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They say the easiest way to get rich is to hang around billionaires because they leak money. Antonio De Rosa is an Italian designer who is clearly looking to find one of those leaky rich guys to stand as close to as possible
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With Facebook IPO Underway, One Man Pitches a Polaroid-Style Instagram Camera
We’ve just updated our review of Photoshop Touchwith new screen shots and sample images to reflect the changes introduced yesterday. Adobe released Photoshop Touch version 1.2 yesterday afternoon with the following enhancements: Maximum resolution is 2,048 x 2,048 pixels restricted to 10 layers. The default remains 1,600 x 1,600 pixels with up to 16 layers
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Photoshop Touch 1.2 Released
One day while taking pictures in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, I came upon a strange sight. There was an old man standing beside a huge wooden box camera on an old wooden tripod
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The “Instant” Wooden Box Cameras from the Cuban Polaroid to the Afghan “Kamra-E-Faoree”
Germany’s Leica Camera AG is making quite the splash today, with a surprisingly large collection of new announcements. (Well, surprising unless you’ve been paying attention to all the rumors and leaks in the run-up to today’s ‘Das Wesentliche’ press event in Berlin, that is.) Probably the most significant of the announcements is the Leica M Monochrom , the world’s first 35mm full-frame camera specifically for black and white photography
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Big day for Leica: Three new cameras, six lenses, and more…
I’m a tabletop studio fan. They are easy to use and despite their small size, these tiny “studios” are a great way to get very high quality photographs of coins, stamps, flowers, jewelry, collectibles or water drops like Martin Waugh’s amazing liquids frozen in motion photos . Simple to make, I’ve constructed them out of everything imaginable — my favorite was my studio in a shoebox — and they are naturally small enough to be quickly broken down and stored when not in use
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How to Get Great Photos with a Cool Tabletop Home Studio
There are two kinds of photographers in this world. One kind attaches their straps to the camera eyelets and the other to the tripod socket. If you use your tripod socket for your strap, you’ve have to remove your strap to use a tripod
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Custom SLR Solves Strap/Tripod Problem With M-Plate System
If you are a normal desktop user or even a power user with plans to run at over 4GHz, the vanilla LGA-1155 Sandy Bridge platform is good enough. You get some of the fastest CPUs on the market today paired with reasonably priced motherboards and the ability to use Quick Sync to transcode video…er..
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Intel Core i7 3820 Review: $285 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge E
Netbooks aren’t dead, but they’re not quite the hip topic of discussion they were a few years ago. The focus on cost conscious computing hasn’t changed since the introduction of the first netbook, but the maturity of tablets has. Intel still sees the netbook segment as a profitable one (for itself) through 2012, although I’m fully expecting the line between netbook and convertible tablet to blur after the launch of Windows 8. Atom has been at the heart of nearly all netbooks since the segment’s inception.
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Intel’s Atom N2600, N2800 & D2700: Cedar Trail, The Heart of the 2012 Netbook
Earlier this year OCZ acquired Indilinx , one of the first SSD controller makers to really make a splash in the enthusiast community.
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OCZ Octane 128GB SSD Review
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
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