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Sharapova says her engagement to Vujacic is off (Yahoo! Sports)

Sharapova says her engagement to Vujacic is off (Yahoo! Sports):

NEW YORK (AP) -- Maria Sharapova says she is no longer engaged to professional basketball player Sasha Vujacic.

Getting Started With Comic Books: A Handy Guide

Getting Started With Comic Books: A Handy Guide: When rallying my friends to join the Read Comics in Public celebration, however, I heard a familiar response. "I've just never gotten into comics," they said. "It's not that I wouldn't, I just don't even know where to start." The good news for them, and anyone else here who would like to get into comics, is that I know exactly where to start.

Create and edit iPad video for free with Pinnacle Studio 2.0

Create and edit iPad video for free with Pinnacle Studio 2.0: Whether it's vacation video or serious moviemaking, this impressive app gives you the tools to add titles, transitions, music, and more.
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Used to be Avid Studio, from Avid. Now it's Pinnacle from Corel, of all things.

How to use TextWrangler as a remote file editor

How to use TextWrangler as a remote file editor: If you need to access a file or two on a remote server running SSH, then you can use TextWrangler's FTP browsing features to quickly do this.
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New Flat Lens Could Revolutionize Cameras as We Know Them | Raw File | Wired.com

New Flat Lens Could Revolutionize Cameras as We Know Them | Raw File | Wired.com: On the flat lens created by Capasso and his colleagues, a series of small nano structures, what they call nanoantennas, are systematically arranged on the silicon wafer and when the light hits these antennas they do the job of refracting the light so that it all ends up on the same focal plane.

“What we’ve done is create an artificial refraction process,” Capasso says.

Mac classics: Twenty one years later, still using Photoshop | Macworld

Mac classics: Twenty one years later, still using Photoshop | Macworld: Photoshop won that battle and over the subsequent 20-plus years kept winning the war. In that time, I've used every release. I used it to edit photos and figures for countless articles and books. The latter included three editions of Real World Scanning and Halftones, a book about the process of working with images from analog to digital and back again onto press. That topic became superannuated as the publishing industry shifted from imagesetting in service bureaus (using bluelines and color proofs for prepress checks) to plate-setting in printing plants (using PDFs instead).

Study: new HEVC video far exceeds H.264 quality

Study: new HEVC video far exceeds H.264 quality: When it comes to very high-resolution video, researchers conclude a new video compression technology is a big step up from today's prevailing H.264 standard.
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Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber

Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber: Marijuana is the world's most widely used illicit drug -- but smoke too many joints and you might lose IQ points. A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline.

Medical marijuana for PTSD? 'It can break a panic attack pretty quick'

Medical marijuana for PTSD? 'It can break a panic attack pretty quick':

Medical marijuana supporters in Oregon are seeking to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions that qualify patients in the state to use medical marijuana.

FAN EXPO: John Rhys-Davies Reflects On Lengthy Career

FAN EXPO: John Rhys-Davies Reflects On Lengthy Career: Veteran actor John Rhys-Davies entertained the audience at Fan Expo Canada with stories about his four-decade career, expressing his frustrations with "Sliders," and recalling his skepticism about "The Lord of the Rings."

What the <em>Apple v. Samsung</em> Verdict Means for the Rest of Us

What the Apple v. Samsung Verdict Means for the Rest of Us: The jury in the landmark intellectual property case Apple v. Samsung ruled overwhelmingly in favor of Apple, awarding it approximately $1.05 billion in damages Friday afternoon. Although an impressive stat in itself, it's the implications in the jury's vastly Apple-favorable design and utility patent rulings that could have serious effects on the mobile industry and for consumers.

Armstrong Throws in the Towel, Loses Titles to Doping Allegations

Armstrong Throws in the Towel, Loses Titles to Doping Allegations: One of the most celebrated cyclists in history finally ends a war of attrition with doping police, who on Friday vacated every race he'd ever ridden.

We Can Save the World by Eating Bugs and Drinking Urine

We Can Save the World by Eating Bugs and Drinking Urine: It's only a matter of time before Earth's growing population faces a critical shortage of potable water. Luckily, science has a foolproof solution: eating bugs and drinking pee.

Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year

Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year: Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.

How Electronic Arts resurrected its DOA Simpsons game

How Electronic Arts resurrected its DOA Simpsons game: Five months ago, EA pulled "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" from the App Store after critical connection problems and bugs. An executive talks about its return.
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Douglas Inn manager, two others arrested in meth bust

Douglas Inn manager, two others arrested in meth bust:

The Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team has arrested the manager of the Douglas Inn in downtown Roseburg, along with two others on various drug charges.

Stealthy, Tiny, Deadly, Global: The Drone Revolution's Next Phase

Stealthy, Tiny, Deadly, Global: The Drone Revolution's Next Phase: Today's flying robotic killers only seem advanced. In many ways, the drone revolution has been stuck in the '00s, as defense companies use the same old airframes, the same old ground controllers and utilize the same old weapons. But we're starting to be able to glimpse Drone Revolution 2.0: a future in which flying robots go stealthy, fly out to sea, carry far lighter weapons, miniaturize -- and proliferate around the world.

Blind Mice Given Sight After Device Cracks Retinal Code - Bloomberg

Blind Mice Given Sight After Device Cracks Retinal Code - Bloomberg: Visual Equations
Nirenberg and co-author Chethan Pandarinath first monitored healthy eyes to determine the set of equations that translate light received by the retina into something the brain can understand. Then, they used special glasses to create a similar code and deliver it to the eye, which had been engineered to contain light-sensitive proteins. The cells received the code through the light sensitive proteins and fired electric impulses, which the brain could interpret as images.

How to reset the DNS cache in OS X

How to reset the DNS cache in OS X: When troubleshooting network and Web connectivity, in addition to tackling browser caches and configurations, you might also consider refreshing your DNS cache.
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Scientists teleport info 90 miles across islands

Scientists teleport info 90 miles across islands: Quantum teleportation is reaching greater distances, and hopes are high that satellites will be able to use the technology.
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Gear Up for Cycling's New Golden Age

Gear Up for Cycling's New Golden Age: We are in a golden age of cycling. Almost every bicycle made today is top-notch. Advances in fabrics and thoughtful, innovative design has made cycling clothing fit and feel better than ever. Helmets are cooler, sunglasses are more comfortable, wheels are lighter as well as more aerodynamic, and tires are more durable.

25 Great Joe Kubert Covers

25 Great Joe Kubert Covers: CSBG's Brian Cronin takes a look at 25 great covers by the late Joe Kubert in honor of his recent passing, including cover art for "Tarzan," "Hawkman," "G.I. Combat," "Batman" and more.

Comics Industry Remembers Joe Kubert: "A Friend, A Teacher, An Influence and A Giant"

Comics Industry Remembers Joe Kubert: "A Friend, A Teacher, An Influence and A Giant": The comics industry mourns the passing of legendary artist, teacher, writer and editor Joe Kubert with reactions, remembrances and stories on blogs and social media.

Adium 1.5.3 - Popular instant messaging client supports a plethora of services.. (Free)

Adium 1.5.3 - Popular instant messaging client supports a plethora of services.. (Free): Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.

RIP Joe Kubert, Comics Legendary Artist, Teacher & Father

RIP Joe Kubert, Comics Legendary Artist, Teacher & Father: Legendary artist and teacher Joe Kubert has died, leaving acclaimed military, adventure, journalistic and historical comics, characters from Hawkman to Sgt. Rock and generations of artists including his sons Adam and Andy. [UPDATED]

More Casinos and Internet Gambling Threaten Shakopee Tribe - NYTimes.com

More Casinos and Internet Gambling Threaten Shakopee Tribe - NYTimes.com: Further, the current expansion of legalized gambling in the United States, and the prospect of more to come, could not have arrived at a worse moment for tribes, because after 25 years of booming profits, the tribal casino business has suddenly gone flat. The vast majority of tribes have not become rich. Instead, casinos have become a baseline economic necessity, lifting thousands out of poverty by serving as a primary source of income and employment.

Get started with Google Reader and RSS

Get started with Google Reader and RSS:

You may already be using Google Reader, Google's Web-based RSS reader, but you probably haven't figured out every trick for getting the most out of the service. We've assembled all the tips you need to collect your RSS feeds and have them ready to go in short order.

Incompatible PDF viewer may cause problems in Mountain Lion

Incompatible PDF viewer may cause problems in Mountain Lion: Older versions of Adobe's PDF plug-in may be inadvertently installed and cause strange behavior in Mountain Lion.
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Starbucks Signs Up with Square to Process Credit, Debit Payments

Starbucks Signs Up with Square to Process Credit, Debit Payments: Mobile payments startup Square is taking a giant leap into the mainstream as the new processor of credit and debit card payments for Starbucks.

Starbucks picks Square for payments processing, investment

Starbucks picks Square for payments processing, investment: The mobile payments startup will handle the coffeehouse chain's credit and debit purchases, while getting a $25 million investment in return.
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Adam Gopnik: Mormonism’s History and Meanings : The New Yorker

Adam Gopnik: Mormonism’s History and Meanings : The New Yorker: American Mormons, in this sense, seem to have been rather flatteringly typed. The Mormon executives and advisers around Howard Hughes were famous for their probity, their clean living, and their loyalty. As with the blond Scandinavian bodyguards who attended the Byzantine emperors, their uprightness was all the more starkly evidenced by the shiftiness of the guy they were protecting. The details of their religious views had nothing to do with the social role they played. The Osmond family was the Mormon family: too many kids and too many teeth, maybe, but always solid, always smiling, always temperate—no alcohol, no tobacco, not even caffeine. In an entertaining new autobiography, “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith” (Free Press), Joanna Brooks recalls ecumenical birthday parties as a young Mormon in California, and the anxiety she felt about simply seeing a bottle of Coke; Mormon parties featured (non-caffeinated) root beer. Nor were the Osmonds an outsider’s image: to this growing girl’s self-conception, the Book of Marie—“Marie Osmond’s Guide to Beauty, Health & Style”—seemed far more important than the Book of Mormon. Be perfect even as Marie on television is perfect, and you will be happy.

Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web

Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee makes his little research project available to the world, and the nature of human communications begins a transformation unseen since the advent of the printing press. Or television, anyway.

Sprint cuts iPhone 4S price to $149

Sprint cuts iPhone 4S price to $149: Sprint over the weekend dropped the price of the iPhone 4S to $149...

Amazon goes for college crowd, launches rental textbook service

Amazon goes for college crowd, launches rental textbook service: The textbook industry is under fresh attack, as Amazon.com starts letting customers rent paper text books.
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News-Review joins industry standard | The News-Review - NRtoday.com

News-Review joins industry standard | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: The new width coincides with a major change in our newsroom, beginning today. News-Review reporters and editors, photographers and our news clerk have been presented with new Apple computers and they're producing today's newspaper with a new content management system developed by a company called DTI or Digital Technology International, based in Springville, Utah. It uses Adobe products such as InCopy, InDesign and Photoshop.

The entire newsroom has been training on the new system for the past two weeks while putting out the newspaper with the old software, NewsEdit IQue and Quark Xpress.

The newsroom expects to see efficiencies when using the new system becomes routine. A primary advantage will be the ability to prepare stories and photos for the website simultaneously with the print edition. Until now, newsroom staffers have had to manually place all the local news, sports, features and photos on the website on a daily basis.

A newly designed news website, nrtoday.com, is expected to be unveiled Aug. 21. It will be optimized for viewing on a mobile phone, tablet or computer.

The new content management system is a major investment in the 145-year-old newspaper. It also brought upgraded software and hardware to our ad production department. All of the designers at The News-Review, whether designing news pages, special sections or advertisements, will use InDesign and the DTI system. That should provide for a more seamless operation.

App a blast for history buffs

App a blast for history buffs: Smart phone owners soon will have a new way to experience one of the biggest events in Roseburg's history.
On Aug. 7, 1959, a truck loaded with dynamite and ammonium nitrate exploded on Pine Street.

Retired Roseburg doctor, arts patron dies at 92

Retired Roseburg doctor, arts patron dies at 92: Retired ophthalmologist John Unruh, a major patron of the arts in Douglas County, died Wednesday afternoon.
The 92-year-old Unruh died in his Roseburg home after suffering with pneumonia, his daughter, Becky MacDonald, said Thursday

Nine tips for taming text in Pages | Macworld

Nine tips for taming text in Pages | Macworld: Far more than Apple’s “version of Word,” Pages () is full of powerful, time-saving features that help you make great word processing documents quickly. Three of the best are styles, templates, and tables. Gain some familiarity with these features and you’ll make better documents in less time than ever before. Here are nine tips to get you started.

Animated <cite>The Dark Knight Returns</cite> Will Wrap Batman's Legendary Year

Animated The Dark Knight Returns Will Wrap Batman's Legendary Year: For any Bat-geeks who thought Christopher Nolan's trilogy closer The Dark Knight Rises wasn't enough of a tectonic cultural event, Frank Miller's gritty 1986 Batman comic finally makes the leap to the movies next month as an animated feature.

Fair entertainment looks promising | The News-Review - NRtoday.com

Fair entertainment looks promising | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: HEADLINE LINEUP

Aug. 7 — Chris Young, 8 p.m., $30 reserved seating

Aug. 8 — Sublime With Rome, 8 p.m., $30 reserved seating

Aug. 9 — Theory of a Deadman, 8 p.m., $30 reserved seating

Aug. 10 — Eddie Money, 8 p.m., $30 reserved seating

Aug. 11 — LaserSpectacular with music from Pink Floyd, 9 p.m., $15 reserved seating

TechHive: It's time for a revolution in car audio and electronics

TechHive: It's time for a revolution in car audio and electronics: The navigation and entertainment system interfaces most cars provide lack elegance or any indication that the people building them have actually spent time using them in an running vehicle.

Elite Badminton Racquets Employ High-Tech Materials, Sonic Warfare | Playbook | Wired.com

Elite Badminton Racquets Employ High-Tech Materials, Sonic Warfare | Playbook | Wired.com: Where Gunawan is known for his ability to get to every shot (“He’s known as ‘The Human Wall’”, Lee said.), his doubles partner, Bach, provides the natural power game to round out the pairing.

The Heretic - The Morning News

The Heretic - The Morning News: If these ideas seem far out to you, that’s precisely the problem. Or so thought Einstein. Capitalism, he argued, simultaneously creates a “huge community of producers” who are “unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor” and an “oligarchy” that “cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society.”

How Olympic Badminton Made Losing A Winning Strategy

How Olympic Badminton Made Losing A Winning Strategy: The World Badminton Federation has kicked four teams out of the Olympics for intentionally trying to lose matches and gain a competitive advantage. And why would eight women who worked so hard to reach the 2012 Summer Games want to lose? Because the pool play format of the Olympic tournament rewards it.

Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 - NYTimes.com

Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 - NYTimes.com: Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.

Four short links: 1 August 2012

Four short links: 1 August 2012: China Hackers Hit EU Point Man and DC (Bloomberg) — wow. The extent to which EU and US government and business computer systems have been penetrated is astonishing. Stolen information is flowing out of the networks of law firms, investment banks, oil companies, drug makers, and high technology manufacturers in such significant quantities that intelligence officials now say it could cause long-term harm to U.S. and European economies. (via Gady Epstein)