Archive for the ‘tech’ Category

Pixlr – image editing webapp that works… well.

Remember all the hype about Adobe’s Photoshop web app? Pixlr kicks its ass all over the interwebs. It’s free, no need to set up an account, runs fast, and it even has Layers. Pretty advanced for a webapp, it won’t do your RAW processing, but well worth checking out for simple jpg edits for the [...]

MacBook Wheel

To continue the Mac love-in:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Photoshop Express

If you haven’t already heard (seems to be everywhere this morning), Adobe has released the Photoshop Express Beta today. What’s Photoshop Express? It’s a stripped down web based version of Photoshop, sort of. It’s Flash based, it’s a photo editor, it’s a simple crop, rotate, limited-tone adjustment app – so forget about doing complex [...]

No Starch on The Pirate Bay

Book publisher No Starch Press has upped The Cult of Mac and The Cult of iPod to The Pirate Bay. Snatch it, it’s legal.
It’s about time some of these corporate knobs wake up and use technology to their advantage. Would I be blogging about these books otherwise? I think not. Considering I don’t understand [...]

I Love Moore’s Law

Last week my wife and I went out to get her a new cell phone. She has always liked my Sony Ericsson K790i with the 3.2MP camera. I like it too, while not a good camera, it makes for a pretty good cameraphone. I’ve never seen the logic in almost unusable 1.3MP cameraphones. To my [...]

Google in Space

Ok, ok, so I like Google, I often have a hard time with it given my disdain for corporations, but who can deny the innovation coming out of the ‘plex?
sky.google.com, mars.google.com, moon.google.com

lens reviews at dpreview.com

I’ve been a fan of dpreview ever since a friend introduced me to the site. Yesterday they launched a lens review section, well needed in my opinion, with 4 reviews at the time of writing. You can read about the technical end of the lens review process, as well as the development of the new [...]

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