Create Studio Quality Photos Using Natural Light [Photography Tip]

You don’t need a blockbuster budget to get high-quality light for your portraits. By coaxing the sun to help in your photographic endeavors, you can create stunning portraits on a tiny budget.
If you don’t have the indoor space for a studio or a budget to furnish it, you can combine a basic studio setup with [...]

Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project

If you’re particularly attuned to tech gossip, you’ll know that Google’s Chrome OS announcement has prompted a lot of whispers about something called “Gazelle” being cooked up in Microsoft’s labs. Part browser, part OS, the word on the street is that Gazelle will be announced soon, and ultimately compete in some way with either Chrome [...]

Microsoft mystery announcement next week prompted Chrome announcement

Omnipresent Net personality Robert Scoble made his name working for Microsoft as a blogger. So it’s credible when Scoble claims that “Microsoft has a big announcement coming on Monday (I’m embargoed).” Google’s Chrome OS announcement did seem a bit odd, in a why-are-they-announcing-this-now sort of way. Let’s see if Microsoft can keep its secret until [...]

Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday.

The timing of Google’s announcement of Chrome OS was curious. I don’t mean the fact that Google moved up the post on it by a day when some details leaked out, I mean the fact that they were announcing it on some seemingly random date in July, well before anything is actually ready to show [...]