Gilles Vidal has a 360 pano of the flight deck of an Airbus 380. We thought you’d like to see it.
link: Gilles Vidal 

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Away from the hullabaloo of the crisis on Wall St the Orphan Works Act passed the U.S. Senate . It was amended at the 11th hour with a small concession for copyright holders.
According to the PDN web site… The bill spells out, for the first time, what is considered a “diligent effort” to search for […]

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With the current announcement of CS4 there’s a healthy discussion of the latest improvements Photoshop’s processing abilities as well as its new capabilities, over on the Prodig email List.
Well we thought you might like to read this insight that Russell Williams, one of the Adobe team, gave in response to a recent question…
Q. Will it […]

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Dropbox is a service-application that runs cross-platform. It allows you to share and constantly update the contents of a specified folder across all your computers, and even those of your colleagues.
Created by a bunch of young guys out in San Francisco, its currently in Beta and available for you to use free with a 2gb […]

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David Riecks’ site, Controlled Vocabulary, has drawn our attenion to photographer and web designer Laura Cotterman, who has discovered that resizing images on your website using the popular server-side application GD can inadvertently remove metadata from your image files. Many PHP scripts resize (or watermark) images with GD. Cotterman  wrote the code for a couple […]

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Hall of Fame inductee Martin Evening receiving his “Photoshop Hall of Fame” award from NAPP’s Executive Director Larry Becker.
photo: Brad Moore

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Photographers needing to archive large numbers of images have taken to plugging in bare Hard Drives, cataloging the contents, and then storing them in a cupboard or off-site.
Hard drives are said to be more reliable and cheaper than CD/DVDs.
But its been a precarious activity, with the need to create your own bespoke set of data […]

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A photo editor let us know about this…
“A wicked-simple website solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed for photographers and creative professionals, Small Folio let’s you create a web presence that looks great on one of the hottest mobile devices.”
Requires PHP, no database, and comes with a Photoshop action for preparing images. Cost is […]

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Rob Galbraith, in a 1,700 word essay, compares the Canon EOS 1D Mark III’s autofocus performance of firmware v1.1.3 with  v1.2.3
link: Rob Galbraith article

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