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Whether making your own lens hood to create custom bokeh, breathing like a sniper to get a blur-free photo, or angling your body to look the best in pictures, we shared some great photography hacks this year.Software and Photoshop tricks are great, but they're a poor substitution for doing things in-camera. Over the last year we shared a variety of hacks for taking better photos, looking better in photos, and ways to get professional results...

Filed under: iMac, Bad AppleUh oh! It looks like there's shipping delays and availability issues with 27 inch iMacs. It's reported that these delays could be due to graphics issues with the GPU. Several Apple resellers are citing shipping delays when trying to order the models.Apple made a brief statement to CNET tonight acknowledging the delays, but iMacs are showing a two week shipping delay on Apple's online store, which might mean you...

Filed under: Biz, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead Series, Dragon Age: Origins, BorderlandsAll those complaints, all those online petitions and all those message board comments from upset PC players have apparently yet to affect the sales of Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward's latest first person shooter is still on top of the weekly top 10 best selling PC games on Steam (based on revenue).Valve's zombie co-op shooter sequel Left 4 Dead 2 is...

Let’s be honest, when the news first surfaced that acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin was writing the script for a movie about Facebook, most of us laughed. Then we found out that it wasn’t a joke, and we groaned and prepared for the worst. Even with luminaries like Sorkin and director David Fincher on board, what were the chances that this wouldn’t be just a disaster waiting to happen?The film, which is currently in production, is scheduled...

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchIt was just last week that TomTom offered a new version of its nav app for the US (minus Canadian data) for $49.99US [iTunes link]. That didn't make people who bought the full version for a hundred bucks and never needed the Canadian info anyway filled with joy. Now, TomTom has dropped the price of the version that does include both the U.S. and Canada to $69.99 [iTunes link] until December...

Filed under: People, Media, New York Times Co., News Corp.Tensions between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are on the rise as the two papers increasingly compete for the same pool of general-interest and local-market readers. A column by Times media critic David Carr accusing the Journal of slanting its news coverage in the conservative direction favored by owner Rupert Murdoch has drawn a sharp response from the Journal's...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Video Games, iPod, iPhone, Breaking NewsToday Apple officially unveiled its anticipated iPhone / iPod Touch SDK (software development kit) that will allow third parties to create applications that take full advantage of those devices' capabilities without all the hacking. A whole host of applications and games will be available via the "App Store" either on your iPod Touch or iPhone or in iTunes when it launches...