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DIY Website Promotion | How to Create and Submit Websites to Search Engines... - StumbleUpon. If you want more people to visit your website, you need to know how to make your website search engine friendly, and then submit your URL to all the major search engines. This site is devoted to teaching you how to do it yourself, cheaply, effectively, and with a minimum of hassle. SelfPromotion.com has been providing the basic facts about website promotion in two centuries (barely!). Here you will find all the information you need, plus some nifty automatic submission tools that will help you get the job done quickly, efficiently, and most of all, properly!

If you invest a little time into reading and using this resource, you'll not only do a much better job of promoting your site, but save yourself a lot of time and effort in the process -- not to mention, you'll avoid the costly traps that most newbie webmasters fall into. Important note: the search engine landscape has changed radically in the many years since I first created this site. I run this site in a totally different way. Free Software | bigBrains.com. NCAA College Basketball - - NCAA Basketball Live Today - High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop. High dynamic range (HDR) images enable photographers to record a greater range of tonal detail than a camera could capture in a single photo. This opens up a whole new set of lighting possibilities which one might have previously avoided — for purely technical reasons. The new "merge to HDR" feature of Photoshop accomplishes this by combining a series of bracketed exposures into a single image, which encompasses the tonal detail of the entire series.

Single Photo without HDR After High Dynamic Range Technique Image above courtesy of Kyle Kruchock (albeit in a heavily modified form). There is no free lunch however; trying to broaden the tonal range will inevitably come at the expense of decreased contrast in some tones. As digital sensors attain progressively higher resolutions, and thereby successively smaller pixel sizes, the one quality of an image which does not benefit is its dynamic range.

Brightness Distribution Underexposure Overexposure *As measured by a digital camera. Reference. Online converter. Apple finds another AirPlay partner in Pioneer's VSX-1021 AV receiver. DEMO Wrap Up: 7 New Social Startups to Watch. The DEMO Spring 2011 conference wrapped up yesterday in Palm Springs, and echoing the current climate in the Valley, day two of the conference belonged to startups focused on social technologies. From social CRM platforms, photo sharing, and social networks to aggregation and reader engagement tools to video and group chat, the day’s startups showed that the interest in the “social” Web only continues to blossom. Here, in no particular order, is a look at seven new interesting startups worth keeping an eye on: Marginize: Marginize is a browser add-on that allows you to annotate Websites and to leave comments, adding a social layer to every site you visit.

The user can add or join an existing “margin” layer to browse and discover what others have said about the site you’re visiting. You can leave a comment or browse those left by others. 12 Most Bizarre iPad Mods ~ MegaMachine.info. Sony Nextep Computer Concept for 2020 by Hiromi Kiriki & Yanko Design. In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen.

Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets? Designer: Hiromi Kiriki.