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Color Matching 7D & Red

One thing that we did for our recent short was integrated footage shot with the Canon 7D and the Red camera. The Red footage was processed ‘flat’ so the image was not crushed until the final color treatment was established.  The 7D footage however was setup at the default settings so there was already more contrast and a nice tone. There are some interesting tips for setting up your 7D with a flat look for those interested to get more color range out of the compressed footage.

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Tips and Tricks to make Drupal Hosting even better!

Tips and Tricks to make Drupal Hosting even better! Drupal , the powerful and easy-to-use content management system, written in PHP is extremely popular among web designers. The reason why they go for Drupal hosting is its modular approach – every thing, including the core system files are in the form of modules. Barring the core ones, web admins can install, uninstall any module from the vast list of modules available in the Drupal website.

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A brief tutorial on connecting PHP and MySQL

A brief tutorial on connecting PHP and MySQL The need to interact with your target customers has prompted websites to undergo a major evolution. Now, web admins try to collect as much data as possible from the visitors of their site for better communication. Therefore, a number of tools and applications have been developed which connects the website (what visitors see) and the back end database (where user data is stored)

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fred-wilson: So Divine – The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main…

fred-wilson : So Divine – The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street 2010 one of the ten extra tracks on the reissue that is out today the opening chords are straight from paint it black hectic day and didn’t get a chance to post a song this morning. thankfully @fredwilson comes to the rescue. 

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How to Use Optional Parameters in C# 4.0

Optional parameters are default values used when a function or method is called without specific arguments. They can be used in PHP… // PHP optional parameters function DoSomething($num = 1, $str = “optional”) { // code } as well as VisualBasic.NET: ‘ VB.NET optional parameters Public Sub DoSomething( Optional ByVal num As Integer = 1, Optional ByVal str As String = “optional” ) ‘ code End Sub and similar functionality can be written in JavaScript: // JavaScript optional parameters function DoSomething(num, str) { num = (typeof(num) != “undefined”

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Four CSS tricks for your website!

Four CSS tricks for your website! CSS is now an indispensable part of the web designing process. Its unique feature that maintains the content and the design separately has helped in manipulating either without affecting the other. Moreover, its vast range of functions has helped the web designers in creating simple, fast and unique layouts

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Five great applications based on PHP

Five great applications based on PHP People often talk about how PHP is being slowly eclipsed by other upcoming APIs that are not only about programming, but provide a complete environment for application development. However, the fact is, most of the popular applications and software are developed on PHP itself

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Short Film Launching Today: “Payment Plan”

Earlier this month I mentioned this short film we created to demonstrate an effect for an upcoming tutorial… Well that film will be online later today. There has been a lot of interesting guesses about what the effect will be… we’ll find out together. Be ready.

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RIA Services – v1 Shipped!

“Those Who Ship, Win!” This used to be written on a giant poster in the hallways of building 42 (original home of the .net framework) … should have taken a picture of it while it used to be around. (missed classic photo opportunity – anyone have a shot of it?) Today, we delivered one of the most important features, shipping a v1

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Enter Your Weddings, Events & Corporate Video – Open to All Professionals

The 2010 “Call For Entries” in the WEVA 20th Annual Creative Excellence Awards Competition was announced at the WEVA-NAB 2010 Open House with all entries due by the 2010 deadline 5:00pm Thursday, May 27, 2010 .

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Optical Flares 1.2 Almost Ready

Optical Flares 1.2 will be launching soon, this update features several new improvements including Full Screen mode and adjustable panels and windows. We’re just going through some more testing and it will be available soon. I know it’s taking a little longer than expected but the new features are nice.

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"Nicole Wahl, a 35-year-old communications manager at the University of Toronto, estimates she talks…"

“Nicole Wahl, a 35-year-old communications manager at the University of Toronto, estimates she talks on her phone only about 10 minutes a month. “The only reason I ever call someone anymore is if I don’t have their Twitter handle or e-mail address,” Ms. Wahl said.

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Potential of Location Based Services under Web 2.0

Potential of Location Based Services under Web 2.0 With the introduction of Web 2.0 , there have been quite a few path-breaking changes in the World Wide Web. Websites are no more the static HTML pages, but are more interactive and collaborative. The latest trend on the Web 2.0 paradigm seems to be Location Based Services .

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jQuery and Windows Azure

The goal of this blog entry is to describe how you can host a simple Ajax application created with jQuery in the Windows Azure cloud. In this blog entry, I make no assumptions. I assume that you have never used Windows Azure and I am going to walk through the steps required to host the application in the cloud in agonizing detail.

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LIVE CHAT for Website Expert

LIVE CHAT for Website Expert is a full CHAT service for visitors on your website. Get It Installed for only $149 Get It Installed with Training for only $199 Feature LIVECHAT 3.1.8.6 Monthly Fee No Maximum number of Operators Unlimited Maximum number of Groups Unlimited Multiple Operator Support Operator Initiated Chats / Chat Invitations Chat Queue Line (with approx.

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Tracking tyranny

Here’s a new initiative from Amnesty International: Amnesty International is releasing a social network that watches over tyrannical leaders from all over the world who attack Human Rights. This way, it seeks to form a global community of Human Rights defenders, making the contact between the public and Amnesty’s promoting causes easier. This network will have the designation of Tyrannybook .

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Courts should stand tough against the spirit of Joro

Residents in Ruwa are in a state of shock and disbelief after an 8-year-old girl was raped, killed and dumped in nearby fields. Even Grade Seven children are now accompanied to the Thorncroft School, for the fear that anything can happen. One prominent name behind all this is a 22-year-old man called Jeremiah Mazarura alias Joro

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Support for MDC is lessening

Social and political commentator, Psychology Maziwisa, suggests that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is taking the support of Zimbabweans for granted, and that they need to reassess their priorities.  Here is his latest article: MDC doesn’t get it Taking things for granted has for a very long time been the hallmark of African politics and apparently the MDC is no exception.

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Find my Xdebug download wizard – Derick Rethans

Find my Xdebug download wizard London, UK Monday, May 3rd 2010, 10:00 BST Installing Xdebug seems to be a problem for some users. The main trouble is for Windows users that don’t know which file to download. Over the past few days I’ve worked on a wizard that analyses phpinfo()’s output and for Windows users suggests: which file to download where to put the file which php.ini file to modify, and how For Unix users, it explains: which source tarball to download how to compile which php.ini file to modify, and how I hope this makes it a bit easier to get going with Xdebug

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Exihibitview Revisited

Way back in December of last year (seems like a lifetime ago) I wrote what was to be my last official blog before I took my unexpected “leave of absence” on a new trial presentation software called ” Exhibitview “. In my post I sang the praises of the simplicity of the program and probably put the livliehood of several smaller trial presentation companies at risk

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