5 days ago

Delicious hotlist Part I: How Industries FailUntil three years ago, the oldest company in the world was the construction company Kongo Gumi, headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Kongo Gumi was founded in 578 CE when the then-regent of Japan, Prince Shotoku, brought a member of the Kongo family from Korea to Japan to help construct the first Buddh (Read More)

5 days ago

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply I was disappointed by the suggestion that supermarkets, and Tesco in particular, were supporting illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest (Report, 21 June). The recent Greenpeace report rightly highlights the negative impact of beef production on the Amazon region, where illegal cattle farms are linked to deforestatio (Read More)

Jun 26, 2009

TechRadar: All Photography & video capture feeds Underwater cameras were once an expensive and specialised rarity, but here are six that are designed to be just as happy in the water as you are.They're not huge, armoured monstrosities, either, but regular compact cameras that don't cost that much more than their landbased equivalents.Water isn't the only potentially hosti (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Digital Photography School Many DPS readers have requested more and more information about GIMP (sometimes referred to as The Gimp) photo editing software.  As a freely licensed bit of photography software, the high interest is understandable.  Before diving into some specific GIMP tips and tricks in future posts, I’d like to help bring those up to s (Read More)

Jun 23, 2009

Six Revisions : Web Development and Design Inspiration isn’t something that just pops into a designer’s head. Most of the time, we must make an active approach to discover it. This obviously isn’t a new concept, and there are thousands of inspiration websites from CSS galleries to showcase blog posts. These are way overused, though; in order to create a truly succes (Read More)

Jun 23, 2009

Business Tech at nobosh.com After 74 years of making the color film used by many of photography's greats, Kodak announced that it's ending production of the iconic product. (Read More)

May 21, 2009

A Photo Editor The American Photography 25 winners have been announced and this year there’s a slideshow to see everyone’s work (here). It’s really worth the time to sit down and look at all of it, there’s some fantastic images in there. I think judges did a great job of including all the “magazine” style photography that was shot in 2008 (Read More)

May 18, 2009

delicious.com/tag/photography On Monday, May 11, after months of delays and preparation, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final servicing mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The seven crew members left Florida for low Earth orbit at 2:01 pm, for a scheduled 11-day mission, including 5 days of Extra- (Read More)

May 05, 2009

Submitted by Michaelfidler: Veteran photographers will often tell you the chief difference between the camera and the eye is focus -- your eye has a nearly unlimited depth of field, but a camera lens does not. This makes it largely impossible for a camera lens to truly capture exactly what the eye sees.Some photographers have fought to overcome the li (Read More)

May 16, 2009

Submitted by Koltregaskes from Google Reader: All photographers, regardless of their skill level, seem to be drawn to one area of photography over others. My passion is wildlife photography especially birds. Still life photography bores me stiff and I’d rather face down a charging moose then try to take a candid of the bridal party with the mother-of-the-bride looming (Read More)

May 15, 2009

Smashing Apps Macro photography is close-up photography. In simple words, Extreme closeup photography is referred to as macro photography. Anytime you see a super close photo of a fly for instance, or a flower petal, the photographer probably used macro photography techniques to get that gorgeous close up photo of any thing. Today, we ar (Read More)

Apr 16, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So (Read More)

May 07, 2009

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May 07, 2009

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection Thomas Hawk shares his 2009 photography workflow. (Read More)

May 01, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Last weekend, we attended a web demo of Wolfram Alpha, a new "computational knowledge engine" based on the work of Stephen Wolfram. Some have dubbed Alpha a "Google killer," but, in reality, is very different from the standard search engines that we are all familiar with today.When we got the demo, Wolfram asked us to refra (Read More)

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