I just received the brand-new Amazon Kindle 3G last weekend and I love it! I’ve been thinking about getting an e-reader for a while but up to now I didn’t like the form factor. But this newest edition of the Kindle is smaller, lighter, has even better contrast and more memory, among other things. The [...]
I’m playing around with a new Photoshop plug-in and I’m having tons of fun with it. Topaz Labs’ Topaz Adjust can turn even the blandest pictures into something fun and powerful. I’m just getting started with it but already I’m blown away by the possibilities… Since I have close to 10,000 images on my hard [...]
There are a million ways to convert digital color images to black and white. I’ve been playing around with various techniques, and this book has been a wonderful resource. It’s fairly advanced and it assumes that you already know your way around various tools in Photoshop such as histograms, layers, masks, curves, levels etc. If [...]
Woohoo!! Just saw on dpreview that Canon announced a bunch of new compact cameras ahead of the 2009 IFA consumer electronics show. With my DSLR, I shoot mostly in RAW format (as opposed to JPEG) for maximum control in post-processing. Most digital SLR cameras offer the option to shoot RAW, but very few compact cameras [...]
Work and life in general are keeping me plenty busy lately so I’ve neglected pretty much all my hobbies, this blog among them… Lots of stuff happening around the web in the last few weeks… Microsoft buying a chunk of Facebook… Google getting more active in the mobile industry… Talking about Google, they’re now the [...]
Ok, so today was a fairly exciting day if you’re a gadget fan and/or music lover. As expected, Steve Jobs presented a bunch of exciting new products and services at Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” event. Most noteworthy is probably the iPod Touch. It’s a geek’s dream come true. The only bummer is that the [...]
… but instead of heading out to the store this weekend, I think I’ll be waiting to see what sorts of goodies Apple will announce at their September 5 “special event”. I bet they’ll announce some neat new gadget. Maybe a touchscreen Ipod? Now that would be cool.
Many companies have hopped on the web 2.0 bandwagon to market their products or services – via blogs, Second Life, You Tube campaigns, etc. More often than not, their efforts are pretty unimpressive. There are exceptions though, and they don’t have to be complicated. Here’s one example that I think is a great viral marketing [...]
Hmmm I think it’s time for me to replace my boring three-year old Blackberry with a shiny new toy…. The Curve looks super sleek and has all of the usual solid Blackberry functionality, and then some. I don’t think I’ll be able to resist.
Lifehacker has a long piece on how to get music and video on and off your iPod, from any computer, without iTunes. If you’ve ever felt restricted by your iPod/iTunes, this will be a good read.
Now this is a neat idea that: Midomi lets you search for a song by singing, humming, or whistling a bit of the song…
Google’s Year-End Zeitgeist is always interesting and often surprising. Who would’ve thought that bebo was going to be the most searched-for term in 2006? Maybe I’m behind the times, but I didn’t even know bebo until now… Seems like it’s another social networking site à la MySpace. Anyways, go check it out, there’s some interesting [...]
I’ve been a long-time user and fan of Yahoo Finance, but Google Finance is slowly catching up. Now they released a bunch of new features that are a definitive improvement.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Linden Lab’s virtual online society Second Life lately, but I never really bothered to check it out. Well, today I had my first taste of it, when an interactive advertising agency we wanted to interview decided to give us their pitch in their virtual meeting room. After being shown [...]
Here’s a pretty neat picture of last Saturday’s rare night launch of the Discovery space shuttle.