In this series of photos from Madrid's Plaza Mayor, photoblogger Francois-Noel Masson includes images of statues with photos of mimes (1 2 3
Adobe released the Lightroom update 2.2 a couple weeks ago, providing photographers with software improvements for the new year. Although the changes aren't drastic in this update, the new 2.2 provides greater usability and increased hardware compatibility. Here are some of Zoom In's favorite photos made with the aid of LR 2.2.

Have you been to Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe yet? If so, you are certainly not alone.


Silicon Valley’s first phone company, Ribbit and the world’s largest competitive software development community, TopCoder Inc. have used the Adobe MAX Conference to announce the Killer App Challenge.

When the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) formed in March of 2007, a long and rocky road was laid out before them. Now, in their first full year of existence they are well on their path of, “ … advanc[ing] the industry through best practices, education and advocacy.”
Since the whirlwind of Adobe releases in the past couple weeks (Creative Suite 4, Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1), there's been a lot of conversation about improvements and problems.

Adobe went over Flash CS4 with a fine-toothed comb to upgrade all aspects of the software — everything from usability with the object-based animation model, to desktop publishing with the Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe AIR. Here are some of the new features that are bound to interest new and experienced users:
Object-based Animation Model

Dreamweaver CS4 is bound to appeal to all users — first time users, designers, and developers. Adobe has made the necessary improvements to make the software even more usable than prior versions. So without any further delay, here are a few new features and enhancements in Dreamweaver CS4:
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