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Sep

Smartphone HDR without the iPhone 4

Posted by Rima  Published in Adobe, apple, fun, Technology

Done right, and HDR’d image looks a lot like what you can see with the naked eye, even in low light. Learn how to take stunning iPhone images without the iPhone 4.

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Tags: 4.1, 4.2, Adobe, apple, brightness, contrast, hdr, high dynamic range, images, imaging, ios, ios 4.1, iphone, iphone 4, lighting, photographs, photography, pictures, pro hdr, software update

15 comments

27

May

Apple’s iPad Banned From Yankee Stadium

Posted by Rima  Published in fun, Sports, Technology

Geeky New York baseball fans should leave their iPads at home before heading to Yankee Stadium. It turns out that the device that “goes anywhere” actually doesn’t. See the interview with the infamous Spacekatgal.

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Tags: apple, ban, baseball, brianna wu, fenway, ipad, ipad ban, iphone, laptop ban, red sox, safety, security, spacekat, spacekatgal, yankee stadium, yankees

21 comments

18

Apr

My Social Media Blackout: Confessions of an Addict

Posted by Rima  Published in Blogs, human nature, social networking

We’re in the car on the way to work and my fingers are twitching like I’m some sort of addict. (And maybe I am.)

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Tags: addiction, black out, blackout, blogging, connecting, digg, facebook, flickr, frenemies, frienemies, generation net, generation next, grammar, internet, iphone, media, milennials, multimedia, myspace, networking, news-geek, nra, online, orkut, social, social media, social networking, twitter, web

16 comments

4

Mar

Testing Qik on a First-Generation iPhone

Posted by Rima  Published in Entertainment, Journalism, Random, Religion, Technology, Uncategorized

I wonder if I’m the only Apple-centric new-media geek on the planet who still has a first-generation iPhone. I know that my friends in the biz often laugh at me for it, but why? Anyone who understands anything about Apple knows that the company prides itself on computability. Every time there’s a new software update [...]

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Tags: apple, iphone, Journalism, new media, qik, streaming, Technology, video

2 comments

4

Mar

Kiyoshi Martinez: America’s Most Famous “Angry Journalist” on Our Struggling Industry

Posted by Rima  Published in Journalism, Technology, Uncategorized

Four years of schooling, thousands of dollars of student loan debt and a piece of paper doesn’t have anything over the guy with a iPhone and Twitter.

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Tags: angry journalist, angryjournalist.com, education, future of journalism, iphone, Journalism, journalism education, kiyoshi martinez, layoffs, twitter

2 comments

23

Feb

Twitter Ranks Third Among Social Networking Sites–But What’s the Appeal?

Posted by Rima  Published in Breaking News, Entertainment, Journalism, Technology, World

Just yesterday the Times of London quoted several psychologists who all say that we Tweet because we have an underdeveloped sense of the self. We’re narcissists. Ouch.

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Tags: facebook, fads, iphone, multimedia, myspace, narcissism, psychologists, social networks, social theory, times of london, trends, twitter, world of warcraft

9 comments

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Rima Chaddha Mycynek is a writer, reporter, editor, photographer, videographer, former talk show host, and all-around journalism nerd. She currently teaches multimedia journalism at Boston University. [Read More]

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