| Photoshop update pulled |
| MacNN reports that Adobe yesterday mistakenly posted, then pulled, a Photoshop 6.01 update. The Macintosh news site says that the update will be posted for real "shortly."... |
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| Time for a change |
| Ted Grudzinski reminds that for most North Americans, this Sunday marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time (DST). He suggests that photographers remember to wind forward the clock on their digital camera to ensure the correct time is stamped into picture files. Much of Europe and parts of Asia moved... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Fetch tests new version |
| The test version of the popular Fetch FTP client for Mac has reached 4.0b7 for both Mac OS X and previous versions of the Mac OS.... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Drivesavers offers data recovery |
| Drivesavers in Novato, California has been offering data recovery from both Flash memory PC Cards and CompactFlash, as well as the IBM Microdrive, for about a year. The price varies based on turnaround time and the difficulty of the recovery. As an example, Flash memory-based cards up to 999MB in... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak studies CMOS/CCD sensors |
| Kodak R&D's monthly tech brief looks at the differences between CMOS sensors (such as that found in the Canon EOS D30) and CCD sensors (such as those found in its line of digital SLR cameras).... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Flash FAQ offers tidbits |
| The Canon EOS Flash FAQ, while outdated, offers interesting information on flash trigger sync voltage and other tidbits.... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sascom updates adapter |
| Go2Mac.com notes that Sascom has updated their innovative international power adapter.... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Another version for Jobminder |
| Jobminder, the photo assignment database software that originated at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, has reached v5.5.... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Morris strobe information available |
| Tallyn's Professional Photographic Supply has a detailed page of information on Morris portable strobes with built-in slaves.... |
| March 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| D1X/D1H PDF brochure posted |
| Nikon has posted a PDF of the 16 page brochure on the D1X and D1H that, says Ian Maw, is being handed out at the CeBIT event in Germany. Also available is a smaller 2 page brochure. Maw also notes that the units of the new cameras Nikon has on... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Genuine Fractals offers discount |
| An update to a March 19th Quick Link posting: While Altamira is offering a 30% discount off the list price of its Genuine Fractals fractal compression and scaling software products (except for Genuine Fractals LE) through the end of the month, Luke Granfield notes that the reduced prices are for... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| LetsGoDigital posting reports |
| The website LetsGoDigital.nl is posting regular English and Dutch language reports on digital photography news at CeBIT.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| PhotoNorth.com eh? |
| PhotoNorth.com contains a comprehensive database of Canadian photography web sites.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| 3G onstream faster than predicted |
| Dave Hawkins notes an article on the Motley Fool web site suggesting that 3G wireless data services are to come on stream faster than some industry pundits predict.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Dale presents Photoshop workshop |
| Former National Geographic staffer Bruce Dale will be conducting a workshop "for photographers using Photoshop on laptop computers" August 27 to September 1, 2001 near Sante Fe, New Mexico. Dale's work was recently featured on Nikon.Net.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| iView PhotoMover takes direct upload |
| The US$15 iView PhotoMover 2.0 (web site still lists v1.5 only) enables direct upload of photos from the US$45 iView MediaPro image cataloger to several consumer photo storage sites, including Club Photo, Zing, Sony ImageStation, Nikon.Net, FotoTime and PhotoPoint.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Saychesese.com line |
| SayCheese.com Japan, the Japanese language version of Lexar Media's digital photography education site SayCheese.com, is now online.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Wireless gadgets unveiled |
| The AP looks at some of the new wireless gadgets unveiled at the CTIA Wireless 2001 show in Las Vegas last week. Meanwhile, Reuters has a report on new mobile phones introduced by Nokia, Ericsson and others at CeBIT in Germany that feature support for GPRS wireless data.... |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| OS X thoughts given |
| Todd Buchanan upgraded his Mac Titanium Powerbook to OS X late last week and sends these thoughts: |
| March 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak announces high-resolution DCS 760 digital SLR |
| Kodak this morning has announced the DCS 760, a 6MP, 1.5 fps (for up to 24 frames), ISO 80-400 Nikon F5-based digital SLR that appears to borrow heavily from the user interface design of the recently-released DCS Pro Back. |
| March 22, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Genuine Fractals discount offered |
| Altamira is offering a 30% discount off the list price of its Genuine Fractals fractal compression and scaling software products (except for Genuine Fractals LE) through the end of the month. The reduced prices are available only when purchasing software directly from Altamira, and appear to be for boxed versions... |
| March 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Flylight illuminates laptop keyboards |
| Joaquin Siopack notes that Kensington's US$20 Flylight Notebook USB Light illuminates the keyboard of laptops with USB ports.... |
| March 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Bootcamp explores multimedia |
| The First Annual Multimedia Summer Bootcamp is for "for visual journalists who are interested in exploring multimedia." The six day program kicks off May 26, 2001 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.... |
| March 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Novatel card reviewed |
| PC Magazine looks at the Novatel Wireless Merlin for Ricochet Type II PC Card; earlier this year they posted a short story on Metricom's USB modem.... |
| March 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Palm unveils new handhelds |
| Palm today has officially unveiled two new handhelds: the b/w m500 and 16-bit colour m505. Both devices feature a MultiMediaCard/Secure Digital expansion slot and improved wireless connectivity.... |
| March 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Starbucks goes wireless |
| Greg Anderson notes that MobileStar, an ISP that specializes in providing wireless 802.11b (i.e. Apple Airport-compatible) Internet access in hotels and airports across the US, is currently rolling out their service to hundreds of Starbucks locations in two states. By the end of this month, the company plans to have... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple posts Airport software |
| Apple has posted Airport 1.3 software for its wireless Ethernet system.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| QImage adds features |
| Qimage Pro has been revved to QImage Pro 2001 v1.1. The Windows batch printing and digital camera image processing application continues to add new features at a feverish pace.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| POY winners online |
| The winning photos from the 58th Annual Pictures of the Year (POY) photojournalism competition are online.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| POY judging looked at |
| The March issue of The Digital Journalist includes a behind-the-scenes look at POY judging.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Skin tone article posted |
| John Cowley has posted a step-by-step article on improving skin tones that have a "pancake makeup" look.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Smartphone reviewed |
| The New York Times has a review of the new US$500 Kyocera Smartphone QCP 6035, a combination CDMA phone and Palm handheld.... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| PC wireless data card announced |
| Sierra Wireless and Canada's Telus have jointly announced a wireless data PC Card that will offer throughput of 144kbps across compatible CDMA networks, including Telus's Mobility digital network. The card is expected to be available by the end of this year, though CDMA networks, such as those operated by Sprint... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Unsharp masking piece published |
| Ron Thompson notes that creativepro.com has published the second part of Bruce Fraser's piece on unsharp masking. This installment looks at sharpening in two stages (I process I strongly advocate for digital camera photos shot through a low pass filter, as is the case with the D1, D30 and Kodak... |
| March 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak drops DCS 560, 660 price to US$7995 |
| Kodak Professional's Mike DeWoody indicates that the US list price for the DCS 560 and DCS 660 cameras, Kodak's 6MP SLR models based on Canon and Nikon bodies, respectively, has dropped to US$7995. The price change is effective immediately. |
| March 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe posts Photoshop 6.01 update |
| Michael J. Treola notes that Adobe has released a Photoshop 6.01 updater for Mac and Windows that fixes numerous bugs in the latest version of the industry-standard image editing application. |
| March 9, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| 20 million Canon EF lenses produced |
| Canon this week announced that 20 million Canon EF lenses have been produced since 1987.... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Short Course offers firmware update |
| A technician from Lexar Media will be on-site at the Northern Short Course in Hartford, Connecticut next week. Brad Ras will be updating Lexar Media CompactFlash cards with firmware that solves a startup delay for Nikon D1 shooters. The company is working on a utility that would enable users to... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar works on Jumpshot |
| Craig Hibbert notes that in late January, Lexar Media updated their USB Jumpshot driver for Mac to v1.2. The changes are unspecified.... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| UK freelancers in dispute |
| A dispute between The Scotsman newspaper group in the UK and its freelance photographers over contract terms has come to a head this week. The web site Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK), which includes extensive coverage of the dispute from the point of view of the photographers, notes that a March... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Genuine Fractals offers testimonials |
| Altamira, maker of Genuine Fractals software, has revamped its web site to include photographer testimonials.... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon digital sales strong |
| In a Reuters story, a Nikon spokesman says that the Japanese manufacturer is currently experiencing strong digital camera sales. Despite this, their stock took a 7.5% tumble on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday after the company's announcement of a reduction in the sales forecast for stepper units in the 2001/2002... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| 3G may be slower |
| The much-hyped 3G wireless mobile revolution may end up delivering slower than promised data speeds, later than expected, says The Standard.... |
| March 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Quantum Mechanic Pro, Band Aide updated |
| Bug fix updates of two popular digital camera noise removal plug-ins are now posted: |
| March 2, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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