By Andrew Tarantola, Gizmodo – June 03, 2012 at 01:20PM
How do you know when your new cancer drug is working better than expected? When they shut down the clinical trial so that every participating patient can receive it. More »
By Lin and Jirsa Photography, Photography Bay – June 03, 2012 at 12:32AM
As we embark on our new journey through the awesome and powerful software of Adobe Lightroom 4, there are a few basic rules to color correction that we should continue to follow. It’s easy to open a new toy and jump right into playing with it; but there are important steps to take even before importing the photos that will improve your color correction quality and efficiency.
This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Lightroom 4 Tutorials on DVD, a 14 hour Lightroom 4 A – Z guide with over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom from start to finish. The Digital download can be purchased from SLR Lounge while the physical copy is available through Amazon Prime.
1) Remember that color correction is subjective
This is an opportunity for you to be creative and explore your style. You can turn up the warmth of the photo to make it look like a sunset/dusk type image or you can cool the image to make it look like a winter type scene. You can also make the image black and white. Here is an example of the same image, one color corrected for warmer tones and the other for cooler tones. There certainly isn’t a “correct” version; and it depends entirely on preference and style.
Warmer Version:
Cooler Version:
2) Make sure you color calibrate your monitor
In order to do this, you would have to buy a color calibrating device. The spider pro and elite devices work great for this purpose but there are several great products on the market. Now color calibrating your monitor once is not a one-time fix-all. For the best results, set up a reminder on your calibrator software to color calibrate your monitor every 30-60 days because your monitor tends to dim and this changes the colors.
3) Use a High Quality, Wide Gammet LCD or Monitor
We recommend using a high quality, wide gamut LCD or monitor when you’re editing. Low quality displays will hinder the quality of your color correcting. We recommend Apple displays or higher end Dell displays as well as Samsung. You can also try purchasing a display from a store that will allow you to return it within 14-30. That way you can calibrate that display and print out a couple of images from it to ensure you’re happy with the results. Make sure you have a wide color gammet and good viewing angles as well.
4) Work in a semi-dark area
Your photos could come out too light or too dark depending on where you edited the photos. We say semi-dark because we recommend that you color correct in a darker room; but not a pitch black room. The main rule of thumb is that no light should directly be falling on your display while you edit. As you color correct in a bright room, the photos tend to come out too bright. You might not be able to tell because everything around you is too bright, especially when there is light falling directly on the screen. When you color correct in a pitch black room, the images might come out too dark because the monitor is very bright in comparison to the dark room.
5) Reconsider the processing order
We want to adjust from large adjustments to small adjustments. For example, correct larger things like exposure before smaller adjustments like shadows and contrast. Lightroom is already designed to work in this order. Just start from the top of the adjustments panel and work your way down.
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By Kyle Orland, Ars Technica – June 02, 2012 at 12:00PM
The week before E3 was made that much more exciting for me when I found that my Diablo III account had been hacked, briefly leaving me without any of my accumulated items or gold. We also ran a review of Catan Junior, a board game for kids that doesn’t dumb things down, and the newest version of You Don’t Know Jack, which makes great use of its Facebook connection. We got some early looks at a bunch of games that will be making an appearance at next week’s big show in LA, and broke down some of the games we’re most looking forward to at the expo.
By (author unknown), Dispatch Latest Headlines – June 01, 2012 at 01:36PM
Surrounded by family members of those killed by drivers distracted by cell phones, many of whom pressed lawmakers into action, Gov. John Kasich signed a bill today making Ohio the 39th state to ban texting while driving. The new law, which takes effect in 90 days, also bans drivers under the age of 18 from using any electronic device, whether to text, make a call or do anything else.
By Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker – June 01, 2012 at 10:00AM
It’s easy to lose track of manuals, especially when it’s something you don’t need to reference very often like a large appliance. ManualsLib is a free collection of a ton of different product manuals that doesn’t require an account to access.
We’ve talked about using Google and Amazon to find manuals before, but ManualsLib is another resource you can add to your manual hunting toolkit. The database has around 450,000 manuals currently and an easy-to-use search engine for finding them. Unlike other libraries of PDF manuals ManualsLib doesn’t require an account or payment for files. You can also view the files directly in your browser. However, if you do want to download the manual so you can reduce clutter and store it on an ereader you can with a single click.
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By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica – June 01, 2012 at 06:00AM
In 2011, the US government rolled out its “International Strategy for Cyberspace,” which reminded us that “interconnected networks link nations more closely, so an attack on one nation’s networks may have impact far beyond its borders.” An in-depth report today from the New York Times confirms the truth of that statement as it finally lays bare the history and development of the Stuxnet virus—and how it accidentally escaped from the Iranian nuclear facility that was its target.
The article is adapted from journalist David Sanger’s forthcoming book, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, and it confirms that both the US and Israeli governments developed and deployed Stuxnet. The goal of the worm was to break Iranian nuclear centrifuge equipment by issuing specific commands to the industrial control hardware responsible for their spin rate. By doing so, both governments hoped to set back the Iranian research program—and the US hoped to keep Israel from launching a pre-emptive military attack.
The code was only supposed to work within Iran’s Natanz refining facility, which was air-gapped from outside networks and thus difficult to penetrate. But computers and memory cards could be carried between the public Internet and the private Natanz network, and a preliminary bit of “beacon” code was used to map out all the network connections within the plant and report them back to the NSA.
By samzenpus, Slashdot – May 31, 2012 at 10:07PM
Trailrunner7 writes in with a story about a iOS security guide released by Apple. “Apple has released a detailed security guide for its iOS operating system, an unprecedented move for a company known for not discussing the technical details of its products, let alone the security architecture. The document lays out the system architecture, data protection capabilities and network security features in iOS, most of which had been known before but hadn’t been publicly discussed by Apple. The iOS Security guide (PDF), released within the last week, represents Apple’s first real public documentation of the security architecture and feature set in iOS, the operating system that runs on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. Security researchers have been doing their best to reverse engineer the operating system for several years and much of what’s in the new Apple guide has been discussed in presentations and talks by researchers. ‘Apple doesn’t really talk about their security mechanisms in detail. When they introduced ASLR, they didn’t tell anybody. They didn’t ever explain how codesigning worked,’ security researcher Charlie Miller said.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
By Photograph courtesy NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, National Geographic News – May 31, 2012 at 05:32PM
See a 19th-century wreck that has experts stumped. The site’s few clues include guns, beer bottles, and copper outlines of a missing hull.
By (author unknown), ScienceDaily: Latest Science News – May 31, 2012 at 02:57PM
Rats with spinal cord injuries and severe paralysis are now walking (and running). New results show that a severed section of the spinal cord can make a comeback when its own innate intelligence and regenerative capacity — what lead author calls the “spinal brain” — is awakened.
