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 [...]

Quick App: Twitbit Push Notification Twitter Client for iPhone

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Twitbit [$4.99 - iTunes link] is a Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch that provides built-in push notification for @mentions and direct messages (DMs).

For those of you still reading — those didn’t immediately jump over to grab it — what this means is you get all the functionality you’ve come to expect — [...]

Bell’s Palm Pre contest outs MSRP, tips its hat to failure

These days it’s pretty much a given that whenever a new smartphone is launched, its carriers will give a few away in hopes of drumming up every last little bit of buzz head of release. Everyone knows the odds of winning one of these contests are horrible but the truth is we’re all winners thanks [...]

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 [...]