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Trojan on this website
I just received an e-mail from a reader of this blog, who pointed out that his virus scanner went mental when trying to access this blog, stating that the web page was infected with an Exploit-IFrame.gen.c virus. At first, I thought this was completely ludicrous, and that the good man was completely a) insane, b) computer illiterate and c) on a spamware-infested computer. Upon closer examination, however, it turns out that I was, indeed, the culprit.
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Photocritic gets a new look
Well, it's been a good long while (November 2006, in fact) since Photocritic went Retro, and I've been considering to make a bit of a change to the site for the past few months. So now, after spending a whole week-end ankle-deep in CSS, PHP and Wordpress (after recently doing a bit of coding on a piece of forum software, it's very good to be back on the Wordpress codebase. I guess it's difficult to appreciate how lovely it is unless you go through the hell that is badly coded software), I proudly present the new-look Photocritic.
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50 amazing Flickr streams
Beyond the stuff I've been posting in my twitter stream, I haven't really had much time to post proper blog posts here on this blog recently - and my apologies about that. What I have been doing, however, is browsing Flickr to get some amazing inspiration, ideas, and tips for the whats and hows of photography. Throughout the past few weeks, I've been keeping bookmarks of my best finds. I've found a whole load of amazing photographers who have made me smile, filled me with wonder, made me shy with inadequacy, and proud to be part of this whole 'photography' thing. My only shame in all of this is that there are many more than 50 good - nay, great - photographers out there - so I would very much like to encourage you to post a comment with your favourite Flickr streams... So hereby, without further ado or messing about - my top 50 recent finds on Flickr.
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We’re on Twitter + new RSS feed!
Right, this is mostly a service announcement, so if you don't use RSS or Twitter, feel free to ignore this post. Or you could, y'know, start using RSS and Twitter (Check out 'RSS in Plain English and How to use Twitter on VJ). SO... 2 things: Twitter - Photocritic now has a Twitter account; you can see the updates in the side-bar (look for the Twitter-coloured box, you can't miss it really) or follow me @photocritic. Go on, you know it makes sense. If you're really curious, I've got a personal Twitter account too... RSS / Syndication feeds - Turns out that the 30,000-odd RSS subscribers (Yes, really! Amazing stuff - thank you everybody!) are taking their toll on the server, so I've moved the RSS feeds across to Feedburner. I've done some clever redirection malarkey, so if you were already subscribing, you should just simply be redirected to the new feed, and you don't have to do anything. If you'd rather get the feed from feedburner directly, check out feeds.feedburner.com/photocritic
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Photocritic’s 3rd Birthday!
In July about 3 years ago, I gave up my freelance photography business, Photocritic Ltd, and suddenly had a spare internet domain. As a promotional exercise for my company, I had written a few article for PhotoCritic, and I decided that perhaps it was worth putting those articles out there... An idea which came to fruition exactly 3 years ago today. So; what better excuse for a retrospective of what's been going on, and sprouting lots of completely pointless statistics at you?
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Quick update
Lack of updates Sorry about the lack of updates recently, I've been mad busy with my day-job recently (excitingly, we just launched our version of BBC's iPlayer, known as Demand Five, yesterday), and I've got an exciting extension to Photocritic which is coming up soon, so I've mostly been doing behind-the-scenes work.
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WINNERS: one of 5 copies of my book!
Right, the winners for the competition have been picked! By deadline, there were 151 competition entries, and I used Random.org to pick the winners. The winners are: #2 - ryan97ou #88 - Luís Brás #120 - John Jimenez #116 - Tim Norris #98 - Aaron Snowden I'll e-mail you all as soon as to get your addresses so I can ship the books out to you. CONGRATULATIONS! Original competition for posterity:
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Which camera is this?
Update: This was an April's fools' joke in collaboration with DPReview. Sorry, guys ;) Just a quick one - I had a day off before starting my new job, so I was out go-karting with my dad yesterday (I won, hah), and we went for a bit of a touristic travel around London afterwards. Near London Bridge, I saw someone who was taking some photos. Nothing unusual there, I hear you say, but what caught my attention was the camera he was using - what IS that thing?
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Never miss an issue of Photocritic!
You've probably heard of RSS - also known as Really Simple Syndication. You haven't? Oh my golly, you really should! RSS allows you to keep track of your favourite websites, when it suits YOU. You don't spend hours and hours checking your bookmarks and seeing if they have updated their site recently, just subscribe to the RSS feeds. Use Google Reader, or any of the others of dozens of RSS readers, both on-line and off-line, out there. You don't get full functionality, but at least you know when something has changed, and is worth having a peek at! So... Take the RSS feed from /feed, and add it to your reader or client. Or, if you use LiveJournal, why not add the LiveJournal-friendly syndication feed to your friends list? Rock on.
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Photocritic Greatest Hits
Hey all! First of all, a quick apology - I've been so busy with my day-job that I haven't had time to update Photocritic nearly as often as I would like. Having said that, it's practically 2 months since my last update, which is downright embarrassing. I'll have look if I can't come up with updates at a more reasonable interval. If any of you fancy writing a few guest articles (quite a few people have done so in the past), get in touch! Anyway, I know it's a dirty little cop-out, but I thought I'd do a top 10 of Photocritic's most popular articles - you know, just in case you've missed any of these gems, until I manage to pull my finger out, and do some actual updates.
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My day job, if it can be called that, is being a writer. I've got one book out there so far and it's awesome, so go ahead and buy a copy! It's available from 
In front of you, five hyperactive men with guitars, drums, and microphones. Behind you, five thousand fans. In your hands, a camera... You're going to need more than just a little bit of good luck to pull this one off. That's where this book comes in.
Take a Canon EOS 450D. Attach a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens. Hit the streets of London. See what happens.
