As any decent photographer will tell you, photography is not just about holding your camera up to your eye and pressing the shutter button. It is a challenging and technically complex art form and requires you to have knowledge of different techniques to sometimes capture that perfect shot. Photo Academy,available for $2.99 from the App Store, can put you on the path to becoming a better photographer. It contains detailed information about the basics of photography and to-the-point tips about specific situations you need help with....

I’ve been aWordPresslover for a lot of years and in that time I’ve had the pleasure and pain of using many different themes. Without a doubt, switching toStandard Themewas the single best move I’ve made. Both from usability and readability standpoints, I’ve fallen in love with it. Now, the same group thatbrought you Standard Themeand itswebcasting counterpart Live Themeis introducing its next premium WordPress theme, aimed directly at photography buffs —Pro Photo Theme....

This past weekendAviary, a startup that offers a free suite of online photo-editing tools andGeneral Assembly, (one ofthe 5 coolest coworking spaces in New York City) hostedPhoto Hack Day, the world’s largest photo hackathon, right here in NYC. At General Assembly, the room was packed with NY’s best developers and designers, along with other hackers from around the country. Somehow, in between the insomnia burrito eating contest and last minute naps, Photo Hack Day showed New York’s potential as a permanent tech hub....

Sony Ericsson, clear of its major Android smartphone launches including the Xperia Play and Arc, is going to be fending off another round of enquiries about its future smartphone plans after anew photo leakedshowing what looks to be a new Windows Phone 7 handset from the company. Back in September, Sony Ericsson’s new CTO Jan Uddenfeldtdeclaredthat the mobile manufacturer definitely had Microsoft’s latest operating system on its roadmap, with the company’s CEO Bert Nordbergcommittingto the launch of Windows Phone 7 handsets in 2011....

A new report by Photobucket, one of the most popular photo and video sharing services on the Internet, indicates that nearly half of the 2,500 respondents it surveyed are using a mobile device to capture video at least once a week, spurring a impressive rise in total video uploads over the past year. The company puts the improved quality of photos and videos from smartphones, all-you-can-eat mobile data and application availability down to the rise, indicating that nearly one in every ten mobile users surveyed uses their mobile device to record video more than once each day....