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Last week I discussed environmental portraits. We had one reader write asking us “What do you do to photograph an idle layabout?” You can read my answer when viewing the comments for the entry. Remember, if you have any questions or comments about any of the tips appearing here, please send me an email. This …
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From Reuters: Internet retailer Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has started selling groceries on its Web site, a cautious step into a business that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com collapse. The service is limited to non-perishable goods such as cereal, pasta and canned soup, but Amazon can ship those items to …
From Vnunet: The majority of administrative passwords in some of the world’s largest corporations are stored in the heads of one or two IT staff or kept on paper, according to a survey by Cyber-Ark Software. Of the 200 IT security professionals questioned at the Infosecurity event in London, 28 per cent revealed that they …
From eWeek: The Chairman isn’t always right. While Microsoft’s outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been ahead of the curve in predicting many technology trends, he also has backed some notorious flops. Now that Gates officially has announced plans to relinquish his day-to-day company responsibilities by July 2008, we thought it would be a …
From MacNewsWorld: It has come to define a generation. In just five years, Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple iPod has become one of the most popular and iconic gadgets around. More than two million people in Britain own one, and last year alone 22.5 million were bought worldwide: a phenomenal 61,644 a day. …
This following press release arrived in my Inbox today: Lightroom Public Beta 3.0 for Mac Now Available Adobe Incorporates Early Testers’ Feedback and Additional Raw File Support in Updated Beta SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new …
From TechWeb: Backdoor Trojans are a clear and present danger to Windows machines, Microsoft said Monday as it released the first-ever analysis of data collected by the 15-month run of its Malicious Software Removal Tool, a utility that seeks out and destroys over five-dozen malware families. According to Microsoft’s anti-malware engineering team, Trojans that, once …
From TechRepublic: There is no doubt that new technological means of communicating and entertaining are invading the workplace. The question thus arises: Should employers take steps to potentially control employee blogging, instant messaging and their use of iPods and camera phones?
I’ve been having problems with Newsgator lately. Once I’ve had it running for a few hours, it seems to stop retrieving posts. There are some posts that I can’t subscribe to as well, even though I know others who can and they use Newsgator. So I decided to look for an alternative. The one and …