Looking around for something to shoot with your camera? Feeling a bit shot-out? This book could be your salvation.
For many, the problem with photography is that we rarely step out of our comfort zone, rarely take risks and all too often shoot the same subjects over and over again.
Lee Frost’s book should fix those glums as he sets out a plan of 50 projects …

Many DPS readers are fans of photography author David duChemin and have bought his previously released ebooks.
As a result I’m sure many readers will be excited to hear that he’s just released another one in the last few days called ‘Chasing the Look: 10 Ways To Improve The Aesthetics of Your Photographs’.
It’s available now on in David’s Bookstore (it’s the top one) for his …

It’s been a while since I last wrote about finding daily photography inspiration on the web through photo blogs.  Since that initial post, a number of other high quality sites have come across my radar and I’d like to share them with you.  This list contains blogs that provide a daily photo and have an RSS/Email feed for easy ingestion.  I personally like them …

New York is the center of book publishing, all four music labels have headquarters here and the country’s largest general newspaper is The New York Times.

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New York magazine)

Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks.

That was one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview Wednesday night with well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.”

This “lack of emotional intelligence” at the search giant, said Auletta, reminded him a lot of the subject of one of his previous books: Microsoft.

Oh, the delicious irony!
Auletta was feted at a lovely party on …

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the two chipmakers.

The pact covers both antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes, which have been churning since 2004.

Google, ever eager to renovate the computing industry for the benefit of the Web and its own business, is working to link two nascent but potentially significant projects, its experimental Go programming language and its Chrome Web browser.

Gordon, Go's gopher mascot

Tuesday’s post on using Craigslist to buy secondhand concert tickets drew a response from a company called FanSnap, which uses Google search results to aggregate ticket listings from broker sites (such as StubHub and TicketNetwork) and eBay auctions.

FanSnap would argue Craigslist is fine for price-sensitive fans who don’t need to go to a particular show and who are willing to meet and negotiate with other individuals, pay cash where necessary, and run the risk of buying a fake ticket. (Although the only time I’ve ever seen a fake concert …

Sometimes you take a wrong turning in life and, Wednesday, a slight concussion led my eyes to fall upon the pages of PCR.
It is a little more intelligent than my normal reading matter, but I am very grateful for its interview with Simon Aldous, Microsoft’s partner group manager.
He was quoted, for example, as saying: “One of the things that people say an awful lot about the
Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use.”

Perfect harmony?
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CC Esparta/Flickr)

You might suffer paralysis in several digits when I tell you that there is now a dating site exclusively for those deemed gorgeous.
BeautifulPeople.com exists to protect its members from having to espy the corpulent, the disproportioned, and the downright fugly-puglies.
On its home page, next to a photograph of a quite impossibly eugenic couple, the site presents its most famous media quote: “The sexiest Web site in the world today.”
Entertainment Weekly? No, CNN.
Now, another august publication, the Telegraph, has reported some painful news from this online island of the beautiful: BeautifulPeople.com …