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  • Big trouble in McItaly

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:06 am
    McDonald’s new sandwich, endorsed by the Italian government, is leaving a bad taste in food critics’ mouths. Proud Italians rejected the McItaly as being unrepresentative of Italian culture. The government responded by calling the critics “ignorant Stalinists” and claimed that these same critics rejected the Italian-ness of pizza. Do you think the McItaly will take root? Read the full article at the BBC. More on Italy. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Man sets sword swallowing record

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:54 am
    An Australian man broke his own record for sword swallowing today, cramming 18 of the things down his throat. How did he do it? “I stretch my throat with hoses and use a few different techniques to basically enable me to do what, until now, has been impossible.” Read the full article at the BBC. Keep up with more of the headlines from the BBC. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Fantastic photos of extraordinary creatures

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:52 am
    Don't ask me to translate this LiveJournal into English, but some of the most vivid images (beyond your imagination) of exotic creatures ever captured by camera are just a click away through the read link. I'll let the images speak for themselves. There's more where these came from at Imposters' LiveJournal. More images and stories of our fascinating world. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Flirting school for women

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:47 am
    Amidst a surge in popularity for male “pick-up schools” rises a female flirt school. Led by Sue Ostler, a flirt coach and relationship manual author in London's West End, the school is an on-the-job training program where women are taught the basics to exuding approachability and liveliness, in a real bar with real people. Although compared to “pick-up schools” based on the recent fad of Neil Strauss's memoir, The Game, Ostler's school has a much different focus. While the male versions aim to get a phone number or get a girl into bed, the female version is learning to…

  • Jane Austen's tips for social media

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am
    If anyone would have social ettiquette tips, it would be queen of universal truths, Jane Austen. Hubspot puts itself in the British author’s shoes and thinks about what sense and sensibilities she would have for Twitterers. Two of the tips are, for instance: Etiquette matters. Love conquers all. For all the tips, read the full article at Hubspot. More Twitter tips. Permalink | Leave a comment  »
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    Mashable!

  • Apple Store Down, Wild Speculations Abound

    Stan Schroeder
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:40 am
    Whenever Apple store goes down, it’s a moment of geek bliss, especially if you like Apple products. What will Apple launch this time? Will they just update specs on some of their Macbooks, or do they have something really interesting in store for us this time?In any case, the Store is down now, so feel free to share your guesses on what’s coming once it goes back up again. Let’s just hope it’s not common maintenance.Tags: apple, Apple Store

  • Nexus One Gets Live Phone Support, Sort Of

    Stan Schroeder
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:51 am
    There’s no denying it: Google’s Nexus One, although being one of the best Android-based smartphones on the market, isn’t selling well.One of the reasons behind sluggish sales is lack of true customer support. Who does an owner of a Nexus One turn to in case of trouble? HTC, the phone’s manufacturer, mobile network operator, or Google itself? This issue is still not solved, but at least now Google gave customers live phone support.Live phone support is available at 888-48NEXUS (63987) and it works from 07:00am to 10:00pm PST; unfortunately, you can’t request tech…

  • Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media and Entertainment Brands

    Jennifer Van Grove
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:28 pm
    Hello, Hollywood. On the heels of the Foursquare-Bravo TV deal, news of several additional major media partnerships involving the location-based social networking app have dropped this evening.According to various reports, Zagat, Warner Bros., HBO, the History Channel and ExploreChicago have all been added to Foursquare’s media and entertainment mix. Here are the partnerships that appear to be live or coming very soon: ZagatThe New York Times is reporting that Foursquare has signed a deal with trusted restaurant review service Zagat. Zagat’s official Foursquare page is already…

  • Music Ownership Beats Music Subscription in Reader Poll

    Barb Dybwad
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:27 pm
    In last week’s Faceoff Series we asked about music consumption models: Do Mashable readers prefer to own their entire music collections or do some of you gravitate toward subscription services?One week later and the results are in: Ownership wins the day at a full 50% of the vote. Of all our past Faceoffs, though, this edition had one of the highest “tie” votes constituting people who really like both models. The music subscription model still came in second place behind ownership at 28% of the vote, but the “Tie: I like them both!” option was very close behind…

  • Twins Discover Teenage Brother’s Death on Facebook

    Ben Parr
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:45 pm
    This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother.According to Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged onto Facebook to check their walls and inboxes for birthday greetings.Instead of finding happy birthday wishes, the two twins found messages of “RIP Bobby” (their brother) and “RIP Chris Naylor” (a friend of his) all across their Facebook news feeds. Completely shocked, baffled, and hurt, the two rang their brother’s…
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  • Poster-Size Heroin Stamps Bring Awareness to Public Health Issues

    Ariel Schwartz
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:30 pm
    Heroin, like any product, relies on branding to tell its story. GOOD Magazine alum Liza Vadnai has teamed with the Stamp Collective to gather photos of heroin stamps (branded stamp-sized bags of heroin), blow them up to poster size, and eventually show them in an exhibit entitled "Edge Markets: Heroin Use, Stamp Aesthetics, and HIV." According to the Collective:Blown up larger than life, these beautiful, fascinating and unsettling images of the stamps hint at a complex chain from supplier to dealer, the dynamics of drug markets and the story of the marketing of addiction on the streets of…

  • Guess That Highway Sign!

    William Bostwick
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:08 pm
    Photographer Josef Schulz has a game for all the semioticians out there. If Lacan and Rosenquist went on a road trip, they might come back with something like Dusseldorf-based photographer Josef Schulz's Sign Out photo series. Schulz traveled the country photographing highway signs and then photoshopped out all the text, leaving only bright colors and clean geometry. Can you tell what they are? With Vegas's sensory overload back on the architecture scene, buildings becoming more and more media-friendly, and even Google maps updating its billboards, it's refreshing--and surreal--to see…

  • And the Super Bowl Advertiser MVP (Most Valuable Pitch) Award Goes to ...

    Alissa Walker
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm
    If we had to pick one winner from last night's game it would have to be the Saints, of course. But who won when it came to the $175 million ad game? With 62 Super Bowl spots valued at about $2.8 million each (and that's just for the media buy), here are the five other winners and losers when it came to getting their advertising dollars' worth...or not. WINNERSGoogle. This ridiculously simple, heartwarming concept--part of Google's Search Stories--that chronicled a long-distance relationship through a series of search-field entries had Super Bowl parties going "awwwww" all across the country.

  • Portraits of Consumption: Visualizing the Statistics of Waste in America

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:34 pm
    Chris Jordan's body of photographic artwork focuses on the startling statistics of American consumption. Numbers are translated into visual representations--what would all the pollution in the ocean look like? How much space would five seconds of waste take up? Some of these depictions take up whole walls of gallery space. Here are some of the images from Jordan's latest book, Running the Numbers.

  • Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life

    Gina Trapani
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:18 pm
    When you're active on the Web, keeping up with all your online accounts can feel like a full-time job. You want your high school friends to find you on Facebook, your co-workers to follow you on Twitter, and business associates to find you on LinkedIn. But there are only so many hours in the day, and too many Web sites to check in and update. The good news is that you don't have to hire a personal assistant to update all your profiles. With the right strategy, you can manage multiple accounts with minimal effort. Here's how. First, make social network activity come to you. Pick your primary…
 
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    Guy Kawasaki

  • 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.

  • How to follow the Apple announcement

    GuyKawasaki
    27 Jan 2010 | 7:56 am
    Follow the Apple announcement at Apple.alltop. We aggregate over 200 sources there.
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  • Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team

    Robin Wauters
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:44 am
    Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month. The company made one internal promotion, appointing co-founder and VP of Technology Adam Pisoni to CTO. In addition, Yammer recruited David Satterwhite to lead its sales efforts, while Steve Apfelberg was brought in as VP of Marketing. Before working at Yammer, Adam Pisoni served in senior engineering roles at Geni and Shopzilla and co-founded…

  • Tiny Speck Uncovers Glitch, A New Flash-Based Massively Multiplayer Game

    MG Siegler
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:10 am
    Last July, we reported that the new company by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had received a name, and was looking to hire. Tonight, Tiny Speck’s first project has revealed itself to the world: Glitch. So what is it? As we suspected, it’s an online game in the vein of Game Neverending, the gaming project that eventually became Flickr (weird, I know). It’s a Flash-based massively multiplayer game that revolves around solving puzzles. While the game itself will be free, there will be some level of in-game purchases. Or as it’s described on the site: This is not…

  • Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day

    Guest Author
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:12 pm
    Editor’s note: Is Apple going too far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post. He is the CEO of 1020 Placecast, a location-based mobile advertising startup. Apple’s recent behavior bears an increasing resemblance to carriers with respect to the walled garden they are creating around the iPhone. Restricting applications, restricting the use of location on the device, blocking Flash, and now potentially taking advertising in house—these moves are taken from the carrier’s playbook with the hope of locking out meaningful…

  • Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right

    MG Siegler
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:23 pm
    Foursquare continues to sign interesting deals with major players in a wide range of fields. Following the service’s Bravo deal a couple weeks ago, they’ve reached a deal with restaurant rating guide Zagat, according to The New York Times. And AdAge has some details about deals with even more partners, including HBO, Warner Brothers, and the History Channel. The service has been on a roll lately. They’re now seeing over a million check-ins a week, with that rate doubling in the last month alone. And these new deals can only help them as they bring the type of mainstream…

  • The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands

    Leena Rao
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns. But buzz and social dialogue on the web is tough to quantify. General Sentiment has released a report that calculates the dollar value of the buzz, content, and conversation taking place online. General Sentiment’s technology evaluates the volume of mentions and sentiment value regarding a brand, company or person. The algorithm combines this data with website traffic and online news readership…
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  • TEDthink

    Seth Godin
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am
    Can you factor this?If you're like most people, you get a little queasy at the thought. And when you were in tenth grade, you surely wondered why they were bothering you.(the answer is (x-2) times (x-2), in case you were curious.)It turns out that the real reason you needed to do this work was to be able to play with numbers in your head. Abstract numerical thought is an important skill among educated people.Which brings us to TED, a conference held every year in Long Beach. It's going on right now. Watch a few TED videos and try to get ahead of the speaker. They have an idea...it's probably…

  • Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

    Seth Godin
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:57 am
    In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you're going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.Uninformed people need information and insight in order to figure out what to do next. They are approaching the problem with optimism and calm, but they need to be taught. Uninformed is not a pejorative term, it's a temporary state.Clueless people don't know what to do and they don't know that they don't know what to do. They don't know the right questions to ask. Giving them instructions is insufficient. First, they need to be sold on what the…

  • The least I could do

    Seth Godin
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:35 am
    One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. That's actually what they spent most of my time at business school teaching me.No sense putting more on that pizza, sending more staff to that event, answering the phone in fewer rings... what's the point? No sense being kind, looking people in the eye, being open or welcoming or grateful. Doing the least acceptable amount is the way to maximize short term profit.Of course, there's a different strategy, a crazy alternative that seems to work: do the most you can do instead of the…

  • iPad app of my dreams: the digital talking pad

    Seth Godin
    6 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am
    Here's the spec. If you build it and it's great, I'll use it and I'll blog it.A while ago, I posted about the talking pad and a modern version of it.I think there's a killer app version of this for the iPad, and I hope someone will build it. The talking pad is an interactive presentation tool for smart people.OverviewIt's a very simple concept: a collection of pages (slides, images, type, let's call them pages) that are easy to navigate in a non-linear way. Along with the standard zoom features, I'd like to be able to write on any of them in real time using my finger. I can also call up, on…

  • The relentless search for "tell me what to do"

    Seth Godin
    6 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am
    If you've ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: "If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I'm safe."When asked, resist.
 
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  • What Is Your Blogging Goal for February?

    Darren Rowse
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:22 am
    A few days back I asked readers a question: What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back? Some of the responses to the question in comments (and via email and Twitter) revealed a lot of bloggers really wanting to step things up and get what they’ve been putting off done. So – lets set some goals – what do you want to achieve by the end of February? I’m not going to be calling you up to check up to see if you’re meeting your goals – but hopefully in putting them down publicly you’ll find yourself a little more spurred on to reach…

  • 9 Tricks I Used To Triple My AdSense Earnings In 30 Days

    Daniel Scocco
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am
    Guest post by Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips. I have been using Google AdSense to monetize my blogs and websites for as long as I remember. In fact it was the first method I ever tried (I made a whooping $15 on my first month… back in 2005). Over the years I migrated to other methods (e.g., direct sponsors and affiliate marketing), which made AdSense become merely an inventory filler. I was still making around $1,000 monthly from it, but whenever I could I would use other methods over it. Then some months ago I started noticing an upward trend on the CPC of my sites, and I figured that…

  • How I Got Some Paying Sponsors Without Really Meaning To

    Darren Rowse
    6 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am
    A guest post by Josh Hanagarne. World’s Strongest Librarian was about four months old when I got interested in sponsors. I’d read the articles about how to do it, and none of them sounded that plausible for me and my situation. For one, my traffic wasn’t impressive, certainly not to the point where sponsors were approaching me. And, while my blog has become slightly more focused in its first ten months, it wasn’t targeted at any group of readers in particular, so I wasn’t sure how confident niche advertisers would be. It’s a little more focused now, but I can’t really think of a…

  • 29 Debates Bloggers Have about Blogging

    Darren Rowse
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:13 am
    Do you want a formula to guarantee the success of your blog? Yesterday I was interviewed by a journalist about blogging and half way though the interview he asked me what the formula for successful blogging was. His question was innocent enough and asked without agenda but as I pondered it and pondered the many successful blogs that we see in our medium it became very clear to me that while it might be simpler to have a formula to follow to make our blogs succeed that there are many many different approaches to success in this field. One of the things that I love about blogging is that there…

  • What does treating your blog “Like a Business” really mean?

    Lara Kulpa
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:06 am
    Guest post by Mike CJ. “Treat your blog like a business” is something we’re told all the time. It’s solid advice, assuming you want or plan to make an income from your blog, and adopting it as a mindset often leads to the successful transition from a blog into a business. But what does it actually mean? Have a proper accounts system Record income and expenses as they happen. Monitor cashflow – every day if things are tight. There are so many tools out there to help you do this, and many of them are free to use. Outright is one of the easiest. Set objectives The…
 
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    Chris Brogan

  • Earn Your GED- Find Success Tomorrow

    chrisbrogan
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    No, not your General Equivalent Degree. The GED to which I refer is “guest experience design.” What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you. Old words: customer service. New words: guest experience. Disney, where I am this week, has a concept called a Moment of Truth. A moment of truth is “any time a guest comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.” Note that it’s “an impression.” It can be good; it can be bad. Why “guest?” Because guest is much more hospitable than…

  • Pursue the Goal Not the Method

    chrisbrogan
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    In the back of a town car hired to take me to the Kansas City International airport, talking to Jeff, a driver with two kids, self-proclaimed ADD, and a history of quitting rote sales jobs every few months, I realized something of importance to the story of what’s brought me to this place: I am a seeker of the goal, not the method. Now, to unpack. The Method Is What We’re Taught to Pursue We learn our times tables. We learn the 50 states (in the US, at least). We are taught all these rules, these patterns, these systems, these methods. Musicians learn their scales. Painters copy…

  • Your Blog From the Prospect’s Point of View

    chrisbrogan
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am
    When you use your blog to complain or report sideways about the industry at large, what message is that sending to your potential new clients? If you’re spending your time analyzing what other people in your space are doing, citing why they’re wrong, and providing your commentary about all the things they’re doing, what does your next potential customer come away thinking? Is your negative commentary helping them make a buying decision? I’ve rarely seen the tactic work in traditional advertising. You can graze them a little bit. For instance, I’m a bit fond of…

  • Just Lucky I Guess – Kitchen Table Talks

    chrisbrogan
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:46 pm
    In this Kitchen Table Talks video, I just want to address all the nice folks who call me lucky, or who think I’m just sitting around being handed my lot in life. Can’t see the video? Click here. Direct link to the video “Lucky” is absolutely what I am. Here’s what I do to earn my luck: Write a blog post or two a day. Write a newsletter every week. Comment and connect with others daily. Answer and send hundreds of emails daily. Read voraciously. Work with the best clients I can find. Reach into new markets weekly. Travel extensively. Seems lucky to me. People…

  • Some Of The Third Tribe Conversations

    chrisbrogan
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm
    I’m really enjoying participating in the forums at the Third Tribe site. I was just adding my two cents to a handful of forum postings, and thought that I’d show you what some of the topics we’re talking about are, so you’d have a sense of what’s going on. We don’t really share the contents, because the people participating there like having the chance to speak openly/candidly about their marketing challenges, but I don’t see the harm in sharing a few of the topic titles. Here they are: Favorite copywriting and marketing books? Third Tribe Blogroll? 2…
 
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    Lifehacker

  • MyBookmarks Syncs Bookmarks (and Bookmarklets) to Android Phones [Downloads]

    Kevin Purdy
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:30 am
    Android: There's no built-in means of syncing bookmarks to your Android phone, unless you open and enter each one. Interactive bookmarklets, too, are generally a no-go. With the MyBookmarks app installed, you can sync bookmarks and install (most) bookmarklets in Android's browser.To put it simply, you download MyBookmarks from the Android Market to your phone, then run it. You'll get a long string of numbers as your unique ID, and have the option to wipe out all your existing Android bookmarks. Before you hit another button on your phone, export all your bookmarks from your desktop browser to…

  • From the Tips Box: Backyard Igloos, Sink Mats, and Taskbar Arrangement [From The Tips Box]

    Whitson Gordon
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Readers offer their best tips for making effective sink mats, rearranging your Windows taskbar for quick program switching, and writing important information on dried food containers. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for…

  • Remains of the Day: Netflix Streaming's 1080p Upgrade Edition [For What It's Worth]

    Adam Pash
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    A 1080p streaming upgrade is on its way for Netflix users later this year, Adobe is promising faster Flash for Macs, and boredom can kill you. ANI 'Boredom can kill you' According to a study at University College London, extremely bored people are 37% more likely to have died a year after their boredom was measured for the study. So, um, find something exciting to do! [Yahoo News] Netflix Streaming Getting a 1080p Upgrade 1080p HD coming to Netflix instant streaming—we just don't know much about what devices it's going to support, but Gizmodo guesses it's coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3.

  • TweetDeck Updates with YouTube and Flickr Support, Improved Column Navigation [Updates]

    Adam Pash
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:30 pm
    Windows/Mac/Linux (with Adobe Air): TweetDeck—the most popular Twitter client among Lifehacker readers—just released an update to version 0.33, bringing with it more support for viewing media inline without opening a page in your browser (including YouTube videos and Flickr images) and a nice new column navigation tool. Sound good? Check out the video above for more details or just grab the latest here. [TweetDeck Blog via Mashable]

  • Today Is National PC Cleanup Day, So Let's Tidy Up Your System [Computers]

    Lisa Hoover
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    The Web Worker Daily blog reminds us that today is National Clean Out Your Computer Day. Want to do some serious PC cleaning but not sure where to start? We've got your back, so let's get with the purging.Photo by karindalziel. Clean Out Your Inbox One of the first places you'll probably find bogged down with a bunch of junk you don't need is your email inbox. If you use Gmail to manage your email, follow these simple steps to free up loads of space without losing important emails. Once you've wrestled your inbox into submission, assign a Trusted Trio of three folders to keep your inbox…
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    Copyblogger

  • The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion

    Nathan Hangen
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:49 am
    I’ve found it just doesn’t pay to crow too much about what I’ve accomplished. Sure, I celebrate when things go well. But I’ve found that talking too much about my achievements leads not only to criticism, but to disappointment. There’s always going to be someone who’s done more or worked harder. And until they carve my name into the side of the moon, I see no reason in puffing myself up. The minute you get a big head is the same minute that reality smacks you and you realize that you aren’t as cool as you think you are. So self-adulation is something I try to stay…

  • Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting

    Brian Clark
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:51 am
    When I first started Copyblogger in 2006, I was almost militantly against on-page search optimization. Seems strange, since I’d been a successful student of SEO since 2000. It was because I saw all these people fretting over keywords like it’s 1999, and yet they had no links. Their content was weak. Their sites weren’t trusted. You can’t optimize something that’s dead in the water. So my initial goal was to get people to focus on content that attracted attention and links first. Only then do you have something you can make better (that’s what optimize means, naturally). Fours…

  • Landing Page Makeovers 2007-2009: Where Are They Now?

    Roberta Rosenberg
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:46 am
    This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. It occurred to me late last year, as I was readying yet another Landing Page Makeover, that the end of one year and the beginning of the next was a good time to do a “Where are they now?” post. So first things first, I went back and contacted all makeover participants from the very beginning of the series. Of the more than 20 contacted, I learned that one is no longer in business, MagicPumpkinArt.com (Makeover #14) and two are in the midst of developing new products or revising…

  • Does SEO Copywriting Still Matter?

    Brian Clark
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am
    If there’s any one thing that can be said about SEO with certainty, it’s that it manages to cause a lot of confusion. For example, it seems like many people’s idea of SEO was formed 10 years ago, and hasn’t bothered to change with the times. Even an online veteran like Robert Scoble is completely clueless about modern best practices for search engine optimization. So, before we go any further, let me answer the question posed by the headline . . . Yes, SEO copywriting still matters. Here’s why. Search is still the biggest game in town “Pick your survey, search remains one of the…

  • Third Tribe Marketing is Live

    Sonia Simone
    3 Feb 2010 | 5:52 am
    Those of you who subscribe to the Internet Marketing for Smart People email newsletter found out on Monday what Brian and I have been up to for the past few months. We knew it would be cool, because, well, we designed it to be cool. We wanted to build something people would really get value from. But still, when we saw what people were doing inside after the first day, we all looked around at one another and pulled a Keanu. Whoa. Third Tribe Marketing has been active for just under two days now. What’s been happening so far? Artists and SEOs and copywriters and entrepreneurs of every stripe…
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    Macworld

  • Neo Nectaris strategy game arrives on the iPhone

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:51 pm
    Hudson's nifty turn-based strategy game, Military Madness, enjoyed a revival on Xbox Live last year with Nectaris. Now it's spreading the love to iPhones with Military Madness: Neo Nectaris.

  • iHound aims to help you find your missing iPhone

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:31 pm
    At this week's Macworld Expo, iHound Software will hand out stickers aimed at aiding people who find lost iPhones to reunite them with their owners. And for the month of February, iHound has dropped the price on its iPhone app.

  • Report: Google to make Gmail more social

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:22 pm
    Google will add social features to Gmail, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Review: McSweeney's for iPhone

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:07 pm
    A $6 app that provides pieces of random fiction may not be for everyone. But McSweeney's delivers great content in a simple, classy interface.

  • Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:44 pm
    Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported.
 
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  • The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:15 pm
    Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. "I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men," she says. "I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of the profiles they saw contained biblical quotes. We all live in our own worlds with people who share our values and, with networked media, it's often hard to see beyond that." Now picture our perspective leaving our own experiences, zooming…

  • When Negotiation Becomes Dishonesty

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:35 pm
    If you've been a geek your whole life then you understand the term "Canadian girlfriend." The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status. The story is that you met online, you've formed a solid bond and you'll probably break up with your online girlfriend when a girl in your vicinity decides she likes you. The idea is to drive up the value of your perceived social stock. In the startup world, the same principle is used in "ham and egging." Sponsor As pointed out in a recent blog post by…

  • Green Goose: Save Money Using Sensors

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:17 pm
    Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account. At first Green Goose sounded a little gimmicky. Using green Internet-connected eggs, it measures how much energy you expend on your bike or how much water you use in your shower - and transfers amounts from your checking account to your savings account based on the 'savings' you made doing those activities. What's interesting though is that the savings are calculated based on the actions measured by small battery-powered, wireless sensors. You stick these sensors on…

  • Where is Entrepreneurship Really Taught?

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:30 pm
    Between Y Combinator's Startup School, the influx of seed fund incubators, the list of legendary mentors and investors and the dotcom bust's school of hard knocks, is there really any reason to go to grad school? At ReadWriteWeb we're supportive of lifelong learning and universities that coach entrepreneurs, but a recent post by Venture Hacks founder Naval Ravikant has us wondering, "What is the value in grad school?" Sponsor Ravikant suggests that incubators and accelerators like YCombinator and Techstars are the new grad school. He writes, "In some ways, it's better," and that unlike…

  • What's Next For Geolocation? Apps, Apps, Apps

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing. Currently the space is being dominated by Foursquare, with others like Gowalla, MyTown and Loopt trailing in its wake. While Gowalla has secured a large amount of funding, some $8.5 million, and My Town claims more check-ins than the other services, Foursquare is happily ticking along on the seed money provided by its founders (after they sold their original effort, Dodgeball, to Google), and creating a community of developers who are eager to build secondary applications. There are two…
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    Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby

  • Come Join Dave Cross, Corey, and me in Tampa this month for the Photoshop Down & Dirty Tour

    Scott
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:02 pm
    OK, it was really just supposed to be just Dave and Corey splitting the day, but they were kind enough to invite me to do one of my favorite parts of the day—the session on Typography and Designing with Type, so now it’s the three of us. The seminar is coming up on Monday, February 22nd at the Tampa Convention Center, and if you haven’t had a chance to catch the tour yet, it is just one of those days that really opens your eyes to the power of Photoshop, and all the cool stuff you can do—stuff that really looks hard, but is actually easy once you know the secrets.

  • Kelby TV is On The Air! (and NAPP news joins the channel).

    Scott
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:52 pm
    About a month ago we launched KelbyTV.com, a new home for all the video shows we produce each week, so folks would have a central location to find all our shows right online. Last week I mentioned that Dave Cross has launched his own new weekly Podcast called “Ask Dave” and now NAPP News (hosted by Larry Becker)  has joined the channel. The full list of weekly shows on KelbyTV.com include: Photoshop User TV D-Town TV Layers TV Lightroom Killer Tips Photoshop Killer Tips Ask Dave NAPP News Of course, you can subscribe to all of these shows using Apple’s iTunes, and watch them right on…

  • NAPP is Hiring!

    Scott
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:44 pm
    Want to come and work with us? NAPP is looking for a kick-butt PHP programmer to come and join the NAPP team down here in sunny Tampa, Florida (where today’s high is a lovely 65°). If you thrive in a really cool work environment, and want to work with some incredibly creative and fun people (our Web team rocks!), who really value what you do, then contact Barbie Taylor, our HR Director for all the details (just leave me a comment here on the blog, and I’ll get you her direct email). Also, if this isn’t you, but you know someone who would fit the bill, will you pass this on…

  • Shooting the SuperBowl in Miami Last Night

    Scott
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:51 pm
    OK, there is a slight distinction in the headline you see above from my normal football game coverage—I didn’t say “shooting from the sidelines.” This time, I actually shot from up in the stands, because I didn’t have sidelines credential. Now, if you’re wondering how I got some “big glass” into the game, here’s the trick. The NFL has a rule that a spectator can’t bring a lens that’s more than 6 inches long (15.25 cm) into the stadium, and they measure the length as you come through the security. So, I measured my beloved Nikon…

  • Ken Got His Guitar (and The Springs of Hope Orphanage got $2,500)

    Scott
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:40 pm
    Ken Toney, regular commenter here on the blog, won the raffle we did for the “Photoshop Guys Signature Guitar” and he sent me the shot above of the guitar, in its display case, hanging on the wall of his office (which is pretty sweet, by the way). Click on the photo for a larger view. The raffle raised nearly $2,500 for the Springs of Hope Orphanage, and then we raised another $1,300+ from the off camera flash t-shirts (which are still available, in four stunning styles by the way), right here. Also, we raised an additional $1,000 through this blog’s affiliate program with…
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  • Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes

    Cameron Chapman
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:58 am
      In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes.Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. We’ll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create custom schemes that…

  • SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

    Elja Friedman
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am
      Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page.Download the…

  • Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials

    Vailancio Rodrigues
    6 Feb 2010 | 5:50 am
      When you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work. But programmers have the potential to be creative and come up with ideas or concepts that will impact others in positive ways.We often turn to programmers to solve mathematical-related problems, but the concept of mathematics in programming is what powers programmers to innovate. When you think of mathematics you…

  • 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

    Paul Andrew
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:04 am
      Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that…

  • The Art And Science Of The Email Signature

    Kat Neville
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
      Email signatures are so easy to do well, that it’s really a shame how often they’re done poorly. Many people want their signature to reflect their personality, provide pertinent information and more, but they can easily go overboard. Why are email signatures important? They may be boring and the last item on your list of things to get right, but they affect the tone of every email you write.Email signatures contain alternative contact details, pertinent job titles and company names, which help the recipient get in touch when emails are not responded to. Sometimes,…
 
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    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

  • Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

    Mel Martin
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am
    Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchNavigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition. The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction provider. For Facebook and Twitter connectivity, a simple icon tap posts the user's current position, destination, and ETA…

  • Found Footage: Charlie Rose hosts iPad chat club

    Michael Rose
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    Filed under: Found Footage, iPad In case you missed it last week, PBS top gab guy Charlie Rose (no relation) hosted a roundtable discussion about the latest product from Steve & co. on his show, featuring the NYT's David Carr, 'Uncle' Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch founder/would-be tablet impresario Michael Arrington. The segment is about 23 minutes long, but it's a good conversation. Mossberg described the iPad as "wicked fast" and praised the software's grace notes and sophistication, while noting that nobody has really succeeded at making a tablet that the…

  • The tweet that made Steve Jobs furious

    Dave Caolo
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pm
    Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Steve Jobs Apple doesn't have a huge social media presence. There's an iTunes Facebook page and what can arguably be called a MobileMe blog, but that's about it. However, they do monitor the likes of Twitter, like any self-respecting company would, and a recent tweet reportedly ticked off Steve Jobs but good. While publicizing the iPad, Steve met with a number of tech writers in New York including Wall Street Journal editor Alan Murray, who sent the following Tweet: "This tweet sent from an iPad. Does it look cool?" According to Vallyewag, the tweet…

  • Rumor: MacBook Pro refresh imminent, SKUs dropped from Best Buy systems

    Michael Rose
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:30 pm
    Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Macbook Pro Update: Commenters point out that our tipster pulled the Best Buy inventory screen image from this thread on the MacRumors forums (he did provide independent confirmation of the SKU deletion). I was not aware of the forum thread at the time the post was written, and there was at the time no corresponding post on the main MacRumors site (although there is now). My apologies to the forum poster for the lack of credit for the image; I should have double-verified where it came from before running it. In the world of retail computer sales, nothing is…

  • Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one

    Mike Schramm
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touchGame Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many developers working on iPhone games as are working on the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP handheld consoles. That's a pretty amazing number, though it's not quite a surprise when you consider it. First of all, Nintendo DS and PSP…
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    Strobist

  • On Assignment: Trip Jennings

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    A couple of months ago I got to photograph adventure kayaker Trip Jennings for Canoe & Kayak Magazine. Given we were fresh out of 80-foot waterfalls for him to navigate in Howard County, we instead chose the shore of relatively somnambulistic Centennial Lake at sunset…__________Prologue is PastFWIW, this is the back end of the What, Me Worry? post from a few weeks ago. Since the magazine is out, I can now publish some of the photos here.So we'll skip the pre-production info (since you can read it in exhausting detail on the other post) and just hit the lighting stuff.Soft Boxes Gathering…

  • Behind the Scenes on Sunshine

    3 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    American Cinematographer has a wonderful piece online about both the theory and the execution of the lighting in Sunshine. It's a SciFi movie, about the death of the sun and a mission to jumpstart it with a nuclear bomb.There's a lot of technical stuff, which I of course love. But the most interesting thing to me was psychological. They added impact to the eventual sun close-ups by starving the set of any warm colors whatsoever during the earlier sequences.There was a lot of green screen, obviously. As such, they had to create dynamic light proxies for the sun, so the actors could react to…

  • On Assignment: The Glass Menagerie

    1 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    Since 1983, when I started stringing assignments for the Leesburg (FL) Commercial, I have always gravitated toward community journalism. I just find it intimate and rewarding to work within a tight geographic area and get to know the people who live all around you.In the 27 years since, I have obviously gotten the chance to shoot in many interesting and exotic places in the years that followed. But I always gravitate back towards shooting locally -- especially where self-directed photographic projects are concerned.Last year, I photographed Michael Stebbins, who is the creative and artistic…

  • Snooty, Yet Warm

    29 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm
    David Honl has just started shipping a gold-interior version of his popular 8" speed snoot, dubbed the Honl Zebra 8. When the light passes through the snoot, it bounces around and picks up the warm color -- similar to using a warming gel on your key light. Which makes it great for for lighting human beings, especially those from Great Britain.It's a store-bought homage to an old trick I first picked up from my friend Chris Usher. He used to scrounge manilla folders when shooting biz portraits in an office. Just roll 'em up and make a warm snoot with a rubber band.The effect is similar, albeit…

  • Put a Li'l Boom in Your Pocket: The Matthews Scissors-Clip

    28 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    I had a few people ask about how I mounted the SB-800 in the ceiling for the John McIntyre photo last week. I used a Matthews Scissor-Clip, a sweet little light stand / cable clamp made just for suspended ceilings.Hit the jump for more info and pics.__________Here it is with nothing attached -- and upside down from its normal orientation. The grooved, "X-Wing" style base opens and closes to securely grab the panel-holding framework of a suspended ceiling, and drop down with a 5/8" male stud.It'll hold any small light, obviously including an umbrella clamp and speedlight combo. Best yet, it…
 
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    Digital Photography School

  • The Future of HDR and its Use within the Camera

    Darren Rowse
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:22 pm
    A Guest post by Dave Ware from Whalebone Photography. This note is aimed to be a quick discussion on High Dynamic Range and possible future enhancements to improve it. What is High Dynamic Range? High Dynamic Range is a digital processing effect used within photography to combine a number of images of differing exposures to create a consistently exposed picture throughout the entire frame. This increases the luminance (amount of light) visible within an image. Why is it required? The camera’s limitation of amount of colour and luminance it can record is governed by the sensor’s…

  • Canon EOS 550D Announced

    Sime
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am
    The Canon EOS 500D has been replaced with the Canon EOS 550D today, and by the looks of it, replaced with style. Canon EOS 550D 18MP 1080p HD Movies ISO 6400 United Kingdom / Republic of Ireland, 8th February 2010 – Canon today announces a groundbreaking new addition to its expanding, world-famous EOS range of Digital SLR cameras – the EOS 550D. The EOS 550D redefines the boundaries of Canon’s consumer DSLR range, incorporating technologies and features more commonly found in semi-professional DSLRs into the compact, lightweight body favoured by consumers. With a newly-developed 18…

  • Diptychs & Triptychs – 5 Prime Examples

    Elizabeth Halford
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:17 am
    Main Entry: dip·tych Pronunciation: \?dip-(?)tik\ Etymology: Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Greek, from neuter plural of diptychos folded in two, from di- + ptych? fold Date: 1622 1 : a 2-leaved hinged tablet folding together to protect writing on its waxed surfaces 2 : a picture or series of pictures (as an altarpiece) painted or carved on two hinged tablets 3 : a work made up of two matching parts Diptychs and triptychs are a brilliant tool for photographic storytelling. They present two or three images which can be from the same session or they can be polar opposites to show…

  • 40% of Our Readers Have PhotoBlogs

    Darren Rowse
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:37 pm
    Last month we asked readers a simple yes or no question in our site poll – do you have a PhotoBlog? Over 12,000 people responded. Here are the results: I was actually a little surprised by the numbers that did have a photoblog – I guess the many in the DPS audience have discovered the joys of sharing their best shots online! Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. 40% of Our Readers Have PhotoBlogs

  • Neutral Density Filters

    Guest Contributor
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
    A Guest Post by Robin Ryan I’d like to talk today about the potential offered by Neutral Density filters, and how they can make your photos more unique. Ruined Harbour II by Duncan_Smith (used with permission) The smooth watercolour feel in the above photo is due to a Neutral Density 64 Filter. This filter has interested me lately and this photo demonstrates one of its primary uses: to smooth out water and skies without the use of post-processing. I think the results are perfect, and I’d love to have this on my wall. A Neutral Density Filter is one designed to block out a substantial…
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  • Source: Murtha's intestines nicked in gallbladder surgery

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:21 pm
    Rep. John Murtha died as a result of recent gallbladder surgery complications that arose from doctors accidentally nicking Murtha's intestines, a source told CNN.

  • Experts: Recall may not fix pedal issue

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:43 pm
    In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland, Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.

  • Doctor charged in Jackson's death

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:39 pm
    Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star's death last summer.

  • Haitian may have lasted month in rubble

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:19 pm
    A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported Monday.

  • Up to 20 more inches of snow for D.C.

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pm
    A second round of snow is heading toward Washington, D.C., and surrounding cities, where residents are still digging out after a record-setting blizzard.
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  • 4 Signs That it’s Time to Start From Scratch In Lightroom

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:52 am
    It's inevitable. Every time I teach a seminar or workshop I have some one approach me with a catalog problem. It's usually gotten so bad for them that they've sworn off Lightroom by this point because of it. Unfortunately, my advice isn't something they want to hear but it's really the best advice I can give them - Start from scratch in Lightroom. Sometimes it's just more work to try to go back and fix things. That being said, here's 4 signs that it may be time for you to start from scratch in Lightroom. Before you get mad at me though, I've also included links to videos that I've done over…

  • Tip – Exporting Photos with Last Settings

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:07 am
    Here's a neat little tip I use a lot so I hope you will too. If you want to export some photos and use the same export settings you used the last time, you can bypass the Export dialog and just go to File > Export with Previous. Better yet, memorize the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E), and it will automatically export the photos using your last settings. Like I said, its a little tip but it's one I use all the time. Thanks for stopping by this week and enjoy your weekend! Bookmark It

  • Lightroom Q&A

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    3 Feb 2010 | 4:57 am
    Its time for another round of Lightroom Q&A's. Keep the questions coming. Q. When I export images sometimes I export to 640 x 480 for web viewing. The problem is that the images that were shot using a vertical orientation are exported as 360 x 480 instead of 480 x 640. Is there a way to export a 'mixed' group of photos to a custom size yet retain the original aspect ratio? A. That's because by setting 640 x 480, you've essentially set a max size for the height of the image at 480 right? So it couldn't do 480x640 because that would be going against what you've set as a max height. So if you…

  • Preset – Wedding Grain Effect

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:23 am
    Holy cow! It's February, and more importantly my birthday month :) It's also preset day and I've got one that's been asked for quite a bit since I started making presets. It has to do with a "grain" effect and it deals with the new Grain setting in Lightroom 3 Beta. BUT WAIT!!! If you're not a LR3 Beta user don't worry. The preset itself still looks cool and still works in Lightroom 2 (it just doesn't apply the grain). Depending on the photo, the settings still bring out a little graininess in the image so its not a total loss. Anyway, take a look at the before and after by clicking below. It…

  • Video – Monitor vs. Printer Calibration

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    28 Jan 2010 | 6:21 am
    Please install flash player to view video. Hi all. A while back I created a video on the non-Lightroom (but still very important) topic of calibration using a hardware calibration device. From what I can gather out there, a lot of photographers have heard the message loud and clear - use a hardware calibration device. I don't really care which one, just use one. However, from being out on the road I have seen a bit of confusion surrounding what type of calibration you need. There's monitor calibration to create a color profile for your screen, and there's printer calibration to create a…
 
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  • GPP, Again….

    Joe McNally
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:02 am
    Gulf Photo Plus launches in Dubai in a couple of weeks, and I’m stoked to go back to the Middle East. This will be the 4th year for me, and the event just keeps getting better and better. Hats off to Mohamed Somji, Hala Salhi and the whole GPP crew for putting together what has become the premier photo conference and learning center in the Middle East. Got a bunch of reasons to be stoked, principal among them the faculty who heads yearly to that strange and friendly conglomeration of concrete and glass that is Dubai. The talent and teaching that is offered at GPP simply makes me want to…

  • Malaysia Update….

    Joe McNally
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:56 pm
    Louis Pang and his Wedshooter TV gang have fixed up our workshop with wonderfully talented folks to be in front of the lens. Evon has worked with us for a couple days now. Suffice it to say, photographing her is a damn sight different experience than photographing this particular devotee at Thaipusam the other day. The above was shot by Johan Sopiee, a terrific Malaysian shooter based here in KL. It’s been a pretty wild ride since we landed Friday night. Mid-week now. We’ll be cranking right through the weekend. Having fun. Malaysia’s a great place, friendly people, lotsa…

  • Malaysia, First Day….

    Joe McNally
    1 Feb 2010 | 2:01 am
    29 hours, door to door. Check into hotel. Sleep 3 hours. Up at 4am. Go to Thaipusam. Didn’t know about Thaipusam before this trip, and the timing is completely coincidental, but photographically fortuitous. It is one of the wildest explosions of human frenzy, devotion and religious fervor I have ever been to. It is the Hindu celebration of the birthday of Lord Muruga, and thousands gather amidst the heat, sweat and incense to seek his blessings and render homage. Many bear gifts, simple as a pot of milk, up the long walk to the Batu Caves. Others spin themselves into a frenzy, drift…

  • Heading North

    Drew Gurian
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:32 am
    Or, as Einar Erlendssen, the originator and caretaker of the Focus on Nature Workshops says, heading up to join the stark raving mad Vikings. I always wanted to go to Iceland. It seems a land of true intensity, color, and personality. It’ll be a small workshop, and thus very hands on. Our merry band of speed lighters will evidently careen around the countryside (the place ain’t that big) looking, lighting, and shooting. At night we will gather over various Nordic intoxicants and commune with the pixel spirits, and discuss the successes and failures of the day. This will be a…

  • Jakester as Superhero….

    Joe McNally
    19 Jan 2010 | 5:37 am
    So I was with the DLWS gang in the Marin Headlands, looking at the Golden Gate Bridge, which, I can reliably report, does not move. See below. No stranger to photog paranoia and insecurity, which rages in the hearts and minds of shooters everywhere, I continued to prove that salient fact over and over again, as if my right index finger had developed a kind of idiot savant twitch, in that it knew how to do one thing well, that is, push the damn shutter button over and over again. I’ve always been good at simple, repetitive tasks, so I went to town and produced a grid of remarkably…
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    Planet Photoshop

  • Sample Color from Anywhere

    Web Editor
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:41 am
    You can use the Eyedropper tool to pick colors from any area of your screen. First, press the letter I to select the Eyedropper tool, then click-and-hold inside your document, and drag outside the document window onto the object you’d like to sample. Release your mouse button and the sampled color appears as your new [...]

  • Animate 2D in 3D

    Corey Barker
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:31 pm
    Corey shows you how to create a 3D animation form 2D elements using Photoshop CS4 Extended.

  • File>Open Recent

    Web Editor
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am
    Under Photoshop>Preferences (PC: Edit>Preferences), you have an option called File Handling. In the Recent File List Contains field, you can specify how many files you would like it to remember.

  • Opening Multiple Images in Photoshop CS3

    Web Editor
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am
    To open multiple images in Photoshop CS3, you can Shift-click a series of images in the Open dialog, and then click Open. You can also select noncontiguous images by Command-clicking.

  • Saving a Workspace with Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

    Web Editor
    3 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am
    If you go to Window>Workspace>Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus, you have the option of expanding each of the menus and showing or hiding whichever command you would like. This would let you make a specific menu Set for your workspace. Once you have customized your menu, you can save it as part of the workspace by [...]
 
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