Use your camera as a scanner to make PDF documents
January 20, 2009
Snapter lets you use your digital camera as a scanner and create a .pdf file. If you do not have a scanner then it is possibly a must.
Archive for January, 2009
Aussie Kogan Android smartphone mystery
January 19, 2009
Australia’s Kogan Technologies announced its Agora Android phone, two models of which it has been pre-selling for $268 or $200 (US dollars), announced it would not be shipping, as promised, on Jan. 29.
Macro photography: up close and personal
January 18, 2009
Macro photography is always seen as being too complicated for the average amateur. It is nothing of the sort. What you need most is a tripod. The rest is simply not very difficult.
Samsung M8800 Pixon can make me blush
January 18, 2009
The Samsung M8800 could be said to be a camera with a phone attached — a growing trend — rather than a mobile phone with a camera. But it has gone a step too far. The model I have seen is in pink. There are many things that a chap can do to keep his job. Carrying a pink mobile, no matter how desirable in other ways, is not one of them
Panasonic’s DMC-G: a breakthrough in SLR technology
January 17, 2009
Panasonic’s DMC-G1 is a DSLR which solves apparently two contradictory problems. It is a genuine digital single lens reflex and it is smallish, light and handleable.
Canon PowerShot A480: simple, solid, superb snapshotter
January 16, 2009
Canon has replaced the PowerShot A470 with a new 10.0 Megapixel model which is called, with great imagination, the PowerShot A480. It is an improvement in that it is smaller — about 25% — has a 10 megapixels and a 3.3 optical zoom.
Samsung TL100: so slim it is anorexic
January 16, 2009
The Samsung TL100 camera which will be here later this year — say March — is so slim as to be positively anorexic. It is only 16.6mm thick excluding the lens and is the ultimate lightweight camera to carry in your top pocket.
Share photos with GigaTribe
January 15, 2009
If you tend to share a lot of photos back and forth, typically between the same people, then GigaTribe may be a good option for you. The program allows you to essentially invite your friends onto your hard drive to download the photos they choose rather than requiring you to upload your pictures to a remote server.
SDXC memory cards announced with sizes up to 2TB
January 15, 2009
First there was secure digital cards that allowed us to store more pictures than we ever thought possible with traditional film. Then a few years later SDHC (Secure digital high capacity) cards were introduced that allowed us to store even more. Now- secure digital has gone a step further with the introduction of SDXC (secure digital extended capacity) with memory capacities up to 2TB and read/write speeds up to 104MB per second.
