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Today’s photography tip is a short one. As Winter is turning to Spring (at least in the Northern Hemisphere where I am) there are many changes occurring around. The days are getting longer, birds are migrating, flowers are begging to sprout. In the coming weeks, the first early wildflowers will begin to arrive, some already …
From Reuters: Bombarded by spam, e-mail users are eager for tools like a “report fraud” button that would help weed out unwanted messages that litter inboxes, according to a survey by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition released on Tuesday. More than 80 percent of e-mailers already use tools such as “report spam” and the …
From the Niagara Falls Review: The world was asked to shut down its computers Saturday. The world apparently didn’t listen. At least that’s what can be gathered from stats offered on the official Shutdown Day website, which showed no noticeable decline in global Internet traffic. Even so, the Montreal-based site says 86 per cent of …
From ComputerWorld: The punchline to an old cartoon is “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” but these days, that’s no longer true. It’s easier than ever for the government, Web sites and private businesses to track exactly what you do online, know where you’ve visited, and build up comprehensive profiles about your likes, …
From ComputerWorld: Automaker BMW schooled Hewlett-Packard Co. in IT system design. Sun Microsystems Inc.’s co-founder and chief architect designs server boxes largely based on the stereo systems of his youth and wants his company to be more like Apple Inc. when it comes design innovation. So, if you think it’s all for technology’s sake and …
This is from a press release I received from 3CX: 3CX a developer of a software-based IP PBX for Windows, today announced that it will give away 100,000 free phone systems. Companies are encouraged to take advantage of this offer to experience first handedly the benefits of an IP PBX when compared with traditional proprietary …
From BusinessWeek: Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroy hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disc drive containing an account worth $38 billion. That may be how a computer technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue feels after deleting applicant information for an oil-funded sales account — one …
From ComputerWorld: In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that promised to let us install Vista from a flash drive instead of …
I am a control freak. When I shoot, I like to have as much control over my photo as possible. I use primarily aperture priority mode to control my depth of field though will switch over to shutter speed priority when I am shooting an image where I need to stop action or where there …
From Forbes: Viacom ratcheted up its battle against YouTube Tuesday, announcing it has sued the video portal and its parent Google for more than $1 billion in damages, citing alleged infringement of the company’s copyrights. The suit, which was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, also seeks an …