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  • 12 cool and unusual iPhone cases

    Holy Kaw!
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:15 pm
    Unique case is all you need to separate yourself from other iPhone owners. Check out Toxel.com's round-up of cool and unusual Apple iPhone cases. See them all at Toxel. More design news, tips, and tricks. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Twestival Global 2010 Raises Funds for Social Good Tomorrow

    Mashable!
    Barb Dybwad
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:52 pm
    One year ago the first Twestival event brought together social media savvy and social good-minded folks in over 100 cities together to raise money and awareness for charity:water. Tomorrow kicks off the second annual Twestival Global, this time reaching more than 175 cities and bringing together thousands in support of education. All proceeds will be donated to Concern Worldwide, an international, non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing suffering and eliminating poverty since 1968.Last year 1000 volunteers and over 10,000 donors raised over $250,000 in support of…

  • Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Releases Solar Company Scorecard

    Fast Company
    Ariel Schwartz
    23 Mar 2010 | 6:19 pm
    The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is known for its e-waste advocacy work--for two decades, the group has advocated for electronics companies to eliminate toxic chemicals in products and increase end-of-life responsibility. And while solar panels may not be the first type of e-waste that comes to mind, solar companies do face many of the same issues as traditional electronics manufacturers. Hence the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's new Solar Company Scorecard."We're looking at some of the same life cycle issues and supply chain issues as with electronics manufacturers. At the beginning of…

  • Twitter Starts Rolling Out Contributors Feature, Salesforce Activated

    TechCrunch
    MG Siegler
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:15 pm
    Back in December, Twitter noted a new feature it was testing out, Contributors. Basically, this allows multiple people to tweet from one account (with individual attribution below the tweet). Twitter noted that the feature wasn’t quite ready for prime time yet, but they started using it on their @twitter account. Today, the service has started rolling out to others. The Salesforce account had the feature turned on about an hour ago. As you can see, they’re already using it. Contributors is thought to be a part of Twitter’s plan to give premium features to businesses. Though…

  • I'm mad at everyone

    Seth Godin
    Seth Godin
    23 Mar 2010 | 2:16 am
    No, not you. Not anyone in particular, actually.I'm angry at the idea of 'everyone' and what they want and what they say.Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way.Everyone is upset at what you did.Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace government is getting this done.Everyone knows you should listen to your customers and do what they say.Everyone knows that our school is wasting money.Everyone says you need to go to a 'good' college.You get the idea. That everyone.The one that's almost always wrong.
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    Holy Kaw!

  • 12 cool and unusual iPhone cases

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:15 pm
    Unique case is all you need to separate yourself from other iPhone owners. Check out Toxel.com's round-up of cool and unusual Apple iPhone cases. See them all at Toxel. More design news, tips, and tricks. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • 20 simple yet striking black and white websites

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:50 pm
    As the age-old saying goes, sometimes less is more. This is definitely true of website designs. Check out these twenty brilliant home pages, which consist only of black and white elements. See a few below: See all twenty at TutToaster. More on web design. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Virtual YouTube choir comprised of 185 singers [video]

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:33 pm
    Composer Eric Whitacre collected YouTube clips from 185 amateur singers in twelve different countries belting out “Lux Arumque” to create a sort of virtual super choir. Whitacre played the role of virtual maestro to the group of singing strangers. Full story at BuzzFeed. Tune in to the top music news. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • 10 essential resources for anyone working in web 2.0

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm
    A solid, sophisticated design is as crucial to the success of your web presence as wearing an ironed shirt to an interview is. The bottom line is that if you want to be taken seriously, you better beef up your design chops. But don’t worry, there are endless design tools out there to help you. Mashable’s even narrowed your options down to ten essentials. From Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives (for those looking to save a few bucks) to generating professional-looking invoices—this is a priceless collection of resources for anyone working in Web 2.0. See all ten at…

  • Cute fix du jour: Puppies eating ice cream

    23 Mar 2010 | 2:40 pm
    March 23rd is arguably the best day of the year. Why? Because on this fateful Tuesday, we celebrate both National Puppy Day and Bed & Jerry’s free ice cream cone day. Darn, if only it were also Petting Ponies Day and Free Rainbow Sprinkles Day too, then we’d be in business. Anyway, on this day of puppies and ice cream, BuzzFeed celebrates both with a gallery of pooches licking up frozen sweet treats. Full gallery at BuzzFeed. Oodles of cuteness. Permalink | Leave a comment  »
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    Mashable!

  • Twestival Global 2010 Raises Funds for Social Good Tomorrow

    Barb Dybwad
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:52 pm
    One year ago the first Twestival event brought together social media savvy and social good-minded folks in over 100 cities together to raise money and awareness for charity:water. Tomorrow kicks off the second annual Twestival Global, this time reaching more than 175 cities and bringing together thousands in support of education. All proceeds will be donated to Concern Worldwide, an international, non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing suffering and eliminating poverty since 1968.Last year 1000 volunteers and over 10,000 donors raised over $250,000 in support of…

  • DEMO: The Winning Startups in Mobile, Social, and More Are…

    Christina Warren
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:38 pm
    DEMO Spring 2010 just ended and executive producer Matt Marshall has just given out the DEMO God awards to the most promising companies in a range of categories, as well as the audience choice award, which offers the winning company $1 million in free advertising on the IDG network. Some of the companies who were big winners are familiar faces, as we’ve already touched on them this week. Without further adieu, the DEMO Gods Spring 2010! Mobile: Zosh — Zosh is an iPhone app designed to replace your need use a scanner just to sign a document. You can see our review of the app…

  • Exclusive: Digg’s iPhone App Launches Tomorrow [SCREENSHOTS]

    Adam Ostrow
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:24 pm
    Digg’s much anticipated native application for iPhone is set to make its debut tomorrow, Mashable has learned. We’ve obtained a few screenshots, which you can check out below.News of an impending iPhone app leaked back in October, when Kevin Rose mentioned it in an interview. Now, Diggers will finally get a native application that supports browsing popular, upcoming, and recent stories across topics, as well what looks like the ability to Digg and bury stories from within the app. Each story also appears to have options for navigating comments and related stories.The launch comes at a key…

  • Russian Singer’s “Trololo” Meme Gets an iPhone App

    Samuel Axon
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:08 pm
    You know that “Trololo” viral video meme with the Soviet singer (Eduard Khil) singing a lyricless song in some sort of Russian alternate dimension 1970s rendition of the late 1950s? If you do, then get this: That meme now has its own iPhone app [iTunes link]. If you don’t know what Trololo is, you can watch the video here.The free app arrived in the Apple App Store on Saturday, and it’s free today “to celebrate the International trololo day.” It features a Jib Jab-esque re-creation of the Trololo vid, with Eduard Khil dancing across the screen in time with…

  • HTC EVO 4G: Sprint’s First WiMAX Phone

    Barb Dybwad
    23 Mar 2010 | 2:57 pm
    Sprint let some hot news fly at CTIA today: The first commercially available phone that will support the WiMAX next-generation cell network will be the HTC EVO 4G. It’s a powerhouse of a phone, running a 1GHz processor even more powerful than what’s under the hood of the Nexus One.While AT&T and Verizon quibble over 3G coverage, a new generation of wireless networks are somewhat quietly being built out. Sprint is backing a technology called WiMAX, which it has already rolled out in a number of major markets — and it just announced the addition of seven more coming this…
 
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    Fast Company

  • Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Releases Solar Company Scorecard

    Ariel Schwartz
    23 Mar 2010 | 6:19 pm
    The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is known for its e-waste advocacy work--for two decades, the group has advocated for electronics companies to eliminate toxic chemicals in products and increase end-of-life responsibility. And while solar panels may not be the first type of e-waste that comes to mind, solar companies do face many of the same issues as traditional electronics manufacturers. Hence the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's new Solar Company Scorecard."We're looking at some of the same life cycle issues and supply chain issues as with electronics manufacturers. At the beginning of…

  • HTC Evo 4G: America's First 4G Phone Is Also the New Android Champ

    Dan Nosowitz
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:14 pm
    When HTC released the HD2, the hardware geeks drooled. To them, it was the best phone on the market, period: no other phone had a huge and crystal-clear 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, a crazy-thin body, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a whopping 448MB of RAM. That's hardware that'd embarrass a top-of-the-line desktop computer a decade ago. But it was flawed, held back by the oppressively awful Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5, which very shortly after was mercilessly killed by its creator. The people cried out for an HD2 with a decent OS--and HTC answered them, and then some, with the Evo 4G.To…

  • Ford Saves One Million Dollars...By Shutting Off Computers

    Ariel Schwartz
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:13 pm
    Talk about low-hanging fruit. Ford estimates that it will save $1.2 million and reduce its carbon footprint by 16,000 to 25,000 metric tons annually--just by shutting off computers when they aren't in use. The secret to getting employees to shut down is a program called PC Power Management that centrally controls laptops and desktops to power down overnight and on weekends. At the same time, the program makes sure that computers connected to the Ford Intranet are able to receive software deliveries during off hours, decreasing downtime during working hours due to excess software loads.

  • Mike Perry Shares the Making of an Art Show

    Alissa Walker
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:11 pm
    Illustrator Mike Perry prides himself on his DIY ethos; Hand Job is his cheekily-named book that's a collection of hand-drawn type. For Perry's new show Lost in the Discovery of What Shapes the Mind, which opens Friday at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he took his handmade aesthetic one step further, creating a behind-the-scenes blog documenting the prep work. True to the exhibition's name, Perry's process photos are every bit as visually-intriguing as we expect the show to be.Creating cards using a Gocco printer.A 3-D ladder to somewhere--or nowhere.Perry brought his hand-drawn…

  • Designing a Movement: Seven Principles for Sustainable Action

    Valerie Casey
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:10 pm
    The sustainability conversation has evolved radically since I started the Designers Accord two and a half years ago. At that time, major magazines like Time and Vanity Fair were declaring "eco-wars," reveling in "eco-nakedness," and celebrating Indiana Jones-Athena hybrid "eco-pin-ups."Industry conversations were punctuated with comments around recycling and material selection. Questions like "What's your end-of-life scenario?" became trendy corporate pick-up lines, provoking our clients into thinking differently about waste (thank you, Bill McDonough). But while the movement matured, the…
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    TechCrunch

  • Twitter Starts Rolling Out Contributors Feature, Salesforce Activated

    MG Siegler
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:15 pm
    Back in December, Twitter noted a new feature it was testing out, Contributors. Basically, this allows multiple people to tweet from one account (with individual attribution below the tweet). Twitter noted that the feature wasn’t quite ready for prime time yet, but they started using it on their @twitter account. Today, the service has started rolling out to others. The Salesforce account had the feature turned on about an hour ago. As you can see, they’re already using it. Contributors is thought to be a part of Twitter’s plan to give premium features to businesses. Though…

  • A Conversation With Hunch Cofounder Caterina Fake

    Michael Arrington
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:55 pm
    New York based Hunch is on a bit of a roll. Users have now answered 50 millions questions on the service, which uses your answers to help give you recommendations for just about anything. Investors have taken note of their progress, and they recently closed a $12 million venture round from Khosla Ventures and previous investors. I sat down with cofounder Caterina Fake last week to talk about Hunch and how it can help people make decisioins about things. As people use the service over time Hunch is able to build out a very deep taste graph of what they like and dislike. It’s a sort of…

  • Qik Indeed. Service Comes Built-In To The Sexy HTC EVO 4G Android Phone

    MG Siegler
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:44 pm
    A couple of years ago, it seems all anyone wanted was access to Qik, the mobile live-stream video service. At the time, Nokia’s N95 was one of the hot devices you needed to run it. Since then, while the service has been growing, it has lost some of its luster — perhaps because it couldn’t run on one of the hottest mobile devices out there, the iPhone, until very recently. But now it may be time for Qik to go back on the offensive. Today, all anyone seems to be talking about is the new HTC EVO 4G, Sprint’s WiMax phone that runs Android which was just unveiled at CTIA. Not…

  • First Look: Nintendo DSi XL

    Dave Freeman
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:35 pm
    Just got another care package from Nintendo, and it's a big one — literally. Nintendo sent us one of its new DSi XL units, and color me impressed. The screens look great, and games look like they should have been on a screen this size in the first place. I don't even need my reading glasses to play any more! Click through for more shots and first impressions.

  • Take Your RSS Feed And Dlvr.it To Twitter, Facebook, And Tumblr

    Erick Schonfeld
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:03 pm
    Things on the Web used to be simple for bloggers and publishers. You published on a Website, and then syndicated it out to other channels via an RSS feed. But then realtime streams started taking over and RSS couldn’t keep up, even though technologies like PuSH are speeding it up. So publishers take their RSS feeds and publish the headlines and a link directly to Twitter with a service like Twitterfeed. But what about Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and all the other social streams coming down the pike? There are so many ways to syndicate your feeds that it is becoming unmanageable. A new…
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    Seth Godin

  • I'm mad at everyone

    Seth Godin
    23 Mar 2010 | 2:16 am
    No, not you. Not anyone in particular, actually.I'm angry at the idea of 'everyone' and what they want and what they say.Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way.Everyone is upset at what you did.Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace government is getting this done.Everyone knows you should listen to your customers and do what they say.Everyone knows that our school is wasting money.Everyone says you need to go to a 'good' college.You get the idea. That everyone.The one that's almost always wrong.

  • Let's spend a (very leveraged) week together

    Seth Godin
    22 Mar 2010 | 12:52 pm
    For a year, people have been asking for a sequel to the free alternative MBA program I ran in early 2009. Here it is. Like the last one, it is also free, but it's different, so please read on for the details.I'm planning on inviting eleven people to an intensive five-day session in New York. This program is designed exclusively for people who: Already have a job Want to do more in that job Can spend five days at my office with their boss's blessing Take initiative as a matter of course Are willing to work really hard and read a lot too Do work that makes the world a better place You have to…

  • SFW

    Seth Godin
    22 Mar 2010 | 2:46 am
    Everybody knows what NSFW means. It's not safe for work if a link contains misogynistic videos, or various curse words or insane prattling sure to upset the boss and your co-workers.But what about safe for work? Have we thought too much about what's safe?Is it SFW to criticize a plan your boss loves?Is it SFW to ship a product without having every single possible meeting beforehand?Is it SFW to engage with your customers honestly?Perhaps it's time to revisit what's safe where you work.

  • Do you make slush?

    Seth Godin
    21 Mar 2010 | 2:43 am
    A few months ago, the Journal wrote a piece about the demise of the slush pile, that undifferentiated mass of unsolicited ideas from authors and screenwriters in search of a publisher or studio.They missed the point.In the words of Michael Brooke, "I'm not interested in creating slush."If you have something good, really good, what's it doing in the slush pile?Bring it to the world directly, make your own video, write your own ebook, post your own blog, record your own music.Or find an agent, a great agent, a selective agent, one that's almost impossible to get through to, one that commands…

  • When a freelancer changes the game

    Seth Godin
    20 Mar 2010 | 2:43 am
    Often, businesses hire freelancers (writers, photographers, process consultants, trainers) to solve a specific problem for the lowest possible cost. And a good freelancer at the right price is often the right approach.Sometimes, though, you spend more and get something great. You seek out and find a linchpin who combines inspiration and professionalism and initiative and pushes back on your quest for average. When you interact with someone like that, you might pay more but you get far more than you paid.I recently did a photo shoot with my friend Brian, and from the moment I walked into the…
 
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    Wired Top Stories

  • Security Watch: Beware the NSA's Geek-Spy Complex

    Noah Shachtman
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    With both code-breaking spies and code-making geeks under its roof, the National Security Agency is suffering from a split personality. Let's break it up, Wired's Noah Shachtman says.

  • 6 Ways We're Already Geoengineering Earth

    Brandon Keim
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Intentionally hacking the planet to ward off disastrous climate change is a controversial idea. But we're already geoengineering the Earth unintentionally in massive ways. Here are six of the biggest changes we've already made to our planet.

  • Q&A: Geoengineering: 'Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come'

    Alexis Madrigal
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    We have no choice but to study the geoengineering options for flighting climate change, says Eli Kintisch, author of the new book, Hack the Planet. Kintisch explains why in this Q&A.

  • Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules

    Alexis Madrigal
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Earth scientists are meeting this week to try to hash out a set of regulations for researching possible ways to geoengineer the planet to fight climate change.

  • Hack the Planet: Do or Die?

    Eli Kintisch
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Read an exclusive excerpt from the upcoming book Hack the Planet by science journalist Eli Kintisch. He explores geoengineering to combat climate change.
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    ProBlogger Blog Tips

  • Where is Your Favorite Place to Blog? [POLL]

    Darren Rowse
    23 Mar 2010 | 6:27 am
    It’s been just over two years since I last ran this poll – so lets see if things have changed with the growth of WiFi and the popularity of mobile devices: n Where is Your Favorite Place to Blog? Other Home Office Cafe In Front of the TV In Bed At Work View Results Looking forward to seeing how you respond! PS: sorry about the ordering of options, ‘other’ should really have been the last one. Not sure why it ended up the top! Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Where is Your Favorite Place to Blog? [POLL] Share This

  • How to Blog When You’re Not a Writer

    Darren Rowse
    22 Mar 2010 | 7:29 am
    In this post Mark Hayward shares some tips on blogging for small business when you’re not a writer. image by tomswift46 Have you ever accidentally slammed your hand in a car door? OUCH! I think that very unpleasant feeling can be compared to how some small business owners feel about blogging. Until very recently, I would never have published anything on the Internet because I have never considered myself a writer. Well, that all changed when I purchased my small business and suddenly I was forced to start producing content so that I could try to rank in Google, educate customers, and…

  • The Casual Observer: Anatomy of a Multi-Author Blog

    Darren Rowse
    21 Mar 2010 | 7:12 am
    A Guest Post by Kosmo from The Casual Observer. I am the founder and editor-in-chief of The Casual Observer, a site that has the goal of bringing an eclectic mix of fresh content to its readers every day.  We currently have ten authors contributing on a regular basis, with a handful of others writing an occasional article.  In a blogosphere dominated by niche-oriented, single author blogs, what makes The Casual Observer tick? Why Multiple Authors? When I started the site, I had no intention of involving multiple authors.  While I always intended for the site to contain an eclectic mix of…

  • Do you Disclose Affiliate Links?

    Darren Rowse
    20 Mar 2010 | 6:43 am
    One of the most common questions I’m asked since the new FTC regulations regarding bloggers came in is around disclosing affiliate links. As an Australian I’m not directly impacted by the FTC and its regulations so I’ve not really had to change my own approach to disclosure – but I’d be interested to hear a bit of discussion on the topic – particularly around these questions: Do you disclose affiliate links on your blog in some way? If so – how do you do it (every time you use one, in the bottom of posts, site wide disclosures…. something else)?

  • Tips for Doing the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge

    Darren Rowse
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am
    A Guest Post by Elle from Couple Money. I’ve been blogging for a couple years now and I’ve enjoyed it tremendously. Couple Money is not my first blog, but it is the first one I created with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to share how we’re building our net income while creating a mobile income from our passions and create a community of like minded couples. My other sites started off as personal blogs and haphazardly morphed as I gained readers. Without a particular goal or process, the blogs’ growth tapered off. I wanted to change this with Couple Money and I knew…
 
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    MACRUMORS

  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Set to Launch April 12th

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:06 pm
    Adobe today announced that it will hold a launch event for Creative Suite 5 (CS5) on Monday, April 12th at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. While the company has yet to release many specific details on CS5 or disc...

  • Analyst Continues to Believe Apple Will Launch Internet-Connected TV

    23 Mar 2010 | 12:07 pm
    The Loop reports on a new research note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicting that Apple will launch an Internet-connected television within the next 2-4 years."As connected ...

  • iPhone OS to Gain Universal Inbox for Mail?

    23 Mar 2010 | 9:04 am
    The flood of terse emails from Apple CEO Steve Jobs continues (via TUAW), this time responding from his iPad with a simple "Yep" to a question from a user about whether the iPhone's Mail functionality wil...

  • iPads Reportedly Headed to Reviewers Later This Week

    23 Mar 2010 | 8:48 am
    It's certainly no surprise, but Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Apple will be shipping iPads to prominent reviewers later this week in order to provide them ample lead time to prepare their featured ...

  • Opera Submits Browser App to Apple, Starts Countdown

    23 Mar 2010 | 6:52 am
    Opera Software today announced that its Opera Mini web browser app has been submitted to Apple for approval. Just last month, Opera gave a demo of the iPhone version of its popular browser at Mobile World Congress. Today's announcement kick...
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    Chris Brogan

  • Get This Blog Via Android or iPhone

    chrisbrogan
    22 Mar 2010 | 2:20 pm
    The folks at MotherApp have just released chrisbrogan.com on Android. I’m so pleased. I rock the Motorola Droid, so now I can test the app myself. [chrisbrogan.com] is also available on iPhone or iPod Touch. Of course you can just subscribe via RSS, if that suits you. But hey, you can click my head every day on your Android phone, or your iPhone. That’s something. Right? And thanks again, MotherApp for the cool apps.

  • Scaling Social Media

    chrisbrogan
    22 Mar 2010 | 5:47 am
    If you’re a company considering using social media tools for business communications, marketing, sales, etc, you’re no doubt wondering about how much time it will add to your already busy day, especially if you’re a smaller business. The answer varies depending on how you’re using it, how many platforms you’re engaging, your goals, and more. But we can still walk through some potential recipes and give you a sense of what will take time, how you might budget for it, and how to consider your engagement efforts. From a business perspective (and you can stretch this…

  • Redrawing

    chrisbrogan
    19 Mar 2010 | 12:10 pm
    I built my brand on being accessible. You know me because you know that I care about you, that I care about your projects. This is true. But there’s a huge flaw in how this all works out, in the basic math level, and this came really clear to me over the last 10 days. I can’t keep up. If I just manage my inbox, that’s about 10 hours of work a day (600 new mails divided by 1 minute each). If I spend time on Twitter, on Third Tribe, on Facebook, on my blog (in the comments), that’s another 3 hours. If I take two phone calls or do a webinar, that’s another 2 hours.

  • Oprah Needs More Social

    chrisbrogan
    18 Mar 2010 | 1:30 am
    I was interviewed by Derrick Ashong from Oprah Radio, part of the Oprah Winfrey Network. He was smart, personable, fast-moving, and definitely a great person for this space. The experience left me thinking about how FastCompany magazine said that Ashton Kutcher is the new one to watch on the salvation of media and entertainment. To me, the potential savior list looks a bit different: * Oprah * Jon Stewart * Conan (especially if he doesn’t go to Fox) * Rick Sanchez from CNN (from the news perspective) To me, the thing they’re all missing is a deeper integration to social media…

  • The Difference Between Recipe and Restaurant

    chrisbrogan
    17 Mar 2010 | 7:37 am
    I have intent on the brain. So does Tim Sanders, it turns out. During my speech at the first ever GR2L event (get ready to live), I talked about shifting from connections into intent. I was talking about networking at that juncture. I want to expand. And I have a comparison/analogy to light this up. The difference between talking about human business and social media and doing it is the difference between having recipes and running a restaurant. We go to events and network. We collect business cards. Why? Because we don’t know what else to do. We know we’re supposed to network. We…
 
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    Copyblogger

  • Why The New FTC Guidelines May Become Your Best Friend

    Barry A. Densa
    23 Mar 2010 | 6:11 am
    If you’ve read the Federal Trade Commission’s new 81-page Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, you might think the FTC is a really nice bunch of guys trying to do the right thing by consumers — which, for the most part, is true. And yet, I just don’t think they give most consumers enough credit. Maybe fifty-odd years ago, when many people believed everything they read or saw on TV, a bit of paternalistic condescension might have been advisable. But today? Today, who believes anything anybody has to say? We are a nation of cynics,…

  • The Ancient Persuasion Tactic Behind “But Wait, There’s More!”

    Brian Clark
    22 Mar 2010 | 6:49 am
    You’re watching late night TV when you encounter the inevitable infomercial. The pitchman is asking you how much you’d be willing to pay for the super-new-thingamabob, and then it comes… But wait, there’s more! Then you discover you’re getting not one, not two, but three super-new-thingamabobs for only $19.95, plus a mechanized back scratcher and a wearable blanket that also makes great fries. This technique keeps getting used because it keeps working. But the marketing gurus of Ginsu and Veg-O-Matic didn’t come up with this technique. Nope, it’s been around way before Ronco…

  • The Betty Crocker Secret to Email Marketing that Works

    Sonia Simone
    19 Mar 2010 | 8:09 am
    You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list. So how do you get people to sign up for your email newsletter? You probably already know the answer to this one: Reward them. Give subscribers something great as a “thank you” for signing up. This is usually some form of content — a useful video, a killer PDF special report or white paper, an exclusive podcast. Sure, everyone else does that. Because it works. It works . . . if you…

  • Landing Page Makeover Clinic #23: BabyNapsWell.com

    Roberta Rosenberg
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am
    This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Nicole Johnson wants to get babies and their moms some much-needed rest. She’s packed napping plans, schedules, and strategies into her $37 ebook/consultation package. She’s tried different pricing, Google Adwords, different offers, freemiums, and more to pop conversion, but her results still ping between a snoozy 0.5 to 3%. She has good traffic, but needs more help getting those tired, sleepy moms to buy. Let’s see if we can’t help Nicole give her sales a…

  • Why You Should Always Write Your Headline Last

    James Chartrand
    17 Mar 2010 | 9:24 am
    When you write a post for your blog, your headline is the last thing you should be thinking about. OK, I realize this is Copyblogger heresy. There’s a lot of emphasis on writing a good headline. Hell, I’ve written posts about how to write an eye-grabbing title myself. Brian wrote an entire series on headlines (including a post on why you should always write your headline first), and he’s been known to come up with some pretty catchy ones. But while crafting a good headline is critical to getting people to read a blog post, open the email, or get past the headline to the copy,…
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    Macworld

  • Adobe will unveil Creative Suite 5 on April 12

    23 Mar 2010 | 4:30 pm
    The next major update to Adobe's suite of applications for creative professionals will debut at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on April 12 during a live Web event.

  • Harvard lectures, podcasts come to iTunes U

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:40 pm
    Joining the ranks of other famous colleges on iTunes, Harvard has just uploaded a series of lectures, preview clips, podcasts and performances on Apple's own iTunes U.

  • Wikipedia founder praises Google over China decision

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:24 pm
    Human rights groups joined Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to praise Google over its decision to stop censoring Internet searches in China.

  • Review: 140 Characters for iPhone

    23 Mar 2010 | 2:17 pm
    This companion app to the book of the same name overs the basics of Twitter usage, while spending the most time concentrating on how to get your message across in such a limited amount of space. Some users may find the app overkill, but if you're looking to master Twitter, 140 Characters is a good place to get started.

  • Analysis: Can the iPhone save higher education?

    23 Mar 2010 | 2:15 pm
    In the second year of its mobile learning project, Abilene Christian University is studying how the iPhone is changing the way teachers teach and students learn.
 
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    ReadWriteWeb

  • SenderOK: Email as a Facebook Connector and Social CRM Catalyst

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:19 pm
    The effort to bring Facebook into the enterprise continues with more services using Outlook as a gateway to extend a contact network and use as a foundations for a CRM environment. SenderOK is one of the latest effiorts to give more context to email by showing a picture of the sender in an email message. Too bad it only works on Windows XP or Vista. Ugh. Sponsor But let's take a look at the service as we are seeing more services that use email as a foundation for a social CRM environment. SenderOK compares itself to Microsoft's Outlook Soclal Connector and Xobni, an email plug-in that…

  • Investors to Startups: It's Not You, It's Me

    23 Mar 2010 | 3:25 pm
    Unfortunately, you can't always explain why a venture capitalist chooses to invest in one startup and not in another. Despite what some will claim, there is no magic formula that entrepreneurs can follow to assure them funding 100% of the time; these are just guidelines to follow to increase your chances, but in the end, a VC's decision is not always about the quality of the company, idea or founders. It's like in a relationship when one party breaks it off by saying, "It's not you, it's me," only for VCs they actually mean it most of the time. Sponsor DFJ Gotham Ventures investor Mark Davis,…

  • Canonical Ubuntu One Music Service Goes Into Public Beta

    23 Mar 2010 | 1:53 pm
    We store music on iTunes despite its stringent DRM, preventing us from freely sharing music. But like any innovation in the marketplace, it takes time for us to determine what is acceptable and what is not. The promise of cloud computing and the ability to store limitless amounts of music may perhaps be that turning point. But it could also mark a more stringent time than we have ever known. Sponsor Canonical has unveiled the public beta of its Ubuntu One music store that gives a glimpse of what cloud computing may offer as an alternative to storing music on our hard drives or a proprietary…

  • Google Bookmarks Gets Public and Private Lists, Collaboration Tools

    23 Mar 2010 | 1:46 pm
    Google Bookmarks is one of Google's lesser known services. The new star marker in Google Search - which syncs with Google Bookmarks - gave this tool some added exposure, but most users are probably still unaware of this service. Thanks to some new features Google just introduced today, Google Bookmarks may soon become more of a household name, however. Starting today, you can organize your bookmarks into lists (instead of just labeling them) and - more importantly - share these lists publicly and collaborate on creating and editing lists with others. Sponsor Getting Started With Google…

  • Automated Sports Reporters Coming This Summer

    23 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Make room on the bleachers, the robot reporter wants to sit down and watch the game. Sports statistics company StatSheet says it will have technology ready this Summer to turn statistics for hundreds of small college basketball games into richly reported blow-by-blow coverage of how the contests unfold. People have been talking about robot reporters for years, but sports coverage is a logical, structured field for it to happen in and StatSheet says it will soon bring a product to market. Sponsor A veteran sports reporter can recall from memory all kinds of stories and history, but that's no…
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    Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby

  • Adobe Releases Lightroom 3, Public Beta 2

    Scott
    22 Mar 2010 | 9:59 pm
    Adobe has just released a 2nd public beta version of Lightroom 3 (called Public Beta 2), with some new features, enhancements, and tweaks based on your feedback from Public Beta 1. Here’s a quick look at what’s new/changed/updated in Lightroom 3 Public Beta 2: IMPORT & LIBRARY MODULE • There’s a significant overall all speed increase in the Library module, so you’ll find scrolling, viewing things in Loupe View, and just generally • Lightroom 3 now supports the import of video shot with your DSLR, and it adds a icon in the corner so you can easily see which…

  • My First Post From Photoshop World is a Memorable One

    Scott
    21 Mar 2010 | 11:12 pm
    So tonight I’m sitting in the lounge having coffee with Larry Becker (well, I’m not sure what Larry was having, but I was having regular coffee), and a Photoshop World attendee came up and introduced himself, and I immediately recognized his name because he had sent me a personal letter, with some of his photography, just a week or so before. His name is Ali Rajabi (that’s Ali and I above, in an iPhone photo taken in the hotel lobby by Brad), and he came all the way to Orlando from Iran. I was just amazed! First, he’s just an incredibly great guy (and a very talented…

  • This Week’s Blogging Schedule

    Scott
    21 Mar 2010 | 11:11 pm
    Hi Gang—-it’s Photoshop World Week (Whoo Hoo!!!!). In an effort to give you guys the “you are there” feel (and to make my blogging duties somewhat lighter during the conference), this week I’ll be posting live during the conference—mostly photos taken with my iPhone and posted using the iPhone App “Blog Press.” I’ll also include a headline with the photos, and I’m going to see if at the end of each day, I can get Brad Moore (one of our official show photographers) to upload some quality images from the day’s events as well.

  • Come to the Expo Floor For Free!

    Scott
    21 Mar 2010 | 10:26 pm
    Don’t Forget—-we open the Photoshop World Expo floor to the public for two days (This Thursday and Friday), and all you have to do is register for your free pass online (here’s the link). You’ll find booths with all the latest Photoshop plug-ins, printers, photo accessories, and about everything Photoshop or photography you can think of. And of course, Adobe is there as well, where you’ll meet some of the Photoshop product managers, and the development team behind Photoshop, face to face (they’re some of the coolest, most down-to-earth folks you’d…

  • My First Shoot with the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8

    Scott
    18 Mar 2010 | 11:16 pm
    Tuesday afternoon I was walking by Kevin Agren’s office (he’s our Director of Sales), and he asks if I ever got a chance to try the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom he had gotten us as a loaner. I told him I had actually tried it out on a shoot I did back in December for an upcoming book (one of the images from that shoot is shown above), and that I really liked it, (even more so after I looked up the price—-around $725, whereas most of the f/2.8 glass I had been using for the past few years was more in the $1,800 to $2,300 range, which any way you look at it, is a lot for a…
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    Smashing Magazine

  • Does Form Follow Function?

    Steven Bradley
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:45 am
      You’ve likely heard the phrase “form follows function,” but have you really thought about what it means or what it implies about Web design? On the surface, “form follows function” seems to make a lot of sense. The way something looks should be determined by its purpose. Is this really true? Does the phrase hold up upon deeper inspection?In the context of designing a website, “form follows function” is often taken to mean that the designer should first gather the website’s requirements from the client and then determine the…

  • Smashing Magazine Needs Your Help Today

    Smashing Editorial
    22 Mar 2010 | 10:12 am
      What happened here today, on the Smashing Magazine’s website? Well, here is the thing: we need your help. Only sound financial conditions can guarantee the steady stream of high quality content which you are used to on Smashing Magazine. Today we need your financial support. Please help us by buying our new eBook “Professional Web Design”.The book contains a selection of our best articles about professional Web design and the business side of web development. It contains 10 already published articles and 2 exclusive, newly written pieces. The book costs only…

  • The Beauty of India: 50 Amazing Photos

    Juliya Izgiyeva
    20 Mar 2010 | 8:17 am
      Today we’d like to publish something completely different for a change. India, the country of mysterious paradoxes; the land where civilizations and times intermix, a mysterious place which attracts people from all over the world. In today’s showcase we are presenting a little showcase of this astonishing contrast between wealth and misery, contemporary technologies and ancient historical monuments, plenty of languages, cultures and traditions.We present people, places, traditions, culture and a broad overview of the incredible beauty of India — something…

  • Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

    Cameron Chapman
    19 Mar 2010 | 4:59 am
      College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge.And the truth is: most college and university websites are horribly designed. Either they look like they were…

  • Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design

    Cameron Chapman
    18 Mar 2010 | 6:36 am
      A Pattern Language is a book about architecture that was written in the 1970s, before the Web as we know it was even conceived. But the book provides hundreds of valuable patterns for community planning and architectural design, many of which can easily be applied to online communities and social networking websites.Niche social networks are popping up online all the time, with many designers and developers taking advantage of pre-built social network platforms and making little modification. It makes sense, after all: why reinvent the wheel when perfectly good ones are…
 
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    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

  • Apple stock at another all-time high, market cap 4th in US

    Chris Rawson
    23 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm
    Filed under: Apple FinancialApple's stock rose to another record high earlier today, reaching $228.36 at market close. That's almost another $10 above the record high it set back on March 5, which translates into nearly nine billion dollars in market capitalization gained in less than three weeks. Apple's market cap is so high that only three publicly-traded US companies have market caps higher than Apple's: Exxon, Microsoft, and a little retailer called Wal-Mart. Apple will probably never catch up to Exxon's market cap, which exceeds Apple's by more than $100 billion, and it has another $55…

  • Eye-Fi Pro X2 cards have arrived, and you probably want one

    TJ Luoma
    23 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Filed under: AccessoriesI pre-ordered an Eye-Fi Pro X2 from Amazon a few weeks ago. (Don't be too jealous, I did it when I decided that I was going to have to wait for an iPad for financial reasons.) This is not my first Eye-Fi card, as I bought a 2GB version a few years ago -- and quite frankly, I hated it and thought it was overpriced. We have talked about the Eye-Fi before, but if you are not familiar with it, here's a basic summary: the Eye-Fi cards are Wi-Fi enabled, meaning that you can upload your pictures from your camera without a USB cable or card reader. You can set it to…

  • US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers

    Chris Rawson
    23 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Filed under: iPod FamilyEarlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple's Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple's products and technology in the field. In addition to having the most awesome name ever, Maj. Gen. Justice also heads the US Army's Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He's reportedly interested in moving the Army away from the custom-built "big green box" electronics that the Army has used over the past decades; instead, Justice wants the Army to investigate existing solutions from the commercial sector,…

  • TUAW giveaway: A mobile bonanza from Dr. Bott

    Steven Sande
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Filed under: AccessoriesAhhh, the joys of being in the Apple press! We're constantly getting a stream of items, both hardware and software, to review. Here at TUAW, it is our policy to never keep anything so that we can't be accused of being "bought" for a review. So when a boxful of mobile-oriented goodies from Apple-friendly retailer Dr. Bott showed up in the mail the other day, our immediate thought was to give them away to some lucky TUAW reader! This giveaway is oriented towards those of you who have both a MacBook of some sort and an iPhone 3G or 3GS. Here's what's in the mix: Moshi…

  • Slick card magic for your iPhone

    Mel Martin
    23 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App ReviewI've enjoyed reviewing some of the clever magic tricks that are getting developed for the iPhone over the last year, and I want to be sure to point out Magic Card which is clever and will likely fool the uninitiated. Here's what the spectator sees: a person cuts the deck to select a card, which is kept face down. You use your iPhone to take a picture of the card, either alone on the table, or as I prefer at the top of the stack. The spectator sees you select the camera icon and take the picture. To be sure the picture wasn't taken in advance the…
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    CNN: Top Stories

  • AG wants MJ doc to stop practicing

    23 Mar 2010 | 6:10 pm
    The California state medical board will ask a judge to prevent Dr. Conrad Murray from practicing medicine in California while he is being prosecuted in Michael Jackson's death, according to documents filed on Tuesday with the court by California Attorney General Jerry Brown.

  • Libya frees jihad leaders in peace bid

    23 Mar 2010 | 6:02 pm
    Libyan authorities Tuesday released three top leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), successfully concluding a three-year peace process that has produced an alliance of sorts against al Qaeda.

  • Alabama prof to cops: 'It wasn't me'

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:47 pm
    The basis for capital murder charges against former University of Alabama professor Amy Bishop is expected to be laid out in open court Tuesday at a hearing to determine whether there's enough evidence for her to stand trial.

  • Obama, Netanyahu meet amid strain

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:25 pm
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday, as the allies remain at odds over Israel's plan to build new housing on disputed land in East Jerusalem.

  • Oprah settles suit with head of school

    23 Mar 2010 | 5:17 pm
    Oprah Winfrey has settled a lawsuit filed against her by the former head of the girls school in Africa that Winfrey founded in 2007, attorneys for Winfrey and Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane said.
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    Strobist

  • The Most Powerful Light In Your Bag

    21 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Last year I photographed Michael Stebbins for Rep Stage, which is how I got to know him for the Glass Menagerie photos.The Smith Theater, where I shot him, is big and dark. In fact, I had shot someone else there about twenty years earlier for a magazine assignment -- and the Smith Theater had kicked my butt. I brought every light I had (many, many watt-seconds worth) but I still did not have what I really needed -- the understanding required to work in a big, dark setting. I even had with me the exact of piece of gear I needed. It was just that I just didn't know how to use it.__________Time…

  • Light Fare: The "Jarvie Window"

    18 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am
    Here's a new use for your ring flash. Salt Lake City-based photographer Scott Jarvie made a unique set of portraits using a Ray Flash ring flash adapter and an 8mm fisheye lens.Gimmicky? Perhaps. Fun and creative? Yup. Cue the flood of imitators on Flickr in 3, 2, 1…(Thanks much to Ben for the tip via the comments section.)-30- New: Strobist Index

  • Something Fun While You Do Your Brackets

    16 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am
    For those of you not in the US, please excuse us while our collective attention turns toward "March Madness," AKA the always exciting, single-elimination NCAA college basketball championship tournament. Our productivity plummets to zero as we spend our workday filling out our brackets and trying to pick the winner in the office pool.What does this have to do with lighting, you ask? Nothing, except for this: I think it is safe to say that, with the airing of the above commercial, Buffalo Wild Wings has just become the Official Chicken Wing of Strobist.com. You gotta love the Frankenflash thing…

  • Worth a Sub: Michael Grecco's New YouTube Channel

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Celebrity / Nekkid People photographer Michael Grecco has created a YouTube page to display his many excellent behind-the-scenes videos.Some of you may not know that he started out as a photojournalist, and began pushing the lighting envelope way back in the very beginning of his career.The Will Farrell shoot (c. Blades of Glory) embedded above is a great example of why I always enjoy Grecco's time-lapse BTS vids. There's a lot to learn in a minute and change. Not only is he showing you the whole set build, shoot and tear, but there are several cool lighting info nuggets to be had. Hit the…

  • Q&A: How to Use Your Nikon SB-900 in Optical Slave Mode

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    As most of you know, the discontinued Nikon SB-800 speedlight has an awesome -- yet, oddly undocumented -- built-in slave. But given the questions I have gotten recently, many people who own the newer SB-900s are not aware that their flash has the same capability.A walk-thru on how to access and use the built-in slave in your Nikon SB-900 speedlight, and how to get better results from any slave outdoors, inside.__________SU-4 Mode Button SequenceSU-4 mode is a legacy TTL mode which existed long before Nikon's CLS system. Props to Nikon for continuing to include it. And the day they stop…
 
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    Digital Photography School

  • Indoors Photo Rescue – How I did it

    Elizabeth Halford
    23 Mar 2010 | 1:13 pm
    I took this photo of my daughter last night and it needed a lot of rescuing. I wanted to share the method I used to fix this shot with you all because – let’s face it – even the best of us need a little rescuing from time to time! {How I Took it} I took this in my very dimly lit front room using my Canon 7D and a Lightscoop. Camera was set on auto due to laziness. The settings were: ISO400 18-200mm lens at 40mm f/4.5 1/60th sec. {How I edited it} LIGHTROOM Imported RAW into Lightroom Adjusted exposure (up) Clarity (up) Brightness (up) Temperature (cooler, but still keeping…

  • How to Remove Sensor Dust With Lightroom

    Helen Bradley
    22 Mar 2010 | 12:54 pm
    One of the annoyances most photographers encounter from time to time is sensor dust. This is dust that you get on the camera’s sensor and which shows up in your images as dark marks or flaws on your photos. Most often you’ll see this in the sky but it can appear anywhere in an image and it will appear in the same place in all your images – the tell tale sign that you have problems. Of course, the only way to get rid of the dust is to clean your camera either using its dust removal option or by physically cleaning it. However, chances are that the reason you know you have a dust…

  • 10 Tips to Take Great Family Portaits

    Natalie Johnson
    22 Mar 2010 | 7:40 am
    Family Portrait by chemisti We are told family comes first, so grab your camera and let’s get snapping… some great family portraits… 10 Tips for Family Portraits If you want that ‘traditional’ family photograph you are going to need to work the role of director to ensure all eyes and faces are on you. Working with a large group of people can be a bit trying so prepare to be patient and assertive will help in getting a handle of things. When you’ve got everyone ready don’t be afraid to reel of a dozen or so shots or use the burst mode to ensure you have at least one frame…

  • 41 Delicious Flower Photographs

    Guest Contributor
    21 Mar 2010 | 1:01 pm
    Photo : floridapfe This guest post was submitted by Martin Gommel from the German Blog KWERFELDEIN (flickr). Photographing flowers can be one of the hardest things to do. I have deep respect for any photographer who manages to do it well. In these days I am trying different new things and shooting flowers is part of my adventure. To get myself inspired I collected some of the best photographs of flowers that I could find on flickr. I hope that you enjoy these 41 delicious flower photographs as much as I do. Enjoy and get inspired! Update: don’t forget our recent Wildflower photography…

  • 10 Fashion Photography Tips

    Natalie Johnson
    21 Mar 2010 | 7:45 am
    Fashion photography should convey an essence of authority, so your direction of the model(s) needs to be confident and self-assured.  Showing signs of anxiety, stress or lack of direction will invariably be reflected in the performance of your model so make the subject feel comfortable and involved.  Organise a shot list before the shoot and rehearse technique and composition for each shot in your mind. Prepare the location, props and clothes ahead of time and for a truly effective shoot be sure to communicate your agenda, objective and posing directions coherently and calmly.  Fashion…
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    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

  • News – Lightroom 3 Beta (Part 2)

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    22 Mar 2010 | 10:09 pm
    Hey Lightroom Peeps! (that’s hip slang for Lightroom people) Today is pre-conference workshop day here at Photoshop World in Orlando. I’ve got an HDR pre-con that starts at 1pm so I’m pretty psyched. However there’s some big news in the Lightroom world today. Adobe has released an update to the Lightroom 3 beta. Full details can be found over at Tom Hogarty’s (Lightroom product manager) blog but I’ll give you my take on some of the big features that are new in the beta. 1. Built-in Tethered Capture – Tethered is a must have and now Lightroom has it…

  • Follow Up – How Should I Teach Lightroom

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:30 am
    First off, there’s a tip for today in a post right below this so make sure you scroll down to read it. Next, thanks very much for the kind words many of you said in your comments yesterday. And even if you didn’t agree with me, everyone was really civil in the way that they did it. Here’s what I’ve learned and I feel we can now put the discussion to rest: 1) I’m going to keep teaching the way that I do it. 2) If the way that I do it entails something that costs extra money (Photoshop not included – see #3 below), if possible, I will try to make brief…

  • Video Tip – Reordering Photos in a Slideshow

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    19 Mar 2010 | 6:20 am
    This is another one of those times where I started to write a tip down and realized it was so much easier to show you in a video. This is one I came across while preparing a slideshow last weekend. I wanted to move the order of the photos and let’s just say, I had a small problem. I’ll show you what happened and what I realized the trick is for reordering your photos. Click here to download the video to your computer. [Right-click and choose the "Save As" option]

  • How Should I Teach Lightroom?

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    18 Mar 2010 | 5:29 am
    Weird title for a post huh? After reading some comments from yesterday’s Before/After video with a Black and White example, it got me thinking. A few people commented that the video was a disappointment because not much of the work was done in Lightroom (and it used a 3rd party plug-in). Some even went as far as saying it was a promo for the plug-in. It was odd for me to read that because I was just showing the way I do it and what kind of technologies I’m excited about. So I figured I’d ask you. Not because the comments were so overwhelming (there were only a few). But…

  • News Update – Where’s Matt

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    16 Mar 2010 | 9:13 pm
    Hey folks. First, be sure to scroll down and check out the next video post. It’s another one of the Before/After videos and it’s a little different this time. That said, I wanted to give you a quick “Where’s Matt” update and let you know where I’ll be teaching (at least what I know of) throughout the year. • First, I’ll be at Photoshop World in Orlando next week. If you’re there make sure you stop by and say hi. • In April, I’m co-teaching a workshop that I’m incredibly excited about. There’s still a few spots left but…
 
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    Joe McNally's Blog

  • Making Window Light

    Joe McNally
    23 Mar 2010 | 3:08 am
    So, referring to yesterday’s blog post, definitely not practical to line the Northeast Amtrak corridor with SB units to create window light. I got lucky photographing then Senator Biden with soft light on a cloudy day, and even luckier with the Tri-x in my camera. (No worries about the greenish windows often present on trains shifting my color transparency film over into “aquarium” mode, and making my subject look like Swamp Thing.) But now, in our digital world,  in a more static situation, it is easy to make window light with speed light. As I always tell Thomas Wingate,…

  • Window Light on a Fast Moving Train

    Joe McNally
    22 Mar 2010 | 3:38 am
    Lots of eyes on Washington this week. Made me remember this picture. Joe Biden, then senator from Delaware. We do so much currently with flash to re-create window light. And there it is, on a cloudy day, just waiting for  tri-x. I was shooting Biden for People magazine, which really used to do good stories, and do them in B&W. Started as the brain child of Dick Stolley, People has been a juggernaut of magazine publishing for years, though I gather now it faces stiff competition from the likes of US, Them, Now, We, He, She, and It. (Whatever would they all do without little Suri Cruise?)…

  • Santa Fe, First Day

    Joe McNally
    16 Mar 2010 | 6:35 am
    Got a good class here in Santa Fe. We started rocking and rolling yesterday, just examining light shaping tools, exposure differences, control of light, both with big and small flash. As I said during the day, we shoulda all been arrested, ’cause we were having too much damned fun. Professional boxer Clara de la Torre came in to be our demo model. It was cool. We did some pretty simple, straightforward umbrella stuff, and then decided to head in the direction of bad ass light. I’ve messed around with this type of light before, which is pretty ideal for athletic bodies. Thing is, I…

  • From the Low Desert to the High Desert

    Joe McNally
    15 Mar 2010 | 7:11 am
    Rick, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dockworker, Dubai. That was the week that was, surely. No blog post last week. Anything I might have written would have been just as incoherent as my schedule. I never plan it this way. Only an idiot would actually plan it this way. Hmmmm……. But I had a bunch of stuff just box car up last week and bump into each other, mostly in the air, in the middle of some time zone my body and my noodle was completely unaware of. But have been shooting a lot in between my travels, and pretty happy with a few things. Up top, the formidable Rick is shot with an…

  • Whose Knees Are These?

    Joe McNally
    4 Mar 2010 | 8:14 pm
    Okay, I ‘ll give you a hint. He’s at GPP in Dubai. He uses speed lights. And this is the 3rd time in this millennium he has worn long pants. Give up? Mystery man revealed here. (I also went to his class on social media and if there is anybody on the planet who knows more about the role it is currently playing in our industry, I certainly don’t know them.) Speaking of knowledgeable people in exotic places, my buds Eddie Soloway and Renie Haiduk are heading for Africa. Both are wonderful shooters and teachers. Eddie’s book, A Thousand Moons, is simply one of the most…
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    Planet Photoshop

  • Grouping and Stacking in Bridge

    Web Editor
    23 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    If you have multiple shots of the same subject and would like to be able to group them, image stacks are a good idea. Either Shift-click or Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the images that you would like to group and press Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G). This will create a stack of the images. You can expand [...]

  • Off to Orlando for Photoshop World!!

    Corey Barker
    22 Mar 2010 | 9:08 am

  • Fill and Recovery Sliders in Camera Raw

    Web Editor
    22 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    Chances are you’ve noticed that when you attempt to increase the exposure in an image that is underexposed, you are going to clip your highlights, take areas of light color information and make them completely white. Before Camera Raw 4.1, the only way for you to compensate for this would be to dial back the [...]

  • Open in Camera Raw from Bridge

    Web Editor
    18 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) [...]

  • Check Out Photomerge!

    Web Editor
    17 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am
    You can create really cool panoramic images with Photomerge. Located under File>Automate, Photomerge has taken great leaps to make your panoramic photos as painless as possible. In some cases, you can shoot holding your camera close, and shoot in a circle. Thanks so much to Dave Cross for the tip, although I’m sure many people [...]
 
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