More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not. What’s even sneakier? Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being “killed,”

The Linux version of Chrome has been coming along fairly quickly, the latest build of Chrome for Linux now works with Flash and has extension support. It is also possible to configure the options (although there are still some TODO stubs so setting a proxy isn’t possible). Tested under Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.

Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it? BetterPrivacy is a Super-Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually undeletable LSO's (Flash-Cookies) or DOM Storage Objects. It blocks longterm tracking on Google, YouTube Ebay and many other domains.

Ever see pictures of a bullet shooting through fruit and wondered how that was captured? How about a picture of a water balloon popping the instant it was punctured? This is called Speed Photography, and shots like these are actually quite simple, once you understand the concepts. Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/speed-photography-how-to-photograph-exploding-fruit-and-balloons-popping#ixzz0DZzzqCTs&B

I just got an SB-600 and I'm confused by something. The diagram in the manual indicates that it has a "light sensor window". This would seem (to me) to imply that you can trigger the flash as a "slave" by having another flash go off first. Am I missing something?

SlideShowPro for Lightroom installs as a "web engine" for Adobe Lightroom. You simply drag a folder to an existing location on your computer, launch Lightroom, and the engine is available in the application's "Web module" workspace. Click on "Web" in the top nav, select SlideShowPro as your gallery template, and you're off.

We hebben ze allemaal wel eens gezien, portretfoto’s waarbij het model grote rode pupillen of een gezicht zonder definitie met donkere schaduwen langs de randen heeft. Naast dat het model een tijdje letterlijk sterretjes ziet is een flits vol open recht in het gezicht van je model niet echt een vleiende manier om hem/haar vast te leggen. Met een paar simpele aanpassingen en een beetje theoretische kennis krijg je een veel natuurlijker en prettiger resultaat. Dit is het tweede deel in de serie over opzetflitsers.

Flash is niet alleen de "tyfus" van het internet, het vormt ook een serieuze bedreiging voor de privacy van internetgebruikers, zo hebben onderzoekers ontdekt. De populaire browser plugin slaat sporen van browser sessies op en maakt die voor websites toegankelijk, waardoor de werking van een "pornoknop" wordt ondermijnd. Onderzoekster Katherine McKinley onderzocht hoe goed Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome en Internet Explorer de sporen van hun gebruikers kunnen wissen en wat voor informatie plugins zoals Flash en Google Gears achterlaten.

ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder", mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support.

In this post we'll look at an old Nikon Speedlight to illustrate just what you need to buy, and how to use it. We won't cover flash technique, as it is frankly way to big a subject for one post.

Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!

The easiest way to do this is probably just installing 32bit Firefox and the aconmpanying plugins.

thisissand.com is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes, Clemens-style sand paintings, mandalas and so on.

# Take "impossible" pictures, leaving everyone wondering "How did you do that?" # Capture high-speed events -- A splash. Popping balloons. Breaking glass. Or? # Adjustable flash controller triggered by light or sound.

I have been getting a lot of questions from other photographers about how I use my SB-800 speed lights with the Elimchrom Skyport remote radio triggers. When I started with remote flash I first used the cheap e-bay triggers but started to get frustrated w

Here are some Picasa web templates to create web Flash and HTML photo galleries and slideshows using Google's Picasa without any knowledge of Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Use these free templates to showcase your photos and images.

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In this article Leann Wrightsman will show you how to make a "Snoot" for your speedlight flash with easy to find items you may even have around the house!

FlowPlayer is a free Flash video player. You can easily embed it into HTML pages to play FLV files.

Intimidated by the idea of off-camera lighting? Don't be. We are pretty much starting from scratch, so no worries. The first posts will be about what kind of gear you will need to do the minimalist strobe thing.

1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It's main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.

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Some great (flash) photography photos.

"Vixy has released a utility called FLV Converter that allows users to quickly convert video formats. It will, for instance, enable you to easily make a YouTube video playable on an iPod. It’s quite simple, just plug in the address to the video and s

"Photofront aims to fill the gap between Flickr's photo sharing and social networking with a more professional look and feel. Photofront offers the feel of a photography portfolio with the ease of your flickr account." - It does look more professional. Bu