Monthly Archives: October 2007

Now there’s an easy way to view those downloaded videos from your PC to your TV: the Sansa TakeTV device from SanDisk. Using the Sansa TakeTV video player is as simple as using a USB flash drive: Insert its USB plug into your PC and simply drag video files to the TakeTV player, then slip …

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Julieanne Kost is a well-known creative photographer who also works as senior digital imaging evangelist at Adobe Systems, Inc. Her two-disc “Comprehensive Photoshop CS3” DVD set, released by Software Cinema, provides users with fundamental skills of Photoshop CS3 that will increase their productivity and make digital imaging more enjoyable. “Comprehensive Photoshop CS3” features over 23 …

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Wacom has launched the Cintiq 12WX – its first hybrid product combining the advantages of a Cintiq interactive pen LCD monitor with the portability and compact size of a traditional Intuos3 pen tablet. The Cintiq 12WX has slimline dimensions (405 x 270 x 17 mm) just like an Intuos3 A5 Wide; it offers a 12.1” …

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SlideShowPro is an ActionScript 2.0 component for Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 for publishing photo and video slideshows. Developers of the application say they’ll be offering the SlideShowPro plug-in for Adobe Lightroom in the coming weeks. “The SlideShowPro plugin fits right into Lightroom’s “Web module” workspace, which is where you can export/upload …

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“Hello, is this my Parrot DF7700 digital photo frame? Kindly take these pictures and display it for Mom.” This, in effect, is what you’ll be doing with the new photo frame from Parrot.com; it has its own SIM (subscriber identity module) card just like your phone and you can call it up just like any …

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Sharp has developed what it claims to be the industry’s thinnest 2.2-inch LCD at only 0.68mm thick. The new super-thin LCD was developed for use in mobile phones and digital cameras that aim for slim and small designs. Sharp calls it the Mobile Advanced Super View LCD and is based on proprietary Sharp fabrication techniques …

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PENTAX K100D Super digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras will be available for use by attendees of an upcoming eight-day DSLR Photography Workshop Cruise scheduled to embark from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to ports in the Southern Caribbean on March 14-22, 2008. The workshop is the eighth in a series that offers instruction in digital photography, …

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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2 digital camera has 4GB of built-in memory, so you might not need any more memory card for storage. That 4GB of internal memory can store up to 40,000 VGA-quality photos or 1,000 8-megapixel pictures The Sony T2 also features an album folder that makes it easy to organize and access thousands …

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Scott Kelby’s new book, 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 breaks the Photoshop process down to just seven simple, yet powerful, techniques. And this perhaps accounts for the huge initial success that the book enjoys. Not to mention of course that Scott is an award-winning author of more than 40 books on Photoshop, digital imaging, …

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It’s been a while since desktop boxes were this expensive, but the Dell XPS 420 is a premium multimedia desktop PC with some bells and whistles that could resurrect the big bad boxes to be in vogue again. It’s powered by Intel’s multi-core processors (Core2 Duo, Extreme or Quad, your choice), Intel X38 Express chipset, …

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