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• 3 Things to Know about Working in Adobe Bridge
  Published: July 31, 2010
  Source: Digital Photography School
  Do you open photos direct into Photoshop or do you use Adobe Bridge? If you don’t use Bridge, there are some good reasons for changing your habits. You may not realize it but some of how Camera Raw behaves...
• 5 iPhone Apps to Help You Learn to Dance
  Published: July 31, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  It’s National Dance Day, so listen up: You’ve got to get movin’. Some people are born with rhythm and simply know how to move. Others aren’t so lucky. While our mothers may have toted us to childhood ba...
• Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy
  Published: July 29, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes addi...
• Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for Mac OS X [Apple]
  Published: July 29, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  The $69 Apple Magic Trackpad is nothing new. The Wacom Bamboo Touch has offered the same multi-touch functionality for almost a year. Its true relevance is in...
• Longest Pinhole Exposure Ever Is Also Most Beautiful [Photography]
  Published: July 29, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  I love pinhole photography. The fact that people will take a gamble on a piece of film for months—or even years—strikes me as almost romantic, like a time...
• New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK
  Published: July 28, 2010
  Source: Engadget
  Let's be honest -- you saw this one coming, didn't you? Today Amazon is introducing a new reading device for e-book aficionados dubbed simply... the Kindle. The new handheld -- slated to be released on August...
• Travel Photography Subjects: Poor
  Published: July 25, 2010
  Source: Digital Photography School
  This post is number nine of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded story of where you were.  If you’re just going on vacation and on...
• How [Not] to Take a Self Timer Portrait
  Published: July 26, 2010
  Source: Digital Photography School
  This one hit our inbox 3 times today so I thought I’d share it here. How to Photograph yourself with a self timer: Step1: Choose a good background Step 2: Set Self timer on your camera Step 3: Smile Step 4:...
• DMCA Exemptions Don't Matter
  Published: July 28, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  sbma44 followed up to the recent news that jailbreaking iPhones is now legal with an article about DMCA exemptions. He says "The American Prospect has an article up that argues that focus on specific DMCA exe...
• Motorola Mocks Antennagate with Full-Page Ad
  Published: July 28, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Samsung isn’t the only phone maker using the whole antennagate brouhaha to its advantage, Motorola ran an ad in today’s New York Times for its Droid X device complete with the slogan, “No Jacket Required....
• iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites.' Critics Are 'Independent Geeks.' Discuss.
  Published: July 26, 2010
  Source: Wired Top Stories
  According to a survey of more than 20,000 internet users, iPad owners are uncaring elites, while those who denigrate the device lack sex appeal. That's about what our personal anecdotal experience has been ...
• Jellyfish Eyes Solve Optical Origin Mystery
  Published: July 27, 2010
  Source: Wired Top Stories
  A study of optical genes in jellyfish suggests eyes evolved from a common structure rather than separately in dozens of forms, answering a nagging evolutionary question.
• You Are Sexually Attracted to Your Parents, Yourself
  Published: July 27, 2010
  Source: Wired Top Stories
  In a series of experiments where subjects viewed photographs of their opposite-sex parent or a photo morphed with their own face, researchers found that people are turned on by photographs of people who resembl...
• Google Docs Adds Translation Feature
  Published: July 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon). This tweak comes on the heels of a major overhaul to the program, as well...
• Facebook Adds Delete Account Option
  Published: July 26, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  roseability writes "Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account. 'Deactivate Account', under Account Setting, has become 'Deactivate or Delete Account', and when checked it purports to permane...
• Will Ballmer Be Replaced As Microsoft CEO?
  Published: July 26, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  Strudelkugel writes The Beast reports unhappiness with Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft: Sources say the talk around Microsofts Redmond, Washington, headquarters — which has grown increasingly loud ever sinc...
• Now You Can Bump iPhones to Connect on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  Published: July 26, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Bump, the app that makes it super simple to exchange information with other users by bumping phones, has just released Bump 2.0 [iTunes link] for the iPhone.The app features an updated and refined interface plu...
• Herpes Boy screening today at Comic-Con
  Published: July 24, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Comic-Con attendees, don't miss today's screening of Herpes Boy, "an award-winning independent feature film comedy about a social misfit with a facial birthmark (not herpes) who accidentally becomes an Inter...
• Antisocial Social Media: The British Monarchy Joins Flickr
  Published: July 25, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  For such a classical institution, the British Monarchy has tried surprisingly hard to be tech and social media savvy in recent years, but it has failed to embrace the “social” side of the term. The latest e...
• Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++
  Published: July 23, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  snydeq writes "Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike ripped the use of Java and C++ during his keynote at OSCON, saying that these 'industrial programming languages' are way too complex and not adequately suit...
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