2008 January 22

Neil McAllister, at InfoWorld, gives us his take on the biggest flops in CyberHistory:

For all the amazing advances that the computing industry has brought us over the years, some of its most pivotal moments are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Not every idea can be a winner, and not even Microsoft can avoid every [...]

High Dynamic Range photography is the rage.  You use a tripod, and expose the same scene at least 3 times: once normally, once for the highlights, and once for the shadows.  Combining them creates an image with detail in all areas. 
Obviously, this lends itself better to landscapes than to sports photography.  It used to [...]