Monthly Archives: January 2007

Autonet Mobile and Avis Rent-a-Car are cooking up an Internet connection that will give users a rolling Wi-Fi hotspot while riding an Avis vehicle. This will start in March, and for $10.95 a day (on top of your car rental, of course) Avis will let you use a portable device that delivers high-speed Internet connection; …

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Did you know that white balance had its beginnings in the video world? It referred to a process where a waveform monitor was used to match or “balance” the signals from the camera’s red, green, and blue channels to make accurate whites under various lighting conditions, thereby balancing your white. Today, white balance is more …

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The U.S. had its own concentration camps during World War II – an ugly necessity at that time. One of these was the Manzanar concentration camp (officially, relocation center) in Inyo Country, California. Photography legend Ansel Adams made a number of visits to Manzanar from 1943 to 1944 and documented the stark lives of thousands …

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BounceBack Professional 7.1 is a backup and disaster recovery software that allows you to immediately recover your whole system including all installed applications in case your computer suddenly conks out. This is because BounceBack Professional creates an exact bootable copy of your computer’s hard drive; simply switch drives when disaster strikes and you’re back in …

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A light box to illuminate small objects for product photography is really not that difficult to make, as this guy Jeffrey Bail has shown. Instead of buying a $100 light tent, Jeff proceeded to make his own. He used a thick cardboard box, the type used to carry cargo, some muslin fabric, a Bristol board, …

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