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The Click should be back up to full speed Wednesday morning. It’s been a long two weeks, and it will be nice to be back.

Laptop destroyed today. The Click might be slow on posts for a day or so.

The employee told Tech Digest that Canon have the technology to “blow the competition away” in terms of image sensors, but are instead being asked to focus on headline figures like the number of megapixels a camera has. When asked for his opinion on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which we covered this morning, the employee said:

“I am hugely disappointed because once again Canon engineers are dictated by their marketing department and had to keep up with the megapixel race. They have the technology to blow the competition away by adapting the new 50D sensor tech in a full frame format and just easing off a little on the megapixels. Although no formal testing has been done on the new model yet, judging by the spec and technology used, it just seems to be as good or as bad as the competition – not beating them by a mile (which we used to).”

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I know that for a wedding photographer or a local portrait photographer, SEO (Search engine optimization) may be one of the most important things for their business after the images

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“I would love to see a feature where you list what you personally use. Call it Pogue’s List or something. It would be great to see what someone as plugged in as you uses personally. Everything tech — watch, laptop, TV, car, digital camera, film camera, like that.”

What’s really surprising to me is how many readers have written to request an update of that list, especially lately.

Actually, the time is probably right. This year alone, I’ve bought several of the products that I reviewed in my column. So here it is: Pogue’s List 2008.

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I’ve had my new 3G iPhone for about a month now and I thought I’d take a few minutes to write some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience for people who might be considering upgrading to the new 3G iPhone.

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A new camera standard promises to cram the quality of a digital SLR camera into a smaller, more portable package — and may even bring back the golden age of candid street photography.
Hey, a guy can dream.

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The new firmware update gives the EX1 the same feature—for video. That is, when you press the Movie Record button while using the new mode, the camera stores the five seconds of video that it witnessed BEFORE you pressed the button. Once again, it’s great for capturing unexpected events without wasting a lot of “tape.”

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Fearing imprisonment or worse, I said I was a journalist, held up my cameras and gestured I wanted to take their picture.

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If your future plans include being anywhere near Atlanta and you like offbeat eateries, you’d be making a terrible mistake if you neglected to visit Abdullah The Butcher’s House Of Ribs & Chinese Food.  Abdullah’s primary claim to fame, of course, is as a professional wrestler with a reputation as a bloodthirsty brute.  In the ring, Abdullah was known for his maniacal habit of using a fork to carve into his opponents’ foreheads.

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Techcrunch is reporting from the Apple event today (here) that AP (Associated Press) is releasing an application for the iPhone that allows people to upload photos and text directly to AP when they witness live news events.

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The Holy Grail for geotagging for me of course will be when Canon actually includes GPS in a professional grade digital SLR built in — or at a minimum offers an external battery grip type GPS device that can be added to a Canon digital SLR to add geotags based on GPS.

Bottom line is though that we are only seeing the beginning of geotagging photos. I think it’s only a matter of time until every digital camera produced includes geotagging capabilities.

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Super busy week covering the polygamy raid in Texas, so the usual flow of links has slowed. You can follow my experiences on my tribune blog. I’ll try to keep the Click as current as I can.

In contrast, Viewfinder, which is not yet a commercial service, is intended to make it simpler for users to manually “pose” photos in services like Google Earth — to place them in the proper location and at the original angle at which they were taken. It is already possible to insert photos into Google Earth, but the researchers said their goal was to make the process an order of magnitude simpler.

“We specify that a 10-year-old should be able to find the pose of a photo in less than a minute, and we are convinced that this goal is achievable,” the researchers noted in a progress report today.

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these are the stories and photographs you really shouldn’t miss.

PicLens currently offers a small icon cue inset in each Web photo that lets users know they are at a site like Facebook, Google or Flickr that can be browsed with the software. Clicking on the icon transports the user away from the conventional page-oriented Web into an immersive browsing environment.

The software does away with the browser frame and gives the user the effect of flying through a three-dimensional space that feels like an unending hallway of images. In the future, the Cooliris designers plan to make it possible to browse text and video as well.

“I’ve wondered for a long time why the computer interface hasn’t changed from 20 years ago,” said Austin Shoemaker, a former Apple Computer software engineer and now chief technology officer of Cooliris. “People should think of a computer interface less as a tool and more as a extension of themselves or as extension of their mind.”

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I learned that when they say, “Your call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes,” that’s only partly true. They also record your calls so they can pass around recordings of the funniest ones.

They actually gave me one of those “Best Of” disks at the end of my day in the call center. Herewith: a few actual calls from that disk or that I heard about from the agents themselves.

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Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem–after you take the photo.

By fitting a camera’s image sensor with a special lens and then processing the resulting data with new methods, Refocus Imaging’s technology will let photographers fix their photos and exercise new creative control after the shutter is released, founder and Chief Executive Ren Ng said.

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According to the U.K.-based magazine Amateur Photographer, an interview the publication conducted with Lee during PMA 2008 could have been the cause of his firing. In an editor’s note written by Damien Demolder of Amateur Photographer, Demolder claims that Lee “hinted strongly” to his magazine that Leica was planning a full-frame version of the M8 digital rangefinder, a slip-up that, if true, could have led to Lee’s eventual ouster.

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The following 4 photo-related technologies are cool and quickly slipping into the marketplace. Some are already in heavy rotation, some are in development, others are in still in commercial viability studies. I thought you’d appreciate an aggregate of them into one post for your speedy perusal.

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