10 Daily Things

A trucker falls to his death when his rig goes over a huge cliff.

Shooting in direct sunlight can lead to images that have high contrast, blown out highlights, lens flare and colors that might even look overly saturated. If you’re shooting portraits they can also lead to the ’squint factor’.
So what’s a photographer to do?
Here are some quick and simple tips, from Digital Photography School, at combating the [...]

In case you miss them, here are my favorite posts for the previous week.

Gadget: The Ultimate Pen Syncs Audio with Handwriting
Movie Accidents: Helicopter Deaths While Shooting Movies
Weird Life: Accidental Food Inventions
Cool Video: The Digger Swing
Online Quiz: IQ Test
Past Video: Railplane from the 1920s
Astronomy Video: World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV
Desktop Application: DisplayFusion [...]

The most innocent looking cat flips his lid when his canine friend tries to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.

The Livescribe smartpen revolutionizes the act of writing by recording and linking audio to what you put on paper. In addition to other products, which capture whatever you wrote and convert them into some graphics format or editable text for Word, the Livescibe also records the conversation and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synching the ink [...]