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DTown TV set to return in January

December 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm · Filed under Photography, Technology, PhotoTip, Photo Gear, Cameras, Lenses, Digital darkroom, Software, Exposure, Lighting

The popular Web TV show, DTown TV, hosted by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski is set to return on January 7 after a hiatus of several weeks. The show originally covered only Nikon products, but the new version will be expanded to cover DSLRs in general, including lighting, studio, on location, post-processing and other digital photography topics.

To see a video of the announcement visit Scott Kelby’s blog, Photoshop Insider. For those of you who might have been in outer space for the past decade or so and don’t know who buy generic viagra buy levitra viagra professional buy generic viagra buy cialis online order cialis professional buy cheap viagra the co-hosts are: Scott Kelby is the president of NAPP, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has written several excellent books on Adobe® Photoshop, Adobe® Photoshop Lightroom and other digital photography topics.

Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for NAPP. He has written several books on the Photoshop and Illustrator Adobe® applications, and is a trainer of international reputation.

I watched all 24 of the show’s original episodes and found them entertaining and informative.

Free antivirus software from Microsoft

September 30, 2009 at 7:10 am · Filed under Technology, Digital darkroom, Software

Microsoft has released its new computer security program, Microsoft Security Essentials, and made it available for download starting on Tuesday. The free antivirus software has been available in a beta test version since June. The program updates “signatures” for the latest malicious programs daily, and Microsoft says it will be easy on computer resources.

This will not be good news for companies like McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp., which make popular antivirus programs, however, since their offerings are important sources of revenue while Microsoft’s is free, though with less features. Microsoft says it hopes the free program will appeal to people who don’t already run antivirus software.