Apple showed Monday at its developers conference that it has become conscious of its weakest link in the New Economy - a flock of new competitors. The enemy is not just Microsoft but Google with the Android Netbook and Mobile Phones, Amazon with the Kindle and Cloud Computing; Palm with the Pre and WebOS; and [...]
GenoPal has another color gem, Pic2Color, that works with its Color tablet tool - the simple idea is to copy a color from a picture and see what color options it generates. Here is the widget:
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Nuit Blanche in Toronto gave me the opportunity to indulge a somewhat forgotten fancy
- collecting live theater and show posters. I have a substantial collection of about 400-500 posters from the 1960’s through mid 1990’s - but I just have not been going to shows as often. So collecting has slowed to a trickle.
But the [...]
I have been checking some of the feature changes between Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 with particular attention to the animation capabilities and performance. In CS3, for example, I have found that a number of Photoshop editing commands are applied to all of the frames and that you have to think differently from Flash and [...]
The Pentax K-m is Pentax’ response to the Canon XSi and the Nikon D60 among other mid to low priced SLRs. And the K-m has some very worthy features like 10MPixel images with a 16 point auto-focus, a 2.7″ TFT LCD viewer, image stabilization and two mode dust clearing system. This camera has borrowed artfully [...]
Moore’s Law that see a doubling in capability for the same price in computing and memory chips every 12-18 months has arrived in the SLR camera world. And really that should be no surprise. In 2006, more than half the new cameras sold were digital and that market share has since swept to the [...]
The following is one of dozens of Widgets available at Widgetbox.com:
Its a bit primitive but shows what can be done with new, faster ActionScript 3 animations.
You have to try these out.!
I have been telling readers that Casio EX-F1 is something special and now the appreciation for what the camera can do is really starting to to pour forth. It started probably with David Pogues article in the NewYork Times but notably Wired & DPReview except for blurbs from CES 2008 show, missed this beauty:
Chris Hardwick [...]
Recently I was at Downtown Camera looking for a new digital SLR to replace my Canon XTi. I got to chat with the the staff- and they were recommending the Canon Mark III or Nikon D3. We all agreed that Sony’s Alpha had been interesting with built in image stabilization and sensor cleaning; but the [...]
I have been looking for new methods of adding punch to my posts and reviews on this website. The CES2008 story just below uses a YouTube Video. That sort of launched the interest in finding some other rich media that could be used. Here are the results of that search: FlashPaper and Zoho Show. [...]