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Cool Blog to Check out – Jason D Moore Photography

Nothing I like better then a Cool site or blog is one that offers tips to photographers as well as showcases great work. Take a look at the Blogsite for Jason D Moore and you might be able to get in on some winning. Currently the Blog is offering up a Signed (Friend of the show) Matt Kloskowski Layer Book.

Photo of Matt Kloskowski and Andy Taylor from TechtalkRadio
Photo of Matt Kloskowski and Andy Taylor from TechtalkRadio

If you haven’t checked out Layers Magazine, What are you thinking!! Seriously, it’s one of the best graphics and media magazines available that gives users valuable Tips, Tricks and Workthroughs. It is geared at those that use Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Illustrator and even After Effects. At Jason D Moores site you can enter this contest to win the Signed Book by submitting 3 photos and you have until October 31st to do so. Full Details are up on his site as well as info on joining the NAPP

While you are there, check out the Workshops and Videos to give you some knowledge and then work your way around the site for inspiration, it will make you wanna go out and start snapping some pics! Here is the URL for the contest page http://jasondmoore.com/blog/2010/10/october-2010-photo-contest/

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May the Fez Be With You

Andy Taylor at TechtalkRadio has posted an interview with The Force behind http://www.fezorama.com Artist Jason Rodgers talked with Andy about the original idea for the e-commerce site that showcases Custom Fez Creations and how in 1990-91 it really wasn’t viable to just promote over the BBS. Several years later, the artist had not given up on the thoughts of creating his Fez designs and put them on a website he created.

A Photo of a Custom Fez from Fez-O-Rama.Com
Custom Fez Designs at Fez-O-Rama

Jason also shared hurdles and concerns when he started up the site but also ways he was able to develop using Open Source software. The idea for success lays in the fact that Jason understands that the market is not only going to come from the surrounding area but also from a worldwide audience of potential buyers. Using the Social Networking of Twitter and Facebook not only allows the marketer to connect with the potential shopper but also form friendships with like minded artist.

Whether it be a different Fez or a complete custom for your event or happening, Jason Rodgers has carved out a pretty strong following and it’s all due to his craft and to the power of the fez.  Listen in to the interview with Jason at http://www.techtalkradio.com/internet/fezorama.html

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Free software to convert PDF files

We here at TechtalkRadio always love to pass along Free Software or Links when we can, especially if it can save you a few bucks! Until October 21st of 2010 visitors to the website at http://www.pdftiger.com/giveaway.html can grab a copy of the software that will  PDFTiger converts files to PDF formatted files, PDF files into editable file formats and according to the Documentation on the website also handle task such as:

“Word To PDF Converter and PDF To Word Doc Tool that quickly and accurately create PDF documents from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, txt or Images. PDFTiger can also convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files.”

To view all the available format conversions, visit http://www.pdftiger.com/giveaway.html Also, remember that this is only till October 21st 2010. As with all Downloadable Software and Links, make sure your system is backed up and protected!
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Photoshop Achieves One Million Fans on Facebook

Andy Taylor talked with Maria Yap of Adobe Systems on the Milestone announcement that Facebook had surpassed One Million Fans on the popular Social Networking Site Facebook. Maria is the Director of Product Management for Adobe Digital Imaging at Adobe Systems and told TechtalkRadio’s Andy Taylor ““We weren’t expecting this to happen so quickly!”  The company is still in celebration mode from it’s 20th Anniversary of the Photoshop product as well as the launch earlier this year of the latest version in its CS5 Line. Adobe also released last month the Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements latest versions.

Maria told TechtalkRadio that the company will be having some fun with the Facebook page to celebrate the fan base with giveaways, slide shows of work created with Adobe Photoshop and even more content for tips and tricks in using the powerful software. Andy noted to Maria that Adobe Photoshop has become synonymous with the idea of taking an image and “fixing” it. Often you hear in Television Shows and Movies a character will say “we’ll throw it in photoshop and they’ll never know” 

Listen in to our interview with Maria Yap from Adobe Systems at http://www.techtalkradio.com/software/photoshopcs5.html

If you are on Facebook, check out these other Facebook Fan/Like pages.

http://www.facebook.com/Photoshop
http://www.facebook.com/lightroom
http://www.facebook.com/PhotoshopElements
http://twitter.com/#!/PHOTOSHOP

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USB 3.0 Flash Drives exist, Kingston Technology has them…

Photo of the Kingston Data Traveler USB 3.0
Kingston USB DTU 3.0 Flash Drive

It was a few weeks ago that TechtalkRadio recieved some USB 3.0 adapters from our friends at TrendNet so we could test out and experience the glory that would be USB 3.0. Seriously, the idea of transfering large files to external drives,  flash drives or even broadcasting or playing back video in HD is possible with the sysem specs of USB 3.0

Andy Taylor of TechtalkRadio made a few calls and reached out to manufacturers for external USB devices and connected with Kingston Technologies. The Fountain Valley California sent us a DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0.

To give you an idea why we were so excited with the concept, The specification for USB 3.0 with the data traverller from Kingston allows for data transfers as fast as 80 MB per second when being read from the drive, and up to 60 MB per second when being written to the drive…up to ten times the rate as USB 2.0 (which is 30 MB per second to read from, and 30 MB per second to write to, those types of drives).

To transfer a 265,441 MB file via a USB 3.0 connection to the drive took about 10 seconds.  Tranferring the same file via USB 2.0 to the drive took about 15 seconds. On the Kingston website it was noted  “During internal testing, a 1 hour 44 minute movie (3.9GB) was written to the drive in 1 minute 13 seconds. Similarly, a 2 hour 23 minute DVD (4.4GB) transferred to the drive at a fast 1 minute 23 seconds.”

I took the Beefy USB DataTraveler out of the packaging and began with the idea of formatting the FAT32 device to NTFS. I then tried a write of a  4.05 GB file:  it needed about two minutes via USB 3.0.  At USB 2.0 it took nearly 4 minutes to complete. Happy indeed was I and I could imagine how time saving this would be moving large amounts of small files.  The product we looked at was the 32GB Model.

The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 is available in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities.  For use with some USB 2.0 ports, a Y-cable…that has two Type A plugs, and one Type A receptacle…is included.

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