| Fujifilm Announces New Digital Cameras
Fujifilm has introduced five cameras to its range, including one it describes as the "world's smallest 12x optical zoom digital camera," the FinePix S1000fd. New entrants include: the FinePix S100FS; FinePix S8100fd and the new J-series digital camera range. The new range launches with two models, the FinePix J10 and J50. These entry-level digital cameras offer features at an affordable price, and are small enough to carry casually from place-to-place. The FinePix J10 is 19mm thick, incorporates an 8.2 Megapixel CCD sensor, a 2.5in LCD and a 3x Fujinon optical zoom lens. The FinePix J50 offers a high resolution 2.7in screen and a Fujinon 5x optical zoom. The camera is 23mm thick. Both offer image stabilization to protect against camera shake and are available in Matte Black or Brushed Silver.
Ten Days With Leopard: Coolest Cat Ever
The act of upgrading a MacBook from Tiger to Leopard was not without problems. Let's just say you should not proceed without first making a full-on backup. Once it's properly installed, however, Leopard shines. Spaces gives you a ton of extra desktop real estate, Time Machine will probably get more people to play it safe and keep constant backups, and smaller features just plain make sense. As much as $2 billion in potential sales could have been lost in 2006 due to online security concerns. VeriSign has created a simple and cost-effective way to protect your employees, business partners and consumers. Its called VeriSign Identity Protection. Read more now. .
Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
Skip your next trip to Milan or Miami and head, instead, for the reservation. Visit the Navajo and Hopi, the Pueblo Indians, the Souix and the Cheyenne. These folks lived a sustainable lifestyle long before it became both fashionable and necessary. There's a lot left to their eco-culture. Learn from them—their contemporary artists in weaving, pottery, painting and jewelry are among the most innovative and creative in the world. Take the Navajo Hogan, a simple six-sided building. Hogans sit lightly on the land—no 10,000 or 20,000 square foot McMansions for the Navajo. Hogan are easy to assemble, use little energy to keep people warm, and have strong spiritual meaning to the families who inhabit them. Today's modern hogans are trailors and they are all over the rez. Now think about trailors.
Entries for January 2008
Forget the holidays. It's Sunday's Super Bowl that drives the most sales of HDTVs. The big game will have moved about 2.4 million high-definition sets into homes, according to research from an electronics trade group. Perhaps more interesting, nearly half of viewers will use a PC or cellphone to check stats on the Internet, says the survey by the Consumer Electronics Association. That helps justify TV makers who are adding Web connections to their sets. The problem is that TVs themselves are already too complicated. About 20 percent of people buying HDTVs don't get a high-def signal but think they do, according to another survey by Leichtman Research Group. They'll actually be watching the bowl in standard definition, which can sometimes look worse on a HDTV than it does on the old tube.
End of an era - Netscape finally laid to rest
NETSCAPE Navigator, once the world's most popular web browser, will finally be laid to rest next month after its owners gave it a last-minute stay of execution. AOL today delayed plans to abandon support for Netscape web browsers by one month, to March 1. The company had originally planned to cut off support tomorrow. Early internet users will fondly remember Navigator's small blue and yellow icon of a ships' wheel. The browser was first released in 1994 and for a time was the program most people used to surf the web. When Microsoft introduced its Internet Explorer browser the following year, the two companies became entrenched in the "browser wars" that led to the software giant being sued by the US Department of Justice for smothering competition.
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