Category: Software & Technology

Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: Toycamera’s Analogcolor isn’t the first Polaroid simulator, but it is the best I have seen so far. The $10 java application runs on both OS X and Windows. You drop a jpeg onto the window and from there you can mercilessly degrade your…

John Nack on Adobe: Handy new Lightroom, ACR utilities

A Day in the Life of 3G – PC World: During March and April, we spent a day testing the major 3G services in 13 cities across the United States. Verizon’s service showed a combination of speed and reliability, Sprint’s results lent credence to its ‘most dependable’ claim, and AT&T’s network showed fast upload speeds…

Coding Horror: The iPhone Software Revolution: Here’s how far I am willing to go: I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the original Apple Macintosh.

John Nack on Adobe: Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 Now Available

Rob Galbraith: An experimental firmware modification for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II that adds audio meters, fixed audio gain, live audio monitoring via the A/V jack and more is now available to try in public beta form.

Gadget Lab | Wired.com: Are you a Nikon shooter? And an iPhone owner? Are you jealous that those pesky Canon fanboys get to remote control their DSLRs directly from the phone itself? Are ya?

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Rob Galbraith says: Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II that enables manual control of ISO, aperture and shutter speed while the camera is set to capture video. Firmware v1.1.0 also disables the depth of field preview button when playing back photos or accessing the on-screen menus and corrects various…

iPhone app for remote control of Nikon DSLR coming soon | Nikon Rumors says:

Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Bits releases Photo Mechanic 4.6.1

Thomas Hawk says: On Monday May 18, I spent the afternoon and early evening down meeting with the Lightroom team at Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose California. At present there are about 30 individuals directly related to the production of Lightroom, the software that I use to process my images (you can see many of…

Josh Spear, Trendspotting says: For the past year, the urban vinyl community has relied on Face Your Manga for all our avatar needs. But now one of our own has stepped up with an app that renders our likenesses in Kidrobocolor. That would be the awesome Tristan Eaton, whose Thunderdog Studios just released the B-BOT…

John Nack on Adobe

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Gadget Lab | Wired.com says: Sofortbild is the second cheap alternative to a Nikon product we have seen this week.

John Nack says: Here’s what I think people want to know: Is Photoshop’s PSD format a goofy, antiquated piece of crap, and by extension is Photoshop slow, clumsy, and/or outdated? No. (Read on for details.)

Riverfold Software says: Clipstart complements your photo application to give you a place that is designed for home movies. Import your movies, tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr and Vimeo. You can even quickly upload a trimmed portion of a movie without needing to save a new copy. If you have dozens…