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Online advertising upstart, RightMedia, has apparently bit off a bit more than it can chew as its yieldmanager.net ad servers cause news sites to fail.
Edit: yieldmanager.net is the serving domain for Yahoo’s Apt product, not RightMedia, whose serving domain is yeildmanager.com (thanks Travis).
Several major news portals, including San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Daily, and San […]

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I’ve had a good number of requests asking about specific night photography techniques, and although I cover Photographing Scenes at Night and Handheld Photographs at Night, neither of those cover capturing intense, quick motion.
It’s difficult enough during broad daylight to capture fast-paced sports action, but oh my, come nightfall the problems are compounded. The two […]

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We all like to root for the underdog. Slowly becoming a major contender, the ‘little guy’ Fotki has some amazing features, but is it trying to grow to far too fast?
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If there is a fault with Fotki, it is that there are just so many options (29 in fact) that users can’t help but be […]

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Tech companies get way too involved in their own little world. Or, rather, I might say (without ruffling any feathers) engineers at tech companies. I think that a big reason why otherwise awesome technology is not adopted or widely used is because the back end is far too transparent to the end user. Most people […]

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After 879 cups of coffee and a few too many sleepless nights, I am very proud to announce that the SonicWALL Secure Wireless Networking: Integrated Solutions Guide is published and now available on Amazon.com and in the “Networking” section of book retail stores everywhere.
All of the content in this wireless series of blogs is […]

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Oh, the crappy airline seat. It’s almost an oxymoron in its own right. I mean, aren’t they all crappy?
Well, yes. And no.
I’m talking about the seat where the back does not recline, the tray table is stuck in-between the seats, the seat in front of you has no storage room underneath, the seat across the […]

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All of the content in this wireless series is just a teaser for the book I’ve been working on along with some great writers and developers. The book is titled “SonicWALL Secure Wireless Networking: Integrated Solutions Guide”, link coming as soon as it’s up. The book should show up in stores later this summer.
I told […]

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Because taking a photograph is essentially a matter of capturing light, the night photograph is not always an easy thing to accomplish. Nevertheless there is a profound public interest in capturing photographic images at night. This article is geared towards the night scene or landscape and helps you “bend the rules” of photography a bit […]

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The photographer’s trick bag can run pretty deep with gizmos and optical sorcery, but this one is downright intuitive. You may not be throwing away your VR lens in favor of the “$1 Image Stabilizer”, but perhaps it’s a good thing to throw in your gear bag for emergencies. From experience, I’m thinking something like: […]

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This is a good one. And apparently it’s pretty damned common too.
I installed Office 2007 recently, and all of a sudden Microsoft seems to think that I want to send Email in French.
At first I was a little puzzled as I read the first sentence in my email (post-spell check). Why on earth would Outlook […]

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