Good news Thursday May 20th is my 4-year anniversary to my sweet wife so in celebration we’re giving away a free shotgun shell clip. No, we didn’t have a “shotgun-wedding” but we do shoot some of the extra toaster overs. This high-resolution clip comes pre-keyed in 2-versions for fast or slow-motion; it also loops seamlessly.
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Free 12-Gauge Shell
Telling the evident difference between day and night photography is surely useless. The former is a fight with the sunshine, while in the latter mode, you have to battle against the darkness. In either mode, the task of a photographer is to effectively exploit the surroundings to his advantage
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Contrasting effects of Day and Night Photography – 30 Snaps!
NBC has issued pickups for four more new scripted television series with dramas “The Cape,” “Outlaw,” “Harry’s Law” and the comedy “Friends With Benefits” – while renewing the action-comedy series “Chuck” for a fourth season — all for the 2010-11 season. The announcement was made today by Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios. “The addition of these four inventive series to our new scripted lineup demonstrates a wide spectrum of creative stories,” said Bromstad.
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NBC Cancels Heroes, Keeps Chuck, Dons Cape
There are two prevailing issues in the fight between Apple and Adobe. The first is whether or not Flash should be available in the Safari browser running on Apple’s mobile iPod, iPhone, iPad platforms. The second is whether or not Flash (or any middleware platform) should be used to create apps for Apple’s App Store
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Issues with Apple’s Decision to Block Flash
Several people have been making assertions that most Flash sites will not work properly on touch-based devices because these sites use rollovers or hovers for things like effects and navigation. Well I put together this little video together showing that Flash sites do indeed work the way you would expect since the Flash Player dispatches rollover events even on a touch screen.
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Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video)
Advanced Text Layout With Flash CS5 I give an introduction to some of the new Text Layout features and functionality in Flash CS5. Introduction to Multi-Touch in Flash Player 10.1 Flash Player 10.1 introduces a full, native multi-touch API that allows you to create some amazing applications. In this session I demonstrate how to build applications using native multi-touch feedback as well as how to use the built-in gesture support for things like scaling and rotating
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Watch My Sessions From Flash Camp SF
Webmaster Level: All Since we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we’ve gotten a bunch of feedback, most of which was overwhelmingly positive. Today, we’re happy to bring even more improvements to Top Search Queries that we’ve implemented as a direct result of your feedback. First of all we’ve shortened “Top Search Queries” to be just “Search Queries” to better reflect all of the data provided by this feature
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Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
Webmaster Level: All Update on May 19, 2010: We have several translated versions of this post! If you’re more comfortable reading Thai , Indonesian , Romanian , Czech , or Farsi , the links above will take you to your preferred version. Thanks again for your help.
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Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
Today’s tutorial, From Concept to Working Prototype with Flash Catalyst , is all about easing the tension between designing and developing. In the first of our new three-part series, author Toby Tremayne takes Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 for a spin in order to show us how these sometimes mutually exclusive elements can operate harmoniously with a minimum of fuss.
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From Concept to Working Prototype with Flash Catalyst
SAN ANTONIO ? May 04, 2010 ? NewTek, manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that the WNBA and NBA Development League (NBA D-League) – the National Basketball Association’s official minor league – will use newly launched NewTek TriCaster™ TCXD850 high definition/standard definition (HD/SD) portable live production system, to produce and deliver a full season of live games, online in HD for the first time, on WNBA.com and NBA.com/dleague
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WNBA and NBA Choose NewTek TriCaster to Produce/Stream Full Season of Live Games
(Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog ) We want Googlers to have a firm understanding of the threats our services face, as well as how to help protect against those threats. We work toward these goals in a variety of ways, including security training for new engineers, technical presentations about security, and other types of documentation. We also use codelabs — interactive programming tutorials that walk participants through specific programming tasks
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Do know evil
May 10 – 14 2010. Free, online sessions for PHP developers interested in learning about the Adobe Flash Platform, including: What’s New in Flash Builder 4 for PHP Developers; Using Advanced Features with Flex & PHP ; and A Basic CRUD Application with Zend_AMF and Flex 4
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Adobe Developer Week Starts May 10, 2010 – Zend Developer Zone
Webmaster Level: All In this final installation in our URL removal series, let’s talk about following up on your removal requests, as well as when not to use Google’s URL removal tool. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading the previous posts in this series: Part I: Removing URLs & directories Part II: Removing & updating cached content Part III: Removing content you don’t own Companion post: Managing what information is available about you online Understanding the status of your requests Once you’ve submitted a removal request, it will appear in your list of requests. You can check the status of your requests at any time to see whether the content has been removed, or whether the request is still or pending or was denied
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URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests & what not to remove
The Bokeh effect is very popular online at the moment, both in photography and as background images in web design. It’s not a new phenomenon. It is reported to have first been popularized in Photo Techniques magazine in 1997.
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When Bokeh Meets Web Design: Stylishly Out Of Focus Backgrounds
Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate …k, i, s, s, i, n, g! Perhaps you heard our announcement that speed is a signal in rankings , but didn’t know where to start. We’d like to help foster a lasting relationship between you and a responsive experience for your users.
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You and site performance, sitting in a tree…
Episode 59 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ), Brad Williams ( @williamsba ), Stephan Segraves ( @ssegraves ), and Kevin Yank ( @sentience ).
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SitePoint Podcast #59: Speaking of Fail
Webmaster Level: All As part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around the world, we’re announcing the international availability of rich snippets . If you’ve been following our blog posts, you already know that rich snippets let users see additional facts and data from your site in search results.
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Rich snippets go international
Webmaster Level: Intermediate That is the question we hear often. Onward to the answers! Historically, it’s common for URLs with a trailing slash to indicate a directory, and those without a trailing slash to denote a file: http://example.com/foo/ (with trailing slash, conventionally a directory) http://example.com/foo (without trailing slash, conventionally a file) But they certainly don’t have to.
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To slash or not to slash
Webmaster Level: All Welcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two, we talked about expediting the removal of content that’s under your control and requesting expedited cache removals . Today, we’re covering how to use Google’s public URL removal tool to request removal of content from Google’s search results when the content originates on a website not under your control.
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URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don’t own
Webmaster Level: All The single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is to create and maintain a Video Sitemap . Video Sitemaps provide Google with essential information about your videos, including the URLs for the pages where the videos can be found, the titles of the videos, keywords, thumbnail images, durations, and other information. The Sitemap also allows you to define the period of time for which each video will be available.
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Help Google index your videos