December 2006 archives

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December 31, 2006 by Sciri

Saddam Hussein execution video (Shaaaheed_IRAQ_Sdaaam.3gp)

The Saddam Hussein execution video has made its way onto the Web and hundreds of sites have started watermarking and re-encoding the video with their own advertising and logo. After doing some digging I managed to find on alrafdean-news.net what I believe to be the original 3gp camera phone file that has been rehashed so [...]

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December 22, 2006 by Sciri

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pocketables (tags: pepper buzz) Technology News: Embedded Linux: Pepper Pad Player Gives Linux Place Among Handheld Media Gadgets (tags: pepper buzz) 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation – by Dumb Little Man (tags: writing reference)

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December 20, 2006 by Sciri

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pocketables (tags: pepper buzz) RedOrbit – Technology – Pepper Pad Offers Linux Web Tablet for Sofa Surfing (tags: pepper buzz) Rhapsody on Pepper Pad 3 – InsanelyMac Forum (tags: pepper buzz) LWN: Pepper Pad offers Linux Web tablet for sofa surfing (Buffalo News) (tags: pepper buzz)

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December 19, 2006 by Sciri

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Buffalo News – Pepper Pad offers Linux Web tablet for sofa surfing (tags: pepper buzz) JoomlaWorks | Custom extensions, tips and tutorials for the Joomla CMS (tags: joomla reference tool)

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December 12, 2006 by Sciri

Metadata and thumbnails can out your sources

Most photojournalists have started tagging their photos with IPTC metadata to aid in copyrighting and indexing their massive collection of images. Some news organizations also require that all digital images be tagged to properly track and attribute the file during the production process. This metadata, however, can lead to some compromising moments if not properly [...]

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December 8, 2006 by Sciri

Quack to the Future

I’m on a roll. Aaron Johnson has used another one of my captions for his brilliantly outstanding What the Duck comic strip about photographers and what they deal with on a daily basis. I’m truly honored!

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December 1, 2006 by Sciri

whine rack

Aaron Johnson, esteemed author of What the Duck, used my caption for What the Duck 97 – whine rack. If you haven’t checked his Web comic out already it’s 100% comedy genius. After almost 100 episodes it hasn’t lost any of its flair and illustrates the trials and tribulations that photographers go through on a [...]