Category: Software & Technology

Will The iPad Destroy Us? So as technology rolls mightily along, perhaps some of you who are in the know have heard about Apple’s latest invention, the iPad. From… Link: http://willsteacy.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-itablet-destroy-us.html Quite literally, I fear, journalism (or whatever is left of it) will become just another movie. And so I ask what will become of…

Adobe Adds Speed, Flickr Integration to Lightroom 3 Adobe has released a public beta of Lightroom 3, the company’s tool for processing and organizing cameras’ RAW images. While still an early release, Lightroom 3 looks to be a worthy upgrade thanks to impressive speed improvements and baked-in image sharin via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/lightroom-3-first-look/ Adobe has released…

Documentation for the Lightroom 3 Beta is live I’m pleased to see that documentation for the Lightroom 3 Beta is live, accessible via the Web or by choosing Help > Lightroom Help (F1) in Lightroom 3. Lightroom 3 Beta help topics includ… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/11/documentation_for_the_lightroom_3_beta.html

Refining the Twitter Explosion There is way too much information — the number of tweets a day rose to 26 million a day in October from 2.4 million in January. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/09link.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Simply put, there is way too much information on Twitter — lately, it defies navigation. In January, there were 2.4 million tweets a…

Phase One discusses Capture One Version 5 With Phase One launching new versions of its Capture One software, we spoke to Claus Mølgaard, Vice President of Research and Development, to find out what’s new and to get a better understanding of the work that goes into providing RAW support for the via DPReview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09102800captureoneinterview.asp It…

Keep an Ear on Crime With Scanner 911 for iPhone You know there’s an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don’t completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police radio scanner. Yes, an app that listens to police…

A First Glance at Lightroom 3.0 (Beta 1) Image Processing A couple days ago, Adobe released Lightroom 3.0 Beta 1, which introduces a variety of new features, but also introduces a new RAW processing engine. While via Photocrati: http://www.photocrati.com/a-first-glance-at-lightroom-3-0-beta-1-image-processing/ A couple days ago, Adobe released Lightroom 3.0 Beta 1, which introduces a variety of new…

Lightroom 3 Beta Adds Grain and Light Leaks to Your Photos Taking a cue from the recent announcements of see-in-the-dark cameras from Nikon and Canon, Adobe’s newly announced Lightroom 3 beta photo-editing software will clean up the leftover noise from these night-vision pictures. The beta, which is free to downl via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/lightroom-3-beta-adds-grain-and-light-leaks-to-your-photos/ This morning…