This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news relating to Nikon: -Nikon is a Red Dot Award recipient -Nikon Instant Rebates continue -InVisage announces new photo sensor -Adobe’s second public Beta of Lightroom 3 -Adobe to release Creative Suite 5 -EyeFI’s wireless memory cards -Carl Zeiss’ 120 years of lens production -Nikonians 10th Anniversary -Berger Brothers Super Deal -Michael Mariant workshop Download Nikonians News Flash #136 (NPC-NF-2010-04-04.mp3; 4:06; 3.76MB; MP3 format)
No foolin’! Rick Walker is on vacation, but Jason has got an interview with Rick Paul, who has been slowly making the transition to full-time pro with his wedding and portrait photography business.
GamerMetrics – The business intelligence tool of IGN Entertainment tracks the awareness and activity of over 25 million gamers. It shows Perfect Dark Zero, Tecmo’s Dead Or Alive 4, and Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL ‘06 as the most anticipated launch titles for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console that is scheduled to hit store shelves November 22nd. Following are the game rankings based on the amount of awareness they are generating: 1. Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft) 2.
Red River Paper in Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter
A big thanks to Rick LePage, editor of Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine, who included Red River Paper in the PET email newsletter. From the newsletter: “We did a reader survey last year, and one of the surprising results that jumped out at me was the large percentage of readers who said that they had either bought a photo printer or were planning on buying one so that they could print their photos and pages at home. As a printer guy from way back, this obviously warms the cockles of my heart, and we’re looking at how to cover printing in a better way in the magazine and on the Web site
This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news relating to Nikon: -Nikon’s Instant rebates end soon -Nikon’s Learn and Explore-Closeup photography -New Nikon mount Tamron 70-300 -GigiPan Epic Pro -Wearable “Airstash” -eZine 145 ready for download-”Nikonian in Space” -Nikonians Rewards -OnOne Plug-in Suite 5 -Nikonians Academy Instructor Michael Mariant -Nikonians 10th Anniversary photo contest winners announced Download Nikonians News Flash #149 (NPC-NF-2010-03-21.mp3; 4:54; 4.49MB; MP3 format)
Lords call for greater EU/Nato cyber security cooperation
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Thursday 18 March 2010 at 00:15:00 New report finds worrying lack of joined up thinking between the two institutions The House of Lords has called on the EU and Nato to urgently review their lack of cooperation on cyber security and put future attempts at working together on a…
Maggie gives teens a taste of Tomorrow’s World, today!
On Friday 19th March, TeenTech 2010 comes to The Madejski Stadium in Reading, Berkshire, UK. The brainchild of BBC Presenter and Tomorrow’s World favourite, Maggie Philbin , TeenTech is all about getting teenagers interested in science, engineering and technology as a careers. As Maggie explained: “All over the UK, teenagers are sitting in classrooms convinced there’s no need to make an effort with Science and Maths because they’re going to be famous.
Jason returns from a week in the Everglades, and then the doctors answer the most frequently asked questions they receive. Download The Image Doctors #113 (MP4 format)
Charting the Google Results For Various Phrases [Humor]
Charting the Google Results For Various Phrases [Humor] I always love me some xkcd, but today’s happens to be both funny and informative. Also thought provoking: who are all these people googling “I have 96 problems,” anyway
Obama says Israel home plans not helpful for peace
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Israeli plans to build more homes near East Jerusalem were not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but he said the issue had not led to a crisis with one of the United States’ closest allies.
Report: Seattle gives San Diego picks, Charlie Whitehurst some cash
So far this month, Seattle’s subtractions said more about what Pete Carroll wanted in Seattle as opposed to any additions. That changed Wednesday afternoon with the news that the Seahawks have acquired Charlie Whitehurst from San Diego. ESPN reported the terms of the deal, and it’s a whopper
Toyota tells regulators weighing fix to 1.2 million Corollas
DETROIT (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp has told U.S. safety regulators that it is considering how to fix nearly 1.2 million Corolla and Matrix models at risk of stalling out because of flaws in an electronic system.
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 18 March 2010 at 01:56:00 Chrome to support 52 languages Google has decided to take its browser translation features out of beta status. The company said that it would be extending the feature to all Windows versions of its Chrome…
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 18 March 2010 at 01:12:00 Sprint and HTC reportedly prepping handset US carrier Sprint is reportedly preparing to launch a handset intended for use on its Wimax wireless broadband network. The Wall Street Journal cited anonymous sources in reporting that the..
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 18 March 2010 at 01:10:00 Company will leave out aging OS with new browser Microsoft has revealed that the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser will not be supported for Windows XP systems. The company confirmed earlier media reports, saying that the performance and…
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 18 March 2010 at 01:07:00 New OS much preferred to Vista Enterprises are warming to Windows 7 much faster than its predecessor Vista according to new research. A survey of over 900IT administrators worldwide found that 87 per cent of respondents..
Someone passed this post along to us, and since our Chinese is limited here in CrunchGear-land, I’m afraid we can’t vouch for it. The video contained may, in truth, provide the recipe for a lovely London broil for all we know, so take it with several healthy grains of salt.
Derek Anderson to Arizona, Whitehurst to Seattle next?
Derek Anderson is expected to sign with Arizona, a news story first reported — to the best of my understanding by Adam Schein on Sirius Radio. Adam Schefter of ESPN subsequently reported the deal was not done, but it will be
Nice knowing you, AdBlock, but it’s time to move on
Today’s a very important day in the history of me using the Internet, a history that began in late 1996. Ladies and gentleman, I have completely uninstalled AdBlock . I do believe that makes me a man in the Jewish faith, so I’ll be expecting presents from all of you
SWM seeks experienced chemist for "explosive polymerization"
Image: S2-P2-P6, by sculptor Roxy Paine . About a year ago I was wandering around Maker Faire Bay Area thinking about polymerization. Collin had recently posted his now-world-famous cymatics video , and I was standing around talking to the TAP plastics folks about whether it might be possible to “freeze” cymatic forms by applying the sound waves to some kind of polymer resin that could then be solidifed, almost instantaneously, by adding a drop or two of catalyst