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It’s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. Since I’m one of those two or three people, and it’s my blog , I figured it was about time to do another one. I’ve pretty much covered the development of early cameras and lenses so it’s time to consider the way we recorded those images so other people could see them
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Exploding photographers, disappearing clothes, and the development of film
At simultaneous events in San Francisco, London, and Tokyo, Adobe Systems Inc. has announced the latest iteration of its Creative Suite product line, including a new release of its flagship image editor Photoshop, as well as a new supporting cloud service
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Adobe launches Creative Suite 6, including Photoshop CS6
Folks lucky enough to be in the nation’s capital next week will have one final opportunity to gawk at Space Shuttle Discovery as the decommissioned spacecraft makes its way to its final resting place in Washington D.C. The shuttle is scheduled for a 1,500-foot flyover between 10 and 11 next Tuesday morning, passing over the National Mall and Reagan National Airport atop NASA’s modified 747-100. The craft will then land at Dulles Airport before making a land-based journey to the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Center, where it will replace the Enterprise shuttle, which is destined for the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan
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Space Shuttle Discovery to make final in-air appearance in 1,500-foot DC flyover
Just when you thought RIM couldn’t catch a break , The Washington Post is reporting the US government doesn’t plan to jump smartphone ships anytime soon. According to the publication, Casey Coleman (chief information officer at the General Services Administration) says that while the agency may have handed out iPhone and Android phones to the staff, a big chunk of the 12,000 agency-issued handsets are BlackBerry devices. The main reason behind the choice of Berries is RIM’s focus on security, which Coleman notes “is paramount for government use.” Still, the GSA officer isn’t ruling out switching to a different OS in the distant future, as platforms like iOS and Android start to become “equally secure.” For RIM’s sake, we hope the refocusing on enterprise pays off.
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US government sticking with BlackBerry, appreciates RIM’s focus on security
Canon has just announced the EOS 60Da, a followup to the EOS 20Da model released way back in 2005 , incorporating improvements made in the many intervening years. Like that camera, the EOS 60Da is aimed at astronomers, and is closely related to an existing model: the Canon EOS 60D .
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Astronomers, your camera is here: Canon EOS 60Da announced
Almost exactly two years ago, Adobe first started teasing a major update to its flagship digital imaging application Photoshop, with a variety of interesting new features including an eyecatching content-aware fill tool. Fast forward to today, and the company has relegated mere teasers to the trashcan: today it launches its first ever public beta of Photoshop, and we’ve just posted our Adobe Photoshop CS6 preview .
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta announced, previewed
An article posted recently on the official homepage of the United States Army caught our eye today, thanks to a blog post from John Nack, Principal Product Manager, Mobile at Adobe Systems.
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Geotagging: the silent killer, says US army
Last month, Sigma Corp. announced an amazing price drop on its flagship SLR, the SD1
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Sigma makes right by SD1 early adopters
Here’s a juicy little rumor that’s sure to excite the T-Mobile faithful.
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T-Mobile to debut unlimited mobile-to-mobile plan next month?
Canon recently announced its $199.99 Pixma MX892 wireless multifunction device using ChromaLife 100+ ink in five individual tanks. The device can print a 4×6 borderless photo in 20 seconds, scan oversized documents, scan from a 35-sheet duplex auto document feeder and fax.
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Canon Announced PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office All-In-One
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
