news from range

Modern HDR photography, a how-to

Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:12 PM EDT

In this Saturday morning post, I explain HDR photography with the help of some articles. This post includes step by step ways to create your own HDR images. Be advised that they can be quite hard to create for beginners. But where there is a will, there is a way!

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technology, range, photography, flickr, hdr, memoirs-on-a-rainy-day

Can This Blog Be Saved? (How to monetize prohiphop.com)

Seeded on Wed Jun 7, 2006 8:59 PM EDT (chartreuse.wordpress.com)

Chartreuse examines on how a blog can become a job, with tools, tricks and tips on a wordpress blog. And it's not with ads.

technology, blogging, writing, blog-marketing

Blog Triggers by Copyblogger

Seeded on Wed Jun 7, 2006 8:53 PM EDT (copyblogger.com)

Blog triggers examines the time tested tactics from powerhouse marketers in order to learn how to connect with people at a deep emotional level that prompts action. Tools and tips on how to make your blog work for you.

technology, sales, selling, psychology, copywriting, blog-marketing

Copywriting 101 from Copyblogger

Seeded on Wed Jun 7, 2006 8:47 PM EDT (copyblogger.com)

Copywriting 101 skills are essential element to the new converstional style of marketing, says the author of Copyblogger, instructing the reader on how to use their blog to sell.

education, copywriting, rss-marketing, email-marketing, blog-marketing

Capital protected structured notes

Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:56 PM EDT

Its been a few years since structured financial products have been on the rise. Structured notes protect the capital that is invested for a number of years, caps the maximum interest each year.

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business, finance, notes, investments, derivatives

The Smith Manoeuvre

Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:51 PM EDT

The Smith manoeuvre is simply a financial manoeuvre to make your mortgage tax deductible in canada. This is not a problem in the US where you can already deduct the interest on a mortgage. In canada, this is not possible.

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business, mortgage, finance, investments, smith-manoeuvre

Financial Advisors

Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:50 PM EDT

Everyone should have a financial advisor, someone who counsels on financial matters, assesses the needs and comes up with solutions. It is best to centralize all mutual funds, segregated funds, insurances, RRSPs, investments with the same advisor.

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business, finance, planning, retirement, investments

Active managed funds vs passive managed funds

Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:43 PM EDT

There always will be a debate whether an active managed fund is better than a passive or non managed fund. A non managed fund, like Barclays iUnits exchange traded funds, are funds in which the stocks and titles which constitute it are not sold on under performance.

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business, mutual-funds, finance, investments

Hedge Fund Managers Get Richest Quickest

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:42 PM EDT (newyorkmetro.com)

An article on how the richest people in finance are hedge fund managers and how they get there.

business, finance, hedge-funds, investments

Please, Sir, I Want Some More - How Goldman Sachs is Carving Up its $11 Billion Money Pie

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:40 PM EDT (newyorkmetro.com)

really interesting article on newyorkmetro about the investment bankers from goldman and sachs and how they carve up their 11 billion dollars in bonuses at the end of last year.

business, hedge-fund, goldman-sachs, investments, investment-banking

AlterNet: WireTap: A Generation of Debtors Grow Up Owing

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:37 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

A very nice article on debt, and how society deal with it. It makes a nice link to Oprah's debt diet efforts, which I find somewhat hypocritical. On one side she is so concerned about debt, on the other she is a gazillionaire.

business, finance, debt

Pony Up!, Camera Obscura, Indie pop to the rescue!

Sun Jun 4, 2006 8:22 AM EDT

For those of you that haven't heard about indie pop, well stick around. Indie is just a broad category of independent music releases from non mainstream music bands. There is a lot of good stuff out there. I used to listen almost exclusively to electronic music.

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entertainment, music, range, indie, memoirs-on-a-rainy-day

Rashmi Sinha's weblog

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 7:08 AM EDT (rashmisinha.com)

A blog mostly about tagging on the web

technology, blog, tagging

Newsvining for news

Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:19 PM EDT

Following the trend of user defined news, such as digg, newsvine takes the concept even further, enabling users to be actual writers and columnists. The site lets people seed links, write articles, communicate and track conversations and friends.

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web2-0, technology, news, newsvine, user-defined

Range's Self intro

Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:54 AM EDT

Well, after being active for a few days and having corrected some of my mistakes, I have decided to do as a few others, to introduce myself properly. Who am i in less than forty words

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music, range, community, newsvine, movies, newsvine-community, selfintro

kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:14 AM EDT (kottke.org)

A very good link gathering site, as well as interesting tidbits from the net.

education, design, photography, kottke, links

Flickrmap - get a flash world map of your flickr photos

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:08 AM EDT (flickrmap.com)

A flickrmap is a flash map that overlays images from flickr on a world map. Very interesting tool for global travelers or people who have pictures from different parts of the world.

entertainment, photography, flickr, geotagging

Flickr: Photos tagged with clusters

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:07 AM EDT (Flickr)

Examples of clusters, a way to aggregate images from different people under a same theme or cluster.

entertainment, photography, flickr, clusters

Thought Mechanics

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:05 AM EDT (thoughtmechanics.com)

A excellent blog that covers social and political themes. This blog is authored by different people from the US to Canada. It includes a interesting cluster of photos from flickr.

canada, social, politics, design, united-states, blog, photography

Camera Obscura

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 11:03 AM EDT (-)

One of the nicest indie pop bands out there right now. Their new album, Let's get out of this country will be available 06.06.06.

entertainment, music, indie, scotland

Jessaisms

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 10:59 AM EDT (jessajeffries.blogspot.com)

This is the blog of Jessa Jeffries, the blogger who got dooced last month from one of her jobs, because of this blog and her myspace site.

entertainment, blog, dooce

Greek Tragedy

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 10:55 AM EDT (stephanieklein.blogs.com)

A great writing blog from Stephanie Klein. She is one of the bloggers that have made a career from it, with book and movie deals.

entertainment, writing, blog

reddit.com: Not Safe For Work - what's new online

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 10:54 AM EDT (Reddut,cin)

An interesting twist on reddit.com, this is the not safe for work version of reddit.

entertainment, news, adult, reddit

The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack (Super Deluxe: AAC)

Seeded on Sat Jun 3, 2006 10:52 AM EDT (jayandjack.com)

An excellent podcast as well as a few vidcasts on the Lost television series on ABC. They cover a lot of ground, including listener feedbacks, rumours, spoilers and plots.

entertainment, tv, lost, abc, podcast, spoilers, vidcast