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 [...]
Microsoft Gives Europeans Choice of Browser Instead of None by Default [Microsoft]
Microsoft’s newest attempt to appease the EU is to create a system in which end users can choose their browsers. (Imagine that! Choice!) This is a change from Microsoft’s previous offer to remove Internet Explorer completely from Windows 7. It was decided that Microsoft’s “Hey! We’ll just leave all browsers out completely!” would result in [...]
Google Chrome’s Getting Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics Powers [Chrome]
Google’s building their O3D plug-in—that lets browsers use hardware-accelerated 3D graphics—into Chrome. The idea behind O3D is that with hardware graphics acceleration, it’s possible for web apps to get even more intensive and sophisticated, closer to native apps—like games. Which makes Chrome OS’s web app-only approach look even more feasible. [Cnet]
No Promo Codes for Apps Rated 17+ — Including Browsers?!
TUAW reveals that since Promo Codes don’t show ratings information, Apple is simply excluding any app that’s rated 17+ from the Promo Code system , including any app that embeds a web browser or 3rd party content system which may provide a gateway to a naughty word, the Kama Sutra, or offensive lyrics.
We’ll just add [...]
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 [...]
