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A Beginner’s Guide to Photographing Children In our latest technique article, we share some top tips for taking great photographs of your children. Keeping Photography Relevant in the Digital Age. Digital Camera Reviews. Other Reviews. Wikimedia Blog. Global Blog. Community Blog. In an effort to improve fashion knowledge on the web, Europeana Fashion has organized a series of edit-a-thons with Wikimedia volunteers and fashion institutions around Europe.
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Software. StackSocial has MacFlux on sale for 65% off.
Normally the software costs $100 and starting today it’s $35. MacFlux is an advanced HTML5 website design application, capable of creating stunning sites completely from scratch. This powerful Mac web design software is a creative design environment rather than a template-based solution (although it does include free website templates to help get you started). And if you’d rather not create HTML5 websites, MacFlux can handle standard HTML, PHP, Ruby, JSP, and more…no coding required. General. While it’s always a good idea to back up those important files you have polluting your once perfectly tidy desktop, there’s no better way to celebrate World Backup Day 2014 than with a fresh copy of all your most cherished content to your favorite storage medium.
According to WorldBackupDay.com, 30% of people have never backed up their files before, so we’re here to give you a break down of some solid storage options. Most people take a three tiered approach to back ups with local storage or NAS, external hard drives and online cloud backups just to be safe. While both Dropbox and Google Drive are great options that offer free storage, you can always find out which online cloud option suits you best with 9to5Mac’s “Online backup services: why, how & which?” Guide. Android. If you only looking for the Chromecast by itself, It’s available right now for only $30 on Amazon.
With the Nexus 7 Tablet, movies appear in Full HD, and small text looks razor-sharp. “So whether you use this tablet for study or play, you won’t want to put it down.” The Chromecast makes it easy to enjoy your favorite online entertainment on your HDTV — movies, TV shows, music and more from Netflix, Hulu Plus, Google Play Movies & TV and Chrome. Apple. Best Buy is knocking $75 off any iPhone 5s when you agree to sign a new 2 yr contract.
Just to clarify, this includes all carriers, colors, and capacities. This is one of the only deals we have seen on the 32GB/64GB models since they were introduced this fall. Act quick, Some popular models (16GB, gold, etc) are already selling out online but are available for in-store pickup. Deals. Now just days after the 50% off iPassword for Mac sale ended, developer AgileBits is dropping half off both the OS X and iOS versions of its popular password security app in the aftermath of the massive Heartbleed bug.
As Apple has confirmed that none of its software or services are susceptible to the vulnerability, Agile has now updated the 1Password listing on both the Mac App Store and App Store to reflect the 50% discount. 1Password on iOS is available today for $9 down from its usual $18 and the Mac version drops is just $25 down from $50.
Both versions rarely see discounts this deep, the Mac version is the lowest we’ve seen outside of special bundle deals and launch pricing and the iOS version is within a dollar of the lowest we’ve ever seen it. The 9to5Mac team loves this app for its simplicity, ease of use and rock solid security. 1Password acts as a vault for all of your website logins, credit card information and other confidential data. Features: 9to5 Mac. Reviews. I’ll admit, I’ve never felt the need to purchase network-attached-storage (NAS) hardware for storing and accessing my media or backing up my files.
These days most of my content, from photos and movies to back ups of important files for work, are already stored in the cloud. My photos are (supposed to) auto backup to Photostream in iCloud, iTunes has all of my music downloadable from all my devices from the cloud, and any important files and everything else go directly to Dropbox or Google Drive. Apps. Enterprise. Apple Inc. Apple executives have reached out to employees today in a company wide email urging them to review Apple’s Business Conduct Policy, a document describing how employees should conduct themselves in and outside the company while representing Apple.
An email from Apple’s SVP and General Counsel Bruce Sewell (below) was accompanied by a new version of the policy available to employees in iBooks format and a video from CEO Tim Cook discussing the policy. It’s unclear if there was a situation at Apple that could have prompted the email and video from Apple executives to employees. Apple notes that the policy “explains in very clear terms how you are expected to conduct yourself with our customers, business partners, government agencies, and fellow employees.”
iOS Devices. Tips & Tricks. Preventing unwanted messages from showing up in your inbox can be integral to enjoying email. In this article we will walk you through the process of creating mail rules that will direct messages to other folders or the trash based on conditions you specify. We will also discuss how to update rules to include additional senders or other criteria, and provide some common-sense guidance about effectively using mail rules in general. Mail rules allow you to direct messages out of your inbox into another folder or trash automatically, based on their sender or other conditions.
Rules can be set up on iCloud.com if the email address is the one you use for iCloud (it can end in either @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com). For your other email addresses, rules can be set up in the Mail app on a Mac. Silicon Valley Watcher. Silicon Valley Watcher Job Postings. The Official Posterous Space.