A QUAD or Flying Car, Actually, it's Both

                                    
'B' The Flying Car by B
   a KICKSTARTER Project 
  
Quote: 'B' is a revolutionary new remote controlled hybrid car-helicopter (QUAD) with a patent pending design. It is capable of driving across difficult terrain using its large rear drive wheels and when the obstacles become too big, simply take-off and fly over them.     

• Vertical take-off and landing.
• Able to transition on the move between driving, flying and back again.
• Up to 15 minutes of action on a single charge.
• HD (1280 x 720) camera on-board with recording capability.
• An experience which has not been possible within one package before.
• Durable construction that is designed with punishing terrain in mind.

 

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FREE Camera Tethering Software

digiCamControl
    DSLR camera remote control (free) open source software
 
"Remote control your camera from your Windows computer tethered via USB. See live view on your computer display. Trigger the camera from the computer or your tablet or smartphone. Control multiple connected cameras at the same time. Stacker (Focus Stacking) software to stack pictures."

• Additional Features
• Download Page
• Camera Support: Model list of supported cameras, Nikon or Canon only.

     
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Press: Tethering on the cheap: Free, open-source app controls your Nikon DSLR remotely

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FREE Photo Editors Redux

I don't think anyone would disagree when talking about FREE Photo-editing GIMP a popular open-source photo-editor would be first to make the list. Now entering the picture (sorry for the pun) is another choice, LightZone, un-bloated but powerful commercial package first released in 2005 but in 2011 suddenly shut down according to my source. However FAN interest was kept alive so Light Crafts released the source code under an open-source license. Downloads (v4.0) available for Windows, Linux and in the near future Mac OS platforms. In the meantime Mac OS users can choose the beta version of 4.0 or version 3.9.2
  

• LightZone Open-source (home)
• New Instructions for Downloading and Updating
  • New Windows V4.0
  • New Linux V4.0    
• Tutorials, how-to articles and videos
• Current LightZone RAW Profiles, look here to see if your camera is supported 

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Note: Due to sudden interest in LightZone the providers have reached their download limits therefor for now many can't download the software. More on this at We are being flooded 600+ new members in 24 hours. In short they ask us to be patient as they promise to remedy the downloading issues ASAP. Also for Windows users I quote: "The build is currently broken, but being recompiled with a new compiler. So you should be waiting anyway. We should have things fixed soon." 

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Jacob Riis

Fair Use (about, MS Museum Syndicate)

Jacob Riis (WiKi)
American Photographer
1849 AD - 1914 AD 

How The Other Half Lives (The Authentic History Center) Pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis focused on the plight of the poor in the Lower East Side of New York.

Jacob Riis's Works of Art (MS Museum Syndicate)

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Public DNS for Faster Internet Access

I came across the following TIP while reading an article which offered a number tips that would generally speed up our Internet browsing. I see no need to list the specific tutorial as there are many to be found on the subject but foremost of the TIPS suggested was to switch to Google Chrome. However also offered within same article was a little known TIP which claimed to offer faster NET access by simply switching our DNS server to one of the FREE Public DNS Servers such as the one offered by Google. 

Typically DNS services are provided by our internet service provider or ISP. The DNS stands for 'Domain Name System' which is a benchmark technology for supervising the names of Websites and other domain names.

Generally "DNS servers of ISP cannot handle traffic during major times which results in the slow speed of the Internet or sometimes server down trouble. This problem is modified in the Free Public DNS Servers that can handle any amount of traffic at any time. There are multiple servers, if one breaks down; other is ready to operate for you. ~ thegeekyglobe.com"

Switching to a FREE Public DNS Server
   
After setting up Google's Public DNS on my system I did indeed notice a speed gain in my Internet access. 

• Google Public DNS and How to Setup
  Experienced? For Google Public DNS enter, Preferred DNS: 8.8.8.8 ~ Alternate DNS: 8.8.4.4
• Google Public DNS information (WiKi)
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I went with OpenDNS but experiment with any of the free DNS servers yourself. You might do better than I did, good luck.

















Related:

• OpenDNS - Another highly recommended Public DNS service.
                  Preferred DNS: 208.67.222.222 ~ Alternate DNS: 208.67.220.220
• List of FREE Public DNS Servers
• Top 5 Free Public DNS Servers 

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Wire Worm a Photoshop Plugin

I recently found this special purpose Photoshop plugin, MV's Plugins Wire Worm and would highly recommended simply because it did a brilliant job and was very easy to use. Wire Worm is used or is best used to remove those distracting and until now those hard to remove power lines we often find throughout our street scenes. The plugin proves itself with it's short learning curve, works with any photo-editor (that support Photoshop plugins) and best of all Wire Worm is absolutely FREE ... "Free and Easy" as they say!

Additional information:

• Wire Worm, Basic Tutorial and Color Matching Tutorial
• New Features Demo
• User Gallery showing user submitted (mouseover, before and after) examples.
• MV's Plugins (home) and Additional Plugins

Demonstration: used with permission © 2013 CHROMAdigital 
     

  

Wire Worm Screenshot

  

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Legendary Queens of Pin-up

Disclaimer: Please consider the content and use your best judgment before clicking any links. NSFW
    
Pin-up Models: Bettie Page and Bunny Yeager
Photographer: Bunny Yeager (Wiki)
Source: The Selvedge Yard  

Bettie Page

 
    
Related:

• Bettie Page - Google Images
• Bunny Yeager - Google Images
• Bunny Yeager: The Photographer Who Immortalized a ’50s Sex Goddess

Update: May 27, 2014

• Bunny Yeager passes away at 85

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Linda McCartney the Photographer

Copyright © 1999 LiveJournal, Inc. All rights reserved

Linda McCartney: 

• Photos by Linda McCartney - LiVEJOURNAL
• Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons
• A Rare Archive: The Lost Beatles Photographs
• Harry Benson’s Luminous Black-and-White Photographs of The Beatles, 1964-1966
• Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs - Amazon Books, not affiliated with w00d-news.blogspot.ca

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Space Shuttle Flight Deck Panorama

Panorama: Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck  -  The Last Shuttle

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Cloudscapes

Photography by Camille Seaman
Title: © Malcolm Muggeridge

... Continued, more images ...

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