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GamesThatGive, Inc.: Funded For-Profit Socially Responsible Start-up needs Exceptional Creative Director
(San Francisco, CA) We are a funded start-up that is looking for a special creative person who must also be a CSS/HTML wiz. This is a freelance --> full-time position. What we’re doing is incredible. Period. And while I know a lot of startups may say what they are doing is incredible, in our ...

Webdesigner Depot: Blog Writer for Webdesign Blog
(Anywhere) We're looking for experienced bloggers to write in our blog about webdesign issues, such as Photoshop/Illustrator, CSS, Ajax, Wordpress, Webdesign, Typography, etc. A post can be a tutorial (in Photoshop for example), a list of tips/resources, etc. You must have solid experience on the ...

Big Bang Technology: Junior Web Developer
(Toronto, ON) We need: Someone to work with us for a guaranteed minimum of 20 hours a week with a starting contract of 3 months. You will be working on web applications, marketing websites, and microsites mostly. Must have: Standards Based HTML/CSS Template Development Nice to have: Framework ...

Global Kids: Ning Web Developer & Design: RezEd.org
(Anywhere) RezEd: The Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds provides practitioners using virtual worlds access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning. Global Kids seeks to identify and select an interactive ...

Magnani Caruso Dutton: Front-End Developer (Onsite Only)
(New York, NY) Magnani Caruso Dutton is a leading independent interactive design and marketing agency located in New York City. We work with some of the world's most recognizable brands including AT&T, Discover Financial Services, Sesame Street, HBO, Tiffany & Co. and Coca-Cola. Seeking an ...


Nikon unveils 24.5MP D3x digital SLR


Budget Compact Camera Group Test


Panasonic - new flash and firmware for DMC-LX3


Just Posted! Canon Powershot G10 review


Adobe updates Camera Raw for CS4


Canon US video and printer rebate glitch


Kodak challenges Samsung and LG on patents


Sony develops CMOS sensor for phones


Just posted! Pentax 50mm F1.4 lens review



Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?
Last week, when I asked "Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?" I received a record number of talkbacks, good, bad, and in between. One of the more interesting, though, came from reader ksheppard, who responded with a challenge: ...Here's a challenge to you: Make a list of everything - absolutely everything - a hypothetical school superintendent would be required to do to switch his ...

Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?
A Slashdot post notes the sad state of affairs at satellite radio's Sirius XM and that it's starting to look like a "failed" company. why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company? Since merging a year ago the combined Sirius/XM's stock has dropped from $4 per share to around 20 cents (a 97% decline), it is ...

Turkey, stuffing and Macs?
It appears that Americans enjoyed a healthy serving of Macs over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Writing for Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Philip Elmer-DeWitt analyzed Apple's domestic sales on Amazon.com over the critical Black Friday selling weekend. He concludes that Apple's online sales got off to a better start than expected but that they didn't sell as well as last year. The iPod Touch was ...

A back to school programming exercise
For most of us in the States, we're getting back to work after four days of family and tryptophan. For the rest of the world, it's just plain Monday. Any way it goes, a lot of us could use something to get back in gear and could certainly use an interesting activity for our students. Scrolling through Slashdot on a snowy Sunday afternoon, I stumbled across an interesting exercise for both math ...

The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
The App Store, the aisle of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to selling software, reached a big milestone some time over the Thanksgiving weekend (here is the U.S.) adding its 10,000th application. That's a far cry from the 552 apps that were available when the App Store launched in June 2008. In an impressive piece of coding, 148 Apps created a labor-intensive tribute page that shows the icon of ...