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	August 16th, 2012 Colorstrokes Photo Contest with a Prize for Every Entry Posted 1 day ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics Get $40 Photo Software Free | Win a $100 Gift Card We've teamed up with MacPhun who've created a number of very popular photo apps for a unique photo contest. MacPhun has just released a new iPhone photo app called Colorstrokes, which allows you to easily add splashes of color to your photos. This app has already received great reviews and averages 4.5 stars. Here's a great sample of what's possible:   What You Can Win One of Two Grand Prizes: $100 Apple iTunes Gift Card One of Five Runner Up Prizes: Boxwave iPhone stylus ($10 value)   What Everyone Will Get Just for Entering FX Photo Studio Pro for Mac ($40 value) FX Photo Studio brings a award winning image processing experience to the Mac OS. With access to over 170 magnificent photography effects, both amateurs and professionals can blend all of today’s top trending filters while easily mastering styles of photography art. You must enter by AUGUST 21, 2012 to be elligible for this software.   How to Enter: 1. Get the well-reviewed Colorstrokes iPhone app.(iPhone only) 2. Edit your photo with the Colorstrokes app. 3. Share you photos on twitter, facebook, and instragram using the hashtags #colorstrokes #amazingpics  4. To get your free copy of FX Photo Studio Pro, submit your photo by emailing it to gift@MacPhun.com with "Amazing Pics" in the subject line. 4. Once MacPhun confirms your photo was edited with the Colorstrokes app, they will send you the $40 value FX Photo Studio Pro software for Mac for free. (Note: sorry, there is no equivalent for PCs.) This Photo Contest is open until AUGUST 29, 2012, with winners being announced on the 31st on @AmazingPics and the Colorstrokes Facebook Page. The number of photo entries is unlimited, but every entry should use the Colorstrokes app as part of the editing process. Only one free Mac app per person. Good luck and happy editing!     This is a sponsored post. For any questions about this contest, please contact us at contactamazingpics@gmail.com.   MobileWorks (YC S11) virtual workforce completes 1M tasks Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. While Mechanical Turk has its appeal, as a way to hire cheap labor to complete basic tasks through an online, crowdsourced marketplace, but the system is set up in such a way that workers tend to be anonymous, underpaid, don’t have much incentive to do good work, and largely ignored by Amazon. ... So far it seems to be working, as the company announced today that its workers have collectively completed one million commercial tasks since launch. What’s more, companies have effectively outsourced five continuous years of work in the last year by hiring its cloud-based crowd, which the team believes is a testament to how much businesses can accomplish by collaborating with a virtual labor pool. Read the full article in Techcrunch 8月15日 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 2 夏も終盤へ。 Are prescription drugs taking over the classroom? [infographic] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Doping to win the big race is considered taboo by most college kids, but doping to make the grade is becoming more and more common without the same censure. This infographic from Allied World Health takes a look at the growing use of drugs on campus to get ahead, the same drugs so many were concerned started taking over elementary classrooms years ago. Via Allied Health World.   High on infographics. Bringing true balance to work and life for women Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! Many women in the workplace face added stress, some self-imposed, as they try to have a family and a career without shortchanging either, says Nancy Calderon of KPMG America. These issues can be tackled by better management and the promise of new technology. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Picture perfect time lapse for ultra-modern city: Dubai [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! If there’s one place on Earth that seems on fast-forward into the future, it’s Dubai, and Geoff Tompkinson has captured this sentiment perfectly in “Dubai – City on the Move,” just one video in his series Round the World in Timelapse. Embedded media -- click here to see it. DUBAI - city on the move Full story at Vimeo via Laughing Squid. Exploring Dubai. In a social media firestorm, do only the fans matter? Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! This week we asked, Do you agree with Chris Rock that social media controversies only matter when “fans” get involved? The results: Yes 56.25% No 43.75% More than half of SmartBrief on Social Media readers agreed with Rock’s position that social media is really all about your most loyal fans — and his insistence that a social media uproar isn’t a cause for concern unless its coming from one’s fan base. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia Geologist investigates floods in faith & science Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! 1 The idea that scientific reason and religious faith are somehow at odds “is, in my view, a false dichotomy,” says geologist David Montgomery, whose new book explores religious accounts of floods. In The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, he writes, “I doubt the historic truth about Noah’s Flood will ever be known with certainty. And I don’t think it really matters. "The discoveries of science have revealed the world and our universe to be far more spectacular than could have been imagined by Mesopotamian minds. To still see the world through their eyes is to minimize the wonder of creation.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Fotolia The self-taught tech teacher who built a computer lab for free [video] Posted about 24 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! All schools are not created equally, especially in terms of available technology, but sixth-grade teacher turned tech-on-the-cheap guru Robert Litt says from experience that where there’s the drive there are resources to be had. Robert advocates open-source software even for schools that aren’t lacking technology. US government reports say the digital divide is shrinking, at least in schools—97% of teachers have at least a single computer in the classroom. Yet that’s not the whole story. “The digital divide is growing in a hidden statistic,” Robert says, “the actual teaching of technology in a meaningful way.” He shows students how to do math on spreadsheets, how to make simple websites, how to put together slide presentations, all on free software. These are the computer skills that, students tell him, they are later expected simply to know. And with the prevalence of recycled computers, there’s no need for even 3% of classrooms to be without computers. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at ifixit.org via Boing Boing. Tech and education. ViaCycle (YC S12) launches Zipcar for bicycles, coming to SF Posted about 23 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous ViaCycle, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to be to bike sharing what Zipcar has become for cars. While there are many cities around the world where bike sharing is a fact of daily life, only a few cities in the U.S. currently offer similar programs and the ones that exist are often expensive to operate. The viaCycle team, which has been working on its platform for three years, uses a very different approach from most of its competitors. Unlike other systems, viaCycle doesn’t need special docking stations for its bikes, for example. The team has developed its own hardware that is integrated into the bikes to lock and unlock them through a phone call, text or via the company’s mobile app. This means viaCycle bikes can be locked to standard bike racks anywhere and the cost of getting started is significantly lower than with similar systems. Read the full article on Techcrunch Pig Latin [comic] Posted about 20 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 As fewer and fewer people take Latin, the proud tradition of being able to tell jokes no one else understands is being handed from classics nerds to tech geeks, so here’s a treat for you Latin geeks out there who need a laugh, courtesy of Grant Snider. Full story at Incidental Comics. When in doubt, laugh like you get it. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.