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Before and After Special Effects from Various Notable Scenes

Before and After Special Effects from Various Notable Scenes
Special effects are crazy and if they’re overused, can be off-putting (I’m looking at your Star Wars Episodes 1-3). But used right, and special effects can make a scene and drastically reduce set budgets. Check out these before and after shots of rather notable sets that we stumbled upon, including a pair from everyone’s favorite zombie show, The Walking Dead. Related The Best Fstoppers’ Posts From January 2013 Your "Likes", "Tweets", comments and clicks all help us know which are our best posts of the month. In "FS News"

Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved? Advertisement If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect of integrating a payment solution on a website can seem unwieldy, what with the vast array of payment options and technical acronyms. This article breaks down the entire process into bite-sized pieces, helping you understand the process much better. Apply For An IMA When taking any kind of credit card payments connected to a bank account, you must apply for a merchant account with a bank. Even if you currently take “card-not-present” payments (such as for mail orders) or use in-store payment terminals (such as chip-and-pin), you still have to speak with your bank about taking payments via your website (ask your bank for an additional IMA ID). It’s worth noting that it is possible to process Internet payments manually, using your regular point of sale system. Select A PSP PayPal

Hundreds of Slime-Covered Seabirds Wash Ashore, Puzzle Scientists A mysterious greasy substance has been found on hundreds of seabirds — some dead, others injured — that have been washing up along England's south coast. The birds, mostly guillemots, have been discovered along beaches from Weymouth to Torquay covered in the waxy film; many have very sore legs, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has been rescuing the slime-coated creatures. Environmental officials with the U.K.'s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), who are investigating the case, still don't know where the greasy substance came from, but they believe it is a "refined mineral-based oil mixture." "Initial analysis indicates that the contaminant is a refined mineral oil and further analysis results are awaited," Stan Woznicki, the MCA's head of counter pollution, said in a statement Friday. MCA officials said the initial findings indicate that the substance is not palm oil, as had been suggested by at least one scientist.

Unique SEO Challenges Facing Bloggers There are increasingly numerous challenges for bloggers to face in order to be successful. Google’s determination to clamp down on spam creates ever-changing problems for bloggers. The Panda and Penguin updates hit bloggers especially hard because they flag poor content that has been duplicated or looks spammy. Note: You Should Hire a SEO Consultant Specialist to solve all SEO Challenges you may be facing with you website or blog and take your business to next level. Image by Nadya Peek Bloggers now need a good understanding of SEO to be able to alter how they operate and create their content. Creating Great Content The main goal of a blog post is to create great content that the intended audience will find new and interesting. The challenge for bloggers is the frequency in which they have to produce great content. Another problem that bloggers face with their content is that it can be moved about a lot. Google’s Penguin Updates Blog ‘Smell’ Solutions Article by James Duval

Killer Kitties Wreak Critter Havoc: Scientific American Podcast Beneath its adorable exterior, is your cat hiding the heart of a killer? Researchers now estimate that each year, domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals in the United States alone. The report is in Nature Communications. [Scott R. Loss, Tom Will and Peter P. Marra, The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States] We already knew that domestic cats can wreak havoc on islands, causing 14 percent of species extinctions and ranking as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species. Cats kill some 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 to 20.7 billion small mammals in the U.S. each year. The worst feline killers are those without owners, and reducing feral cat populations is an ongoing problem. —Sophie Bushwick [The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] Also see: Hannah Waters, Cat Are Ruthless Killers.

Computer Security in the Real World Computer Security in the Real World Butler W. Lampson Microsoft Note: This web page was converted automatically from a Word original. Abstract After thirty years of work on computer security, why are almost all the systems in service today extremely vulnerable to attack? In a distributed system with no central management like the Internet, security requires a clear story about who is trusted for each step in establishing it, and why. People have been working on computer system security for at least 30 years. The Internet has made computer security much more difficult than it used to be. Today half a billion people all over the world are on the Internet, including you. · Attack from anywhere: Any one on the Internet can take a poke at your system. · Sharing with anyone: On the other hand, you may want to communicate or share information with any other Internet user. · Automated infection: Your system, if compromised, can spread the harm to many others in a few seconds. Money talks, though.

Butterflies Booking It North as Climate Warms Butterflies from the southern US that used to be rare in the northeast are now appearing there on a regular basis. The trend correlates to a warming climate report the authors of a paper in Nature Climate Change. Subtropical and warm-climate butterflies—including the giant swallowtail (photo above) and the zabulon skipper (photo below)—showed the sharpest population shift to the north. At the same time southern butterflies are moving north, more than 75 percent of northern species—with a range centered north of Boston—are rapidly declining in Massachusetts now. "For most butterfly species, climate change seems to be a stronger change-agent than habitat loss," lead author Greg Breed tells the Harvard Gazette. Breed points to the frosted elfin (photo above), a species that receives formal habitat protection from Massachusetts, and has increased 1,000 percent there since 1992. Butterflies are turning out to be the canaries in the coal mine of climate warming: Greg A.

The Ultimate “How To” Twitter Guide Did You Know... 43% of people follow a brand on Twitter for special offers/deals 75% of users are more likely to purchase from a brand they follow 67% of users are likely to recommend a brand they follow to others What is Twitter? Just a beginner to Twitter? How to use Twitter Effectively Now that you know what Twitter is and how it works, learn how to use it effectively: How to Increase Your Twitter Followers So, you know how to use Twitter, but no one is listening. Best Practices: Hashtags Hashtags can be an effective way to target specific users on Twitter. Best Practices: ReTweet Retweeting is a easy way to share content with your Twitter followers. Best Practices: Search Find users or search for users based on your custom search criteria. How to Create Lists Lists can be a useful way to attract users to your page so that they start following you. How to use Twitter for Business Now you’ve gotten your feet wet and learned how to use Twitter for your business. How to use Twitter for Marketing

Google Maps the Grand Canyon With 9,500 Panoramas Now you can get a taste of what it's like to experience the breathtaking wonder of the Grand Canyon, right from your computer chair. As promised, Google has added more than 9,500 panoramic images of the Grand Canyon to its Maps service, the Web giant announced on Thursday. The interactive images cover more than 75 miles of trails and surrounding roads. "Take a walk down the narrow trails and exposed paths of the Grand Canyon: hike down the famous Bright Angel Trail, gaze out at the mighty Colorado River, and explore scenic overlooks in full 360-degrees," Google Maps product manager, Ryan Falor, wrote in a blog post. You can also check out the steep inclines of the South Kaibab Trail (below), or virtually travel a few hours away to explore the mind-blowing Meteor Crater, which looks like it's from a different world entirely. The Google Street View team used Trekker, a 40-pound wearable backpack with a 15-camera system on top, to capture 360-degree views of the stunning national monument.

social media tools By B.L. OchmanI love technology and tools, even though I totally lack the technical gene. So I’m always experimenting with new ways to find and interact with information. While there are myriad expensive subscription search services (which will be the subject of another post) I depend on some elegant and effective tools for searching social media that are free or very inexpensive. Here are some I currently love: Flowtown is the missing link in social media marketing. How To Find Product Key Of Any Software » Product Key Finder Tips How to find the product key of any software that you want..?? A product key is a unique identification number or code, used in software like operating systems and games, to prevent counterfeiting and piracy. This is a specific software program. For the most part, a product key operating system is an insignificant number, but when you need to re-install your OS, suddenly the product key becomes the code harder to find. Find Product Key Of Windows 7 A product key Windows 7 is needed to activate the system, format the Windows 7, or in the event of a system crash, re-installing Windows 7 on your computer. How to find the product key of Windows 7 The product key number for Windows 7 is a alphanumeric pattern of 25 characters, divided into 5 groups of 5 characters each. * The product key used to activate the 32-bit or 64-bit editions of Windows 7 * Product keys are also unique to the version of Windows 7 (Ultimate, Premium, Basic, 32 or 64 bits). Ways to Find Windows 7 Product Key Number Software

Reasons why you cannot ignore Google Plus for content marketing Google Plus is all powerful ! Google has evolved a lot in the last few years. Getting a good ranking is no more about keyword stuffing and irrelevant link building. There is much more to it. After the Penguin and the Panda updates google attaches more weight on how a piece of content is ‘liked’ by humans rather than search engine bots. So what metric does google use to find out how much a particular content is liked by humans? A great way to feature your business is to use the About page in google plus. “We deal in furniture. These type of introduction will clearly be marked as spam by the google bot. Another great feature of google introduction is the use of live links. So long we were talking about the About page. Another curious thing is that the images uploaded in google plus have EXIF information embedded in them. Google Circles is a great feature of Google Plus to segregate your contacts into groups. There is another way to verify ownership of articles. Priyankar

Wireless Electricity – No More Cables, Never Plug in Your Phone or Laptop Again - I Look Forward To Remember how you used to have to plug in the internet cord to get online? And then one day, you didn’t need to anymore because your laptop started magically connecting to the internet through the ether. That same thing is about to happen to electricity. More than a hundred years ago Nikola Tesla embarked on a quest for wireless electricity, and these days (or should I say currently), researchers at MIT are very close to bringing that dream to life. Back in 2007, an MIT team managed to wirelessly power a light bulb at a distance of two meters. Research progress with RET is accelerating, a Witricity company has launched, and soon this technology will greatly improve our everyday lives. Applications and implications - Direct wireless power. - Automatic wireless charging. - A cordless world, inside and outside. - Reduced battery-related costs. - More practical electric vehicles. Is it safe? When will we see it? What other implications do you think this will have for society?

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