Thanks to apps like Instagram , color effects that emulate film stocks and vintage camera styles have become increasingly popular. While we’ve seen Photoshop actions that provide these effects , and you can even make your own , if you’ve got Photoshop CS6 you have a built-in tool that’s far more flexible: Color Lookup. More »
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Use Photoshop’s Color Lookup Adjustment Layer to Quickly Applies Color Effects to Photos
Switching just one Google site to its own image format saves the company terabytes of network traffic a day. Maybe showing it off will help it find some allies, too. [Read more]
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Google touts benefits of WebP image format
The Wall Street Journal points out an interesting trend: loads of illegally uploaded, full-length movies are finding their way on to YouTube, and studios are doing nothing about it. More »
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Hundreds of Full-Length Movies Are Reappearing on YouTube
If you thought the Internet freaked out for a little bit and every site you went to was down, you’re not alone. Major websites were down: CNN, Huffington Post, ESPN, Gawker, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, etc. were all broken. Why? Because of a glitch with Facebook. More »
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A Facebook Bug Pretty Much Took Down the Entire Internet
The free open-source alternative to Microsoft Office now has a new edition with enhancements for both users and developers. [Read more]
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Free LibreOffice office suite beefs up with version 4.0
An update to the popular new jailbreak tool addresses issues with reboots and the default iOS Weather app. [Read more]
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Evasi0n iOS jailbreak version 1.1 pops up with bug fixes
Campaign titled “Don’t get scroogled by Gmail” encourages users of Google’s free e-mail service to dump it for Microsoft’s Outlook.com. [Read more]
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Microsoft goes after Google with attack on Gmail privacy
The Federal Reserve said that one of its internal websites had been hacked today. It’s unclear who did the hacking but the Feds say that the hackers were not able to do any serious damage. Reuters says that, “no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion.” More »
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The Federal Reserve Said It Was Hacked
How does the Surface Pro measure up against other top tablets and laptop alternatives? [Read more]
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Microsoft Surface Pro versus the competition
In an interview on CNBC, CEO Bob Iger says Disney and LucasFilm will make several new movies based on existing characters in addition to “Star Wars Episode VII” and two other sequels. [Read more]
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Disney will spin off films based on ‘Star Wars’ characters