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August 23, 2008, at 9:30 a.m. -- Washington Apple Pi invites you to improve your digital photography by getting superior shots, moving images to storage media safely, and learning a new presentation methods. Don't miss it
60 Second Window: Aside from phishing and other forms of cybercrime, botnets are now employed by terrorist groups or even governments in waging war. The question is, can we survive, and what does the U.S. intend to do about it? (Read More)
According to the Special report, Digital Defense: The Coming Cyberwar, authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief, Cyberterrorism Advisor to the the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International, when it comes to a future cyberwar, the issue is no longer if it'll happen. Instead, the concern is when it'll happen, how bad it'll be, and how many attacks we'll have to withstand. (Read More)
Since its first launch, we've talked about the really cool powers of Ambrosia's WireTap software. We've used it for years to record audio from the Mac. Now they've expanded on WireTap and built it into a full featured audio recording program
XML went from a strange new idea to entrenched buzzword in record time. Its flexibility as a language for presenting structured data made it the lingua franca for sending data across the web. See the full story...
The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design in Mountain View, CA -- slide:ology offers practical approaches on how to create ideas, translate them into pictures, display them well, and then deliver them in your own natural way. (Read More)
Plum Caddy, a new mobile application, was created for every golfer who has an iPhone or iPod touch and wants to have convenient golf mapping, scoring and statistics right in their pocket.
Maperture is the easiest, most intuitive way to add GPS data to your digital photos ... edit plug-in for Aperture that makes geotagging your photos a snap. Whether you're geotagging a few images, or your entire library (Read More)
Canvastic is an integrated writing, graphics and publishing tool for students in grades K-8 to version 3.5 to publish pages, books, presentations and more. This is a pretty cool resource
Once before we mentioned a very cool program for anyone who needs to resize digital photos. Now there's a new version of ResizeMe 1.2, the batch image and photo editor for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard., designed to help users save time and be more productive. (Read More)
iWebTemplate has raised the bar for web template sites with their new lifetime membership. The new service provides pre-designed HTML website templates and website tools for use in your very own web development. Whether you are building a new website or just redoing an old design. As well as iWeb Templates, iWebTemplate sells regular HTML/Flash templates which don't have those same limitations of iWeb. (Read More)
Two articles on the web make good for discussing the issues around overreacting to predator panic.The first is: Online safety: Dispelling common myths. (http://tinyurl.com/6a2occ) The second: Moral Panics... or "Technopanics" See the full story...
When is it fair and legal to use other people's copyrighted work to make your own? What's the line between infringement and fair use? Ethics & Fair Use / In the News (Read More)
Middle school friends, talking off-campus, criticize a classmate. A video is posted on YouTube. Now the case is in federal court. "She thinks she's so pretty, she's so spoiled," another stated. What may have been just another typical middle school moment became a serious headache for school officials when one of the students uploaded the conversation as a video on YouTube.com. (Read More)
User group favorite, George M Engel takes a look at Scott Kelby's 7-point system for working with digital photos. He says: "I would classify it in the Intermediate to Professional user level... a typical Scott Kelby Photoshop book: Great graphics; Extremely well put together; Comprehensive and well thought out. 7 Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
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~ Albert Einstein
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~ Alvin Toffler
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~ Beatrix Potter
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