At a quick glance you might think “That’s a nice little portrait, and the chick doesn’t look too bad either”. Well, if you completely ignored the title, then that is a CGI women you are looking at. Lately, I’ve been seeing a bunch of these photorealistic CGI People, which probably couldn’t be done 10 years ago. When I was in Highschool I was lucky to take a class in computer graphics, so I know the difficulty to pull off a photorealistic person. There’s little nuances with the human face, and if it is even a tiny bit off, then the brain can easily detect that something is wrong.

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The only way to really experience a photo is by viewing it in Black and White. Once you strip a photo of it’s distracting colors, you will be left with wonderful lights and textures. I’m not saying that all photos should be black and white, because colors has their place, but there are qualities that exist in black and whites photos that make them absolutely beautiful.

Below is part 1 of a 2 part series that displays amazing black and white photos that will be sure to inspire your brains out.
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A little animated short that tugged on my heart strings. Enjoy

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

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Mini HDMI Cable
$1.92 – Most cameras come with a connection to HDMI cables, which allows photographers to plug it into their HDTV and start up that slideshow no one wants to see.

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One of the techniques to having an SEO optimized website is to have interlinking between web pages on your site. Unfortunately, doing this manually can be a real pain, so it would definitely be nice to have a plugin or software that does all this for you. Well if you operate a wordpress blog, your prayers have been answered by SEO Smart Links.

SEO Smart Links is a Wordpress Plugin that that will automatically link the contents of your website, and it even allows you to add custom keywords to link outside your site. SEO Smart Links will basically crawl your site looking for relevant anchor text to attach links to. The plugin will figure out what keywords it can use to link to posts, pages, categories, and tags which all happens automatically. And for the control freaks, you can manually add custom keywords which will convert them into links as well.

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Me and my wife just came back from a vacation from the East Coast to visit family. The trip was meant to recharge my batteries after over 1.5 years of work, but instead it became the worst vacation I’ve ever had. Not to get into to much detail about it, but we spent almost half of our time driving through confusing East Coast highway systems, we went through 10 toll roads costing an average of $5 a piece, New York raped us with $18 parking, and $25 mediocre sandwiches, we got a speeding ticket, and I was sick through half of the vacation. By the time we came back, we needed a vacation from a vacation.

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For years, I’ve been writing web applications from scratch, and I can only compare this to climbing Mount Everest. The time wasted doing tedious coding tasks is enough to make me run and jump out a window. Luckily for me, I discovered the magical world of Frameworks which essentially eliminates the need for writing repetitive code. Instead of writing the same old code over and over again, your focus can be left for the Logic and GUI aspect of development. There is literally a framework for every aspect of your programming life, and most of them follow the very clean MVC design pattern that will leave you with nice, extensible code.

So for those of you still confused about frameworks, well it basically supports the development of a website, web application, and web services. Frameworks allows for the access of database functions, templating, session management, and promotes code reuse. As a PHP developer I’m more interested in PHP Frameworks, so below is a list of some widely used PHP Frameworks. It will be up to you to determine which one will prevent you from jumping out windows like the Hulk.

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Professional Photo	Amateur Photo

Think about transactions that involve hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the best way these numbskulls promote their product is by using a cheap point and shoot. In every other industry, companies hire professional photographers to display clothing, cars, and gadgets in the best light possible. Well apparently when it comes to real estate, the norm is to capture your $300,000+ product on a $100 camera.

Recently a study was done by Redfin, and they compiled the data from both Boston and Long Island. Their findings showed that listings with better photos not only received more attention, but they commanded a higher asking price. Surprisingly, only 15% of the million plus listing incorporated professional photography, which is surprisingly low considering the amount of competition there is. Unfortunately, this only applies for listings that are in decent condition. If you were to sell a property that was in dire need of repair, high resolution images would only reveal more of the suckiness.

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For about a week a photo of Tiger Woods hitting a golf ball towards a photographer was the biggest viral phenomena. It was coined the best Tiger Woods picture ever, but when the story broke I’m sure they didn’t take into account of the cartoonish looking Indian Fella on the right side. Apparently, people took notice of this person, and nicknamed him the ‘Cigar Guy‘.

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Sick of all those lenses you have to purchase for your DSLR? Canon is in development of a camera that can go from macro all the way to 500mm focal length. It is technically a video camera, but with resolution so crisp that you could take a frame and use it in a large format print. That would literally solve the problem from those group photos where the one douche in the whole shot has his eyes closed. The camera can also determine the correct depth of field based on it’s advanced face recognition technology. The release of the Canon Wonder Camera is set out for a 2030 release.

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