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Basketball Time Machine App Will Satisfy Your Jones
If you’ve got a basketball jones like me, then I may have just found the ultimate app for us both. An amazingly cheesy 1983 Dr. J ad for Crest? Check. The entire 1993 NCAA title game between Michigan’s Fab Five … Continue reading
’80s Don Draper Is the Biggest Thing Since New Coke
Did you ever wish that Mad Men was set in the ’80s? Me neither, but The Onion writer John McNamee presents a compelling case for such a scenario with 80′s Don Draper, which features everybody’s favorite advertising antihero musing about … Continue reading
How Photographing Your Food Can Help Fight World Hunger
If you’ve ever gotten shamed for taking iPhone photos of your meals, you now have a legitimate reason to take a snap of your food: it could be a small step toward alleviating world hunger. That’s because if you take … Continue reading
20 Ridiculously Photogenic Animals
It is now a proven fact that dogs and cats are photogenic. Any picture, of any puppy or kitten, is camera lens gold. They just have “it” — the thing all supermodels crave and Tyra Banks tries to teach But … Continue reading
Photographer Crafts Mind-Melting Images Without Photoshop
The word Photoshop has evolved to function as a noun, adjective and verb. The Adobe program has become an essential tool for photographers looking to tweak and manipulate their images. Jerry Uelsmann is a photographer of the old school who … Continue reading
Become a Superhero With a Homemade Thor Hammer
If you’re tired of sitting around waiting to get bitten by a radioactive spider or for Batman to retire and leave you his Batmobile (and hopefully Alfred), then take matters into your own hands — build your own hammer that … Continue reading
Build a Digital Family Tree With These 5 Tools
Amateur genealogists hoping to uncover a link to Abe Lincoln can easily turn to the web to dig in their ancestor’s closet. But taking the commercial route doesn’t come cheap People curious about family history spent a whopping $2.3 billion … Continue reading
Why ‘Iron Man’ Robert Downey Jr. Is on Sina Weibo But Not Twitter
Iron Man 3 opens today in North America, but it’s been playing in Chinese theaters since the May Day holiday and has already made a killing, bringing in a record-breaking $21.2 million on its first day alone. And it’s not just … Continue reading
YouTube’s 20 Most-Shared Ads in April
YouTube makes advertisers’ jobs easier. When fans love and share ads, they expand the clips’ reach far beyond the scope of a TV spot. For some of April’s most-shared YouTube ads — many of which were April Fools’ pranks — … Continue reading
5 Digital Distractions for Kids and Their Parents
Entertaining distractions for kids have come a long way since the early days of Concentration and Connect the Dots. That’s especially true if you’re an iPad user Take a look at these masterpieces that highlight some game-changing graphics interaction and … Continue reading