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  • TED Talk: Ditching stop signs for safer and smarter roads

    Holy Kaw!
    19 Mar 2010 | 9:03 pm
    In this interesting TED Talk, venture capitalist Gary Lauder discusses how rethinking the way we structure intersections can save money, time, and lives. Full story at TED Talks on YouTube. Tons of TED tidbits. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Steve Jobs Talks About His Liver Transplant [VIDEO]

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    Adam Ostrow
    19 Mar 2010 | 8:22 pm
    Earlier today, Steve Jobs talked publicly about his life saving liver transplant for the first time at a press conference where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced new legislation to encourage and make easier organ donation.Jobs, whose health was a subject of great speculation before he eventually took a leave of absence from Apple in January 2009, spoke of the gap between the amount of livers needed and the amount available in California. The Apple CEO ultimately received his transplant in Tennessee.You can see Jobs’ remarks at around the 13:00 mark in the video below.

  • Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This

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    Cliff Kuang
    19 Mar 2010 | 9:15 pm
    A French animator's soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator.So, this video by animator Renaud Hallée isn't quite a pure infographic--but as you'll see, it's pretty damn close. Titled Sonar, the short film basically visualizes the sound track. Now, we've previously covered such projects, but this one's interesting because of how much information about the song Hallée manages to squeeze into the image. It quickly gets crazy complicated:The one element that's purely visual about it is the placement of the blips--they don't correspond with pitch or tone. If they did, you could…

  • Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I’m Rooting For An All-Out Location War.

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    MG Siegler
    19 Mar 2010 | 7:04 pm
    I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, they did an awesome job keeping the network up. Instead, I had a problem of a different kind: check-in fatigue. Seeing as location was this year’s Twitter at SXSW, and seeing as I write a lot about location, I wanted to try to use as many of the services as I could during the actual conference. I…

  • First and never

    Seth Godin
    Seth Godin
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:07 am
    I met a new addition to the family the other day. She was eleven days old. It was the warmest day of her whole life the day I was there. And she had just eaten her biggest meal ever. Firsts are fun and exciting and it's neat to keep topping ourselves. I've also come to grips with the fact that I'm never going to eat tuna ever again, and that I'm never going to be able to easily walk onto a shuttle flight at the last minute and just show up in Boston. Never is a lot harder than first, but I guess you get used to it. The internet is like Ice 9. It changes what it touches, probably forever. We…
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  • TED Talk: Ditching stop signs for safer and smarter roads

    19 Mar 2010 | 9:03 pm
    In this interesting TED Talk, venture capitalist Gary Lauder discusses how rethinking the way we structure intersections can save money, time, and lives. Full story at TED Talks on YouTube. Tons of TED tidbits. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Food shaped like its former form

    19 Mar 2010 | 5:31 pm
    Usually, by the time food arrives on your dinner table, it has undergone a chop and cook transformation and looks nothing like its past self. Luckily, URLesque has put together a quirky collection of food shaped like itself for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy dinner! Full gallery at URLesque. Tons of fun stuff. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • The world's most interesting records

    19 Mar 2010 | 3:45 pm
    People love to set records, and Boston.com has compiled a great photo gallery of the most fascinating stuff including: The world’s shortest man The world’s biggest rubberband ball The world’s largest fingerpainting The world’s biggest mug of hot chocolate The world’s oldest living twins Full story at Boston.com. More oddities. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • 365 days of petri dish art

    19 Mar 2010 | 3:23 pm
    Remember playing with petri dishes in seventh grade science class and thinking science was like the coolest thing since New Kids on the Block? Well, petri dish coolness is back and totally hipper than NKOTB. Artist Klari Reis painted a petri dish each day for a year, creating a stunning collection of marvelous science-friendly art. Reis’ blog describes the project as: “Brilliantly colored life forms dance across the wall in theses detail images of an installation project composed of a series of hand painted plexiglass petri dishes…Working with biotech companies in San…

  • Is YouTube safe for kids?

    19 Mar 2010 | 1:51 pm
    The Nielsen Company reports that in May 2009, children ages 2 to 11 made up 9.5 percent of the online population, growing faster than all other user groups combined. But what are they doing online, and do their parents know? Nielsen also reports continued increases in watching videos online. Short form video like YouTube clips made up 83 percent of that viewing in May 2009. YouTube has experienced explosive growth over the past few years, and so has the amount of time kids spend online. Can you let your child enjoy the site without worrying about what he or she sees? Full article at…
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  • Steve Jobs Talks About His Liver Transplant [VIDEO]

    Adam Ostrow
    19 Mar 2010 | 8:22 pm
    Earlier today, Steve Jobs talked publicly about his life saving liver transplant for the first time at a press conference where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced new legislation to encourage and make easier organ donation.Jobs, whose health was a subject of great speculation before he eventually took a leave of absence from Apple in January 2009, spoke of the gap between the amount of livers needed and the amount available in California. The Apple CEO ultimately received his transplant in Tennessee.You can see Jobs’ remarks at around the 13:00 mark in the video below.

  • Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App

    Christina Warren
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:15 pm
    When it comes to accessing Wikipedia on your iPhone, there’s no shortage of options. This week, a new app entered the arena dubbed Articles, and for users who value a solid interface and pleasant viewing experience, it’s an excellent choice.The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store, features some innovative features, like viewing articles based on your location, a really great photo viewer (complete with the ability to either copy photos or save them to your camera roll), and a multi-page interface that works the same way as Mobile Safari.The app also features a pull-down menu, a…

  • Record Numbers Tune in to March Madness Live Stream

    Jennifer Van Grove
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:23 pm
    It’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament time — otherwise known as March Madness — and the online streaming initiative from CBS Sports and the NCAA is already netting massive numbers: 3.4 million hours of video/audio were streamed online by three million unique visitors on day one.Those staggering numbers mean that online viewership is already up 20% over last year’s figures, and apparently a large majority of you have no problem watching from work. In fact, the always clever “Boss Button” — a one-click option to hide your guilty pleasure —…

  • iPad Parody Highlights Device Shortcomings [VIDEO]

    Brenna Ehrlich
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:04 pm
    For all y’all out there who think that the iPad leaves much to be desired, we’ve got the video for you. This parody, made as an assignment for a Comm 340 class (I hope they got an A), highlights all that’s lacking in the mythical device. It doesn’t have a camera, you can’t use it to make a phone call, and the name itself has spawned countless parodies — not to mention throwbacks to ‘90s television — that’s basically this video’s beef with Steve Jobs’s newest shiny, shiny baby.Check out the video below and let us know in the…

  • 5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media

    Kevin Nakao
    19 Mar 2010 | 2:49 pm
    Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media.While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the “coming out” party for location-based services (LBS), maybe this year’s conference signifies the migration of these platforms into mainstream culture. And perhaps the only real “new” concept to emerge this year is the idea that there is finally a real opportunity to make money via “location.”Here are five…
 
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  • Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This

    Cliff Kuang
    19 Mar 2010 | 9:15 pm
    A French animator's soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator.So, this video by animator Renaud Hallée isn't quite a pure infographic--but as you'll see, it's pretty damn close. Titled Sonar, the short film basically visualizes the sound track. Now, we've previously covered such projects, but this one's interesting because of how much information about the song Hallée manages to squeeze into the image. It quickly gets crazy complicated:The one element that's purely visual about it is the placement of the blips--they don't correspond with pitch or tone. If they did, you could…

  • Nation's Jews Abandon Facebook and Twitter, One Day Per Week, Starting...Now

    Dan Nosowitz
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:37 pm
    It hasn't officially been rebranded, of course; God is notoriously conservative about updating that Bible of His. But, as reported by the New York Times, Reboot, a nonprofit Jewish think tank, has come up with a new version of Shabbat that is not only restive but sort of cheekily appropriate. And if you notice a lack of Jews on the internet, starting about now, you'll know why.Shabbat, observed sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, usually involves traditional Jewish meals (including bread, wine, and meat and/or fish), prayers, lighting candles, and spending relaxing time with family and…

  • 3-D Printed Shoes: Quite the Feet

    Cliff Kuang
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:02 pm
    You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it's actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren't more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master's thesis at ArtEZ in Arnhem, The Netherlands, Pauline Van Dongen created a line of high heels, dubbed Metamorphosis. The pieces were exhibited recently in a show in Amsterdam called "The Future of Fashion," curated by Freedom of Creation, a Dutch outfit that specializes in 3-D printed design. The shoes themselves are, like many 3-D printed objects, made of powdered nylon…

  • Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

    Kit Eaton
    19 Mar 2010 | 1:16 pm
    Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto's words came during an interview with the AP. While dodging questions about the future of the Wii, and how he thinks about competitor consoles (particularly relevant now Sony's PlayStation Move is on the way) he noted that getting Nintendo products in use in an educational environment may be the area in which he's most expending his efforts. The DS console, in its various…

  • Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

    Kit Eaton
    19 Mar 2010 | 1:16 pm
    Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto's words came during an interview with the AP. While dodging questions about the future of the Wii, and how he thinks about competitor consoles (particularly relevant now Sony's PlayStation Move is on the way) he noted that getting Nintendo products in use in an educational environment may be the area in which he's most expending his efforts. The DS console, in its various…
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  • Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I’m Rooting For An All-Out Location War.

    MG Siegler
    19 Mar 2010 | 7:04 pm
    I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, they did an awesome job keeping the network up. Instead, I had a problem of a different kind: check-in fatigue. Seeing as location was this year’s Twitter at SXSW, and seeing as I write a lot about location, I wanted to try to use as many of the services as I could during the actual conference. I…

  • The Man Corporations Love and Xenophobes Hate

    Sarah Lacy
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:49 pm
    During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy. Murthy is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO for 21 years of Infosys, the first Indian company to go public on Nasdaq and effectively the company that began the $30 billion Indian IT outsourcing market. Murthy’s idea was so successful that it quickly became controversial—not only within the United States where some Americans feel Indians are “stealing jobs,” but also in India where many are concerned about a tech economy that doesn’t make anything. I wanted to meet…

  • Opera, Safari Beat Chrome On Google’s Own JavaScript Conformance Test

    MG Siegler
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:39 pm
    Back in June, Google launched Sputnik, a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser’s JavaScript conformance. Last week, they made the tool a lot easier for anyone to use, with a version that works in the web browser. The results are interesting. Notably, both the Opera and Safari web browsers beat Google’s own Chrome browser in the test. As you can see in the picture above, Opera is the clear leader, with only 78 failures (the closer to the center, the less errors). Safari came in second with 159 errors, with Chrome in third with 218 errors. Firefox is close…

  • Review: Aperture 3

    Devin Coldewey
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:18 pm
    If you’re a photographer and use a Mac, chances are you’re using Lightroom or Aperture. Probably Lightroom, since Aperture is less popular among pros — and the latest version seems to be an acknowledgment of that. The features added in version 3 are clearly intended to draw casual shooters using iPhoto to the paid image editing honey pot. Since so many of these amazing new features are direct side-loads from iPhoto, it smooths the process and makes the program as a whole more approachable, though whether existing Aperture users will find them helpful is questionable.

  • Crocodoc Sets Its Sights On Adobe Acrobat With New Update

    Jason Kincaid
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:22 pm
    Last month we wrote about Crocodoc, a new Y Combinator-funded company that makes it very easy to upload a text document or PowerPoint deck and mark it up online to share with your colleagues. Unfortunately, it was also pretty bare boned — you couldn’t even save your edited document to your hard drive. Today, that’s changing: Crocodoc has rolled out some key new features (including the ability to save) that make the service significantly more flexible, and also pits it more directly against Adobe’s Acrobat Pro. Aside from the ability to save to PDF, the new version…
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  • First and never

    Seth Godin
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:07 am
    I met a new addition to the family the other day. She was eleven days old. It was the warmest day of her whole life the day I was there. And she had just eaten her biggest meal ever. Firsts are fun and exciting and it's neat to keep topping ourselves. I've also come to grips with the fact that I'm never going to eat tuna ever again, and that I'm never going to be able to easily walk onto a shuttle flight at the last minute and just show up in Boston. Never is a lot harder than first, but I guess you get used to it. The internet is like Ice 9. It changes what it touches, probably forever. We…

  • Anxiety is nothing...

    Seth Godin
    18 Mar 2010 | 2:53 am
    but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.[and a bonus from George Orwell: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."]

  • Not for me

    Seth Godin
    17 Mar 2010 | 2:41 am
    A worthwhile discipline: when giving feedback, separate "not for me" from "not for anyone."If someone brings you a business plan for a power plant that will use perpetual motion as a power supply, it's fair to say, "this will never work, it's impossible."If someone brings you a business plan for a chain of hot dog sushi restaurants, it's fair to say, "this is disgusting, I will never go here," but not helpful to assume that it won't work anywhere under any circumstances.You can say you don't like a book or a movie or a political candidate, but without more data, it's impossible to say that it…

  • Driveby culture and the endless search for wow

    Seth Godin
    16 Mar 2010 | 2:43 am
    The net has spawned two new ways to create and consume culture.The first is the wide-open door for amateurs to create. This is blogging and online art, wikipedia and the maker movement. These guys get a lot of press, and deservedly so, because they're changing everything.The second, though, is distracting and ultimately a waste. We're creating a culture of clickers, stumblers and jaded spectators who decide in the space of a moment whether to watch and participate (or not).Imagine if people went to the theatre or the movies and stood up and walked out after the first six seconds. Imagine if…

  • But it's better than TV

    Seth Godin
    15 Mar 2010 | 2:39 am
    At the local health food store lunch buffet, they offer stir fried tempeh.I never get it. Not because I don’t like it, but because there are always so many other things on the buffet that I prefer.That's why I don't watch TV. At all. There are so many other things I'd rather do in that moment.Broadcast TV was a great choice when a> there weren't a lot of other options and b> when everyone else was watching the same thing, so you needed to see it to be educated.Now, though, you could: Run a little store on eBay Write a daily blog Write a novel Start an online community about your…
 
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  • Tips for Doing the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge

    Darren Rowse
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am
    A Guest Post by Elle from Couple Money. I’ve been blogging for a couple years now and I’ve enjoyed it tremendously. Couple Money is not my first blog, but it is the first one I created with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to share how we’re building our net income while creating a mobile income from our passions and create a community of like minded couples. My other sites started off as personal blogs and haphazardly morphed as I gained readers. Without a particular goal or process, the blogs’ growth tapered off. I wanted to change this with Couple Money and I knew…

  • 30 Valuable Lessons Learned Using Social Media for Small Business

    Darren Rowse
    17 Mar 2010 | 6:39 am
    In this post Mark Hayward shares some great tips on social media for small business. Image by jn is not here Do you own a small business? How long have you been using social media as a marketing tool and what have you learned? In a little over a months time I will have owned my business for just about three years. When I began using social media some thirty six months ago, I had no real marketing background experience, and I certainly had never written a blog post, interacted in a forum, or sent a Tweet. My social media evolution began with a simple foray into blogging as a way to try and…

  • Updates from SXSW

    Darren Rowse
    16 Mar 2010 | 10:30 am
    Over the last few days I’ve been in Austin Texas attending the South by South West Interactive (#SXSWi) conferences. Sometimes known as ‘Spring Break for Geeks’ I try to get out to this gathering each years because there are so many of my colleagues in attendance and it is an opportunity to meet up with old friends, network, do a little business and a meet a few readers at the same time. Today is the last day of SXSW (I return home tomorrow) and despite some late nights I woke up this morning with a start on the dot of 5am (jet lag sucks). As I lay in bed reflecting upon the…

  • 7 Ways to End a Blog

    Darren Rowse
    16 Mar 2010 | 6:39 am
    Yesterday I wrote a post about some of the factors that bloggers might consider when deciding whether to end a blog or not. Today I want to continue the theme and look at some options available to bloggers who have decided to end their blog but who don’t quite know how to do it. Here are some of the most common ways that I’ve seen people end blogs: 1. Sell It Before you decide to delete your blog, or simply decide to stop writing – consider whether it might have some commercial worth. This might not be appropriate for all blogs (for example if you have a more personal blog…

  • When Should You Quit a Blog and Move On?

    Darren Rowse
    15 Mar 2010 | 6:56 am
    Over on Twitter last week @ChrisGuthrie asked me – ‘At what point should you quit a blog and move onto the next project?’ It is a good question and one that I’m not sure that there is any single answer for – however I can certainly talk about what has led me to quit some of my previous blogs. There have been a variety of reasons – in fact in most cases it was more than one reason that led me to quit a blog. The reasons included: Lack of Passion/Interest in the Topic – I went through a phase where I decided to choose topics to blog about that I thought…
 
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  • Redrawing

    chrisbrogan
    19 Mar 2010 | 12:10 pm
    I built my brand on being accessible. You know me because you know that I care about you, that I care about your projects. This is true. But there’s a huge flaw in how this all works out, in the basic math level, and this came really clear to me over the last 10 days. I can’t keep up. If I just manage my inbox, that’s about 10 hours of work a day (600 new mails divided by 1 minute each). If I spend time on Twitter, on Third Tribe, on Facebook, on my blog (in the comments), that’s another 3 hours. If I take two phone calls or do a webinar, that’s another 2 hours.

  • Oprah Needs More Social

    chrisbrogan
    18 Mar 2010 | 1:30 am
    I was interviewed by Derrick Ashong from Oprah Radio, part of the Oprah Winfrey Network. He was smart, personable, fast-moving, and definitely a great person for this space. The experience left me thinking about how FastCompany magazine said that Ashton Kutcher is the new one to watch on the salvation of media and entertainment. To me, the potential savior list looks a bit different: * Oprah * Jon Stewart * Conan (especially if he doesn’t go to Fox) * Rick Sanchez from CNN (from the news perspective) To me, the thing they’re all missing is a deeper integration to social media…

  • The Difference Between Recipe and Restaurant

    chrisbrogan
    17 Mar 2010 | 7:37 am
    I have intent on the brain. So does Tim Sanders, it turns out. During my speech at the first ever GR2L event (get ready to live), I talked about shifting from connections into intent. I was talking about networking at that juncture. I want to expand. And I have a comparison/analogy to light this up. The difference between talking about human business and social media and doing it is the difference between having recipes and running a restaurant. We go to events and network. We collect business cards. Why? Because we don’t know what else to do. We know we’re supposed to network. We…

  • On OPEN Forum- Quick Customer Touchpoints

    chrisbrogan
    16 Mar 2010 | 11:12 am
    I’ve written a post called Quick Customer Touchpoints for business people today over at the American Express OPENForum. It talks about contact/customer management topics, as well as some ways to keep your connections alive. Hope you enjoy. Quick Customer Touchpoints.

  • We Could Do So Much More

    chrisbrogan
    15 Mar 2010 | 7:13 am
    I’m at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. It’s been called “spring break for geeks,” which is definitely the vibe. To the plus, lots of people are making lots of relationships and connections. I think the networking is unsurpassed. Startups are a big deal here, and I think people are going to see some good things coming out in the tech scene (though I didn’t really hear of anything especially giant or buzzy). People have been so very nice at this event. I’m so happy to meet people that I’ve only seen from online. That’s a wonderful thing.
 
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  • The Betty Crocker Secret to Email Marketing that Works

    Sonia Simone
    19 Mar 2010 | 8:09 am
    You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list. So how do you get people to sign up for your email newsletter? You probably already know the answer to this one: Reward them. Give subscribers something great as a “thank you” for signing up. This is usually some form of content — a useful video, a killer PDF special report or white paper, an exclusive podcast. Sure, everyone else does that. Because it works. It works . . . if you…

  • Landing Page Makeover Clinic #23: BabyNapsWell.com

    Roberta Rosenberg
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am
    This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Nicole Johnson wants to get babies and their moms some much-needed rest. She’s packed napping plans, schedules, and strategies into her $37 ebook/consultation package. She’s tried different pricing, Google Adwords, different offers, freemiums, and more to pop conversion, but her results still ping between a snoozy 0.5 to 3%. She has good traffic, but needs more help getting those tired, sleepy moms to buy. Let’s see if we can’t help Nicole give her sales a…

  • Why You Should Always Write Your Headline Last

    James Chartrand
    17 Mar 2010 | 9:24 am
    When you write a post for your blog, your headline is the last thing you should be thinking about. OK, I realize this is Copyblogger heresy. There’s a lot of emphasis on writing a good headline. Hell, I’ve written posts about how to write an eye-grabbing title myself. Brian wrote an entire series on headlines (including a post on why you should always write your headline first), and he’s been known to come up with some pretty catchy ones. But while crafting a good headline is critical to getting people to read a blog post, open the email, or get past the headline to the copy,…

  • The Secret Ingredient to an Irresistible Blog

    Josh Hanagarne
    16 Mar 2010 | 8:18 am
    Things were going pretty well until I bit into my hamburger. Ow. Something was really wrong. “Are you okay?” asked my date. My eyes started watering. I was so confused, but I nodded. I bit down harder and suddenly the hamburger flew out of my hands. I’ve never been so bewildered in my life. Only when I held my hand up did the sorry truth stare us in the face. Somehow, my left ring finger had slipped inside the bun of that burger. I bit down on it. And when it hurt, the cause wasn’t immediately obvious, so I bit down harder . . . so hard I forced myself to drop the hamburger. When I…

  • What Avatar Can Teach You About Repurposing Your Content

    Sherice Jacob
    15 Mar 2010 | 7:58 am
    The entertainment and CGI world has been fawning over the movie Avatar for months, and it seems you can’t watch any entertainment news program without hearing about James Cameron’s groundbreaking 3D epic. And even if Cameron went home last week without the armful of Oscars he expected, directing the highest-grossing movie of all time probably takes the sting out. But despite the movie’s brilliant effects and the unique world it creates, you’ll likely feel as if you’ve heard its underlying story before. In fact, you may very well predict the ending about an hour into the film. So…
 
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  • Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature

    19 Mar 2010 | 6:30 pm
    The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the experience surrounding it. Today, we get to add Google's chapter to "Will One Company Dominate the Cloud" introspective series and take a glimpse of the silent revolution from "index" to "be" that is transforming the company and it's products to the default way to engage the Internet. As fate has it, Google done us a big favor in preparing for this piece. The company has launched an assault on the enterprise with its…

  • Microsoft Updates Bing iPhone App and Removes It from All International iTunes Stores

    19 Mar 2010 | 5:31 pm
    Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing iPhone app. The iPhone app gives you comprehensive access to Bing's core services, including Bing maps and directions, as well as news and image search. Besides offering better stability and a few interface tweaks, the new version of the Bing app also integrates more tightly with the iPhone by giving you access to your contacts in the mapping feature and making it easier to copy and paste URLs and share interesting results through email. Sponsor Releasing Bing for iPhone Worldwide was an Accident... Just as it launched this new version of the…

  • Weekend Reading: Rework, by Fried and Hansson

    19 Mar 2010 | 5:30 pm
    This week we've got a book hot off the presses for your weekly dose of entrepreneurial reading as 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are back with their second book. Released earlier this month, Rework, a no-nonsense rethinking of how to successfully start and run a business, is the second book from Fried and Heinemeier who earlier authored Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application. Sponsor This time Fried and Hansson take a more general approach to business by examining the ways that new companies are disrupting traditional…

  • General Motors Wants To Augment Your Windshield

    19 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Last week we told you about how Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, was bringing an augmented reality (AR) marketing promotion to SXSW in Austin. Now General Motors is kicking it up a notch with some experimental technology that will bring the world of AR to car windshields and provide a heads-up-display (HUD) experience. The new technology, still very much in the testing phase, uses an array of sensors which track both objects on or near the road, as well as the position and angle of a driver's head and eyes. By combining the data from these sensors, GM can then project images onto the…

  • Travelers Love the Mobile Web - But Most Don't Use Travel Apps Yet

    19 Mar 2010 | 12:57 pm
    Once upon a time, you had to bring travel guides, maps and paper tickets on every trip. Today, you can just take your smartphone and get access to all of this information without having to lug a couple of books and magazines around with you. Today, according to a new study by analytics firm Compete, 38% of smartphone users conduct travel research on their devices and 28% use their phones to book at least some of their trips and travel activities. Sponsor Compete found that the most popular travel-related activity for smartphone owners is finding more information about a destination while they…
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  • My First Shoot with the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8

    Scott
    18 Mar 2010 | 11:16 pm
    Tuesday afternoon I was walking by Kevin Agren’s office (he’s our Director of Sales), and he asks if I ever got a chance to try the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom he had gotten us as a loaner. I told him I had actually tried it out on a shoot I did back in December for an upcoming book (one of the images from that shoot is shown above), and that I really liked it, (even more so after I looked up the price—-around $725, whereas most of the f/2.8 glass I had been using for the past few years was more in the $1,800 to $2,300 range, which any way you look at it, is a lot for a…

  • Nancy Staggs Wins 2010 Dean Collins Educators Scholarship

    Scott
    18 Mar 2010 | 10:59 pm
    Honoring the legacy of educator Dean Collins—his gift for teaching, his passion for quality, and his lifetime of contributions to the Photoshop and Photography community—the Dean Collins Scholarship is awarded annually to one high school or college educator nominated by his or her students. The scholarship features an opportunity to attend NAPP’s annual convention – Photoshop World Conference & Expo and includes round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, a one-year NAPP membership, and subscription to Photoshop User magazine. A big congratulations to educator Nancy Staggs, who…

  • New Online Class: How to get Killer Prints from Your Epson Printer

    Scott
    17 Mar 2010 | 11:04 pm
    We just released this brand new class on Kelby Training Online, and although I’m the host of this new class, the star is really Dan Steinhardt from Epson (better known as ‘Dano’), and in this new class we dispel many of the long-held myths and folklore about printing, and show how really easy it is to get great looking prints every time. Dano, the man behind Epson’s Print Academy, knows this stuff absolutely inside and out, and he delivers his insights and information in such a fun, casual, straight forward way and you’ll love learning from him. Here’s the…

  • Catch My Interview with DesignByFirgs

    Scott
    17 Mar 2010 | 10:48 pm
    Firgs has been running a series of behind-the-scenes interview with some of the folks on our team at NAPP Headquarters, including everyone from our Social Media Ninja Nancy Massé to my assistant Kathy Siler (the woman with quite possibly the hardest job in the world), and she even did an interview with the man, the myth, the legend—”Vanelli.” All the questions come from readers, so they’re not your usual questions (or answers), and you can read mine right here. Thanks Firgs for asking me, and creating such a fun series.

  • Win a Nikon D300s and 35mm f/1.8 Lens From Your Concert Shots at Photoshop World!

    Scott
    17 Mar 2010 | 10:41 pm
    By now you guys already know we have a “How to Shoot Live Concerts” in-depth pre-conference workshop next Tuesday in Orlando at Photoshop World (Sponsored by Nikon Professional Services), but I just learned yesterday that NPS is giving away a new Nikon D300s DSLR, along with their new 35mm f/1.8 lens to the student who takes the best shot during the “Live Concert Shoot” portion of the workshop. The judging will take place during the opening keynote on Wednesday morning (the finalist’s photos will be displayed for the crowd to choose the winner by applause), and…
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    Smashing Magazine

  • Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

    Cameron Chapman
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:59 am
      College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge.And the truth is: most college and university websites are horribly designed. Either they look like they were…

  • Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design

    Cameron Chapman
    18 Mar 2010 | 6:36 am
      A Pattern Language is a book about architecture that was written in the 1970s, before the Web as we know it was even conceived. But the book provides hundreds of valuable patterns for community planning and architectural design, many of which can easily be applied to online communities and social networking websites.Niche social networks are popping up online all the time, with many designers and developers taking advantage of pre-built social network platforms and making little modification. It makes sense, after all: why reinvent the wheel when perfectly good ones are…

  • Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way

    Kristin Wemmer
    17 Mar 2010 | 7:06 am
      So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning. Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that looks shoehorned rather than fully integrated and will only require late-game revisions.[Offtopic: by the way, have you already visited Smashing Magazine's Facebook fan page? Join…

  • How to Create a Promotional Snail Mail Campaign

    Dan Redding
    16 Mar 2010 | 3:27 am
      It’s important to promote your design business. This is especially true when economic times are challenging, you’ve got news to announce, or you’re simply hungry for growth. Many forms of promotion are available to the modern designer – with banner ads and Google AdWords among the most popular.In this digital age, it’s easy for web and graphic designers to overlook one of the most effective and fun forms of promotion: the mail campaign. In an era when people are accustomed to communicating electronically, the value and meaning of something you can hold in your hands is…

  • Showcase Of Web Design In China: From Imitation To Innovation

    Kejun Xu
    15 Mar 2010 | 8:47 am
      China is a country with five thousand years of civilization. It is a multi-national entity extending over a large area of East Asia. China’s cultural influence extends across the continent, with customs and writing systems adopted by neighboring countries including Japan, Korea and Vietnam.China has gone through numerous ups and downs and twists and turns, from wealthy and prosperous (as during the Tang Dynasty back in 618–907 AD) to powerless and colonized (as during the Qing Dynasty, just around 100 years ago). Now China is reopening its door to the world again,…
 
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    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

  • Cool weird stuff: TUAW reader accidentally downloads 10.6.3 pre-release

    Michael Grothaus
    19 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm
    Filed under: OS Here's one for the freak occurrence archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us after running Software Update on his new 2.8GHz i7 iMac last night. Something odd popped up. "I got a new 27-inch iMac earlier this week," he wrote. "Last night I checked for updates and it starts 'Downloading **PRERELEASE** Mac OS X Update...' I figured what the heck and let it go. Now my iMac is on 10.6.3 which as far as I know isn't available yet?! I am not a developer or anything so I am not sure why this happened." Just in case you're thinking that Apple employee access was to blame, here are some…

  • MacUpdate bundle offers Parallels 5, we offer chance to win

    Michael Rose
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm
    If you want an economical way to buy into the reigning speed champion of virtualization apps, the MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle may be just the ticket. At $49.99, the 11-app bargain basket is headlined by Parallels Desktop 5 (normally $79 alone). The rest of the lineup is solid as well: Bee Docs Timeline 3D ($65) Spell Catcher ($39.95) Hydra ($79.95) Back-In-Time ($29) ForeverSave ($14.95) Hyperspaces ($12.95) Web Snapper ($15) Mac DVDRipper Pro ($9.95) MacScan ($29.99) If you're buying the bundle early enough (within the first 20,000 purchases -- as of right now they are edging towards 14K),…

  • Steve Jobs helps push organ donation legislation

    Sang Tang
    19 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Filed under: Steve Jobs During a surprise appearance at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California, Steve Jobs joined California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to help advance organ donation legislation. Last year, Jobs flew to Tennessee to receive a liver transplant, and spoke briefly of this. "There were not enough livers in California to go around," he said, according to the San Jose Mercury News. "I was advised by my Stanford doctors to enroll on a list at a Memphis hospital, because it was more favorable to get a liver there. I was fortunate." And without the…

  • iPads sent out to select developers, kept under cover for now

    Mike Schramm
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Filed under: iPadLast week at GDC 2010, I talked to quite a few iPhone developers, big and small, and they all told me exactly the same thing when I asked about the iPad: "No, I haven't gotten my hands on one yet." But apparently there are at least a few developers out there who've gotten test models from Apple, according to Business Week, and the requirements that come with them are as strict as you can imagine. There are 10 pages of rules and regulations, and those include that the iPad has to be kept secured to a fixed object in a windowless room, and the company actually requires…

  • China Mobile angling for iPad, iPhone service in China

    Mike Schramm
    19 Mar 2010 | 3:30 pm
    Filed under: AppleChina Mobile announced at a news conference that it's going after service for Apple in that country -- it wants to host both the iPhone and the iPad in China for Apple. Currently, the iPhone service there is provided by China Unicom, but China Mobile has said that if the iPhone is ported over to its government-approved 3G service (similar, it seems, to the rumored deal with Verizon), then China Mobile would be interested in offering both. Officially, Apple hasn't said anything about this -- it has been confirmed to be in talks about the iPhone, but those are only talks, of…
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    CNN: Top Stories

  • State will fund Casey Anthony's defense

    19 Mar 2010 | 8:13 pm
    The state of Florida must fund some of Casey Anthony's defense in her first-degree murder trial for the death of daughter Caylee, a judge ruled Friday.

  • Reward offered for info in California booby trap case

    19 Mar 2010 | 8:12 pm
    A string of "brazen attempts" to kill members of a gang task force in Riverside, California, has led to a $200,000 reward for information.

  • Pope signs letter on abusive priests

    19 Mar 2010 | 7:23 pm
    The Roman Catholic Church's crisis over sex abuse now has spread through half a dozen countries on two continents. | FAITH SHATTERED | OPINION: CRITICISM "UNFAIR" | OPINION: GOVERNMENTS MUST STEP IN |

  • British Airways strike under way

    19 Mar 2010 | 7:21 pm
    British Airways cabin crew members opted to go ahead with a strike this weekend after talks between the union and the airline broke down.

  • Obama makes final push for health care reform

    19 Mar 2010 | 5:05 pm
    President Obama is making his closing arguments in efforts to pass sweeping health care reform legislation. He will address House Democrats on Saturday, a day before the scheduled vote.
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    Strobist

  • Light Fare: The "Jarvie Window"

    18 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am
    Here's a new use for your ring flash. Salt Lake City-based photographer Scott Jarvie made a unique set of portraits using a Ray Flash ring flash adapter and an 8mm fisheye lens.Gimmicky? Perhaps. Fun and creative? Yup. Cue the flood of imitators on Flickr in 3, 2, 1…(Thanks much to Ben for the tip via the comments section.)-30- New: Strobist Index

  • Something Fun While You Do Your Brackets

    16 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am
    For those of you not in the US, please excuse us while our collective attention turns toward "March Madness," AKA the always exciting, single-elimination NCAA college basketball championship tournament. Our productivity plummets to zero as we spend our workday filling out our brackets and trying to pick the winner in the office pool.What does this have to do with lighting, you ask? Nothing, except for this: I think it is safe to say that, with the airing of the above commercial, Buffalo Wild Wings has just become the Official Chicken Wing of Strobist.com. You gotta love the Frankenflash thing…

  • 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. Hit the…

  • 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…
 
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    Digital Photography School

  • LIFE – Winners Announced!

    Sime
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:31 pm
    It’s been a very tough task for our judges and we’ve finally managed to whittle the 1,925 entries down to just three… It took a little bit longer than we’d have liked and it’s cost us a lot more in coffee! But here they are. LIFE In first place, michaelmix In second place, Flavunish In third place, merzzie I wanted to list so many images here in this post, what I will do is list the top ten (so, seven more) though I am sorry there are only prizes for the first three winners, I really want to thank everyone that participated, commented, viewed and supported each…

  • 5 Mind-Traps of Beginer Photographers

    Guest Contributor
    19 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm
    A Guest Post by Laura Radniecki. Everyone starts their photography journey as a beginner. Everyone, at some point in time, looks to those who have more experience and expertise than them and feels inadequate. It can be overwhelming to pick up this amazing machine [Point & Shoot OR DSLR camera] that is capable of so much, and not really know what to do with it. It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling incapable. If you have felt like this, you are not alone. Here are 5 mind-traps common to beginning photographers, and why you shouldn’t let yourself buy into them. 1. My Photos Are…

  • Beach Photography

    Natalie Johnson
    19 Mar 2010 | 7:22 am
    Whether a tranquil haven of serenity or a jam-packed platform for sun worshippers, the beach is a perfect location for all genres of photography; macro, documentary, seascape, portrait and even wildlife. Here are some pointers to get your creative juices flowing when it comes to beach photography. Waiting for a moment - by ^riza^ Macro and Creative Abstracts Beaches are rife with opportunity for macro shots and creative abstracts. Some typical examples are: footprints in the sand, chipped paint on beach huts or boats, shells on the shore or intersecting blades of dune grass. With the…

  • LESS IS MORE: Weekend Photography Challenge

    Darren Rowse
    18 Mar 2010 | 1:25 pm
    Flowers in a Green Field - by nhburdick This weekend your challenge is to take an image on the theme of ‘Less is More’. We’re going for a fair ‘minimalistic’ approach this time around. Feel free to interpret the theme as you want – but once you’ve taken you ‘Less is More’ image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSLESSISMORE to help others find it.

  • How to Choose Your Next Camera – What and Where to Buy

    Guest Contributor
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:44 am
    Wondering How to Choose Your Next Camera? In this post Kim Brebach from Get the Picture shares some advice on the topic. As on any journey, the next step depends on where you start. If you’re a pro shooter, you won’t be reading this because you’ll know what you need or want. If you’re a serious amateur, you’ll also have an idea of what camera you want next but you may still be looking for some clues. If you own a Point & Shoot you bought 2 – 3 years ago and now want something more serious, you’ll find this useful too. Built-in Obsolescence We hear this so often. Obsolete…
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    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

  • Follow Up – How Should I Teach Lightroom

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:30 am
    First off, there’s a tip for today in a post right below this so make sure you scroll down to read it. Next, thanks very much for the kind words many of you said in your comments yesterday. And even if you didn’t agree with me, everyone was really civil in the way that they did it. Here’s what I’ve learned and I feel we can now put the discussion to rest: 1) I’m going to keep teaching the way that I do it. 2) If the way that I do it entails something that costs extra money (Photoshop not included – see #3 below), if possible, I will try to make brief…

  • Video Tip – Reordering Photos in a Slideshow

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:20 am
    This is another one of those times where I started to write a tip down and realized it was so much easier to show you in a video. This is one I came across while preparing a slideshow last weekend. I wanted to move the order of the photos and let’s just say, I had a small problem. I’ll show you what happened and what I realized the trick is for reordering your photos. Click here to download the video to your computer. [Right-click and choose the "Save As" option]

  • How Should I Teach Lightroom?

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    18 Mar 2010 | 5:29 am
    Weird title for a post huh? After reading some comments from yesterday’s Before/After video with a Black and White example, it got me thinking. A few people commented that the video was a disappointment because not much of the work was done in Lightroom (and it used a 3rd party plug-in). Some even went as far as saying it was a promo for the plug-in. It was odd for me to read that because I was just showing the way I do it and what kind of technologies I’m excited about. So I figured I’d ask you. Not because the comments were so overwhelming (there were only a few). But…

  • News Update – Where’s Matt

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    16 Mar 2010 | 9:13 pm
    Hey folks. First, be sure to scroll down and check out the next video post. It’s another one of the Before/After videos and it’s a little different this time. That said, I wanted to give you a quick “Where’s Matt” update and let you know where I’ll be teaching (at least what I know of) throughout the year. • First, I’ll be at Photoshop World in Orlando next week. If you’re there make sure you stop by and say hi. • In April, I’m co-teaching a workshop that I’m incredibly excited about. There’s still a few spots left but…

  • Video – Lightroom Before/After for Black and Whites

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    16 Mar 2010 | 9:12 pm
    This week I’m heading straight to the request lines for Lightroom Killer Tips. A couple of weeks ago some one requested a before/after video on black and white conversions. It’s actually much easier than most people think, but there’s a few tricks to the whole process so I figured I’d share how I do it. Enjoy! NOTE: I’m adding this after reading some of the comments. I personally use a plug-in from Nik software that I mention in this video (I also show you the LR way). Here’s the thing. I can only show you the way that I do my Black & White conversions.
 
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    Joe McNally's Blog

  • Santa Fe, First Day

    Joe McNally
    16 Mar 2010 | 6:35 am
    Got a good class here in Santa Fe. We started rocking and rolling yesterday, just examining light shaping tools, exposure differences, control of light, both with big and small flash. As I said during the day, we shoulda all been arrested, ’cause we were having too much damned fun. Professional boxer Clara de la Torre came in to be our demo model. It was cool. We did some pretty simple, straightforward umbrella stuff, and then decided to head in the direction of bad ass light. I’ve messed around with this type of light before, which is pretty ideal for athletic bodies. Thing is, I…

  • From the Low Desert to the High Desert

    Joe McNally
    15 Mar 2010 | 7:11 am
    Rick, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dockworker, Dubai. That was the week that was, surely. No blog post last week. Anything I might have written would have been just as incoherent as my schedule. I never plan it this way. Only an idiot would actually plan it this way. Hmmmm……. But I had a bunch of stuff just box car up last week and bump into each other, mostly in the air, in the middle of some time zone my body and my noodle was completely unaware of. But have been shooting a lot in between my travels, and pretty happy with a few things. Up top, the formidable Rick is shot with an…

  • 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…
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    Planet Photoshop

  • Open in Camera Raw from Bridge

    Web Editor
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) [...]

  • Check Out Photomerge!

    Web Editor
    17 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    You can create really cool panoramic images with Photomerge. Located under File>Automate, Photomerge has taken great leaps to make your panoramic photos as painless as possible. In some cases, you can shoot holding your camera close, and shoot in a circle. Thanks so much to Dave Cross for the tip, although I’m sure many people [...]

  • Google 3D Warehouse

    Web Editor
    16 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    Photoshop CS3 Extended’s new 3D capabilities make it easy to modify models created in other 3D programs. However, there are some that may not have a 3D modeling program. Google has introduced the Google 3D Warehouse, which is a library of free 3D models you can import directly into Photoshop and manipulate using the available [...]

  • Exporting 3D to After Effects

    Web Editor
    15 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    When you create a grid box inside Vanishing Point, in addition to having the option of returning that grid back to Photoshop as a 3D object, you also have the option of exporting it as a 3D object that you can import into After Effects CS3 and manipulate in a 3D layer. Just click on [...]

  • Free Color Management Webinar

    Corey Barker
    15 Mar 2010 | 6:54 am
    Datacolor will be hosting a free webinar this Wednesday, March 17, 2010 on color management workflows. Ever wonder how your prints can look ok on screen and just awful when you print them. More than likely you need to calibrate your display. Anyone who uses the monitor settings out of the box should have their [...]
 
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