the biggest area of presets for me. If you’ve followed…

  • Video – Before & After

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    28 Feb 2010 | 9:01 pm
    Greetings from Dubai! I’m teaching at Gulf Photo Plus this week but I made sure I recorded a video before I left. It’s another one of those before/after videos and it takes one of my photos from a hot air balloon festival I shot last summer from start to finish. It just happens that this one required a lot of Photoshop work. I’m not sure why, but sometimes I still feel more comfortable with the Quick selection tool in Photoshop and a brush, rather than using the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom. Anyway, here it is. Thanks for watching! Click here to download the video to your…

  • Worth-a-click

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    24 Feb 2010 | 5:56 am
    Here’s a few things worth checking out as you surf around the web today. First a couple of “me” things: • I just turned my new portfolio website live over at MattKloskowski.com. • A good friend of NAPP (Firgs) has an interview with me posted on her website (lots of other NAPP interviews as well). • Finally, in other “me” news, I’ve been asked quite a bit about my twittering. So here’s the deal: I’m not much of a “here’s what I’m doing” twitterer. Honestly, I turn off my email and web browser most of the day so I…
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    Joe McNally's Blog

  • Whose Knees Are These?

    Joe McNally
    4 Mar 2010 | 8:14 pm
    Okay, I ‘ll give you a hint. He’s at GPP in Dubai. He uses speed lights. And this is the 3rd time in this millennium he has worn long pants. Give up? Mystery man revealed here. (I also went to his class on social media and if there is anybody on the planet who knows more about the role it is currently playing in our industry, I certainly don’t know them.) Speaking of knowledgeable people in exotic places, my buds Eddie Soloway and Renie Haiduk are heading for Africa. Both are wonderful shooters and teachers. Eddie’s book, A Thousand Moons, is simply one of the most…

  • It’s Raining Here….

    Joe McNally
    1 Mar 2010 | 11:43 am
    It’s not supposed to be raining here. This is Dubai, that giant mushroom of concrete, glass and steel that erupted out of the sun blasted sand and became a magnet for all things over the top. Put the adjective “tallest,” or “biggest” in front of any number of things, and they be here. I’m convinced it’s me. Bad weather just follows me. Last year in Las Vegas, in the springtime, fer chrissakes, I lost a day’s shooting to a snow storm. Here, where for a chunk of the year the temperature dial is set at “fricassee,” it just ain’t…

  • That Kelby Clan…..

    Joe McNally
    23 Feb 2010 | 5:10 am
    Had a blast last week with the gang from Tampa out at PhotoShop 20th anniversary in San Fran. Though a couple folks let me know that no one out there refers to their fair city in those terms. It’s either full blown San Francisco, or just simply, SF. Okay. Nicknames or no, it’s still a great place. We dovetailed with the Kelby Online Training video team, led by the intrepid Scriv, and shot a new video. We had great fun, and great subjects. How can you not like a bunch of guys who sing nothing but Leonard Cohen songs, acapella, and call themselves a Conspiracy of Beards? When they…

  • Dependable Fog

    Joe McNally
    18 Feb 2010 | 1:57 pm
    There are certainties in the life of a photog, to be sure. Shoot, suffer, die. In my experience though, the arrival of fog has never been one of them. Except here, in San Francisco, which is why this city has become one of my favorite places to work or visit. Joe love fog. Fog make everything look nice. You get fog here as certainly as you get water when you turn the tap. Early in the week, I was giddy with it, out on a beach, running around shooting stuff, and a bud who lives locally nodded approval. He said, “Yeah, Joe, it’s a rare condition you’re seeing here. Only…

  • We Just Can’t Help It…..

    Joe McNally
    15 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    Photographers. We’re strange, right? We can’t stop. We run when others walk. We work when others relax. We have no sense of weekends, holidays, time off, time on, or time in general, except as it relates to sunrise or set. When there’s a football game on TV, we aren’t looking always at the action on the field. We’re looking at the sidelines to see if any our buds are covering the game and how much of the long glass out there is black or white. We walk around like addled sumbitches, staring at strange stuff, hovering at the edge of human activity, aching to be…
 
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    Planet Photoshop

  • Light From 3D Shapes

    Corey Barker
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:27 pm
    Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.

  • Vanishing Point and 3D

    Web Editor
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:15 am
    While working in the Vanishing Point filter, you can create a multi-plane grid and return the part of the image contained in the grid back to Photoshop as a 3D layer (choose Return 3D Layer to Photoshop from the flyout menu). Once it is a 3D layer, you can move the object around in three [...]

  • Modify Textures on 3D Objects

    Web Editor
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:15 am
    If you have imported a 3D object that has a texture applied to it, that texture will show up as a sublayer with your 3D layer. To modify or replace the existing texture, simply double-click directly on the texture name in the Layers panel. A dialog will open with the 2D texture. Make whatever changes [...]

  • Photography Book of the Week

    Corey Barker
    10 Mar 2010 | 6:43 am

  • Creating Place Scale Markers

    Web Editor
    10 Mar 2010 | 6:15 am
    You know those scale markers they have on maps that say that 1″ equals 1 mile? Well, Photoshop can create something called Scale Markers. These are measurement guides that are created based on the measurement scale you use. Once a measurement scale is established, go under the Analysis menu and choose Place Scale Marker. In [...]
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