In the previous PF blog post on the booming compact cameras and their rapid technology improvements, credit was given to smartphones for stimulating those changes. However, compact cameras have an advantage that smartphones could not easily crack – better lensing with optical zoom capabilities beyond the reach of smartphones. Then the article goes on...
Spoiler update: See the bottom of this page… In our previous post on Compact Cameras vs Smartphones, the advantage appears to be swinging to smartphones as they slowly approach compact cameras in the quality of their camera components. But smartphones have 3 other key...
iPhone 4 vaults to the top but begins to trail off in recent months If you follow the Flickr Camera usage statistics, then the answer to question of smartphone vs compact camera is smartphone. Last year compact camera sales fell by 30% as fixed lens smartphone cameras started to displace fixed lens compact cameras [in...
Google is selling SketchUp Pro for $495 – Why? The program, SketchUp Pro is not strange – its a architecture and landscape design program which appears to have not only a nice range of features but also integrates well with AutoDesk DWG and other CAD files. No the novelty here is that Google is...
Back on April Fools Day 2009, the headline was RIP: Corel PaintShop Pro. I had just tried the latest version, PaintShop Pro X2, and found it to be awful – slow, bloated and failing like its fellow software boondoggle of the day, Microsoft Vista. Having already seen the downward trend with PaintShop Pro X1...
Given the wave of great automatic digital cameras, it would appear easy to produce great Web images. But actually getting from here – good images in the digital camera; to there, great images on your Web pages can present some non-trivial and vexing problems. Here are 3 general problems: 1)On the web, image size...
Sharing pictures online is becoming ever more popular. Photography websites like Flickr and Fotki or social media sites like Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr are locales where photographers congregate. It has become so important in social media sites that Google+ has boosted its photo album service into the top ranks - see here And smartphone camaeras are certainly expanding even...
Adobe Flash. iBook Author got a lot of fan fair last week with many trial software runs.Ye Editor happened to witness one – 5 things stood out about iBook Author: 1)It is simple and fairly easy to use given this simplicity; 2)It can turn out large iBooks but they are huge files about 1.3...
There are a lot of good camera review websites – Dpreview.com, DigitaCameraInfo.com, DigitalCameraReview.com, aand PCWorld are among the favorite sites which are frequently visited by ye Editor. But that is the problem, one has to scurry like a rabbit all over the place to get a complete look see on whats coming up and...
