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From USA Today: Greenpeace gave Microsoft and Nintendo abysmal rankings Tuesday on their efforts to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles. Nintendo became the first company to score zero out of a possible 10 points in the Greenpeace ranking of 18 leading electronics companies. It provided no information to consumers on the substances …
Yesterday I posted about the free version of Camtasia you could download and register from TechSmith. Well, today I found out that the same company is offering their SnagIt screen capture software for free as well. Just like Camtasia, they are offering their previous version. You can download the software from the TechSmith FTP site, …
From MSNBC: In 2003, Los Angeles Times photographer Brian Walski caused an uproar when it was discovered that his picture of a British soldier yelling at fleeing residents in Iraq, published prominently by many U.S. newspapers, had been altered. Walski had combined two snapshots taken moments apart of the British soldier urging residents to take …
Screencast software lets you record what you do on the computer visually so you can play it back later. It can be used for making tutorials and other instructional material, either for yourself, or someone else (your family, a class, etc). TechSmith, the makers of SnagIt (the screen capture utility) have a special on their …
From InfoWorld: A flurry of blogs and news items on the Internet last week suggested that young Internet users are increasingly relying on instant messaging, texting, and social networking sites to communicate, often via mobile devices, and almost to the exclusion of e-mail. One of those blogs, by Chad Lorenz at Slate, even asserted that …
From the Toronto Star: Rising demand for bandwidth-hogging Internet activities such as swapping music files and watching YouTube videos threatens to outstrip the Web’s infrastructure within three years, creating the spectre of service “brownouts” and potentially thwarting the development of the next Google-sized application, an industry-funded study warns. Despite all the talk about the Internet’s …
One of the biggest concerns for parents is what their children are doing on the Internet. Who is contacting them? Who are they chatting with? How do they interact with strangers? Kim Komando talks about this regularly. I came across a site today where you can listen to podcast about Internet safety called Internet Safety …
The application of light in photography can make or break a photo. One of the things photographers do to make an outstanding photo is manipulate light to create depth, dimension and effect in their photos. They use multiple lights and light modifiers to do that. In this photo, I have used two camera flashes, but …
Last week I received a press release from my contact at Paragon Software (the makers of Hard Disk Manager). They have released a new product, NTFS for Mac OS X: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS breaks the border between Windows and Mac OS, solving an important communication problem in their file systems From now on …
From BusinessWeek: First, cell phones made the streetcorner pay phone obsolete. Now they’re doing away with the need to ask for directions. A surge in phones with built-in satellite navigation capability has sparked a wave of creative mapping and locating services. And it has set off a multibillion-dollar scramble by companies to buy up digital …