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The developers of the paid iBeer iPhone app are taking legal action against the developers of the free iPint applications (Coors in the US and Carling in the UK). The original iBeer application was developed and then released on the iPhone App store before the sponsored version from the Alcohol manufacturer Coors/Carling, the free iPint application has since be removed from the iPhone App store in the US, but it is still available on the UK and other countries. It will be interesting to see how this pans out and could mean other application developers suing companies who have released free sponsored apps as a means of advertising, where the apps are similar to paid apps released by iPhone App developers. via iPhonefreakz This is a Syndicated post from iPhone Sync. This is a post from Geeky Gadgets . iBeer developer sues iPint developer for $12.5 Million

When the most advanced smart phones were introduced, they provided a great deal of mobility to small business owners and entrepreneurs. With these advanced devices, e-mail can get forwarded to just about anywhere in the world, allowing folks to respond to such communications on the beach or golf course as if they were sitting in the office back at home.

by David Peters
You’ve taken loads of photos with your digital camera and they are stashed away somewhere on the hard drive of your Mac, hidden from sight. Does this scenario sound familiar? Do your photos need organizing and editing but you are at a loss as to where to start? Below are some recommendations to [...]

Because of the speed at which technology is advancing these days it is not uncommon to find people trying their best to learn how to make use of these opportunities. For instance, many people would know that video can be copied to a DVD but would not know how to do it. If you want to learn to copy video to DVD, then this article will help you with all the details. There are many ways to copy video to DVD. But you must be prepared to face the fact that a DVD can magnify the flaws present in the original video.

If you want to resize a large photo you have to take the correct precautions to prevent losing too much resolution. Making an image smaller can make it appear blurry if you don’t do it right. This can make the picture less clear than it should be.

NBC Local Media announced today that it will launch Web sites that target “locals only” by providing news, entertainment, and information from around the community. The sites will feature content from print and online publications in the area, as well as local bloggers and TV stations to provide visitors with all the information their city [...]

No-brainer Web site creator Wix announced on Monday that it has raised $3.5 million in venture funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Venture Capital, and has also launched a “premium” version of the service geared toward businesses.
Wix’s paid service, which costs $9.90 per month, follows a similar model to other Web publishing and productivity [...]

A reverse phone number address lookup, will give you lots of needed information. In this article, I will explain some of the most popular reasons people want this info, and some of the data that can be had from a reverse phone search service like this.

The Lasso tool. This tool allows you to highlight an image that you have made in an image or an image you have opened in Adobe Photoshop. This marquee tool likes to have smooth hard edges to follow. If you a photograph that doesn’t have a easy to follow edge around objects you will find it hard to use this tool. You have probably seen this when people cut their heads out of a picture and paste it onto somebody else’s body. It is a very funny feature and this is the tool that does it! The lasso tool has three different variations. The second version is the Polygonal Lasso tool. This tool can make different shapes and curves when tracing around or cutting out a piece of an image. The third variation is the Magnetic Lasso tool that only works on images that have defined edges. The tool will clamp onto an edge and give it anchor points to shape the corners. This is good when you don’t have that steady hand you used to have back in high school. I use this myself because I am not the man I used to be!

by David Peters
In this tutorial, I’m taking a brief look at opacity and blending modes in Photoshop and how you can create different image effects by using them. I’m not going to look at each of the blending modes - there are 23 of them - but more an overview of how they work.
When you [...]