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From Wired News:
One of the great things about Steve Jobs is what comes out of his mouth.
The CEO of Apple Computer is a master of hype, hyperbole and the catchy phrase. Even when he’s trying to talk normally, brilliant verbiage comes tumbling out.
Here’s a selection of some of the most insanely great things the man has said, organized by topic: innovation and design, fixing Apple, his greatest sales pitches, life’s lessons, taking the fight to the enemy and Pixar.
From USA Today:
Seeing is believing when it comes to understanding how consumers surf the Internet.
And they see very little online — including pricey banner ads screaming for attention. That’s one of the findings of a study out today by Nielsen Norman Group, an authority on making websites and products easy to use.
Using sophisticated eye-tracking equipment, the Fremont, Calif., firm was able to track what consumers really look at on the Web vs. what they say they look at.
“This is a sneak peek into people’s brains,” says Kara Pernice Coyne, the firm’s research director.
Webby provides a powerful desktop-style browsing experience on the Pocket Pc platform. Besides tabbed browsing Webby automatically provides the ability to scale web pages using the two top microbrowsers, Skweezer.net and Google Mobile.
Internet Explorer came with my Dell Axim, and it works, but isn’t great. I’ve tried Minimo, the Mozilla-based browser, but it is terrible on my Axim. I haven’t tried Webby yet, but I plan to.
You can check it out for yourself on the Webby web site…
From Gizmag:
As the world’s internet traffic grows relentlessly, faster data transmission will logically become crucial. To enable telecommunications networks to cope with the phenomenal surge in data traffic as the internet population moves past a billion users, researchers are focusing on new systems to increase data transmission rates and it’s not surprising that the world data transmission record is continually under threat. Unlike records where human physical capabilities limit new records to incremental growth, when human ingenuity is the deciding factor, extraordinary gains are possible. German and Japanese scientists recently collaborated to achieve just such a quantum leap in obliterating the world record for data transmission. By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower.
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Last week I discussed the merits of photo critiques. I hope that you have looked at a few of those sites, or others you may find on the Internet and submitted some of your shots for critique. At the same time, there is a lot you will learn by critiquing others as well.
For the past couple of weeks, I have mentioned the Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club annual convention that was taking place last weekend. Today I will give you a summary of the event.
About 200 people attended over the weekend and we had some excellent presenters. Friday night was a competition of 200 slides followed by a presentation by Joe Lefevre displaying many of his composite panorama photographs. Joe creates his panoramas from several photographs to maintain the quality in his work, rather than create them from a single negative using a wide angle lens. Joe also presented a seminar on Saturday explaining his techniques in shooting for a panorama, as well as creating them in Photoshop.
Saturday was split into two tracks. The first track featured an all day session with retired professional photographer Monte Zucker. Monte has received many photographic awards including the United Nations Portrait Photographer of the Year award, 2002. Monte’s presentation focused on lighting and posing techniques for portraits. He explained things and a very easy to understand manner and demonstrated with members of the audience. His informative session was well worth the price of the weekend ticket.
Also on Saturday, Ethan Meleg gave his presentation Life on the Edge: Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula which included a large array of photos of the Bruce Peninsula. Bogden Fundalinski presented a Photoshop tutorial on Creating Science Fantasy in your photos. A second Photoshop tutorial was presented by Randy Zack. Bob Harris, listed by the Photographic Society of America (PSA) as the world’s top color slide competitor, gave his presentation “Searching The World For Compelling Images”. The evening was capped off by a one hour multimedia presentation by Gil Lopez Espina. The event closed with Bob Harvey presenting a two part slideshow, Capturing Drama in your photography and the second revolved around communicating with your images.
Along with the presentations there was both a Slide Salon and a Print Salon. Both events gave the attendees an opportunity to have their work scored against other delegates from the convention.
There is a lot of information at the websites for some of these presenters, from forums where you can discuss photography and have your own photos critiques, to tips and techniques to improving your work.
An event like this offers a lot of opportunities to learn, not only from the presenters, but from all of the other photographers in attendance. They present you with a chance to interact with skilled photographers eager to share their knowledge and in turn, better your own photography. Photographic clubs often have similiar events to this. Check to see if there are any in your area. If you have any questions about camera or photographic clubs, contact a local club. many offer free guest admission to their meetings, or send me an email and I can try to answer any questions you may through my experience in my club.
Next week I will discuss saturation in your digital images, what it is and how you can leverage it for better photos.
The digital photography tip of the week is written by the PCIN Assistant Editor, Chris Empey. Chris is a long time photographer and is currently the vice-president of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. You can see more of his photography at his Photo of the Day website.
If you have a tip to send Chris, or a question about digital photography he can address in the newsletter, send it to chris@pcin.net.
From Baseline Magazine:
Officials at every level treat disaster planning as a long-term problem that can be left for another day. But in New Orleans, that day came—on Aug. 29, 2005—as Hurricane Katrina washed away the city.
But over the last six months, New Orleans information technology chief Greg Meffert has been improvising a plan to not only put the Crescent City’s technology infrastructure back together, but to make it better than it was before.
Meffert’s story holds valuable lessons for any chief information officer struggling with disaster planning and recovery.
From the New York Times:
Some days the first thing visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art see is the soaring neo-Classical Great Hall punctuated by Corinthian columns, niches brimming with flowers and the spacious information desk. Other days, they may glimpse the interior of the famous Temple of Dendur, with its ancient ruins and sloping glass wall looking onto Central Park.
Fifteen million people a year come upon these scenes without ever setting foot in the Met building. Instead, they visit the Web site, www.metmuseum.org, which provides a different view of the inside of the museum every day. These Internet surfers, from all over the globe, number more than three times the 4.5 million visitors who go to Fifth Avenue to the Met every year.
From TechWeb News:
Almost half of senior corporate executives believe their companies are spending too little on IT this year, a survey released Monday showed.
Interviews with 230 U.S. executives showed that 46 percent believed their companies weren’t spending enough on IT, compared to 10 percent who said too much was being spent and 44 percent who said spending was just about right, said Managed Objects, a McLean, Va.-based, business service management company that commissioned the survey.
From USA Today:
Stand-up comic Dane Cook’s frenetic energy and observational style has helped him build a solid fan base over 15 years of touring the club and college circuit.
But Cook credits mainstream success, which includes two best-selling CDs, a guest-host gig on Saturday Night Live, a multi-project deal with HBO, sellout live arena shows and a burgeoning film career, to the Internet.
“Without it, I’d be years behind where I am right now,” says Cook, who plunked down $25,000 to develop danecook.com in 2002. The site and his personal blog on the social-networking site myspace.com are chockfull of comic bits, rants, fan mail, show dates and marketing links, which Cook, 34, incessantly updates. Combined, they pull in more than 1.5 million fans a month, making him one of the Internet’s biggest comedy attractions.
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