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Review: Portraiture essential for serious portrait retouching

By Mike Mackenzie

Imagenomic (http://www.imagenomic.com) added Lightroom support to its portrait-retouching plug-in, appropriately called Portraiture. Installation couldn’t be easier and you can access the plug-in by Right-clicking on the photo and choosing Edit In>Imagenomic Portraiture, or in the Develop module via Photo>Edit In>Imagenomic Portraiture. So how easy is it to use and how are the results?

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At the opening of the world’s largest Apple retail store

By Tim Conroy

The world’s biggest Apple retail store opened Saturday in Covent Garden, London. Here are some interesting insights into the store.

At one stage the queue started about level with the St in Bow St opposite the entrance to the Royal Opera House on the attached map screen grab. The snap of the T-shirt is rather puzzling unless you see the facade of the building: see attached arches.

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AT&T addresses end of iPhone exclusivity in SEC filing

AT&T says in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it doesn’t expect to suffer a “material negative impact” from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry handsets, including its Apple-iPhone deal, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413672727878934.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology).

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Space Dock comes to earth for the iPad

LapWorks has released the US$64.95 iPad Space Dock (http://www.laptopdesk.net/ipad-space-dock.html), a low profile aluminum stand for the Apple tablet. It allows the iPad to position in both portrait and landscape postures.

The Space Dock is cut from a rod of solid aluminum and then brushed for a clean, elegant and stylish finish. The inside channel of the Space Dock is lined with velvet-like material. Its T-shaped support arm features three-position incline settings and it securely screws into the back side of the Space Dock at three pre-drilled positions of incline.

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SMEStorage release Mac Cloud Drive beta 4

UK based multi-cloud data access provider SMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com) has released the fourth beta of a Mac Cloud Drive thath enables up to 10 commercial storage providers to be accessed directly from a virtual drive in Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6.

The drive brings cloud computing directly into the Mac OS with over 10 cloud storage vendors supported, including Amazon S3, Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive and RackSpace Cloud Files.

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