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Lynda.com makes photo book production a breeze

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Online course explains how to plan, organize and publish a photo book on Blurb.com

Lynda.com Creating Photo Books with Blurb, showing book cover design

Self-publishing a book is a daunting task made relatively easy with the Lynda,com course Creating Photo Books with Blurb.

For example, if you want to create a really special Valentine’s Day photo book covered in How to make the best Valentine for under $50, the related Lynda course takes about 2 to 3 hours to complete and costs $25, or $37.50 if you use their sample files. The fee is a one month membership and you can also take other courses during the month. There also is a Lynda.com 7-day free trial.
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Google Chrome breaks computers again

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Installing Chrome browser with MS Office breaks the hyperlink feature

Sneak attack on MS Office and LiveMail

Google Earth comes automatically with Google Chrome browser. Installing Chrome on a Windows 7 computer which has either MS Office or Windows LiveMail will break the hyperlink feature.

Hyperlink allows to you to click on a link in a document and automatically go to the internet page in the link.

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One day internet blackout works but it’s not over yet

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Massive blackout of internet sites on Jan 18 influences lawmakers

The media stories have Hollywood corporate fat cats reeling from Wednesday’s shutdown or blackout of more than 12,000 websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. NJN Network did its small part by wearing black all day.
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NJN Network is darkened today to protest SOPA PIPA

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Wearing black for SOPA protest

Wikipedia goes dark for SOPA protest

If SOPA passes the US Congress in anything close to its current form, the internet as we know it will be essentially dead.

We are joining sites around the world to protest like Wikipedia, Flickr, and Reddit.
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Samsung’s Transparent Galaxy Tab will kill iPad

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Transparent and shape-able screens from Samsung will define the next technological advance


In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device.  A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.

Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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Bell Aliant FiberOP is fastest game in town

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Blazing download speeds of 30 Mbps and upload 10 – 28 Mbps

BellAliant FiberOp speed test

Updated 8:36 PM – reconnect your set top box with HDMI if you want HD television. The Aliant techs leave it hooked at the lowest level, 480p, for testing purposes.

After months of watching those TV ads for 30 Mbps internet speeds, I made the jump back to BellAliant for the new FiberOP internet.

Actual performance what you’d expect from the tests – very fast.

The results are stunning and handily beat 30 Mbps service from Eastlink.

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Movie Producers praise China and Iran

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Speaking in support of SOPA, “The MPAA’s Michael O’Leary showed support for regimes that censor the internet, by saying that “the internet isn’t broken” in places like China and Iran… He really should spend some time there speaking to those who have been censored.” Thoughts On The House Judiciary Committee’s Hearings On SOPA TechDirt

Essentially SOPA, if passed, will shut down the internet as we know it to make Sony and Universal richer.

Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

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44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.

Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.

Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web.  Continue reading →

Microsoft’s vision of the future is almost here

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The shared vision of portable connectivity will be here sooner than later

The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone -  was a dream in the 60s

People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.

The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.

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The future of music is the iPad and HTML5

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Roger McNamee says in the bold new world, Microsoft and Google are on the way out as mobile devices dominate computing’s and music’s future

This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.

The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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