Monthly Archives: March 2008

Web Books

Try the following exercise at Barnes and Noble or Amazon - enter “Web Development” or “Web Design” in your search request for books. Click and you will get 100’s if not 1000’s of books recommendations - Web Creation for Dummies thru CSS Zen Garden to Learning Web Design. And many of the books will have [...]

3 Video Cameras ?

This a quick look at 3 video cameras that glide up the price scale from just over $100 to $500 and then $1000. I have chosen these video cameras because they go beyond what you would expect in each case of a video camera. So without further to do:
The Flip
The Flip seems small and [...]

Animation as App

I have just covered the wonders of online painting programs using Flash technology primarily. What can be done directly on the Web with photo-editing is … well astonishing to this observer. But Logomaker above shows the use of a bevy of simple Flash animation techniques to create a logo.
The critical idea is to enable one [...]

Kindle What

Publishers are desperate and converging. Books, newspapers, magazines, and a host of printed media are chasing a scarce and seemingly dwindling supply of attention, eyeballs, and readers. Oh and advertisers. All lost to that beast that almost everything is free on the Web including their publications on the Web. May eCash RIP.
And what is [...]

Casio Digital SLR Does Video

I have been arguing that the digital SLR cameras and video camcorders are converging. Casio EX-F1 shooting at 60fps-frames per second embodies that trend. Okay the Casio EX-F1 does not have interchangeable lenses - rather users are “stuck with” a 12x zoom lens that performs like 36 to 432mm 35mm equivalent. Not quite as [...]

Picnik for Online Photo Finishing

I really did not expect online photo editing to ever happen, but Picnik.com has brought online photo editing to the Web as the screenshot attests to. And if you can live with the online ads - its also free. I suggest that you live with ads because [...]