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Learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 by Video: Core Training in Web Communication (Learn by Video) by Video2Brain

As a photographer you know how vital it is to have an online presence so that you can properly market your talents. In addition, digital photographers have some level of computer skills, and probably a healthy amount of training and skill in Adobe Photoshop. Taking the next step means adopting another Adobe tool, in the case Dreamweaver CS5, and designing and building your online presence, saving you hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process. Continue Reading

A True "Every" Tool We Can All Use - The iPad

On March 12th, despite recent financial setbacks the like of which we’ve never experienced before, every staff member of XtremeCamera placed his and her preorder for the Apple iPad as fast as they could whip out their credit and debit cards.

No doubt that in the future there will be other tablet-like devices similar in form and function to Apple’s iPad, and no doubt that for some people those devices might be a better fit. But right now, and for the foreseeable future, the Apple iPad is such an incredibly worthy product that the people who own, myself included, are rarely, if ever, without it. I don’t know about you but I was a bit surprised how often I find myself reaching for my iPad, no matter what it was I was doing. Continue Reading

Mastering Filters for Photography - Book Review

We receive books covering every aspect of photography, whether film based or strictly digital, and whether or not it covers the camera/lens end of photography or the computer/software end. We love receiving the titles, and for the most part there are terrific bits of information in the books we receive. And sometimes, like this title, we receive a book that qualifies as a “vital” part of a serious photographers library. Continue Reading

A Julian Lennon Comeback? Let’s Hope so…

When it comes to the children of the beloved John Lennon there can be no doubt that John’s firstborn, Julian, was born with more than his share of the Lennon ‘looks’, voice, mannerisms, and yes, talent. That’s not to say John’s younger son Sean isn’t talented as well, but Sean seems to lack direction, dedication, and focus. Sean seems to be a momma’s boy (but in a good way), whereas Julian has had a much tougher time in 46 years. Continue Reading

XtremeCamera is back online after 4-day MIA

Apologies all around. XtremeCamera is back online after an unexpected failure of the hosting company that has served as our co-location host for the past 6 years. Our servers are under lock and key and it will be months before we get them back, if ever. We’re not even sure we can find the receipts for the many parts that made up our custom, DIY Linux boxes we sent to the company over the years. In any case, we’ve joined up with Network Solutions with a dedicated server and we hope it will suffice until things settle down.

Please note that our last backup was dated November 14th, 2009 so anything posted in the blogs, in the reviews and opinions, in the galleries (all galleries), will need to be reposted. Since we’re now more than 65GB in size as a gzip file it just didn’t make sense to do more frequent backups remotely. In the future we’ll know better; you can never be sure who is next to go belly up.

Once again, we apologize to our members, our readers, and our clients for being MIA these past 4 days.

John Manzione Continue Reading