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 [...]

Windows 7 build 7600 arrives in a torrent of RTM speculation

In a powerful wave of anticipatory man-drool, Windows 7 build 7600 has made its way to the file sharing services. What’s interesting here is that the major jump in build revisions from the current 72xx builds suggests, but does not guarantee, that 7600 is the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build rumored for a July 13th [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 — where’s the part where they get paid?

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Microsoft Office 2010, which gets its official debut at Microsoft’s international partner conference in New Orleans on Monday, will be based around a free, ad-supported Web version of Office. And it’s not a jokey one, from what our embargoed friends in the press have told us.
Conceptually, this is brilliant. Microsoft, faced with competition from free [...]

In a nutshell: Chrome OS vs Office 2010

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Microsoft will unveil Office 2010 on Monday at the company’s worldwide partner conference in New Orleans. Google allegedly rushed out its Chrome OS announcement to spoil the fun for Microsoft.
What’s most interesting to me is the way the two companies are positioning their competing browser-based futures. I’ve edited down three long articles:

Google’s blog post: “Speed, [...]

Microsoft mystery announcement next week prompted Chrome announcement

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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.

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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 [...]