10 Best Photographs from the Sony World Photography Awards 2013

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The following photographs are the official winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Open Competition. The competition has ten categories: Panoramic, Arts and Culture, People, Low Light, Enhanced, Nature and Wildlife, Travel, Architecture, Split Second, and Smile. The winning images now compete for the Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year title, which will be revealed at a gala ceremony on 25th April. This photographer will also receive $5,000. These beautiful images were selected from nearly 55,000 entries by amateur photographers across the globe.

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These Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists Are Each Stunning in Totally Different Ways

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Smithsonian Magazine has just announced the (absolutely incredible) finalists in what is now their 10th annual photography contest. Here are some of our favorites; they'll take your breath away.

Smithsonian was forced to narrow down over 37,600 submissions from photographers in 112 different countries to the mere 50 you can see in full here. Voting for the Readers Choice winner will be open to the public through March 29, and the final winners will be announced in spring. Disagree with our picks? You can vote for yourself right over on their website.

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15 Stunning Standouts in National Geographic's Photo Contest

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My, how time flies! It's been over two months since we first wrote about National Geographic's 2012 Photography Contest and, now, it's coming to a close! Photographers, you now have just two days to submit your best shots.

After receiving thousands of incredible entries, National Geographic shared with us 50 of their favorites. From that bunch, we've narrowed it down to just 15. Our selection includes everything from fantastic fall foliage to a scared but curious owl.

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50 wonderfull pictures of National Geographic photo contest 2012

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National Geographic photo contest 2012 is on the end, next month, you will have the winner of the contest, wait for it, see the selection of 50 nice pictures.

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The 11 Most Beautiful Apps, According To Apple

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Design has always been a critical competitive advantage for Apple.

At this year's Worldwide Developer Conference, as Daring Fireball's Josh Gruber noted, Apple moved its annual Design Awards from its usual Wednesday evening time slot, towards the end of the conference, to Monday afternoon.

That strikes us as a pretty deliberate move to highlight the importance of design.

Apple is also running hands-on labs where developers can show their apps to Apple user-interface experts for a face-to-face critique. We heard from some developers at the show who were pretty pumped to get this kind of feedback—it's a rare opportunity.

So who did Apple pick as the winners?

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Award-Winning Shots From The 2012 Underwater Photo Contest

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Intrepid photographers submitted over 700 underwater images for the 2012 Underwater Photography Contest and an adorable red sea slug grinning for the camera was awarded the contest’s star. The annual contest, put on by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, showcases the colorful creatures typically beneath reach and awards prizes in three categories: macro, fish or marine animal portrait, and wide angle.

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Tips on How to win a photo contest

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Photography contest offers great ways to gain exposure to your work, and win great prizes while doing so. Other props include having your photo appear in popular magazines such as National Geography as well as in ad campaigns. Here are some steps that will help you win a photography contest.

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Google Just Gave A Bunch Of Money To A Guy Who Hacked Chrome

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Remember when Google offered up $1 million to anyone who could pose a security threat to Chrome? Looks like the company will have to pay up, but not nearly that amount.

Sergey Glazunov, a Russian student, successfully hacked a computer running a Chrome browser by using a never-before-seen exploit, reports Forbes.

Glazunov's trick bypassed the browser's "sandbox" restriction, which would normally keep a hacker out of the rest of a computer's system if he were able to break the browser.

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YouTube's $500,000 hunt for world's best storyteller

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If you're a storyteller, wouldn't you want the chance to have "Gladiator" and "Blade Runner" auteur Ridley Scott help you with a project? And wouldn't it be great to have half a million dollars to spend on it?

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Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!

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Designing a new website is great, but not everyone loves taking their PSD designs and converting them into actual, working HTML and CSS.

In fact, there are some designers who positively hate it (and often get someone else to do that part for them rather than suffer through it themselves).

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National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

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We all love National Geographic and I am always excited when presenting new photography collection from this magazine. Photos from NG are special … probably the best out there you may find. Anyway, this time it’s about NG’s 2011 photography contest .. so again, do not expect nothing else than pure quality and of course good portion of inspiration for you).

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National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

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There’s still time! The deadline for entries for this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest is November 30. Photographers of all skill levels (last year more than 16,000 images submitted by photographers from 130 countries) enter photographs in three categories: Nature, People and Places. The photographs are judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of experts. There is one first place winner in each category and a grand prize winner as well. The following is a selection of 54 entries from each of the 3 categories. The caption information is provided and written by the individual photographer.

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Win a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for the Xbox 360, or the PS3 signed by the developers!

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We have two copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to give away, one for the Xbox 360 and one for the PS3. Read on for how you can enter to win!

On November 8, Activision launched a small, little indie game called Call of something-or other. It seemed to do ok, and it made a few bucks. If you don’t recognize that as a joke, this contest clearly isn’t for you.

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Google Samsung Galaxy Nexus Contest

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If you can't wait for the official launch of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus (we still don't have a solid launch date), Google is helping you out.

Over the last two days, Google has been hosting contests on its @googlenexus twitter feed and giving out a Galaxy Nexus to the winner.

Today's contest asks you to "make something geeky & edible" and submit your photo or video to @googlenexus. You have until 11:59 p.m. Pacific tonight (November 13) to enter.

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20+ DESIGN COMPETITIONS FOR DESIGNERS TO ENTER

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The following are over 20 different design contests going on for designers to enter.. They have various deadlines, so be sure to take note.. Good luck!

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Nokia will give you $10,000 to remake its ringtone

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Nokia is offering $10,000 to anyone who can create a new ringtone to replace the iconic Nokia Tune, which has been annoying movie theater-goers since 1994.

To accompany its new Microsoft operating system, Nokia has offered up $10,000 to the person who can create an iconic new jingle to serve as the handset maker’s next go-to ringtone. In addition to the cash prize, Nokia says the winner of the “Nokia Tune Remake” contest will also have the honor of having their ringtone heard “over one billion times a day.”

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The 100 Best Photo Manipulations from Photoshop Contest

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Another month of thrilling photoshop contests has ended! We’ve collected the 100 highest scoring entries from the Pxleyes photoshop contests that were active during the month June 2011… This list is ranked by the final scores of the entries.

The most spectacular pictures were submitted in the treasure chest, pick me, old knife, cheeseburger and sea monsters contest.

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Developers Offering $1,500 Prize For Porting Android To TouchPad

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The hacker/developer community HackNMod is offering a $1,500 prize if you can figure out a user-friendly way to install Android on HP's TouchPad.
TechCrunch picked up on the contest earlier today, and it has been gaining momentum ever since.

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Most Interesting and Creative Youtube Contests

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Youtube has been known for some time as one of the biggest and most popular time wasters on the web. But there are also many practical, educational and marketing values that have been found as it has expanded, especially since Google took it over a few years ago. This has led many companies to turn to the social media site to share commercials, contests, ideas and, best of all, get plenty of feedback from consumers and fans.
This has led to the creation of the Contests page, which lists many that are currently running, as well as those that have long since passed. They have become an incredibly innovative way to generate interest in businesses, events, non-profits and just giving people something fun to do.
These five are some excellent and interesting YouTube contests that you might want to give a try yourself.

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Market Yourself for Free: Most Interesting and Creative Youtube Contests

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Youtube has been known for some time as one of the biggest and most popular time wasters on the web. But there are also many practical, educational and marketing values that have been found as it has expanded, especially since Google took it over a few years ago. This has led many companies to turn to the social media site to share commercials, contests, ideas and, best of all, get plenty of feedback from consumers and fans.
This has led to the creation of the Contests page, which lists many that are currently running, as well as those that have long since passed. They have become an incredibly innovative way to generate interest in businesses, events, non-profits and just giving people something fun to do.
These five are some excellent and interesting YouTube contests that you might want to give a try yourself.

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