Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Photo tip – The polarizing filter

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When used properly, the polarizing filter can enhance many of your outdoor photographs, yielding photos with more contrast and brighter colors by filtering out polarized light. Here’s how. Light reflected from any non-metallic surface becomes polarized. A polarizing lens, when properly used, will reduce the polarization [...] Related Posts: How to take photos in bright [...]

Photography courses: Online or in person?

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All of us want to improve our photography knowledge and skills in order to make the best of our photo opportunities. Should we do that via online courses or by going in person to a brick and mortar school? Photography has a way of getting into [...] Related Posts: Top 40 online photography tools and [...]

PS3: Kung Fu Live has Kinect like skeletal tracking and object scanning

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A title that has been garnering an unusual amount [...] Related posts: Microsoft’s Tsunoda promises object-scanning feature for Kinect later on E3 2010: Kinect – limitations and advancements Can the PS2 EyeToy and PS Eye compare to the Kinect?

Square Enix reboots Tomb Raider with ‘origins’ story

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The Tomb Raider franchise has been steadily loosing popularity and its not surprising considering how many iterations [...] Related posts: Tomb Raider reboot on way – open-world origin story Tomb Raider reboot due out Xmas 2011 English road named ‘Lara Croft Way’ in honor of Tomb Raider franchise

iOS4.2 features push the iPad into business

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When iOS4.2 finally hit the iPad, it made a lot of consumers very happy indeed. However, the greatest impact of iOS4.2 on the iPad may be in increasing the chances that it will be adopted by businesses. The users [...] Related Posts: What iPad and iOS4.2 bring to the business table What does the iPad [...]

Bluetooth earpiece “camcorder” comes to iPhone

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A cellphone camcorder that clips to the user’s ear has been tweaked to work with the iPhone series. The Looxcie LX1 had previously been an Android-exclusive. The $199 device weighs just an ounce and clips to the ear in the same way as [...]

Tumblr down, and the Web goes mad

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Tumblr is down, still down, after 18 hours and counting offline. And judging by the response around the Web, Tumblr users aren’t happy. Websites go down, often. There are many different reasons for this, from a problem behind the [...] Related posts: Tumblr experiencing rapid growth Tumblr on the rise, eyeing revenue Tumblr now selling [...]

Verizon, Apple to exclude Sprint, T-Mobile

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The bane of the iPhone in the US to date has been exclusivity with AT&T being the source of the significant majority of issues reported by users. Now, a fresh rumor indicates that Verizon has sweetened its offer in order to exclude its smaller competitors. Kaufman Brothers Shaw Wu is the source of [...] Related [...]

Chinese government may have access to Windows source code

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Leaked US government documents suggest Chinese officials may have gained access to the source code for Windows. It’s implied they may have used the code to aid hacking efforts against the West. The claims come in a June 2009 US diplomatic [...] Related posts: Haxxed laptop with Vista attack code removed from Ebay Microsoft gets [...]

Mac App Store to open December 13

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Apple numero uno Steve Jobs has been pushing hard for the early launch of the groundbreaking online retail software outlet. Though developers had been told to ready their apps for today, the company is apparently now targeting next Monday in the hope of launching ahead of the holidays. AppleTell has heard whispers [...] Related Posts: [...]

Space Travel is changing for Russia, the US and China

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Many credit the rivalry between the Russian and [...] Related posts: Russia and US collide in unintended Star Wars Britain’s contribution to space travel – Teddy bear astronauts Russia goes OpenSource; all schools running Linux by 2009

PayPal freezes out Wikileaks

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Paypal has sent the Wikileaks account packing, refusing to service the donations that have been supporting the Wikileaks cause, effectively robbing the secrets leaker of their primary means of support. The Wikileaks controversy has seen a huge amount of pressure mounted on [...] Related posts: PayPal’s “you can’t get there from here” customer service PayPal [...]