Jason & Rick are pleased to announce their fall Photo Safari in Moab, Utah! In this episode, we also discuss the use of depth of field as a creative tool, and Rick gives his first impressions of the new Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 AFS lens. Download The Image Doctors #116 (MP4 format)
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ID#116: The Image Doctors
Based on review of data from a large clinical trial and data from other sources, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public about an increased risk of muscle injury in patients taking the highest approved dose of the cholesterol-lowering medication, Zocor (simvastatin) 80 mg, compared to patients taking lower doses of simvastatin and possibly other drugs in the “statin” class
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FDA: High-dose simvastatin increases risk of muscle injury – caution with lower doses plus Amiodarone, Verapamil, Diltiazem
On 25 November 2009, Dio’s wife and manager announced that he was diagnosed with stomach cancer: “Ronnie has been diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer.
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Rock legend Ronnie James Dio is fighting stomach cancer
Today on News Flash Extra, Ray speaks with Nikonians co-founder J.
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Nikonians News Flash Extra #7
Printer News: A Touch-Screen Control Panel and Apps Give The Lexmark Platinum Pro905 an Apple Feel Lexmark believes that your printer is not limited to what your computer tells it to print. The Lexmark Platinum Pro905 includes Lexmark’s SmartSolutions technology, which enables you to run Web-connected print jobs from the printer through iPhone-like apps.
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Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Has an Unprecedented Five Year Warranty
Automatically grabbing thumbnails from posts is cool. But what about automatic excerpt lengths that match the height of those photos ? I recently redesigned a blog for a client and it had an automatic thumbnail for each post, with a fixed length excerpt beside it
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Automatic WP Thumbnails & Proportional Excerpts
Amyris, which uses genetically engineered yeast to turn sugarcane to diesel, has filed for an IPO. According to Chemical and Engineering News , California-based synthetic biology company Amyris has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commision for a $100 million public offering.
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Biofuels Company Plans to Go Public
During the past few days, there have been many stories, features and posts that describe the spike of business being enjoyed by video conferencing and telepresence service providers due to the ash cloud shrouding Europe, I wrote one of the many posts,
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Ash Cloud: A Transformative Event for Audio and Video Conferencing
A former sequencing executive and his family have their genomes sequenced. A family of four has become the first to have their genomes sequenced for non-medical reasons. According to The Times , John and Judy West, both 53, and their children, Anne, 17, and Paul, 14, paid almost $200,000 to have their entire genetic code read by the sequencing company Illumina .
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Genome Sequencing Becomes a Family Affair
Online printing leader Mimeo has announced plans to open its print production platform to third parties : The new program makes it possible for partners to leverage any and all parts of Mimeo’s market leading front-end applications and its production workflow, printing, and distribution abilities. The move by Mimeo is the result of nearly two years of investments in its application development and cloud based infrastructure.
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Mimeo Opens Print Production Platform
In most cases when terrible things happen, the impact of those events could have been mitigated if certain steps had been taken the last time something similar happened. There is an outcry to use common sense and to make those changes in anticipation
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Two Awful Anniversaries Point to the Need for Robust First-Responder Networks
This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news relating to Nikon -Two Coolpix cameras get firmware upgrades -Nikon sponsored workshops -Nik Summit -200-400mm reincarnation -Nikon 24mm 1.4 availability-Rent it! -Energizer Recharge Smart battery charger -OnOne Software’s Plugin Suite 5 discount -Nikonians new member photo contest -Amy from Nikonians Photo Pro Shop North America on Markins new ball head -Next week Nikonians co-founder JRP Download Nikonians News Flash #151 (NPC-NF-2010-04-18.mp3; 4:19; 3.95MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash #151
The House passed the ” Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010 “, which under the bill, it makes it illegal “to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller ID information, with the intent to defraud and deceive.” According to the bill, “To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information, and for other purposes”. That’s funny, I didn’t think they had Caller ID way back in 1934? The bill states, “It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any real time voice communications service, regardless of the technology or network utilized , to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller ID information, with the intent to defraud or deceive.” So as shown in bold, VoIP is covered as well.
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Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010 Passes House – VoIP Covered Too
Twitter officially launched @Anywhere at the Chirp conference. The program is basically a contextual integration of Twitter within publisher sites. Chloe Sladden , Dir of Media Partnerships at Twitter, described it as a way to shift a page view into a relationship. Users can immediately follow people or learn more about the person seamlessly from a destination site (when that person is mentioned). Dick Costolo, the COO, gave some background on why this makes sense for Twitter.
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Twitter’s @Anywhere: We’ll make house calls
Rick is back from vacation, and not only did he field test the new 16-35mm VR, but he also made a visit to David Tejada’s “Small Strobes, Big Results” workshop.
E-health is a hot topic. Anything having to do with health care is, of course. In addition to having a huge profile because of the recently ended health care reform debate, both the broadband stimulus and the National Broadband Plan identify it as a
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Unless Used Correctly, Electronic Health Records Are a Placebo
Over four years, Magnum photographer Mark Power and poet Daniel Cockrill have travelled thoughout England, compiling pictures and words about their shared experiences and impressions. In June, they will bring that body of work to the public in an innovative exhibition at London’s Atlas Gallery entitled Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment
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A Photographer Gears Up for an Innovative Art Gallery Show: Part 2
Web apps are great because you can access them from anywhere, they keep all of your data safe, and for the most part, they’re straightforward to get up and running with (No installations or configuring needed!) The catch of course is that there are thousands of them and it can be a challenge to find the ones that will really help you.
Today on News Flash Extra, Ray speaks with Nikonians co-founder Bo Stahlbrandt about the organization’s upcoming 10th anniversary Download Nikonians News Flash Extra #6 (NPC-NF-2010-04-11.mp3; 11:35; 10.6MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash Extra #6
George Hotz, aka Geohot has done it again – an iPad jailbreak! Geohot released an image (above) showing his jailbreak tool blackra1n on the home screen of his iPad. I’m a huge fan of Geohot since I used his blackra1n tool to jailbreak my iPhone to get glorious Categories, background apps/multi-tasking, theming, and all the other joys that come with jailbreaking.
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Blackra1n on iPad Jailbreak!