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From IT World: Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, knows firsthand that women are an essential part of the Information Technology world. Even so, she believes they aren’t currently attracted to the industry at the same rate as men, and there are several reasons why. “Often I …
Use a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image. Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject. You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well …
The other day Chris was telling me about an image preview tool that he uses called FastStone Image Viewer. It is free software that can either be installed or run as a standalone executable. You can use the software to view, resize, and touch up photos, as well as do things like make a slide …
Every issue of the Windows Secrets newsletter has a Wacky Web section. The latest issue of the newsletter had a link to a trailer for a live-action movie based on the game Minesweeper. It’s pretty funny!
From MSNBC: Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won’t likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name. Likewise newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming …
I finally broke down last week and ordered Call Display for my phone. I love it and can’t believe I lived without it for so long. I’ve received a few calls lately that came from UNKNOWN NAME but had a phone number. As I tried to find out who owned the number, I came across …
From CNN: It was August 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turned 25 years old on Friday — and whose future is …
From IT World: Forrester Research will not stop until it has found a satisfied corporate Vista customer. The analyst firm has published an informal follow-up to an earlier study it conducted in May that showed limited adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system among big businesses. It’s not that everyone was saying no, but 31 percent …
From CNN: Over the past 20 years technology has been shrinking in size as fast as it has been expanding our communication and entertainment horizons. Today’s latest gadgets are so refined and petite that they clip on to a belt or slip easily into a pocket or a bag. The next challenge confronting designers and …
When I was younger, still in high school, I spent a lot of time learning photography, not unlike today. I read all the books I could, I talked to the guys in the local camera shops and most importantly, I shot a lot. However, back then my choices were all film based which was expensive. …