Filed in archive Tip by jim on May 26, 2008 © eva serrabassa If you have a kid or kids then chances are you also have a digital camera. Because my father was an avid amateur photographer I have plenty of well done pictures of myself and my family; most of which were taken with box and folding cameras. I enjoy dragging them out and reminiscing and I've provided family members with pictures of themselves and others courtesy of my scanner and printer. Make sure you take the best pictures possible of your tykes and I'm sure they'll treasure them for the rest of their lives. Read this article that will help you get the most out of your digital camera when photographing your kids. (Read the full post about ‘Picture Your Kids’…)
by Darren Murph, posted May 26th 2008 at 5:03AM Not to get all scientific on you or anything, but a team of Imperial physicists have just figured out a way to use plastics in laser diodes. For the uninitiated, scientists have been unable to make plastic semiconductor laser diodes because they had not yet found / developed “any plastics that could sustain a large enough current whilst also supporting the efficient light emission needed to produce a laser beam.” Now, however, that obstacle has reportedly been overcome by making minor tweaks to a given plastic’s chemical structure, and the resulting material will transport charges some 200 times better than before without impeding its ability to emit light. (Read the full post about ‘Physicists develop plastic semiconductors for laser diode use’…)
by Thomas Ricker, posted May 26th 2008 at 3:52AM Remember when Samsung was pumping out cameraphones with increasingly ridiculous megapixel counts? At the moment, phones top-out at about 5 megapixels. Until this, the 8 megapixel C280 with 3x optical zoom and claimed 1600 ISO support (right) from the previously unheard of K-Touch. Ironically, it might very well be using a CMOS sensor from Samsung. (Read the full post about ‘K-Touch’s 8 megapixel C280 cameraphone flaunts Canon image processing’…)
by Darren Murph, posted May 26th 2008 at 7:54AM Given MemUp’s recent past, we wouldn’t be too shocked to find that the outfit’s latest bundle of media players were all rips of other units, but we’ll assume innocence until proven guilty. Up first is the K-SLIM, a simplistic DAP with a 1.8-inch display, FM tuner and 2GB / 4GB of internal capacity. Moving on, we’ve got the all-too-similar K-TOUCH, which gently ups the ante with a 2-inch touchscreen and 4/8/16GB of space. The V-TOUCH gets oriented horizontally and boasts a 2.4-inch panel, while the M430 TR PMP arrives with 4.3-inches of screen real estate. Lastly, we’ve got the M430 DTV, which obviously trumps the latter with its integrated TV tuner. (Read the full post about ‘MemUp reveals new line of portable media players’…)
I don’t know why I never saw these commercials. As a kid, I LOVED M.A.S.H. and I loved computers. Of course, I was more of an Atari fan back then, but I would have loved to see my old friends together in these commercials. IBM hired the entire cast of M.A.S.H. to promote their new computer, the PS/2. Here are the commercials: I didn’t see a PS/2 until I got to high school. Our junior high was equipped with Ataris. I don’t know when they got an upgrade, but it was well after we left. By the time I got to use the IBM PS/2, it was very much like junior high. We were stacked three to four kids per computer. We learned to write letters on the computer using a new program called WordPerfect. (Read the full post about ‘The Cast of M.A.S.H. Sells I.B.M.’…)
The band Weezer posted their new music video called “Pork and Beans” on YouTube. The video features a huge collection of “internet stars” from Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday to Chris “Leave Britney Alone” Crocker. Weezer even plays in front of a huge deluge tribute to “Coke + Mentos“. Weezer’s new self-titled “Red Album” comes out June 3rd, 2008. methodshop Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: home theater, pvp, Gadget, home cinema (Read the full post about ‘New Weezer Video Features YouTube Celebs’…)
by Ryan Block, posted May 26th 2008 at 12:09AMSo news is making its way around the internets that at the Wedbush Morgan Securities Management Access Conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell proclaimed the end of PC gaming piracy as we know it, thanks to a “stealth encryption chip.” The magic chip he’s referring to that “will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay”? The TPM chip — what’s been on motherboards for years, that apparently Bushnell just found out about. While the tinfoil hats in the house will likely attribute TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and other onboard crypto-chips to the eventual downfall of privacy and personal computing, to date we’ve yet to see piracy stunted or civil liberties breached because of the little bugger. (Read the full post about ‘Atari founder cries wolf about piracy-ending chip’…)
by Thomas Ricker, posted May 26th 2008 at 1:23AM As rumors go, the Canon 5D Mark II is one of the more venerable of those back-room whispers to grace these pages. Now we’ve got the Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital Field Guide on Amazon making a duplicate appearance on the publisher’s website. You know something we don’t Ms. Charlotte K. Lowrie? Guess we’ll find out in November-ish. (Read the full post about ‘Canon EOS 5D Mark II in November?’…)
by Ryan Block, posted May 26th 2008 at 3:25AMOkay, they’re only embedded ARM chips, but le Inq is reporting that NVIDIA’s prepping not just the the Tegra APX 2500 we heard about before, but also a second line of high performance embedded CPUs. Supposedly the forthcoming CSX 600 / 650 will run in the 700-800MHz range, and be capable of 1080p / 24fps video playback. We’ll give these guys until, say, 2010 before they’re jockeying for AMD’s spot at number two in desktop processors.Read PermalinkEmail this0 CommentsFiled under: Misc. gadgetsTags: hi fi, home theater, video games, Ogg (Read the full post about ‘NVIDIA might get even deeper into the embedded CPU game’…)
Symantec are making a bold claim for the forthcoming release of Norton Internet Security 2009. The claim is that the security software will have “zero-impact” on PC performance with Janice Chaffin, group president for Symantec’s consumer business stating:
People have told us ’security software is too big, it irritates me, I turn it off when I’m gaming’ … Fundamentally, consumers don’t want to be bothered at all. We’ve set as our goal zero-impact security.
In order to achieve this transparent protection Symantec has changed the way in which the 2009 product decides to scan a system.
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