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 [...]

Card.ly Creates Attractive Online Business Cards in a Jiffy [Address Book]

Web site Card.ly allows you to collect all of your contact information—online and off—into one simple, linkable “business card” you can share with anyone. The site’s pretty simple. You just sign up, fill in whatever information you want to pull into a centralized “business card”, and you’re ready to go. When you’re finished, you’ll get [...]

HistoryBlock Keeps Web Sites From Your History [Downloads]

Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension HistoryBlock prevents specific web sites from being tracked—like an always-on private browsing mode for certain domains. Using the extension is really quite simple—just right-click on a page, choose Block This! from the menu, and pages from that domain will no longer be stored in your history. Since there’s no UI [...]

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

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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 [...]