Recent postings in a sound design group point out examples of great sound design in television commercials. Here are some of my favorites:...

The folks over at Gizmodo love our Missing Manual series founder, but think the Pogue-man needs a dash of cool. For that, they're asking readers to wield some Photoshop magic. Says Adam Frucci: Your challenge is this: make David Pogue as cool as humanly possible. Put him on a Harley with a stogie sticking out of his mouth. Surround him...

Sorry I couldn't stop by last week, but I was busy fearlessly leading my crackerjack team in the final throes of getting the latest edition of my book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, off to the printer. (An excuse or a shameless plug, you decide. Either way, good news!) This week, I reward your patience by giving you a quick look...

Here's the wackiest warning sticker I've ever seen on a musical instrument. What's stranger is it was from a keyboard designed for little kids! The image below is a scan of the sticker laid on top of a photo from the company's website. Insert your punchline here.......

One of my jobs as a book editor is to advocate for the reader, making sure the information is accessible independently of whatever inside knowledge I might already possess. So when Derrick sent out an announcement to O'Reilly team that the new Digital Media Newsletter was ready for viewing, rather than just have him send me a copy, I thought...

Arguably the biggest concert company in the US (if not the globe), Live Nation, recently announced that they've launched a new online service called Live Nation TV. This new initiative features a vast collection of performances from a large number of venues, including the more intimate House of Blues clubs (which Live Nation purchased last Fall). Hundreds of performance clips...

I saw a bunch of wacky MIDI controllers at the recent Technology in Music and Related Arts (TIMARA) festival, but none as creepily expressive as the Sonic Banana: According to the inventor's site, The Sonic Banana consists of four bend sensors in a row, running the length of a rubber tube, with a pushbutton switch at the end. Software in...

When I came back to photography in early 2005, I confronted a world gone digital and virtual. On the whole, I thought this was a good thing, and I was pretty clear that digital photographs are different from film photographs. One thing I didn't get yet: that physical prints had a place in this new virtual world. View this image...

If you're a frequent user of the free Pandora music service, as I am, you've noticed their powerful web interface has been updated. Along with the update are two new announcements providing users access to Pandora's large music database, and your musical preferences, on the road and in the home....

Take a peek at Missing Manual founder David Pogue's new TV show, "It's All Geek to Me." Each Friday, they'll air one new episode and one re-run, on two channels: Discovery HD and The Science Channel.Click here to see the complete schedule of episodes! Preview "It's All Geek to Me"...